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Image upload to Misplaced Pages Commons

Hello. I have uploaded my photograph of Nasreen Pervin Huq to Misplaced Pages Commons as you suggest, and you are free to use it. I am afraid I don't speak Bangla even though I lived in Dhaka, but you are welcome to translate the entry if you would like, or at least use it as a starting point. The information (and spelling of her name) is from her c.v. and family, so it's correct. The photo can be found at:

Photograph of Nasreen Huq

--ah1954

Statistics

Hi! Please see Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages articles per population where the bengali language article stats are still lagging. Could you please updare? Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Saravask

So far as I know, Saravask does not speak Bengali. He is probably from Kerala. In fact, I also once thought he knows Bengali! His article on Tagore is definitely the best short writing on the whole aspect of tagore I have come across. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwaipayanc (talk • contribs)

Note: I'm from Andhra Pradesh, not Kerala or Bengal. Hope you don't mind. :-) Saravask 06:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha ha, not at all, I'm rather amazed at your depth of devotion towards the article Rabindranath Tagore. Please accept my heartiest gratitude for that. You are also a great editor ... the prose of the article is awesome. Thanks. --Ragib 06:51, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Bye the way, your effort in Bangladeshi media has also inspired me to do similar popularisation here in West Bengal. However, I am short of time now. Will try to do in July-August. I may need some tips from you then. I hope you have already planned a similar news brief before Bangladesh goes there in the first page. Bye! --Dwaipayan (talk) 06:00, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I am amazed at Saravask's not being Bengali ...wow!! His writeup on Tagore is indeed the best article on him I've ever read in print or online. Amazing!!.

By the way, I don't know if you listen to BBC's Bengali service, but last week, they interviewed me regarding Bangla wikipedia. I'll mail you a link to it. Also, we have organized some people from media, open source community etc. in a mailing list. Please check out the discussion at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangla_wiki . Of course, you won't find anything substantial there yet, but the readers contain a lot of media people, and Pallab (the prothom alo journalist) is one of them. Perhaps you can get some West Bengali journalists intereted in it. After all, BBC World was interested in the story. :)

(The group organized in Bangladesh is pretty enthusiastic, they even held a rally with banners during the Pohela Boishakh celebrations.)

Thanks --Ragib 06:07, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for publicizing the Tagore main-paging — it should attract a lot of useful improvements to the Tagore and Bengal articles (and hopefully new editors) from Bengal. Saravask 06:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Ragib, I am a member of that yahoo group for quite some time. However, I hardly check the messages there. Anyway, I'll try ti help peomoting Wiki a few months later. Bye.

PS. Hope I have not crossed the limit here. ;). Bye.--Dwaipayan (talk) 09:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Dhonnobaad

... for the action. I appreciate it. Tumi bishun bhalo kore chilo. (is that right?) Regards, ImpuMozhi 18:03, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Ha ha, that's sort of right ... :) Thanks. --Ragib 04:14, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

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I would like to know how to...

Hi. I saw by chance the discussion here. Sometimes a useful trick i think. I am a sysop bureaucrat on cs.wikisource and would like to know it, as we have since some months some difficulties with some vandals. Can you tell me how you manage it? If you don't to make it here, so please contact me via e-mail either on my page in cs.wikisource or multilingual wikisource.org, where I am a sysop. Both pages you will find on my page here. Thx. -jkb- 13:12, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thx, -jkb- 13:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Durga puja in Dhakeshwari temple.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Durga puja in Dhakeshwari temple.jpg. Misplaced Pages gets hundreds of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Misplaced Pages, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions. 18:06, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Seems like I forgot. Added the "Attribution" tag. --Ragib 18:55, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

The coin

Hi! See this coin. The script has an uncanny similarity with Bengali.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

wow! thanks a lot for your comment! i didn't know these things. let me try your first advice. Tanjir 22:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Bangla Misplaced Pages

Thanks Ragib for your offer. If I'm not mistaken earlier you were averse to the idea ;) Presently I cannot download/install any font at office and I don't have Net connection at home. I'm also short of time nowadays. May be sometime in future I'd wholeheartedly join the project. Supten 09:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Matiur Rahman

