User talk:Gallileo2k/Archive 11

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DYK

On 16 September, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kempton Bunton, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

a suggestion

It seems, for Bengali Wikipedia, svâdhîn will be more adequate than mukto. Regards. --BobClive 08:15, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

swa(oneself)+adhîn(subordinate to)-->swâdhîn (meaning "free" somewhat in the sense of "one's own master", with a great autonomy);

in mukto there is a touch of "having got rid of" : mukto karo bhoy-->bhoy("fear")+ mukto("liberated from"), similar to "chitto jéthâ bhoyshûnya"; remember, after a meal, for cleaning the table the verb that is utilised is mukto korâ. As soon as I shall resolve my problem of unicode, I shall be frequenting bn-wiki with more confidence. Thanks--BobClive 06:13, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Rana Bhagwandas

Thanks for the help. I'm trying to get a cool yellow box for it like you, akash, rama's arrow, and Blnguyen.Bakaman _Bakatalk 20:46, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

You might do a google search on the person. Also, note that he has been appointed the acting judge for the second time (once in 2005, and now). Also, he is retiring next year, and won't be the cj as the other cj is retiring in 2013. Thanks. --Ragib 20:54, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Please comment

Please take a look at this when you find time and comment. Thanks. Sarvagnya 16:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Bn

Hey man, yeah I will.. apatoto koyekdin ENWP te kaj korlam, I had barely done anything there for the last six months, and I had a lot of articles in mind that didn't even have stubs, favourite authors and books and things like that, so oishob korlam boshey boshey. But I will be back in BNWP soon, perhaps in a couple of weeks or so.. there's still some gaps I want to fill in ENWP, one would think that with one and a half million articles, there would be no obvious gaps, but one would be very wrong! --Peripatetic 08:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ziaur Rahman

Hi Ragib - I've put up Ziaur Rahman for FAC. Please check it out. Rama's arrow 13:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

James Barnett

Regarding you're vote for the deletion of James Barnett I think that you should reconsider, the page has many links to the mainstream media where he is mentioned, this clearly makes him fall under the WP:BIO guidelines, "Persons achieving renown or notoriety for their involvement in newsworthy events," please reconsider, you cited he's not WP:BIO I think he clearly is, please review the current article and think it over, please. Cholga 17:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

spamvote

Comment moved from your user page. -- Gogo Dodo 18:52, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

oh im sorry, i had no idea, i thought it was okay to inform them since the page now has dozens of links and citations and better information since from when they voted for it. I wasnt trying to influence them, just make sure they were aware of the facts, because im a superstar!Cholga 18:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your relentless contribution to topics related to Bangla language, Bengali people and Bangladesh, this newbie awards this barnstar as a token of respect and gratitude.-Antorjal

RE:Using GaneshBot in Bengali wikipedia

Sent you an e-mail. - Ganeshk (talk) 23:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Bengal renaissance

Hi Ragib - please check out Template:Bengal Renaissance. Are Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen considered a part of the renaissance? Rama's arrow 15:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Very nice template. Since my CfD woes are over, I'll have more time to work on Category:Bengali renaissance.Bakaman _Bakatalk 23:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Ragib, as I said on Nirav's page, I think the BR is more appropriately considered to last till the first decade of the twentieth. Please edit the article and cat to keep that in mind. Hornplease 00:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Hi - I request you to please check out Kazi Nazrul Islam (FAC). Thanks, Rama's arrow 02:09, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Bharatirentals

I object to deleting this page; I think this is useful for Indians who want to find rental properties. If other websites can do www.wikipedia.org/<sitename> why not bharathrentals? can you explain why this is a Spam?

thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.122.3.193 (talk • contribs)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharathrentals

I object to flag this as Spam? I think many Indians will find www.bharathrentals.com to be very useful to search for rental properties. If other big websites can do www.wikipedia.org/<sitename> why not bharathrentals? do you discriminate against small websites?

thanks raj gupta

Swadhyay

23/09/2006, 2.51pm.

Dear Ragib,

Frankly speaking, I have not understood your following comments on discussion page of "Swadhyay"

"In that case, I suggest a disambig page for both these. For example, Swadhyay (disambiguation) should link to both this and the Parivar page. This is because people associated with Jainism or familiar with both concepts/terms can tell the difference, but outsiders are needlessly confused ... a disambig page will help a lot. --Ragib 03:55, 23 September 2006 (UTC)"

It appears to me that the connotation of "Swadhyay" is of supreme importance over the connotation of "Swadhyay Parivar". Swadhyay Parivar refers to a group of people who practice Swadhyay. Swadhyay is advocated in Hindu (Vedic) Scriptures, more famous amonst them is "Srimad Bhagwad Geeta" that a person should practice Swadhyay daily.

It's a matter of pain that the group of people - followers of Pandurang Shashtri is controlled by person with sinister designs and a dominating section of this group is involved in vengeful violence against old dedicated followers who objected to one family control over huge charitable funds amounting to Indian Rupees Two Hundred Crores (2000 millions). Bones of few old followers were broken, house of a follower was put on fire, women of old followers were threatened to be raped, false criminal cases were filed in rural India to drag these old followers in rural India and get them killed in mob violence. The High Court has observed abuse of judiciary and has quashed all 22 such cases in an appeal by one Pankaj Trivedi along with others. Pankaj Trivedi, one time staunch follower of Pandurang Shashtri was killed on 15/06/2006 at Ahmedabad, India by members of this group. They are arrested and have confessed killing Pankaj Trivedi for protection of Vedic Culture!!!

"Swadhyay Parivar" is in habit of glorifying their activities and projecting tall claims. These claims in turn are used to increase their followers and consequential donations also to cover up their criminal activities carried out under guise of a religious organisation. I was associated with Pandurang Shashtri for more than 20 years and have moved in Indian Villages for spread of Swadhyay. I strongly object to link "Swadhyay" with "Swadhyay Parivar" for their current criminal activities.

The word Swadhyay is conjugation of two words "Swa" and "Adhyayan". "Swa" means self and "Adhyayan" means study. What Hindu scriptures advocate by daily practice of "Swadhyay" is one must think about one's existance in line with one's relation with one's creator. The practice of Swadhyay is advocated to sublimate human thinking about presence of Almighty and every other thing central to "Almighty".

If you want to narrow down the meaning of "Swadhyay" it would be to understand religion and streamline one's way of living consonant with religious dictates.

As a Hindu, I would say we have many Gods but the scriptures are not narrowed down to a particular "Idol God". It just refers to God or Almighty. The result of practice of Swadhyay could gradually turn an individual in a noble individual viz. an individual free of Selfish motives, Greed, Sinister thinking, Lust etc. and inculcating of kindness, sense of justice, sense of freedom to all etc. in an individual.

Swadhyayee 09:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Replied in Talk:Swadhyay --Ragib 10:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmins

I found that the external link I added for matrimonials for Brahmins (www.BrahminsMatrimonial.com) got removed by you; can you tell me why? This is essentially related to brahmins and I find it very useful

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.122.3.193 (talk • contribs) .

See WP:SPAM, WP:CORP. I'm tired of requesting you again and again to take a look at the policies. Before contacting me again, please read the policies. In the mean time, do not add spam links into articles. Thanks. --Ragib 23:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Appropriateness of categorizing historical personalities as Pakistanis or Bangldeshis

I have issue with you on your putting back Bangladeshi People category on some Indian revolutionaries. You are invited to express your views here [1].

Cordially,

Sisodia 07:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I was not understanding technicality....

Honestly, I was not understanding technicality of the issue. All, I wanted that the viewers should get sacrosanct meaning of the word "Swadhyay" and clear idea about "Swadhyay" as well as "Swadhyay Parivar". Wikipedia should not be allowed to glorify any group of people by people with vested interest.

I appreciate, your painstaking efforts to improve the things.

Swadhyayee 09:48,

You are most welcome. Perhaps I wasn't so clear about explaining the disambiguation tags/pages. Glad that it is clear now. Thanks. --Ragib 09:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Is the rule for all sites?

