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Rajshahi University

Check out the Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Rajshahi University if possible. Thanks--ppm 05:11, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

You warned this wikipedian

You warned Gene Nygaard, about rudeness, and boorish behaviour.

He has told me he has "important concerns" about what he regards as my misuse of categories.

I told him that I am new to creating categories, and asked him to make an effort to explain to me where I have gone wrong. He declines to explain his hinnts about his important concerns. I think I have been civil with him. I don't think he has been civil with me.

I am willing to acknowledge that he may be correct, in the points he has hinnted about. But, IMO, he hasn't made a good faith attempt to explain himself, and he hasn't convinced me.

I think he should refrain from acting as if the matter we are discussing has been resolved, in his favour.

You can see our recent exchanges under User talk:Gene Nygaard#Arabic names. (i told him I was drawing it to your attention.)

I don't think Mr Nygaard really realizes how destructive his behaviour is. I see it as a violation of wp:not#wikipedia is not a battlefield.

If you think Mr Nygaard is correct, and that his concerns hold merit, could you give me some guidance as to who or wear I could look for guidance as to which errors I am committing in my use of categories?

If you think I am correct and that he is behaving rudely, and his rudeness shows he is not in compliance with earlier commitments he has made, what do you think I should do next?

FWIW, do you think I am correct to think I continued to comply with wp:civ?

Thanks! -- Geo Swan 05:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. -- Geo Swan 21:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi!!!

Hey Rama! How are you? Busy with real life? Any plans for Language Movement? Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:03, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks. And a coincidence really! Hehe. Bye the way, both you and me seem to be less active these days! Sorry I could not give any comment on Montreal screwjob. Was happy to see it getting featured. You remember Arundhati bakshi? She is back in WP. Also saw areJay active in the Montyreal FAC. However, Deepu had to quit for some personal reasons. So did Nobleeagle. Yes, when I remember talking with you one year back, it feels nice! With Nichalp, Dineshkannambadi and others around, hope we'll see more and more featured articles. Let's see if your prediction of crossing 100 India related FAs by 2007 comes true. Happy editing! Thanks you. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Have replied your mail. --Dwaipayan (talk) 16:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of Talk:Daft Punk/Archive 1

# Author requests deletion. Any page for which deletion is requested by the original author in good faith, provided the page's only substantial content was added by its author. If the author blanks the page, this can be taken as a deletion request.

The deletion doesn't make any sense since it was an archive of the original talk page - Talk:Daft Punk. Douglasr007 19:14, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

An old friend seems to be back

Hello Rama's Arrow

I think that Hkelkar is back again, under the Triedsolve identity. Indeed, I questionned the validity and neutrality of one of Hkelkar articles in a discussion page; suddenly, a new user called Triedsolve popped up, proceeding to the usual war-editing and unjustified reversions user Hkelkar used to be known. Incman is also suspecting the sockpuppetry, here. Is it possible to check ?

Thanks

TwoHorned 09:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I have indef-blocked the user. It is obvious that he is somebody's sock, most likely Hkelkar's. - Aksi_great (talk) 17:49, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! The chat in Misplaced Pages weekly is great. It was nice to hear you three people discuss the status of Misplaced Pages in South Asia. Bye the way, this guy is repeatedly adding Khaksar Movement (Khaksar Tehrik) in IIM. I reverted quite a few times. Now I see you are doing the same! Next time, s/he needs to be explained why it is being reverted. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Shahbag

Thanks. I was about to ask you again. Did you take a look at Fowler and Nichalp's ideas? Do you have any more suggestions that I can work on? Do I put it up for a GA nomination and/or a peer review at this point? Aditya Kabir 22:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page

Copyvio image removed from user subpage. Thanks. Aditya Kabir 22:59, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

San Diego?

Umm... returned home a long time back :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

RfAr

Hi, A staement by User:Citecop involved my interactions with you as an early user. My reply was that I'll ask you if the initial behaviour still has any relevance.