I just came across the Matiur Rahman (journalist) page, which you created, and was wondering if there was a link to the same article in the Bangla wikipedia that could be added to the English? Not that I can read it, but he is interesting to know of. Thanks - Bruxism 18:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, I have added an interwiki link to the Bangla wikipedia article, but that one does not include a lot so far. But I'll try to add more content in both of the pages. Thanks. --Ragib 04:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - can you please also add the interwiki link to the English article? Bruxism 05:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. --Ragib 05:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

How will I stop it

Mukerjee edited Kazi Nazrul Islam and deleted whimsically. I was busy for some day, now I wanted to start work again and look what I found. Saying irrelevant, he deleted the work of the poet. That was only a sample of Nazrul's work. If it is irrelevant in this page, make it relavant with appropriate page setup. I don't know him, but I saw his edit. I don't like this edit. Please, inspire me, I want to be patient. Zahidbuet 20:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you can't really ask other people not to edit a page. When you submit something, you do it with the full expectation that others can remove/edit/modify it mercilessly. What you can and should do is to start a discussion thread in Talk:Kazi Nazrul Islam to discuss there and place your arguments. Reaching consensus is the best way to go. Thanks. --Ragib 04:22, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Think about it, someone named his son and people are digging conspiracy from it. I haven't read any autobiography that states the person's naming of his son. Thanks. Zahidbuet 09:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Ragibbhai - thanks a lot for your support! I was deeply touched and honored with the enthusiastic support and confidence that was expressed in me by so many of my colleagues - and now more than ever - my dear friends. Withdrawing the nomination was following the footsteps of Gandhi - and breathing the pure air of freedom. Rama's Arrow 22:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm really sorry to see you withdraw the nomination. Well, the human nature is quite strange; I personally didn't find your responses to the oppose votes anything done incorrectly. Rather, I feel the candidates are entitled to question the oppose votes, and put them in proper perspective. Why some other editors found it objectionable, is beyond my guess. Life is unfair at times, but that doesn't mean you have to be disheartened by it. I hope you'd continue your excellent edits, and I'm sure that the next time you are nominated, it will be successful. Thanks. --Ragib 03:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Hikingdom

Hi - thanks for your support - I'm feeling jubilant, not disappointed! Please see user talk:Hikingdom. I've had some exchanges in which he demonstrates positivity. Please express your own concerns with him and let's try to work this out. Rama's Arrow 03:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bangla Misplaced Pages

It looks great so far! I wish I could help out, but my level of Bangla proficiency is not sufficient to write encyclopedia articles. I'll enjoy reading some of them, though! — Knowledge Seeker দ 17:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

আমি সহজ বাংলা লিখতে পারি, কিন্তু এন্সাইক্লোপিদিআর জন্য আমি লিখতে পারবোনা। — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Mukh O Mukhosh, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for an interesting article! ++Lar: t/c 21:56, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Bandarban District

I tried to be helpful when I was writing the tourism part for the Bandarban District entry. I followed the way of the classic tourist information books and put in proper names and value attributes. I believe, anyone who wants to visit Bandarban would have found the information helpful, which is not easily available on the Web. How can I circumvent that "advertisement or endorsement" thing to get real on-ground information across? (Aditya Kabir 14:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC))

I've replied in the talk page of the district article, but here are some suggestions.... do not emulate tourist information books. This is an encyclopedic entry, so do not address the reader as "you". Do not use judgement on which hotel is better, unless the hotels were formally compared, and someone has declared one as the best hotel. You need to cite sources which say this hotel is better. Otherwise, it becomes original research, which should not appear in articles. For example, you CAN say that, according to this magazine, or this visitor survey in that year, this hotel was cited as the best one in Bandarban town (). If you just want to mention the hotels' names, you can do that saying things like "X, Y, Z are some hotels in PQR area. Y is maintained by the king's family". etc. --Ragib 18:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Should I create a separate Web Page, for example on Geocities, on the tourist information details, and put a link in the external links part? Should I create a separate entry for tourism? Or should I use material from Lonely Planets, which is not featured on their web site and is a bit dated now? (Aditya Kabir 14:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC))

The thing you are looking for is wikitravel (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page ). You can write details of tourist information, with entries for each particular hotel, and comparison statements like this hotel X is the best one etc. Then you can use a link to wikitravel using the {{wikitravel}} tag in the links section or the tourism section. That sounds like exactly what you are looking for.