If you say that you can not put external links to any commercial sites then I see lot of commercial sites having link from here; if that is the case why you single out only some sites as spam and some sites as not spam? do you discriminate against india related sites only?

thanks raj —Preceding unsigned comment added by Find101 (talk • contribs)

Yes, this is the rule. If you see more examples of link spam, feel free to remove them, or inform me about that. I mostly edit article related to South Asia. Hence those are in my watchlist, and I remove any spam added to them, whenever I find one. --Ragib 21:25, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Nazrul Bengali translation

Hi Ragib - Antorjal has suggested that a Bengali translation of the 2 paras of "The Rebel" be displayed alongside the English. I request you to please match the section with the correct Bengali translation. You can get both English/Bengali from www.nazrul.org -> "Nazrul's Works." Thanks, Rama's arrow 23:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I do have the Bengali text from here, but the problem is that the Bangla text doesn't match line-to-line with the English translation. Do you want me to put it side by side, or consecutively with the English text? --Ragib 15:58, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, side-by-side is preferrable. Rama's arrow 22:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Racial Threats

Dear Ragib,

I do not mean to write like this. It is shocking to hear that there are some people who actually would say things like a certain ethnic group does not exist. I find that strongly offensive, and racist. And it equates to calling an African American the "N" word, and certain Asians "oriental". Please warn Bakasuprman to refrain from posting such offensive racist comments. I do not mind an educated debate on civilizations, but to actually say that the ethnic Dravidians did not exist is equivallent to saying that we are better off dead. I feel threatened and offended.

Indrancroos 03:02, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Racist? I find that hard to swallow considering I am South Indian. I dont believe there is a real difference between North & South Indians, other than languages that have had at least 5-6000 years to diverge. Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome

Like my contributions here at Wikipedia, my Wikipedia related source code can be copied and modified too. Just a credit to my English Wikipedia User page will do. Thanks for thinking about that. Great job understanding and running that program on the Bangla wikipedia. - Ganeshk (talk) 03:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Review me

Hi - I request you to please visit and share your views at Wikipedia:Editor review/Rama's Arrow 2. I need your advice and criticism, and I would be immensely grateful if you could spare a little time on this. Thank you, Rama's arrow 15:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Dhaka is next in line, and I hope to finish all copyediting within the next 8 hours and start the FAC. Rama's arrow 16:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Request

I think that WP W. Bengal and WP Bangladesh should become subprojects under WP Bengal. It makes a bit more sense, considering that theres quite a bit of overlap and that all three Bengals have a common history. Bengal can merely be the "cultural umbrella" (Bengali renaissance, History) while West Bengal & Bangladesh would be post 47.Bakaman _Bakatalk 00:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I definitely agree about this. Wikiproject Bengal should be the parent of both Wikiprojects WB and Bangladesh. Wikiproject West Bengal will also have another parent lineage from WP India->WP Indian states. --Ragib 00:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Indrancroos

His behavior has sadly not really changed [2] and using his IP address after you warned him [3] and calling another user pathetic [4]. I find it funny that he endorsed people calling me "fascist".Bakaman _Bakatalk 00:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Kantaji Temple

Finished rewrite.Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Cities/Towns in Assam

Ragib, I would definitely help you in transliterating the names of cities and towns in Assam in Assamese/Bangla script. I just cannot promise how soon or how many of them.

BTW, I do appreciate your responsible editing on Wikipedia. You are definitely a very valuable member of this community.

Chaipau 12:19, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Dhaka FAC

Hi Ragib - please visit Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dhaka - I request your input, help and advice. Rama's arrow 00:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Assamese discussion

I made a discussion here. Take a look at it and voice your opinions. According to a uuniversity source [5] Assamese is an identity. I'm interpreting it as an Assamese speaking person who most probably is a descendant of the Ahoms.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

lameness found in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bangladesh

In this article incidents of 2006 is given, where garment worker got into strike. Is that should be too focused in our old history? Just see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bangladesh . WHo is responsible for this propaganda???????? Ragib vai, have a look to almost of that article immedietly.

--Sumit 28th august,2006

Bangla letters?

Wow, I didn't know my sig appeared differently on other browsers. I thought my sig said T REX in the font, fantasy. Well sorry to disappoint you but I'm not Bengali. I guess I'll have to change my sig. T REX_speak 21:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

PS, the Bengali Wiki shows up as a bunch of question marks on my computer. T REX_speak 21:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Does this sig say T REX? T REX_speak 21:30, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

National symbols

Hi Ragib - I think this anon dude might have a point. Jinnah is officially "Father of the Nation" and Iqbal is "national poet." IMO, they are national "symbols," representing their national history or philosophy. Like Nazrul was seen as ideal for B'Desh's national poet becoz he was the "Bidrohi Kobi" - his work and/or life symbolize something important for B'Deshis. Jinnah is like the formative symbol of the Pakistani State, from where everything started. Rama's arrow 01:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

These are officially recognized titles, just like national bird, national flower, etc. Rama's arrow 01:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Nirav, you don't know the whole long term history behind this. This anon user has been doing arbitrary categorization for the last 4/5 months. He has labelled Liaquat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, two different flowers, a dolphin, a mountain, and a host of other things as "National symbols of Pakistan". About the flowers, I was confused at first, but later contacted Spasage about this who confirmed that this was a hoax. Bhadani has also on different occasions warned this. So, Jinnah is not an isolated incident, rather a continuation of the arbitrary whims of this anon from UK. Check out the edit history of this anon, and the other anon IP's used in the categorization. Thanks. --Ragib 01:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes then you're right in stopping him/her. If he/she does have a good reason, its his/her fault for not informing us anyway. Rama's arrow 02:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Szhaider

Hi Ragib - there seems to be a problem with this user. Just like the anon who keeps adding "national symbol" categories, Szhaider insists on making the Urdu transliteration bold. I've twice asked him why he does this (on user talk:Szhaider), but he has offered no reply. He has already been blocked for violating 3RR for the same reason on Abrar ul Haq. His userpage seems to indicate that his "Pakistani nationalism" is possibly the reason - he has removed Indic script from the Sindhi transliteration on Karachi and has quarrelled with Sukh, wanting to remove Indic script from Punjabi transliterations. It is very unreasonable behavior for an Urdu Wikipedia administrator. Can you please talk to him or restrain him? Rama's arrow 18:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparently he says its for "readability," which I don't find convincing. Rama's arrow 18:17, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

28%

are you sure that there were just 28% hindus in bangladesh in 1947. nids(♂) 20:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Please read the table given in the article. Thank you. --Ragib 20:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Do you have any online links to reports of previous censuses. Actually, I doubt this table. I have asked for a similar request on the talk page of india related topics too, but nothing has come forward so far. I was not questioning you about your edit, just asking if you had some other good source with some detailed information.nids(♂) 20:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. The only online source I can think of now is this, which shows 29.7%. However, this itself cites another source which is not online, so I am not sure of its accuracy. The article cites Census of India of 1941 as the primary source for information of 1941 population. Do you know if that is available online? It should be in the public domain by now. --Ragib 21:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

They may be in public domain but none of them are online. See here too for a relevant discussion. By the way, i was interested in reports for the whole subcontinent and not just india or bangladesh. --nids(♂) 21:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Matangini Hazra

She is definitely Bengali. Unfortunately, I cant get my juktakkhor to work properly for Matangini. The stamp part I didn't know and don't really understand but I guess it is there for a good reason. I'll look around. In the meantime, either you or I can delete, the stamp image. I don't mind. I'll look around some more, but so far I haven't had much luck with finding her picture, so help would defintely be appreciated. :)--Antorjal 23:00, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Congress high command

To bring to your notice as an administrator that the decision of afd was to to Keep as such as closed , still the user Hornplease has redirected .Please help. --Shyamsunder 13:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

MA Jinnah Urdu

Urdu looks fine in non-bold in my browser too. But it looses the real look of Urdu and certain characters unnecessarily tend to overlap; not to mention string-like ugly look. I have 800x600 monitor screen and optimum environment for almost all fonts of Urdu because I do a lot of work in it. E.g. قا and ئد tend to overlap if not bold. Here are examples as seen on 17" monitor with 800x600 setting:

Bold:

قائد

Non-bold:

قائد

Moreover, with bold format, the curves of the characters are finer and more eye-catching. I hope you know that curves play vital role in Urdu fonts and the formation of characters and words. I am quite active at Wikipedia Urdu too. There we do not use Urdu font provided by Arial or Times New Roman (except for rare change of look) because of the reasons I have described above. Occasional uses of Arial are facing fierce opposition from most contributers of Urdu WP and it is causing a continuous debate although because of my position I am constantly neutral. Most users support another font which is currently in use for article bodies. That font always gives fine curves and distinctive characters and it doesn't need to be bold. We cannot use that font at English WP because most users won't download/install it. Therefore, best way to make Urdu script better is to turn it bold. It is not favourism for any language but a technical requirement of Urdu font for most of the users.

Some would argue that English readers are not concerned with Urdu script. I say don't decide for the readers; let them decide. Wikipedia should present the relevent information the best way there could be. And for Urdu scripts best way is to turn them bold.

Szhaider 15:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Sehba Musharraf

Hi Ragib. I noticed that you've tagged Sehba Musharraf for a merger with Pervez Musharraf, and removed the unsourced Qadyani information added by BegumMusharraf (talk · contribs), who I doubt is actually the subject of the article (same with MrsMusharraf (talk · contribs).) Seeing as you're an admin, you might be interested in the AN post I just made here. On another note, I guess the merge proposal is valid, as she isn't exactly as notable a first lady as Laura Bush or Isabel Martínez de Perón. Picaroon9288 17:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Is this article about you?

I was searching for wikipedia on Yahoo! and in the Yahoo! news part it said Bengali Wikipedia had 10,000 articles. I clicked it and it said a student named Ragib Hasan had commented. I was wondering if this was you, cause that would be pretty cool if it was. The link is here. T REX_speak

That's pretty cool. There a few people at my school from Bangladesh. I didn't realized that there were that many speakers. It's a shame that languages with large number of speakers have little to no presence on the internet or in books. T REX_speak 01:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Help

Our mutual friend User:Ikonoblast (known to you as User:Holywarrior) has been harrassing me and has tried to prove (fat chance, since I'm nowhere near Texas) that I am User:Subhash bose's sock here. He also littered my page with bogus warnings [6], [7], [8].Bakaman _Bakatalk 21:38, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Baka, you are definitely NOT a sock of Hkelkar/Neta/Subhash Bose. While your list of edited articles might have overlapped, it is easy to see the difference in edit patters and persona. So, don't worry about these unsubstantiated claims/allegations. I won't comment on other allegations on Hkelkar/Shiva/Neta being 3 incarnations of same user, but you are NOT any of those users. "Truth shall prevail" (my highschools motto!!). So don't worry or get anxious on any of those comments. You do have a POV, but that's fine to have as long as you keep your POV to a limit, and are willing to discuss with others in a logical, civil manner, and accept compromises, and neutral edits from other editors. Your initial confrontational attitude was bad, but you have improved yourself greatly since then, and are in the right path with your DYKs and other constructive edits. As long as you yourself have the moral high ground, and respect others, their idea/constructive edits, you'll do just fine. Thanks. --Ragib 02:07, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

National symbols of Pakistan

I will be proposing this page for speedy deletion after discussion. Siddiqui 03:06, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangla bot

Coool! Thanks for the update. You can expect Bangla wiki to shoot up by 7000 articles once it gets done. - Ganeshk (talk) 06:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Inappropriate username

Dear admin: Please take a look at this user's username. I request your action. Thank you. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 16:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Check this out

Hi once again. Seeing as you speak Bengali I was wondering what you thought about List of English words of Bengali origin because it is up for deletion. I'm not sure if it should be or not, which is why I'm asking you for your opinion. Thanks T REX_speak 17:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Wow

Sorry Ragib I did not notice that Bn had crossed 10,000. Wow! Congrats. In fact, I came to know about this during the Bangalore meetup when HPN told me about your mail to wikimedia informing the foundation of the feat. Thanks a lot for your effort, man. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Many congratulations! It is indeed because of the publicity and leadership you've given. Rama's arrow 01:24, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Rajkumar

Dear Ragib, Can you please take a look at latest few edits at Rajkumar article. There is a content dispute on Rajkumar's mother tongue. There are several citations provided and explained in the talk page, that Kannada was Rajkumar's mother tongue. A new user, has changed it to Tamil and has provided a citation of this page. I request you, as a neutral administrator, to verify the reliability of all the citations regarding this dispute, and resolve the same. The edit history of the article gives you much better idea on the heat of the debate. Thank you for your attention. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 00:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Further, please note the contributions log of that user, here. It looks like, the account was created for the sole purpose of making this change. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 01:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I have added two more important citations today, and modified the article accordingly. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 03:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ragib, the article has been reverted again. Those who are reverting are not involving in the discussion even after repeated requests. There have been lot of citations present in the discussion. But these editors (who are completely new to the article) are repeatedly reverting back. Instead of the revert war, it would be ideal if you or any other neutral Admin have a look on the issue. I request your mediation here. Thank you. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 18:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello Ragib. Ramadan greetings. I am sure that you are doing fine. --Bhadani 03:09, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Ramadan to you from me too! Rama's arrow 16:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your long message: Once upon a time, when Bhadani was young, I used to participate in the festivities of Durga Puja. Yes, in my home town (Ranchi), during my school days, we lived in a location around which several Muslim friends resided, and the festivities during the holy month of Ramadan continues to be a part of the cultural milieu of several locations in India. I have several Muslim friends, and even during my professional life, I had occasions to go to the houses of Muslim friends. I being a vegetarian would take only sweet dishes! The Bangalore Meet was an inspiring affair, and Jimmy stressed the requirement for the development of wikipedias in Indian languages and building of vibrant wiki-communities for development of wikipedias in languages spoken in our part of the globe. Regards. --Bhadani 16:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Shaktipada Rajguru

The year was correct and so was the topic of refugees only it did not deal with post-Partition refugees. I've corrected the Bangla wikipedia too. বাংলা থেকে অনুবাদ করার সময় ভুলটা এসেছিল, কারণ যে বই থেকে করেছি সেখানে স্পষ্ট ছিল এই ভুল। --Antorjal 14:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangladeshi cities infobox

Hi Ragib - I think there is a need to create a Bangladeshi city infobox template, akin to the ones for Indian and Pakistani cities. As I do not know how to, I request you to please do so - the Dhaka temp is ugly. Rama's arrow 21:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Aapnake ebong apnar poribarer shokolke amar ebong Mitun-er toroph theke Bijoyar preeti o shubhechchha janai. btw Mitun is my better half. (Sorry I am still at work and don't have Bangla fonts here :)--Antorjal 22:10, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

peer review

Put up Wikipedia:Peer review/Rajshahi University/archive1 for a peer review. pls take a look.--ppm 00:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangladesh assessment department

Hi Ragib, I have added the Bangladesh assessment department onto the bot list. You can see the results here. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Ragib Bhai, Subhobijoya.. sorry I have been a bit away from bn wiki for the last few days.. My application deadlines are going on.. Will be off and on.. the english wiki recent surge of activity was due to smething i was just been reading.. and to keep track of the summary I generally make from now on I wil write an article.. But these topics are so specialized that bn wikipedia has not reached such levels to put a placeholder for them.. Or has it? If there is no article on what is a lymphocyte.. then I dont feel comfortable writing an article on a very specialized lymphocyte activation antigen.. Dr.saptarshi 07:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ragib. I'm busy with real life too. Will create an account for my bot in bn wiki and let you know then. Thanks. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 09:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for help

Thanks for help at Bollywood and Bindi. You're one of the people who wants to write useful articles and isn't here to fight. May you be blessed! Zora 20:31, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

India

Hi Ragib, my revert of India to an anon vandal version was accidental, while using Popups. Before my edit , AntiVandalBot had already reverted. Thanks. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 14:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

gfdl/bangla

Notice this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL/ar Who's in charge of these things? we should have a Bangla one added -ppm

sockpuppet

Well i have a long list of articles on my watchlist. I wish to have another account through which i can mantain a relatively short watchlist of important articles. I will not edit from that account. Is it possible.--nids(♂) 19:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Did you know

