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History of Cooch Behar
I find that you have been doing a lot of good work regarding Cooch Behar and the national parks. Keep it up.

Why don’t you do an article on the Cooch Behar Raj? I noticed in Nitish Sengupta’s History of the Bengali-speaking People that there is a book titled History of Koch Bihar by Khan Bahadur Amanullah. It should be of help. I don’t know if you have come across that book. Cooch Behar was the only princely state in this area and so there is substantial interest in that topic. I have done an article on Bardhaman Raj. You can have a look.

- P.K.Niyogi 05:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

North Bengal WLS and NP
Thanks for the edits on the Neora Valley NP, Mahananda WLS, and Jaldapara WLS. Could you help build content for Chapramari WLS, Jore Pokhri WLS and Senchal WLS ? I had so far been working alone on the West Bengal protected areas, so it is great to see someone doing a lot of work. also, do you have digital photos taken by you of these places ? Thanks. Pradiptaray 12:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Bangla wikipedia
Hi Amartya, Swagotom. Have you checked out the Bengali Wikipedia yet? We have been working on it for quite some time, but still we need more people, especially more from West Bengal. Please check it out. If you can't view the site, or can't type, please let me know. It requires unicode Bangla fonts. Thanks. --Ragib 05:03, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Cooch Behar
I rated the article as Start B. It needs more references and pictures. Please read WP:WIAFA. You will get more comments on the PR. All the best making it FA. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 22:05, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Shubho Bijoya!
Shubho Bijoya... I have been following your contributions and it is nice to know how you've helped develop many of the articles relating to West Bengal. Enjoy the Puja break! Take care. --Antorjal 18:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Re Cooch Behar
Hi... I saw the Cooch Behar article and have glossed over it. I will read it soon. I've put a few comments up, but I can add more once I read the article. Regarding the churches in Midnapur, you are right (also VSN, which is a school I went to myself for a few years) I think the one near the station is a Baptist Church. I have this newspaper clipping I was able to get a photocopy of from 1817 that mentions the missionary station in Midnapore. Once I get some time, I'll add that details and also go through and add as much in terms of inline citations as possible since when I wrote it, I didn't know how to cite. Take care. --Antorjal 14:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal:West Bengal
Hi Amartya! Please check out the new portal Portal:West Bengal and help it improve. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

RE: Cooch Behar
Sorry for yhis extra-ordinary delay in replying. I was not in touch with WP for more than a week. You have placed the notes pretty correctly. Try to provide as much info about the source as possible. Please see Template:Cite news, Template:Cite book, Template:Cite web etc. for what info on source/refernces u can include. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 09:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Diwali greetings
Hi! A belated Happy Diwali and Kalipuja! Take care.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:33, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

WB FAC
Hi! West Bengal is in FAC. Express your views in the nomination page. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Village image
Hi! The image Image:Birbhum Village.jpg is much more representative of a village than Image:Wbvillagehut1.JPG. That's true. But the problem is in image license. The Birbhum village image does not have a explicit proper license and source information. In order to become an FA, an article must have images that are properly licensed and sourced. Please see What is a featured article? criteria 3 (Acceptable copyright status). That is why I have to change the Birbhum village image to the other one. In fact, I taklked with on ways to get proper copyright status of many of the Birbhum images. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Subdivisions of Coochbehar
Hi... Can you give me a link to any website with the map of the district with the subdivisions. I can recreate it using Inkscape when I get the time. Thanks in advance. --Antorjal 00:25, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Citation needed tags in the lead
Usually, no citations are given in the lead, as lead is just an introduction and the forthcoming text of the article is expected to elaborate what has been hinted in the lead. So, the lines stated in the lead are elaborated in appropriate sections. The lines where u put the citation needed tage are elaborated in history and economics. If you feel that the elaboration in those sections are not well-referenced, you can put citation needed tage there. But not in the lead - that's the usual (but not strict) practice. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 10:49, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

FYI
Please see Portal:West Bengal/Selected article candidates, where Bengali language has been nominated. Please comment. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Cooch Behar: Help Needed
Ok. I shall read the article tonight. And put citation needed tags/ refs/ other changes as needed. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Cooch Behar: Comments
I have gone through a large part of the article (up to transport). Have copyediyed, tagged "citation needed", and added many inline comments (you can see them in the edit mode). Try to address those.