Thanks, and sorry for the misunderstanding ... I should have sent you this comment earlier, and let you do the pruning yourself. --Ragib 18:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all the advice, on this page and on the talk page of the entry on Bandarban District. This would come really handy. I hope I'll keep receiving this kind of valuable guidance in future as well. And, please, watch for the links I put on Bandarban Ditsrict, because I intend to keep adding concentric rings of information on existing entries, as well as new entries that I create to cover everything that relates to the original entry. I have already created two on CCDB and BSCIC. (Aditya Kabir 15:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC))

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Citations

Ragib, No I don't misunderstand you. One thing I again trying to bring to your knowledge. In web Ayyavazhi is too poor. So far works of Ayyavazhi in web is less knowledgable and searching for it's source in internet may be like searching a needle in the ocean. But we can find more from books than from web. As soon as I complete my works on wikisource (Akilathirattu Ammanai and Arul Nool) it will be some more ease to judge Ayyavazhi. There are many Tamil users in Misplaced Pages and I think they may judge easily. Any way now I've done some thing in the article Ayyavazhi and in the discussion page. Please take a look, Thank You. - Vaikunda Raja 20:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Request regarding problem user

Hi Ragibbhai - I request you as an admin for help in resolving some issues user:Anwar saadat has been causing. You may be aware that on WP:RFA, this user has caused issues by objecting to nominations for very generalized, unfounded reasons that have provoked serious responses from other people. On my RfA, he said that my username was "Islamophobic" and that my reversion of POV edits on Jinnah was vandalism. He has also been objecting in a generalized, unfounded manner on WP:FAC. In an FAC especially, people are supposed to object by reasons that can be fixed. Anwar does not. It appears that his objective in doing this is to wreck the nominations. Additionally, it seems that he operates with an anti-India, anti-Hindu bias (most of this behavior has been on Indian FACs and RfAs) - others may disagree, but it just seems that way. Additionally, other folks have found him to be trolling and stalking. When users have attempted to talk to him, try to work out the problems or try to understand his thinking, he has not responded to him, and instead he refactors his talkpage and brands the comments in a depreciating, mocking way. Already two administrators - user:Gurubrahma and user:Sundar have attempted to talk to him. I've also asked user:Taxman to help.

Please see user talk:Gurubrahma#Need your advice, where the full jist of the issues and diffs are available. I request you to please try to explain to him that his behavior is disruptive and rude. I've tried to explain to him that we want to work positively with him, but he has only mocked such comments. Rama's Arrow 00:43, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, I'd like your opinion on pursuing an WP:RFC on this - is it the appropriate next step? Rama's Arrow 00:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Policy in wikipedia

I wonder what is the policy of the wikipwdia about evolution and Darwin. Did you see this website www.harunyahya.com . It contains many scientific facts. About religion and creation of human, there is a great war of logic. Zahid 20:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I checked out the site, and I'm sorry to say it is yet another pseudo-scientific site. There are literally thousands of such creationist sites in the Internet. Unfortunately for them, and fortunately for science, all of their so called assertions are gibberish. Creationists have been active in wikipedia too (see Intelligent design), but in the end, science triumphs over pseudo-science and the fertile imaginations of the bigots. Sorry if my statements offended you. Thanks. --Ragib 19:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Please, can you provide me the addresses of those creationist sites. Pseudo-scientific is a new term for me. I think science says about the world around us. Then what will be pseudo-scientific? I am only a Buet student (and you were a teacher of Buet). It means I am a student. If I study the world around me, then I will study science. By studying this science, if I find the existence of God, then will it become pseudo-scientific? I was a student of Notre Dame College. In biology class, Gazi Azmol Sir said about the theory of evolution and about Darwin. Darwin didn't prove anything, he just proposed. That wasn't pseudo-scientific lecture. I want to know your scientific lecture on this topic soon. A proposal from Darwin is scientific, and a fact against Darwin is pseudo-scientific! You are saying about the end, I think the end time is yet to come. Then everything will be decided. Zahid 20:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