Thanks Ragib Bhaya for your idea.I am trying to reach what you asked.I gathered detailed information of Asif's recent performances.Being a fan of him is also helping me.At this moment all the info i gave have references.I will put them into right place tomorrow.Now I am trying to find a profile of Asif to know a few of his special info.There is a profile of his in one of the edition of Prothom Alo's Stadium.But I cant get them from my mobile.You could give me any suggestion you think is needed as i dont know much about "Did you know".I am reading the link that you have given.One more thing that i am sorry for slowing the work of Language Movement,I am expecting it to start very soon.Thanks again.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 18:07, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

help

Ragib Bhai please help me.I deleted my own reputations in Asif Hossain Khan.Would I become spotted for vandalism.Would the Article come back?Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 08:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

problem solved.Please give me any suggestion you need.Only one day left.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 09:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Stamps

Thank you for that link. Given that ruling, then I concur that the stamp image should be removed. Good work; thanks! -- Avi 01:21, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

The link talks of disallowing it in a "publication". It does not cover "online" as wikipedia is not a "publication". An owner of a stamp collection is not barred from displaying his stamps or it's photo's either. And if the same effort could be put in to find out how to get an image onto the article I think it would benefit wikipedia much more. It is sad that how something "removed" get's kudo's here on wikipedia. Haphar 08:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is definitely a publication, whether or not it is online. I am just making sure we do not stuff wikipedia with non-free content and abuse the freedom in such way. If you have concerns about the usage of stamps, please ask for changing either the law, or the guidelines of fair use of stamps (which now prohibits using them to illustrate the subject of the stamp instead of the stamp itself). I am doing a thankless job which definitely irks a lot of people who are not familiar with the fair use criteria, but that's very important to make sure Wikipedia remains free. Thank you. --Ragib 15:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bot on stamps

Unfortunately, the bot itself does not recognize whether an image is orphaned or not. It's going though lists based on Special:unusedimages. I would need a preprocessed list of orphans from that category to have the bot tag them, but since the orphans should now be listed on Special:unusedimages, it'll probably tag them sooner or later anyway. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. --Fritz S. (Talk) 10:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Your removal of Stamp Images from Nishan-e-Haider Pages

I fail to identify with your motive behind removal of the images of stamps from Nishan-e-Haider pages. It’s my understanding (please educate me if it's not like that) that if a country issues a stamp in the honor of a "National Hero" then that categorically reinforces the fact that "the Stamp is all about that Hero and not the stamp itself per se". As far as the fair usage of this image is concerned then let me say that I have worked as a Director in Pakistan Postal Services and I know the policy for sure. Whenever, a postage stamp was/is released in the public domain then the Government of Pakistan never objected to its reproduction in an article/forum which was about appreciating that particular stamp. A receipt of Nishan-e-Haider itself is a big honor (I am sure you know this) and a commemorative stamp about a Soldier who has received a Nishan-e-Haider is a clear link between the two. You are one of the senior administrators around here and I have a lot of respect for you. I expect a fair and balanced action from you and thus I hope you reverse your decision.--Marwatt 12:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Please Inform

Thanks Ragib for your answer.When you move away my POV from the article please give me a call.I'll send my article after that.One more thing would that be correct if i say"...that Asif Hossain Khan,a commonwealthe games gold medal winner only at the age of fourteen was brutally beaten by the local police of his own country".Would that sound like a news?If any suggestion please say.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 17:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Jana Gana Mana

Is it just me or has the same useless bickering from Vande Mataram just moved itself there? Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Frankly, I had no inkling of the huge debate betwen the Marathi/Kannada feud. Just looked at Belagum, and found out about the feud. I don't have the patience of Blnguyen ... so can't play the referee in this case. In any case, I just hope they will heed to Bl's warning message at the top of the page, and stop flaming against each other. --Ragib 02:27, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Asif Hossain Khan

Sorry Ragib Bhai I did not see your picture wanted mail last night(in BD).I fell asleep.When I took the cell phone from my brother today morning and logged onto en.wiki I knew I would get a msg. But I did not understand this would be so great.About the DYK selection I would give 50 percent credit to you.And the rest I would give to the very man who was our subject. It's always delightful to get a msg from you about anything. I can clearly remember when I first gave the idea to make Language Movement featured and send it to yahoo, I was hoping Ragib Hasan would give an answer. although the work is not finished I know it will be soon. And what should I say about Asif, if woke up one day and see the whole incidence is a nightmare I would be the happiest man, never mind whether our article is selected or not. Anyway thanks again. Let's hope we could keep our geniuses like you and Asif free and away from police. Thanks again and CONGRATULATIONS!Tarif Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 04:30, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Dhaka

Check out the Dhaka article if you are free. I'll try removing the 'flag' which is actually a seal of Dhaka City Corporation. (Ahnaf 07:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC))

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Your queries

Thanks for putting in the Bengali lettering in many of the biographies. As regards your queries I do not have any answer for the first one. What I feel is that in the 19th century, Kolkata was developing fast as a British base and whatever happened there had immediate repercussions all over Bengal. Probably the province was better integrated in those days. About the second question, there are many towns in old Bihar and Uttar Pradesh where many Bengalis settled down –Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Patna, Bhagalpur, Allahabad, Varanasi to name a few. Percentage wise they may have been negligible but they played a role in the development of the places which were then backward. A term ‘Probasi Bangali’ came into practice to denote these people. Those who converted to the Brahmo Samaj in Bengal were persecuted by society and family, but that feeling of hostility was not there when they went outside the state. That could have been one reason for such movement. Additionally for places like Ranchi and Hazaribagh, the climate was an additional attraction – away from the ‘burning plains of Bengal’. -- P.K.Niyogi 05:18, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal:West Bengal

Please check out the Portal:West Bengal and help it improve. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:05, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Request for admin

Hey admin. Could you please help delete this page - Portal:West Bengalt/Did you know/Archive. This was created by mistake...the spelling in the title is wrong. The correct page - Portal:West Bengal/Did you know/Archive has been established. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Ragib, do you know which lady revolutionary (in Indian freedom struggle) was known as the "Tigress of Chittagong?" Was it Pritilata Waddedar or somebody else? I know she died from police firing circa 1931. Rama's arrow 16:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Deletion tag On Sofiur Rahman

Ragib bhai, there is a deletion on my created article about a martyr of the Language Movement Sofiur Rahman. As you know he is one of the 5 martyrs who are mentioned in any topic about Language Movement. One more thing is that there is significant importance about the incident of February 22 which is still not included in the main article and would be later. There was actually more 'movement' took place of February 22 than 21 in many sense. Even with the one sided government press release it was mentioned 7 people died on february 22. But there is on information what so ever about them. And even though sofiur's death incident does not seem to be anything dramatic I think it has importance. Is their any help you can give to stop the article from deletion? Please help. Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 18:27, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Ragibbhai, thanks for your support and compliments! It is indeed pleasing to see Nazrul's bio as an FA - he's definitely my favorite poet/philosopher along with Tagore and Gibran. I'm absolutely fascinated by Bangladesh so it won't be long before a take up another FA drive on a Bangladeshi topic. Two things - (1) what happened to the FA drive of Bengali language? and (2) can you please translate the 10 odd Bengali subject FAs we have here for the Bengali WP? Rama's arrow 20:06, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Free photos for Image:Bengalis.PNG

Can you help me find some more public domain or free photos for Image:Bengalis.PNG? I have managed to replace one part of it and have found a second image, but there don't appear to be many good subjects from List of Bengalis. Respond at my talk page. Peter O. (Talk) 02:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice! After I make the changes, we can finally remove the image from WP:PUI. Peter O. (Talk) 03:05, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I've uploaded the new images. I thank you again for your help. Peter O. (Talk) 03:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Rq

Since Bengali related articles are the best kept out of the Indian subcontinent, do you know of any other Bengali's with the name Ishwar (name) or Subrata ? I'm running out.Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:45, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

You missed out Subroto Mukerjee, the first Chief of staff of Indian Air force!! :) --Ragib 02:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm now sure its Pritilata Waddedar. I had read her bio in a small anthology of Indian freedom fighters many years ago in Bombay. She was referred to as the "Tigress of Chittagong." Rama's arrow 05:54, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks Ragib for feed back on Jana Gana Mana. Swadhyayee 10:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Will you kindly look in to Hinduism edit wars?

Dear Ragib,

Will you kindly look in to Hinduism edit wars. It's really going out of hand and against the interest of Wikipedia. The intervention is immensely needed. Pl. see the discussion and removal of my edits. Hope you will oblige. Swadhyayee 04:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Ragib bhai for your contribution on Sofiur Rahman. The person who created the tag also agreed to keep it. Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 06:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Sofiur Rahman

I think the Banglapedia entry may be incorrect when it says that he was given the award in 2000. See, for instance, this article which says that "Shaheed Shafiur Rahman" is one of the 2006 awardees. On the other hand, he is listed here with no note of having received the award, although several of the other martyr bios mention the award. (I think this web page is outdated; it may be from 2004.) Also see the Banglapedia entry on National awards; it lists 4 martyrs as receiving the awards in 2000, and Sofiur isn't one of them. Perhaps you can find an official list somewhere? --Brianyoumans 07:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Abdur Razzak

Ragib bhai, the article Abdur Razzak, a bangladeshi cricketer is entitled Razzaq. But this should be Razzak. You could also find it in his cric info entry right here. Please correct this. ThanksTarif Ezaz Bangladesh 11:00, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - do not know about DYK (ref Samar Das)

Hi Ragib,

Sorry, do not know how to do DYK (in reply to your note about Samar Das) though I saw it was put up by someone.

Regards. Jibanmanab 22:47, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Re Mohd. Yunus

I am sure you must have heard the news already. I had been aware of the Grameen Bank scheme from many of my friends but was really excited when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize was given for it today. Muktodhara got it absolutely right when they voted him one of the 10 greatest living Bangalis... I would say he is one of the top 2 (Amartya Sen) being the other one. It is indeed a great day. Take care. --Antorjal 14:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I just woke up and this is the first thing I saw on my emails from friends. Dr. Yunus is from my hometown, and an alumni of my school and college. I feel immensely proud of his achievements. Grameen Bank is an idea that was against most of what economics taught at that time ... but it did change the lives of millions of people. --Ragib 14:55, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Mistake

Sorry I made a mistake. Bose was not awarded Nobel.Thanks for correcting it.Hkelkar 16:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome. I do believe that Satyen Bose was worthy of a Nobel prize. Too bad other physicists who used his ideas got Nobels, while Satyen Bose didn't. --Ragib 16:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, the Cornell/Weimann/Ketterle B.E.C. came the closest to Satyenbabu's concept of a BEC (closer than the Landau superfluids and BCS superconductors), the technology to manufacture Satyenbabu's BEC simply did not exist in the forties :(.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hkelkar (talk • contribs) .

I'm assuming the other two are Sen and Tagore? Bakaman _Bakatalk 19:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Ami Busy

Thanks ragib bhai for the message. I guess i am too busy(!) to start my school. I am working with your ideas and Language Movement you know(glad you are not here). Then an old idle named Muhammad Yunus messed me up from yesterday! :) Thanks for visiting my user page.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 07:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC) Ragib bhai, another thing. I think there should one more section at the article of Dr. Yunus. I couldn't find a place to give the information about 1997 microcredit summit in Washington. The help that he gave to clinton in arakansas should also be included.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 08:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Language map

Ragib, Could you please post your comment at Talk:India (for the other editor to see) please? Thanks, Ganeshk (talk) 17:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

New cats

Category:Chittagong College alumni, Category:Rajshahi College alumni and Category:Alumni by university in Bangladesh. I added the three CC alumni that were listed on the CC page.Bakaman _Bakatalk 18:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, Surendranath Dasgupta was a professor, not an alumnus. Also, these are not really universities, rather most people listed went there for HSC (Intermediate), which is pre-university level. --Ragib 22:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, so they are like prep schools? Technically the cats could still stay because other notable prep schools have cats. Thanks for enlightening me on the system.Bakaman _Bakatalk 00:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

No. I thought you'd be familiar with the education levels in south asia ... at least the HSC examination. Anyway, to clarify, Chittagong Colllege takes students in the 11th grade level, after they pass the SSC exam. The HSC exam is equivalent to US High schools, but institutions providing this are called colleges in India and Bangladesh. The exam is variously called Intermediate, FA etc. throughout history. Chittagong College is also a university college, which means it offers BA/BSC and MA/MSC level courses (in the same way Indian colleges offer these). Rajshahi college has closed its HSC section 10 years ago, but until then, it offered the same thing as Ctg college.

To clarify the point I made, the parent cat of these cat's should be "Alumni by college in Bangladesh". However, please do look at the structure in Education in Bangladesh to figure out the whole education levels. --Ragib 00:55, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Whitewashing the Maoists

Why are you whitewashing the Communist Party of India (Maoist)?? They are regarded by some groups as terrorists and they have committed violence. This is regarding this diff of yours:

[9]

I have re-inseted the sources and made the edits more NPOV.I have also inserted ources that declare the Maoists as a terrorist outfit. Please try to neutralize well-sourced edits rather than delete them. That would be greatly appreciated. ThanksHkelkar 14:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm nowhere near India or Bangladesh. I'm closer to the plainfields/cornfields you listed on your userpage. The HSC/BSC stuff just zipped over my head.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry, the levels are Primary (Grade 1-5), Secondary (6-10), Higher Secondary (11-12), Undergrad (13-15/16) etc. --Ragib 01:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Interest rate

I was talking to one of my friend in the telephone today. He quoted from a TV show that Grameen Bank's rate is actually the half in comparison with the same project run by other countries. In that case it is the lowest(at least lower). There are other traditional banks who give loans but their interest rate in higher as the amount of the loan decreases(Grameen's case). And to get loans from other you really have to work hard and remain uncertain. But Grameen actually give you loans at your doorstep. Please explain this facilities that GB provide to the man who said the interest rate is very high in the talk page of Grameen BankTarif Ezaz Bangladesh 19:30, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

AR Ray and such

Barua is generally an assamese name (see Dev_Kant_Baruah, Lachit Borphukan and classification of Assamese names), but you were right on that one. The wiki article Barua is misleading, because Barua as such is an Assamese military ranking. I generally work under the assumption that if the name is a Hindu bengali (ray, -jee, sen, etc.) then they probably are Hindu (especially -ananda) , and also because Muslim names are easy to spot and classify.Bakaman _Bakatalk 03:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Most of the Chittagonian Buddhists have the surname Barua (in fact, all of my Buddhist schoolmates had this title). So, you can't assume someone with a Barua surname to be exclusively Assamese/

I made another change regarding Manju Sorkar, as Sorkar is a very common surname not restricted to either of Hindus or Muslims. So, you can't say for sure that Manju Sorkar is a Hindu, as the name can be of a person of either religion. RAy/Sen/-adhyay are all exclusively Hindus, but in case of Annadashankar Ray, his article says he was born in Orissa. --Ragib 04:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Similar kind of common (among Muslims and Hindus) surnames include Chowdhury, Talukdar, Majumder, Chakladar, Bishwas, Mandal etc. All of the first 4 of the ones I mentioned were actually Mughal land management official job titles, e.g. a Talukdar was the guy in charge of a Taluk. So, these are not tied to any particular group. --Ragib 04:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

So he never lived in Bangladesh? Also is this [10] the same Annadashankar Ray as the article? Btw, I was looking at Banglapedia, is the site down for you as well? Bakaman _Bakatalk 04:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure about his ties to Bangladesh or East Bengal. Not sure about the obit either. [11], [12] are some mirrors of Banglapedia. --Ragib 04:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

dear Sir,

Sarvagnya has removed a offcial warning given to him by Arya and also blanked out a non-obscene msg by me.I request u to retain them.Mahawiki 05:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Sarvagnya's vandalism

Dear Sir, He is removing his official warnings on his page and non-obscene msgs for no reason.see this thisand THIS.Morever as a revenge he issued me a warning for no reason HERE.Note that he has alleged me that I vandalise his page and given me a No personal attack' warning! Mahawiki 06:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Please See this link too where sarvagnya himself had warned against removing official warnings.Mahawiki 07:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I also request u to allow me to remove the warning he gave me out of revenge. Mahawiki 06:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangla translation

Hi,

Could you insert bengali alphabet names of Jana Yuddha and Lal Paltan? sincerely, --Soman 14:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

List

Hi Ragib via, I created the list of bir protik for quite some time. But which model should i follow. Will it be the bir uttom list like.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 19:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Incivility on Saare Jahan Se Achcha Talk page

Hello Ragib, I believe, you have protected the Saare Jahan Se Achcha in the best interest of all the editors coming to a consensus and hence avoiding the revert war. However, if you see the discussion, some of the editors are not even behaving in civil manner, IMO. While an editor, in this edit accuses me (along with other few editors) for hijacking the talk page, and terms us as "fanatics" ; another editor, in this edit, goes ahead and asks "Why are we entertaining them?" along with sentences like "Please ignore them" and "if they create more havoc". Questions that are bothering myself: Have I hijacked the article or talk page? Have I shown even a cent of fanatiscm in that discussion? Have I created havoc? Does someone need to entertain/authorize me to involve in a discussion? Answer is no, for best of my knowledge. Please correct me if I am wrong.