I know my interactions very early on may have been counter productive. I would also like to bring to your attention that the the barnstars awarded to me were not given by Hindutva editors or even Hindus. Your opinion is held in high regards by all involved and if you take the time to post then I'll appreciate it a great deal. Many regards, _{Freedom skies| talk}  10:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Shahbag once more

The Shahbag article has gone through major changes. Would you care to take a look at it again? Aditya Kabir 15:20, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Indef. of User:BhaiSaab

Hello Rama's Arrow, forgive me for saying so but I did not see a consensus that this user should be indefinitely blocked. Am I wrong about this? (→Netscott) 16:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Education in Bangladesh, please, help

I have started working on the article Education in Bangladesh. It was in an extremely bad shape. The last few edits were turning it into a motley hotchpotch of text, link and image for private university/English medium agenda-pushers. Even without that the article had little content. I have began by putting in an enormous amount of fresh text, and even more massive amount of resource links (Banglapedia, government sites and downloadable pdf links). Now the real work should begin. Would you lend a hand in this? I can't do it alone. Do you have anyone else in mind who might help? That person doesn't need to be Bangladeshi. Aditya Kabir 18:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page

Thanks. Aditya Kabir 19:00, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Free Images

Hello Rama's Arrow! I hope you are doing well. Recently, an editor asked me to help him copyedit an article on Sai Kumar (which I have done). He also requested me to find an image of the actor. I tried searching Flickr though I could not find an image. Could you, with your expertise, direct me to website(s) where I can use an image that conforms to Misplaced Pages liscensing standards? Your help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. With regards, Anupam 02:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help sir! I will first notify WT:INB and if I receive no responses, I will upload a picture complying with Misplaced Pages:Fair use. Thanks again for your assistance. I really appreciate it. With regards, Anupam 04:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Shahbag, references and redlinks

No, the references are not meant as further readings. At least one (alas, removed by you) 1912 book is cited even inline. What is needed? In-line citation from all of those sources? That's possible, but will take a little time (I don't have all of those books around, certainly not the documents from the Nawab Bari). Date of publication are all given, publishers name can be added (let me check), but ISBN numbers can be a problem. Bangladeshi publications started to have ISBN numbers only recently (can't exactly tell the year). please, advise.

Now for the redlinks, was it necessary to create so many redlinks. Not all the schools in an area may warrant a separate article, but all put together may represent a formidable presence. The Christian New Year is the common new year around the world (i.e. January 1). It is significant in thsi context because Bangladesh also celebrates two other new years - the Bengali New Year, and the Hijri New Year. Boli Khela is the Bengali name for wrestling and Basanta Utsav is explained in fair details already on the article (though, I guess, I am going to take this opportunity of creating articles on those). Let me take another day to create stubs for the rest. Please, advise.

Now, for two more tthngs. First, what's it with image arrangement? The article, I think, was looking better before this new arrangement. Besides, it has messed up the formatting of the palace list (at least on my Mozilla Firefox, can't tell about Explorer). And, finally - does the separate section on festivals really has to go? Festivals, I believe, do warrant a separate section in the article. Once again, please, advise. And, oh, didn't you spell it Shahbaug on my talk page? Cheers. Aditya Kabir 20:29, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Admin Coaching

Hi Rama's Arrow, I hope you don't mind my asking directly, but I'm looking for admin coaching. It was recommended that we directly contact coaches. I have been with wikipedia since july 9th 2006 and have 2 (soon to be 3) featured pictures. I'm aiming for my RfA around june/july time. Probably on july 9th when it's been exactly one year, as that gives me a good 2-3 months to get up to standard. I'm looking for guidance on where I can be more active and where I can plug any potential holes in my RfA. I shall endevaour not to be much of a burden should you agree, specific area's of interest are image deletion, articles for deletion and copyright issues. All the best: WikipedianProlific 21:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Email will be fine Rama. As you suggest I shall contact you via email from this point on. Your welcome to do the same. Thanks very much for your help. I'm sure it will prove very valuable in the coming weeks WikipedianProlific 22:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

sock?

Possible sock of Street Scholar (talk · contribs) is 62.136.205.49 (talk · contribs) Bakaman 23:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I think we should use check user to help determine if that is a real sock puppet of street scholar--Fang 23 01:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiCast

Hi, your recent contributions to Misplaced Pages Weekly are noted.

Your views on "WikiCast - the free content broadcast" would be much appreciated. Additionally if you have any ideas about the type of programmes would be of interest to a Misplaced Pages/Wikimedia audience please feel free to contact me or the WikiCast project.