See Intelligent design. As I said earlier, the site you mentioned is a perfect example of neo-creationism. I don't have the time to discuss these with you further. Raise any questions in Talk:Evolution or Talk:Darwinism. Thanks. --Ragib 21:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Bhavabhushan Mitra

Thanks for your touching up. Feel free to suggest all global improvements.--BobClive 09:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Bangla Misplaced Pages

Yes, I noticed that the Bangla Misplaced Pages seems to have stabilized. I had contributed some six or seven articles very early on (around Oct 2004) - but then some of them seem to have disappeared - with history and everything - due to a system failure perhaps. Since then I am a bit wary about Bangla wikipedia... but things seem to have stabilized now... Will do things from time to time, I guess... Mukerjee 17:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Month of Magh

Thanks for tidying up this page - I think it makes more sense that way you have set it up now. I have enhanced the entry for the Sikh section. Thank again, --Hari Singh 02:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Fodder Scam

Thanks for preventing the article from senseless kill.Holywarrior 09:26, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your greetings

Hi Ragib,

First of all, thank you for welcoming me. I am reading wikipedia long since, but just started writing yesterday. I have seen you edited two of my editings (in fact, i wrote only those two:) ) and I must say, they look much better after your editing. Thanks again. I am sorry as I made a couple of mistakes by placing contents on the wrong place (details inside summary) and by marking a major change as minor. I know I can correct it.

Yes, of course I like wikipedia and I am very much eager to stay. As a newcomer here, I always welcome any future comments from experienced persons - that includes you :). I hope my writing style will improve with time.

I dont know any further means of replying the welcome message you sent me other than writing here. So If I made another mistake here, I am sorry :).

Thanks again.

Sayutee 15:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Your interwiki to Monitor lizard

Hi, you probably want to link to Bengal_monitor. Shyamal 04:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. fixed the interwiki links in both en and bn wikis. --Ragib 04:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Yellow Monitor is another species that also occurs in the same region. Shyamal 06:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Bengali milestone

Thanks for the info; I've updated it now. I presume you meant 2,000 articles, as you wrote in the tip-line? In the future, you can update the milestones at m:Wikimedia News, where we get our info. Thanks again! Flcelloguy (A note?) 18:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Rfa Thanks

Dear Ragib, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it, especially from someone as experienced here as yourself. Take care -- Samir धर्म 08:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Ershad1.jpg

Hi Ragib,

I am new at Misplaced Pages and I have been trying to delete the photo that I uploaded to "Hossain Mohammad Ershad", but every time I click on "Edit this page", I don't get any clear instruction as to how I can delete the uploaded photo. Would you please help me figure out how I can do that? I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Shubechcha (talk • contribs)

Response

What action can I take against ppl who are attakcing me and backing those who are uttering all the nonesense.Plz let me do my job.Your reverts were not in good taste.If you think third rate term was attck i will rv with Liar which surely he is.Holywarrior 05:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't have the slightest idea what quarrel you have with him, but calling someone "3rd-rate liar" surely falls under WP:NPA. Any further comments like this will result in blocks. Thanks. --Ragib 05:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

If third rate is WP:NA under what category these comments fall..And why you take no action against him.PPL backing vandals are no different from them---At least I think so.Yes You may block me after blocking this man and ppl backing him.Do you have it in you.Holywarrior 06:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Threatening someone for a block without knowing full detail of the case,is deemed to be a bullying admin tact ,and I consider it offensive.Thanks .this was regarding your comments
I don't have the slightest idea what quarrel you have with him, but calling someone "3rd-rate liar" surely falls under WP:NPA. Any further comments like this will result in blocks Holywarrior 13:56, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The warning NPA you issued was against my comment on trial for block how can you pretend to be not knowing the case and why should I assume you to be different from them who have ganged up against me.Holywarrior 14:02, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Image upload to wikimedia commons

Hi, I just uploaded the images of Padma and Meghna to wikimedia commons according to your advice. You can find them here

Photo of Padma : http://commons.wikimedia.org/Image:MeghnaRiver.jpg

Photo of Meghna : http://commons.wikimedia.org/Image:MeghnaRiver.jpg

is there any special syntax to use to embed them (from wikimedia commons)in wikipedia pages other than ]?

Thanks Again.

Sayutee 14:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)