In an article talk page, where we are only supposed to talk about the contents (and not on Editors), these kind of messages are not only deviating from the discussion but also against WP:Civility and WP:No Personal Attacks. I sincerely request your attention and intervention on this regard. Thank you. - KNM ^{Talk - Contribs} 20:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

My comment was not directed to KNM.It was directed to sarvagnya who was incivil with me and his tone about Hindi was insulting.Anyways since a user has given enough citations to prove our point,i think the issue is solved?

Mahawiki 06:18, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Mujib

Ragib, I know that. I was just asking for a reference for that sentence.-Regards-Bharatveer 08:09, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Mobile phone terms across the world

Would you please have a look at this article? I have added bangla, but couldn't put the bangla scripts as currently i am unable to use any bangla keyboard in my laptop. Thank you in advance for your kind cooperation. Auyon 13:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Sri Chinmoy

It was listed as him being Bangladeshi. Since he never lived in Bangladesh I tried to change it to cat "Chittagong district" (I think that's how you organize them). Right now I have the district cat commented out until you can put the right cat in.Bakaman _Bakatalk 03:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Since he left Chittagong at an early age, this approach sounds ok. I have removed the comment. Thanks. --Ragib 04:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I didnt cap the district, I found the cat you were talking about.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:02, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Bengali actors?

Bakasuprman has added the category Bengali actor to several actors who were born in Mumbai and have always lived there. See Tanisha Mukherji and Tanuja Samarth. How can they be Bengalis if they're Mumbaikars? Is this a statement about Mumbai belonging of right to Maharashtrians?

I have a feeling that if I remove the categories, Bakasuprman will be happy to revert and engage in yet another revert war. I'm not sure that he would react the same way if you removed the categories. Thoughts? Zora 05:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Tanisha is a Bengali ... "Mukherji" is a shortened version of Mukhopadhyay, which is a Bengali Brahmin surname. However, Tanuja is not a Bengali, though she is married to one. --Ragib 06:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

If Tanisha had grown up in Kolkata and spoke Bengali, I might accept the label. But if she was born in Mumbai and probably speaks English and Bambaiyya Hindi, how is she a Bengali? My mother was from Texas, I was born in Oregon ... does that make me a Texan? Sometimes I joke about being half-Texan, but no one actually from Texas would accept me as a Texan. Unless Tanisha claims to be Bengali, I don't see why the label should be given to her. Zora 06:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how this can be ascertained. Bengali is an ethnicity ... much like the Italian-american tags applied to many people, most of whom were born in USA and don't speak Italian. Tanisha's father is a Bengali. So, by ethnicity, she is half-Bengali, even if she doesn't speak Bengali. That's how my train of thought went. Of course, I don't have a strong opinion on either side here. --Ragib 07:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Just like you stated above, I went by the Mukherji/Chatterji/Ghose/etc assumption. Oregonians and Texans are not two different ethnic groups, unlike Marathi's and Bengalis.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Unless Tanisha makes a big deal of her father being Bengali, I don't think the ethnicity of her father has anything to do with her. What does she say she is? She's the one who chooses, not us. The guidelines for biographies of living persons (WP:BLP) say that you shouldn't categorize someone by religious beliefs or sexual preference unless that person publicly asserts their status and the category is relevant to their public life. I think ethnicity, as a category, falls into the same realm -- you shouldn't assert it against someone unless that person is willing to claim it.

In this case, it seems to me that categorizing her as Bengali is a way of hinting that she doesn't belong in Mumbai. Mumbai politics have featured Shiv Sena campaigns against anyone non-Maharashtrian, including Gujus, Bongs, etc. Only recently have the battle lines shifted to become Hindu/Muslim battle lines. I don't want to see WP used as a virtual battleground for Mumbai politics. Zora 02:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Can Zora possibly stop assigning motives? I could care less if she lives in Mumbai or Maputo. She's Bengali and therefore merits inclusion into the cat. Being Bengali is not a religious belief, nor is it a sexual preference. Its not against Tanisha, its about Tanisha. I'm almost certain if I had used my IP address instead of my username Zora would not have even noticed the difference, and that this is another failed attempt to malign me, and fantasize about my edits.Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:18, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

And also, I am not Marathi, nor do I live within 10000 miles of Maharashtra.Bakaman _Bakatalk 03:27, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review Request

I have put a peer review request for Shahbag . Hope you'll participate. - Aditya Kabir 17:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

RU

I think Rajshahi University basically has all the ingredient for a FA at this point. Its 30 kb, and I've got some inline citations going for it. AFAIAC, its now a matter of tightening the language, fixing any gaping holes, and more citations. Take a look if/when u have time.--ppm 22:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Do you think we should use a different infobox for RU? USC has an infobox which IMO looks way nicer, more like an FA than the present one.Bakaman _Bakatalk 01:06, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Syed Ahmed Khan

Hi - I request you to please visit Syed Ahmed Khan and its FAC. I need your input, advice and criticism. Many thanks, Rama's arrow 01:42, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

The lighted path

Hi. Do you know about Diwali? I wish you All The Best on the ocasion of the Indian festival of light, Diwali. I am sure that the light of hope, confidence, and all positive attributes shall always remain inside you – lighting your path and guiding you to attain higher and higher levels of excellence in all your endevours! And, ID Mubarak too. All the best! --Bhadani 17:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

A belated happy Diwali, and early Eid mubarak!--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Got A Picture!

Hi, Ragib Bhai. As I was lookig for information about Shaheed Minar and searching the web I found a report about a book of pictures about teh movement published by StandardChartered Bank. There I found a picture the foundation stone that was laid in 1956. This picture can be taken under the Pakistan Copyright Act. If you find this picture good enough to add then get it from here. I was also trying to find the actuall book which would be GREAT! One more thing is I gathered info about the song "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano". Should I give the lyrics inside the article? By the way I have been working on your ideas and wishing to launch one of the article after Eid. Thanks anyway. And Eid Mobarok.Tarif Ezaz Bangladesh 11:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Id Mubarak!

I wish you all the best on the occasion of Id Festival. --Bhadani 04:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Spam?

Don't know how you interprete adding a useful site into external links, providing useful information on import/export with Bangladesh, as being innappropriate. The external link submitted i believe was 'useful, appropriately tasteful, and accessible to users with disabilities.' Also it does not match any classifiers on WP:SPAM, as you have labelled it.

Eid Mubarak

I hope you enjoy lots of firni, semai payesh, and biriyani on the auspicious occasion! Eid Mubarak.--Antorjal 01:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Charchari

Oh, I forgot Bangladesh! Can you check the article to make sure it looks accurate to you? And can you also add the Bangla language spelling? Badagnani 03:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Chaunk

Thank you! I wonder if you could add Bangla to Chaunk as well. I don't understand why Bengali people pronounce it as "chaunce" or "chauns" instead of "chaunk," because my cookbook spells it "chaunk." Badagnani 03:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I have been having a discussion for a while now. It seems to no avail. Please check the "Discussion" on the page concerned before posting. (Jvalant 04:49, 26 October 2006 (UTC))

WB FAC

Hi! West Bengal is in FAC. Express your views in the nomination page. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I do need those usefull scripts

Dear Ragib Bhai, Thanks for your offer. You offered me your scripts at My Talk. Yes, I do need those usefull scripts, your help, and advice for our project. আমি কি বলে আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ জানাব, ভেবে পাচ্ছি না। I just asked permission for bot status in bpy wiki project at: 'http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_bot_status#bpy:User:Usinghabot'. I hope I will get status within a few days, and I will run your scripts asap. Thanks a lot.

Usingha 05:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Personal Attack

And calling me "foolish" is not a personal attack? Or do you quantify personal attacks by the kind of words used ? Why delete my post, while his stays? Double standards? Jvalant 22:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

No. You are wrong. He doesn't say my views are foolish. He says I am foolish. That constitutes a personal attack. I am concentrating on the issue as well - but I shall not standby idly and watch you misuse your clout as an admin. I must insist that you delete that line as well and warn him too. (Jvalant 23:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC))

quick question

How do I get those user attributes onto my page, and where do I find them? Dool325 03:12, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

would you like to respond to this "Title should be Ganga" on Talk:Ganges_river

I know this request comes up every few months. However, the name Ganges is being steadily overtaken by Ganga in English usage. A (English only) search on google reveals 2.79 mn references to Ganga and 2.67 mn to Ganges. Last time it was discussed, User:Ragib had felt that "the term "Ganges" is widely used in English, and should be used in the English wikipedia." He had cited a newspaper. However, it seems current content such as newspapers are using Ganga at an even higher rate - Google news shows 535 hits for Ganga and 265 for Ganges. Users past 30 (including myself) may have grown up with Ganges, but the next generation is already increasingly using Ganga in English. The old order needs to yield. I move we change the lead title, and keep Ganges as a link. Mukerjee (Talk) 13:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangladesh assessment

I have too many things on my plate. Sorry, I will not able to spare time for Bangladesh right now. May be sometime in the future. If you are interested in running it yourself, I can tell you how. It is pretty easy job using the Plug-in with a generic template since you don't have any workgroups yet. -- Ganeshk (talk) 20:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Photo

No. It was taken by Mr. Tanvir Chowdury(98 batch) and he gave me full permission to use it anywhere I wish. U can contact him here. --Ayon 08.38, 29 October 2006

Devajyoti Ray

I was delsorting and I found the Afd for this guy. Do you think he's notable?Bakaman _Bakatalk 04:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Not really encyclopedic yet. Note that the Tribune article was only referring to his 2nd solo exhibition. I think he needs some more years to become encylopedic material. Most metropolitan newspapers do these type of exhibition news coverage at least once per week, so his was nothing so special as to warrant a wikipedia page on him. --Ragib 04:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Poetic eh?

[13]Bakaman _Bakatalk 05:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Election 2007

Consider updating the Bangladeshi parliamentary election, 2007 page if you have time and also add it under current event. Very busy right now, so can't do myself. Thank you.

Dhakaiya- not logged in.

Bengali wikipedia

Hi Ragib, I realize the problem about getting people from West Bengal interested in bengali wikipedia. I myself am caught up with a lot of work these days, and rarely contribute to Wikipedia, just check back to prevent vandalism. I ll see if I can drum up potential Bengali wikipedia contributors. Keep up the good work ! Pradiptaray 16:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Sarvagnya=Gnanapiti

Please see this Mahawiki 18:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair use

Dear Ragib, I much appreciate your nicely-worded message to me of several months ago, and I'm sorry for not having replied all this while. I have been off WP for several months, catching up with real life. I wish you had e-mailed me, or taken action on your own to remove the images; you know I never would have objected to such an initiative from you if it was in order to comply with WP policy. How long can someone wait for a user who has simply vanished. And you know what, I had long before begun to feel that the stamp-collection was just tacky and I should try get rid of it!! Something also true for the Raja Ravi Varmas, but in that case I had been planning a major expansion of the article to coincide with the painter's death centenary. Anyway, please look at User:ImpuMozhi/Album now. Is it OK to link the fair-use images (stamp and otherwise) in the way that I have now done? And congratulations on winning the Nobel! Especially for such good reason. Regards, ImpuMozhi 01:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Belong to?

I appreciate your spirit in locating people from East Bengal and marking them accordingly.

Abala Bose was daughter of Durga Mohan Das, who hailed from Dhaka (or presently Munshiganj) but spent a part of his active life in Barisal. Abala Bose spent almost all her life, starting from her school days at Bethune School, at Kolkata. It would, therefore, be proper to think of her as belonging to the category “People from Kolkata.” There is no harm in your also marking her as belonging to Munshiganj and/or Barisal. I think such duplication would be there in many cases. People can belong to more than one place, depending on their/ their family’s migratory nature.

Kindly give this a thought and let me have your considered opinion. Take your time. There is no hurry. Regards.

-- P.K.Niyogi 04:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Bindi (decoration)

Hullo Ragib, thanks for the backup at the bindi article. I think Bakasprman and Bharatveer are attacking it just to needle me. However, in your latest edits, you kept the material that Baka introduced that was basically a repeat of material in the main body of the article. It makes the article disorganized and jumbled. I rewrote the article to integrate any new material he had introduced into the main body of the article. The two Bs just reverted to their jumbled "Indian sub-continent" version. I would appreciate it if you could check the diffs and when you revert (as will probably be necessary over and over again) revert to the more organized version. Zora 06:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ragib, already was peering at what was going on. Found your actions to be entirely appropriate in the context. Just protecting to cool things down a bit. Take care -- Samir धर्म 06:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I removed redundant info to organize it into headers. How am I attacking it? This is just a blatant violation of WP:AGF by Zora in another underhanded attempt to malign me.Bakaman _Bakatalk 15:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Also how is one big jumble more organized by three headers of content? I removed what I saw repeated when I reverted vandalism the second time. Zora may need to note that her angry rant is melting in its own irrelevance.Bakaman _Bakatalk 23:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

People

I get your point but are they included anywhere in a Bangladesh list? In case it is yes, we can have a link to that page on this page. -- P.K.Niyogi 01:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Now that you have a district-wise category, I will use these whenever I create a new biography. -- P.K.Niyogi 02:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Bindi talk

Hi Ragib,

In Jana Gana Mana talk page, you had considered this edit as very bad personal attack]. I am curious to know, what you think about this edit, and request appropriate action. Please note the words such as "useless", "anti-Hindi", "canard", "shameful", "troll" etc which this user in question seems to pull out of his hat in a jiffy everytime he feels the irresistible need to answer a post of mine. I have started wondering, if anything that is against one's POV can be called "trolling"? Not sure how many times we need to keep repeating "Comment on content, not on the contributor", which, I've been led to believe, is the very backbone of WP:NPA. Sarvagnya 05:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Ragib, I am waiting for your views on the above. Please let me know if I have to take this to PAIN. Thanks. Sarvagnya 05:36, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

As you may notice, the only time I ever run into Sarvagnya is on pages where he tries to remove Hindi. Thankfully Wikipedia

“ does not require that editors continue to assume good faith in the presence of evidence to the contrary. Actions inconsistent with good faith include vandalism, confirmed malicious sockpuppetry ”

, which Sarvagnya has committed both. I am merely following Wiki policy while making sure the Marathi-Kannada nonsense stays where it belongs, on Maharashtra and Karnataka pages. Just because Sarvagnya managed to run Mahawiki off Wiki doesnt mean he can run me off like that. I carefully commented on the verb (the action) though I do also feel the same way about the contributor.Bakaman _Bakatalk 22:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Reverting India

Oops, I made mistake again. I reverted the page three times. Please you revert now. Shyam ^(T/C) 06:05, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing :) Shyam ^(T/C) 06:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Peer Review Request

Hi, I have made a peer review request for Bandarban District. I thought I should tell you, since your help has brought the article to where it is now. - Aditya Kabir 15:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

mail

Hi - you've got mail. Rama's arrow 16:08, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Bangladesh

Thank you for correcting me. Just made the required changes again to the article. Also, it would make more sense, if we remove prime-minister link(as leader_2) from the infobox till the next elections; or atleast write a word "None" or a dash –. KNM ^Talk 19:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Help rq's

I'm working on a series of articles on Manipur . I started with Pamheiba and am working my way down the dynasty. I found a Banglapedia article but am wondering if you perhaps have access to better sources than travel sites and religious orgs that I can cite.Bakaman _Bakatalk 02:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Re to "come hither"

Hi! Yes I have started visiting again. Just watching the stuff. Great going. No problem with Bangla font. Avro is cool. Thanks a lot for your undeterred effort. I feel ashamed not to have responded properly to your repeated messages. Thanks Ragib. I shall soon start editing there again. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 08:11, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Proposal(s)

I have made some proposals on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh. Would you check, please? - Aditya Kabir 10:02, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

And, oh, I have reverted the Category:Bangladeshi people links on Image:Benoy Krishna Basu.jpg, Image:Matiur rahman.jpg and Image:Humayun faridi.jpg again.