Use of endash, emdash, nbsp etc should be carefully done. I've done some. Please do for the rest of the article.

Several wikilinks have been created, which are in red. If you have a wish to go for Featured Article Candidacy, you should try to make those blue. In general, it is expected that all proper nouns would be wikilinked in blue, though this is not a rule.

In the lead, there is a sentence stating the town is a "well planned town" that has not been substantiated later. Do it or give ref there in the lead. Also please check if the pronounciation is correct. Ideally it should be in IPA. You can contact, he is a specialist.

The history is largely the history of kingdom. Only social history factbit was the renaissance thing. Any role in Indian independence movement? What about political/economical history post-independence?

So far today. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the references. I'll help out with inline citations sometime this weekend. --Antorjal 23:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Apologies again for being caught up with other things and not spending much time on wikipedia. This is just a reminder that I haven't forgotten my commitment to working on the Coochbehar article and that I hope to do so ASAP. Thanks. --Antorjal 16:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

pronunciation fixed
I added the correct transliteration of Cooch Behar following the Romanization guidelines in Bengali language. It's Kochbihar or in IPA [kotʃbihaɹ]. --SameerKhan 07:30, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

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Portal:West Bengal: Peer review
Hi! I've submitted Portal:West Bengal for Peer review. Please express your views/suggestions there. One of the problems with the portal is lack of selected pictures. Please see Portal talk:West Bengal where a thread on selected pictures has been started. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Bangla
Is up for a FA candidacy. your input will be invaluable. thanks--ppm 07:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

On Nathu La
Hi! Replying your comment in my talk page. The pass is "open" means open for cross-border transport (people or goods). It's not the visiting of the border at Nathu La from Indian (or Chinese) side, as you had visited in 2005. The pass is now open for goods. But the question is on people - whether people are allowed to cross. -Dwaipayan (talk) 16:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Nathu La
Hi,

By "closed for tourists", I meant cross-border tourists. Do you mean that tourists could show a Chinese Visa and cross the border from Nathu La? I don't think so. BTW, photography is allowed in Nathu La. As you can see in Nathu La-Indian Post.JPG, I have shown the Indian post with a soldier. If you want, I can even show you half a dozen photos WITH the armymen (I haven't uploaded them as they don't have any encyclopedic value). IIRC, only photographing of the officer's mess was not allowed, but even that is clearly visible in the Google Maps/WikiMapia, etc. So censorship hardly has any meaning. Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

PS: I visited in October, 2006; a full year after you did, and more importantly, after the pass was opened for trade.

Nichalp also had the same woes as you, as when he visited the pass, he too had to deposit his camera. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 17:45, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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National Parks & WLS
My aim is to do detailed articles on all WB NPs and WLSs. Thanks for doing some of that work already ! I am getting little time these days to work on Wikipedia. I might add to the Sunderbans article incorporating Sajnekhali, Lothian Island, Halliday Island, the Biosphere Reserve, and the Tiger Reserve into a single article. Besides these, I might be working on Bhitarkanika, and some of the representative NPs: Ranthambhore, Desert, Corbett, Madumalai, Periyar, Silent Valley, Great Himalayan, Gir, Rann of Kachh, Nicobar, Kaziranga, Manas, Namdapha. Here too, you have done some good work already. Keep it up ! Pradiptaray 15:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
Hi. I request you to add it in Requested moves so that the wikipedia community is informed at large and no such disputes can arise later. Since this move is India-related, please put up a link to the request on WT:INWNB so all Indian editors are also apprised of the move. After the term on WP:RM is over, I'll move it for you. Thanks! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  04:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Signature
I'm not sure what you meant by not proper. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  15:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. We need more volunteers to undertake this task. Are you willing to open your FA count with these? :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  16:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright Vio-Satish Chandra Samanta
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 * Rewritten the article. Previously Don't know the copyright status. Copied from Tamluk page. Amartyabag  (Talk)  07:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

User:Bakasuprman/Indic
We need assamese & bangla names for quite a few kings. Baka man  18:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!
Hi... I was on vacation for the last month or so... if there is anything you still wanted me to look over or do please feel free to drop a line as I am less busy now. Happy Holidays!!!--Antorjal 23:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Same to you! utcursch | talk 16:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Happy new year!--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)