User:Pradiptaray

Pradiptaray is a grad student at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh working on bioinformatics who tries to improve articles he feels strongly about in a burst mode. Scroll down to see edits I have made. If you are interested in contributing to present projects, please do so. If you are interested in contributing to future projects - do not hesitate to contact me, most of the future work just needs a fillip to get started. Having completed 100 destubbings, I am presently taking a break from Wikipedia. Mail me to contact me.

=To do=

De-stub / create

 * Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
 * Jersey Zoo
 * All wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests in West Bengal
 * Léonard (comic)
 * Wildlife sanctuaries of India
 * Biosphere reserves of India
 * Reserved forests of India
 * Tiger reserves of India
 * Upendrakishore Ray
 * Sukumar Ray and Upendrakishore Ray works

Copyedit

 * Neora Valley National Park
 * Buxa National Park
 * Sundarban National Park (upon expansion)
 * Indian National Parks stubs

Add sections and material

 * Musical Theater in P. G. Wodehouse, and possible copyedits to style
 * Fictional locations in Tintin
 * Material in The Smurfs, Walter Melon, Leonardo and other Bande Dessinee comics.
 * Advertising work in Satyajit Ray

Stub

 * Removal of all red links in Gerald Durrell
 * Independent bookstores and bookshop districts in Kolkata
 * Famous sweet shops and eateries in Kolkata
 * Historic movie theaters in Kolkata
 * Museums, permanent exhibits and galleries in Kolkata
 * Sports clubs and stadiums in Kolkata
 * Palaces and mansions of Kolkata
 * Parks in Kolkata
 * Buick Super automobile

Possible future projects

 * Import The Annotated Asterix, or whatever is left to import
 * Etymology based stubbing of Kolkata streets, localities, and suburbs.
 * A Kolkata / West Bengal portal
 * An Etymology of Indian Geographical Names project
 * Uploading public domain Indian photographs, and art.
 * All Simon and Garfunkel songs
 * All Peter, Paul and Mary songs
 * Pittsburgh images
 * Bengali cuisine in depth
 * Kolkata images

=Edits=

Articles
I have a wide range of interests. De-stubbed articles and articles created from scratch to non-stub status, or with significant edits, include:

The life sciences

 * Taxonomy and species: Pink Pigeon

The life sciences: Conservation and natural history

 * Methods: Captive breeding
 * National Parks and Protected Areas blanket articles: National parks of India, Wildlife sanctuaries of India, Protected areas of India, Biosphere reserves of India, Reserved forests and protected forests of India, Communal forests of India, Sacred grove, Sacred groves of India, Private protected areas of India, Conservation reserves and community reserves of India, Conservation areas of India, Forest Division, Forest Range, Forest Circle
 * National Parks and Protected Areas specific articles: Gorumara National Park, Singalila National Park, Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary, Kaziranga National Park
 * Naturalists: Gerald Durrell, Theodore Stephanides, Jeremy Mallinson, Lee McGeorge Durrell, Ram Brahma Sanyal
 * Conservationists: Edward Whitley
 * Conservation Organizations: Wildlife Trust (US), Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Madagascar Fauna Group, Wildlife Preservation Canada, Fauna and Flora Preservation Society, World Land Trust
 * Animals: Jambo (gorilla)
 * Conservation mouthpieces: Sanctuary Asia

The social sciences

 * Archaeology: datestone
 * Popular culture: Table cricket

The social sciences: Industry

 * Tourism: Treetops Hotel, Eric Sherbrooke Walker
 * Construction: Lawrence Samuel Durrell
 * Kolkata brands : Dendrite

Socio-cultural topics: Kolkata

 * Alma mater vandalism watch: Jadavpur University, Sanskriti (culfest)
 * Calcutta topics: Kolkata, adda (South Asian), Calcutta Book Fair, Kolkata culture, Ethnic communities in Kolkata, Places of interest in Kolkata, Alipore Zoological Gardens

The social sciences: Political systems

 * Cameroon: Fon (Cameroon), Bafut, Fon of Bafut, Achirimbi II, Bafut Wars, Bafut Traditional Administrative System, Bafut Subdivision
 * Bedouins: Bisha'a, Honor codes of the Bedouin, Bedouin systems of justice
 * World War II: Seven Wise Dwarfs

The social sciences: Religion

 * Buddhism: Tsechu
 * Inuit shamanism: Siqqitiq

The literary arts

 * Authors: Alfred Ollivant, Evadne Price, Jacquie Durrell, Margaret Durrell
 * Translators: Anthea Bell
 * Illustrators: Graham Percy, Ralph Thompson, Cliff Wright, Robert Sabuda, Frank R. Grey, Thomas Henry, Peter Barrett, Edward Mortelmans
 * Publishers: Hamish Hamilton, Michael O'Mara Books, Jamie Hamilton (publisher)
 * Bibliophiles: Alan G. Thomas
 * Fictional characters: Jane Turpin
 * Depicted real-life characters: Louisa Florence Durrell
 * Poetry: Ghinnawa

The performing arts

 * Musical instruments: Dramyin
 * Songs: The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie
 * Dances: Dramyin Cham
 * Films: Asphalt Zahov, Namehay Bad, Chang Hup Thengi Thruel Nang, Guimba, un tyrant une époque, Beshkempir
 * Yiddish Theatre: A Khasene in Shtetl, The Komediant, Lillian Lux, Pesach Burstein, On Second Avenue
 * Yiddish Film: Shnei Kuni Leml
 * Yiddish Songs: Odessa Mama
 * Actors: Balla Moussa Keïta
 * Sports: Sushil Kumar, Mohammed Ali Qamar, Hawa Singh, Pu Zoramthanga (boxer)

The visual arts

 * Photography: Red Shirt School of Photography
 * Folk art: Maohou
 * Filmmakers: Douglas Botting
 * Sculptors: John Doubleday
 * Buildings: Les Augrès Manor

Bookkeeping

 * Disambigs: Odessa Mama, mahananda (you thought disambig pages are easy to write? )


 * Wikiprojects: WikiProject Protected areas of India


 * User pages: This one

Diagrams created
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Photographs taken and uploaded and linked
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Memo

 * Wikipedia stylefile, now with popups
 * Leyli o Majnun (1936 film) - this Iranian film was made with the help of Kolkata diaspora
 * Legendary personalities in Bengal - folk culture of Kolkata

The Deep Web
If you are working in low data scenarios, these information sources might be of use to you:

Non-googlable Virtual Repositories

 * www.archive.org
 * The Wayback Machine - a flashback of the internet

Books

 * Google Book Search
 * Amazon Search inside books

Journals

 * JSTOR - the archive of scholarly journals - Athena login required (ask your librarian)
 * Google Scholar - search of published literature
 * arxiv.org

Libraries

 * British Library catalogue search
 * Library of Congress catalog search
 * NYPL catalog search
 * Worldcat network search of catalogs

Magazines, Periodicals and Newspapers

 * TIME magazine archive
 * New York Times archive
 * findarticles.com - a syndicate of sorts for old periodical and newspapers
 * The Guardian archive
 * LA Times archive
 * The Times, London archive (free search only from 1985, sigh)

Encyclopaediae

 * EB - Athena login required (ask your librarian)
 * Encarta - the MS backed encyclopaedia
 * H2G2 - this is free and googlable, but I'm including it for completeness

Auction Sites

 * eBay search
 * Sotheby's search and listings

Image repositories

 * Flickr - this is also free and googlable, and included here for completeness
 * British Library image search - large public domain image collection
 * eBay - to reiterate, the best place to find rare book covers
 * Library of Congress media repository

Peer process
Strange. An article I stubbed with one line has become a DYK snippet based on that line now that the article was well destubbed.

And a barnstar to boot!