The reson I have given in the summary is no other "people" category (i.e. "Amrecian People", "Indian People" etec.) includes pictures. besides, if pictures are to be included then it should include more than just three random people. I feel that the practice of not putting pictures on those pages is actually good, as all those pictures only turn the category page cumbersome, adding little value.

Besides, there are pictures uploaded for many other "Bangladeshi people". Is there any particular reason why we should have pictures of just these three on the category page? It contradicts the reason you gave for reverting my earlier edit - images need to be properly classified, and it is correctly placed in Bangladeshi people category.

I guess you have been applying the Wikimedia Commons system of classifying pictures to Wikipedia. The application of your argument, i.e. classifying images by subjects, is perfectly valid for Wikimedia Commons.

Check Category:Wikipedia images to find out that the pictures are classified by character (i.e. type of image), source and so on, not the topic. Check Category:Wikipedia image galleries to find out that topical pictures are "generally" put on a separate page with a name that goes like - "List of images/...". And, check Wikipedia:Images to find out that there is no plociy that says images should be clssified.

I propose that the public domain pictures you want to classify are shifted to Wikimedia Commons. And, for the rest of the pictures you create separate galleries as necessary. You can find more on Wikipedia:Galleries.

Sincerely yours - Aditya Kabir 13:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Moved the images to Category:Images of Bangladesh. Thanks. --Ragib 22:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Answered to your answers on Talk:List of cities in Bangladesh and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh. Please, check. - Aditya Kabir 07:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Addendum

I have re-defined my city proposal on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh. Please, check. And, I have submitted a peer review request for Bandarban District. Since you were the catalyst to bring the article where it is now, I guess you would be interested. Please, check. And, do you think I should be moving Bandarban Town/City to a separate entry? Please, advise. - Aditya Kabir 05:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Racist statements made by User:Street Scholar

I would like to invite your attention to racist statements made against Bengali people by this user here. He has been warned for making inflammatory statements before (against women), refused to heed them and got blocked repeatedly for it. He has also made anti-semitic statements here.Hkelkar 21:52, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I am stating facts. Committed treason. And where disloyal to Pakistan. How is stating a fact making me racist? --StreetScholar 22:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

If the hundreds of thousands of Bengalis who were butchered with unprecedented savagery and barbarity by Niazi and his henchmen in what passes for am army in Pakistan could speak, they would disagree rather strongly with you.Hkelkar 22:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Please can you tell me how its "racist"? I am genuinely curious to know this. --StreetScholar 23:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello again

Nice to see you are still here. You probably dont remember me but you were the one who welcomed me in August last year (2005). I have settled in nicely (although with one or two slight differences of opinion) and have now made over 25000 edits. I dont see you around much. Wher do you hang out??--Light current 02:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Khwaja Abdul Ghani

Yes, I know. I have used Banglapedia to begin the article. I intend to rework the copy to make it more consolidated, include the information from the offcial web page of the nawab family, and make use of a couple of Daily Star articles. I also intend to use stuff from Hakim Habibur Rahman's book, and a few other sources. But, all that will require a couple of days time. Till then I am fine quoting Banglapedia as a source. Thanks. - Aditya Kabir 17:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I was hoping for an answer to my proposal on your talk page. Will you, please, check it out? - Aditya Kabir 17:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

And, please, do check the Dhaka Nawab Family artcile as well. It too uses Banglapedia as a skeleton. If possible, please, take look at Shahbag, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and Gulshan, Dhaka as well. - Aditya Kabir 18:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Re:Manipur

Thanks for the contact. I didnt know any manipuri users (only assamese and tripuri), so he'll probably come in handy. Tarif Ezaz said he also knew a bit on Manipur as well, so I contacted him.Bakaman _Bakatalk 18:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

On an unrelate subject - While searching Special:Newpages for articles to place in WP:INBIN, I found Muktijoddha Sangsad KS. You may want to check it out. Bakaman _Bakatalk 18:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Natok

Yep. I do write Natoks. I have started a biography page as a subpage to my user page. It has a filmography section, uncomplete so far. But, I intend to incorporate all my films and stuff there. Cheers. (p.s. the eidwallah natoks, there were two, didn't come out good, sorry) - Aditya Kabir 17:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Capital Punishment

I moved your citation notations on Capital Punishment and Capital Punishment in the United States to the ends of those sentences, as just putting the notation behind Bangladesh suggests that the other countries are verified, when in fact all 7 require fact check. JCO312 20:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you, sir, for the warm welcome. I am simply over awed by the contribution of some of you in Wikipedia. I wonder how you manage to get so much time. I am really short of time for effectively contributing to this forum. I have been reading Wikipedia for at least two years now. It is generally very informative but the biased views of some persons really put me off and I thought that I should also write. -- Seejee 05:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I speak Bangla but I have no time. I am doubtful even about English Wikipedia. I am sorry to disappoint you. I am aware that you are fighting a great battle to keep the Bangla Wikipedia going. -- Seejee 05:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Hi. This is Tracy at the NCSA. I am an intern and I am brand new to editing Wikipedia pages. If I did not properly attribute the pictures, I'm glad people are taking note (I am an undergraduate journalism student, so I am ALL about properly attributing material). I will try and correct the copyright information tomorrow and I will contact you again if I need help. Thanks, Tracy TracyNCSA 23:39, 16 November 2006

Also: I handle the paper copyright and image permission forms in my office, so I think it is a little humorous that I cannot seem to figure this out...

thanks

Hey - thank you again, a billion times for nominating me. You are my role model and I request you to lemme know anytime u may feel I'm making a bad decision. More importantly, if/when you need anything, lemme know. Rama's arrow 02:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

What rest? I'm already running wild across CAT:CSD like other teams through the Bangladesh cricket team :))! (No offense of course) Which FA ideas have you in mind? I'm already at work on Chittagong - drawing up my draft. Rama's arrow 04:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Use of a stamp to portray the stamp itself, rather than the stamp's content. Fair use or no?

Hi, Ragib.

As you know, you've removed the image of the postage stamp from "A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada."

Your comment says, "Stamp usage that doesn't fall under Fair use criteria, this is not a philatelic article."

I have reviewed the Fair use criteria. Matching this image against the criteria:

1. No free equivalent is available? Yes.

2. Unlikely to replace the original market role of the original? Yes.

3. Amount of copyrighted work used as little as possible? Yes.

4. Previously published? Yes.

5. Encyclopedic? Yes.

6. Meets media-specific policy requirements? Yes.

For "Stamp" the requirement is "to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)."

The stamp is used here to illustrate an honor afforded to the subject of the article by the Government of India, an honor mentioned in the article.

The image is used not to show the person the stamp pictures, nor merely to decorate the page, but "to illustrate the stamp in question" to visually support a relevant point made within the article.

7. Used in at least one article? Yes.

8. Contributes significantly to the article (e.g. identify the subject of an article, or specifically illustrate relevant points or sections within the text)? Serves more than a purely decorative purpose? Yes for both.

Specifically illustrates the honor afforded to the subject of the article by the Government of India--a relevant point, mentioned within the text.

9. Used only in the article namespace? Yes.

10. Proper information given on media description page? Yes.

The usage seems to meet all the criteria.

You mention, "This is not a philatelic article." True. But does Wikipedia have a policy confining images of stamps to philatelic articles? The only media-specific requirement I see in the "Stamp" template is that the image must "illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)"--a requirement the usage here meets.

So is there some policy I'm missing? Or would you be willing to reconsider and reinstate the image?

Thank you.

Cordially,

O Govinda 02:47, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Now that I've seen your remarks on the Notice board for India-related topics, the matter is clearer. As far as I can tell, the image meets the WP:FUC but violates the (typically fussy) copyright restrictions of India Post. Upshot: I agree the image is off limits. Thanks, Ragib.

Cordially, O Govinda 12:01, 19 November 2006 (UTC)