ShakespeareFan00 14:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Freedom skies/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, - Penwhale | 03:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Atulnischal

Hi Nirav, Would you please look into malformed archive pages as in User talk:Atulsnischal archive 7? I have advised him to move it to User talk:Atulsnischal/archive 7, but since I opposed his article in an AFD (and followup) , and also cleaned up some spam links from articles he edited, he seems to consider any of my advices as hostile to him. Also, I found User:RaveenS's talk page archives to have the same malformed style (instead of using sub pages, Atul actually copied from Raveen). It would be great if you can let them see it's contrary to Misplaced Pages:Subpages ... Thanks. --Ragib 06:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks both of you for your timeRaveenS 13:15, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

conflict of interest

Netscott - you have exceeded the ridiculous. What is the point of making accusations against me that don't make an iota's sense? Lemme try this final time to get your reasoning straight: Rama's Arrow made a statement on Bakasuprman's behalf on WP:RFAR/Hkelkar, so BhaiSaab's indef-block must be revoked. 2 + 2 now suddenly = 5?

Speaking of WP:COI, perhaps I could point out, using Netscottlogic, 2 reasons why you shouldn't even post at this discussion: (1) Blnguyen has blocked you twice. Using your logic, you have a COI since Blnguyen initiated this discussion. (2) Being blocked so many times for disruption, you are in the same category of users as BhaiSaab, more interested in wrecking Misplaced Pages. COI. Good day to you, Rama's arrow 13:38, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Rama's Arrow, more evidence of a conflict of interest: You were contacted no less than six times by User:Hkelkar seeking assistance on matters he was editing on.

1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Here is more evidence of your conflict of interest. You must be aware that prior to his involvement with Hkelkar, BhaiSaab was generally more productive and contributory. It is nonsense that he is being made to pay for HE's latest disruption and indefinitely blocked when he wasn't the cause of it. As to your arguments that I have a conflict of interest you are wrong. I've not blocked or unblocked anyone. (→Netscott) 14:18, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

You should not have indefinitely blocked User:BhaiSaab relative to this latest disruption that he was not involved with. That was wrong. BhaiSaab was rightly banned for a set duration by ArbCom and granted he did come back as a sockpuppet to edit on articles and had his ban reset three times. Given that Hkelkar was back himself obviously BhaiSaab felt motivated to come back. Hkelkar had his ban reset five times before you finally indef. blocked him. BhaiSaab has had it set three times... hello there is a difference here. Kindly refrain from calling me a troll. As this clearly demonstrates I am not a troll. (→Netscott) 16:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm extremely upset that BhaiSaab is being indefinitely blocked now when he's not done further disruption and Blntguyen decided to throw him in with HE as though they were one and the same. Again, that is wrong. Given your support for Bakasuprman and his history of conflict with BhaiSaab there most certainly is an appearance of impropriety on your part in being the one to indef. block BhaiSaab particularly given that Hkelkar was given 2 more chances before you indef. blocked him. Why don't you in good faith rescind your indef. block of BhaiSaab for now and let the discussion continue? (→Netscott) 16:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

There is extremely evidently not a consensus on the discussion that BhaiSaab should be indefinitely blocked. You were hasty in your indef. block of him. Rama's Arrow, you have to admit to this appeance of impropriety in your haste given what I have already explained. Come on, where's the justice here? One guy gets 5 chances and the other guy doesn't? Prior to Hkelkar's entanglement with BhaiSaab he was a productive and contributory editor. Even Timothy who's pushing for HE's banning seemed to acknowledge that when he left this message (using a sockpuppet) in support of BhaiSaab. (→Netscott) 16:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Further proof of no consensus. (→Netscott) 17:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Just un-autoblocked an IP used by a banned editor

Hi Nirav, I just un-autoblocked 128.122.253.196, which was autoblocked by you because it was used by BhaiSaab. Hope this is not going to pose a significant problem :) It's an NYU shared IP, so it's holding back quite a few others, I imagine. Cheers, – Riana 22:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

That is very odd.. I've tangled with an editor using this IP.... hmmmm. (→Netscott) 22:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Probably one of those IPs that everybody's had a chat with, at some stage or another :) – Riana 22:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

regarding street scholar

Thank you very much for blocking Street Scholar for offensive comments but however I have observed that many of street scholar's edits are vandalism trolling pov pushing and or sexist/misogynic remarks and racial attacks i belive that any futher vandalism pov pusing personal attacks trolling sexism and racism should result in a longer block.--Fang 23 01:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

conervapedia

street scholar also vandalised conservapedia recently. --Fang 23 01:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC)