User talk:Dwaipayanc/Archive 1

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India related links
Welcome!!--Gurubrahma 14:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Body Modification Mass Stubbing
I'm wondering why you put the stub notice on a variety of Body piercing related articles? Some of are legitimate stubs and others, like the Frenum piercing entry are pretty fleshed out, definitely not stubbs. Glowimperial 11:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Ganguly pictures
Hello Dwaipayanc,

Thanks for finding photos of Saurav Ganguly. However, I'm afraid we're not going to be able to use them. We can't use photos without the permission of the photographer (unless they're so old that the photos are now out of copyright). It's a shame &mdash; the articles look much better with them &mdash; but unfortunately it's the law and we're likely to get sued otherwise.

Stephen Turner 11:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Aparna1.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Aparna1.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by going to "Your contributions" from your user page and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. --AKeen 01:36, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Can you please add a copyright tag for the images you have uploaded. Specifically, Image:Roticurry010105.jpg. If you do not tag the images, it could be deleted. If you are not familiar with the process, please ask me on my talk page. regards, -- Pamri &bull; Talk 15:09, 27 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi, in fact please check all your uploaded images and make sure they have a source (where you found them, or it you took them yourself say so) and add an apropriate image copyright tag, otherwise they will be deleted with no further warning after 7 have passed (there is a huge backlog so they might last longer, but don't rely on it). So please fix the problem ASAP. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 17:16, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Comic Images
For images from comic books like you can add comic fair use tags from Image_copyright_tags. There are tags for covers Comiccover, panels Comicpanel and scenes Comicscene.- AKeen 06:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Adding Image copyright
Hi, Here's how you tag an image after you have uploaded. Follow these for each of the images that you have uploaded:
 * 1) Click on Edit this page.
 * 2) Choose and Insert one of the Image copyright tags and save. If it is the image that you have taken, I suggest choosing &#123;{cc-by-sa-2.5}}. For screenshots or book/comic covers, choose the appropriate fair use license from WP:ICT. For images that others have taken, ask permission to license it under any one of the free licenses. You can suggest &#123;{cc-by-sa-2.5}} as well. -- Pamri &bull; Talk 07:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I tagged Image:Agartala gi1.jpg with Nolicense, but I think it qualified as fair use if airportsindia.org.in which presumably owns the image, also owns the airport. Kappa 14:07, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I am not a lawyer, but I believe images from other websites can be fair use if wikipedia is helping the website owner and not competing with it. For example, airportsindia.org.in uses that image to promote the airport, and having the image on wikipedia helps that. But if the image was owned by a separate company making a guide to airports, we would be competing with them, and it would not be fair use to use their images. Kappa 19:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Eden Hospital
Hello, good work on Eden Hospital, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in Eden Hospital? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET for different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 04:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Akash6f.jpg
Hi what copyright status are you claiming for this image?Geni 17:55, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Satyajit Ray
Hello Dwaipayanc

Thanks a lot for your work on the Satyajit Ray articles; I was glad to see additional contributions to the few that I've worked on in the past. At one point, I'd planned to start articles for each of the films; other commitments have kept me from having time to do so. Seeing someone else here with an interest in developing more Ray-related articles definitely encourages me to resume work, however. I did manage to also start an article on one of Ray's books (Our Films, Their Films).

As of late, I've been working to see that Indian (and some East Asian, as well) filmmakers are properly linked to general categories (Film Directors) that are international in their intent, but too Europe- or America-centric in practice. Discovering and seeing Ray's work has been challenging but not impossible here in the U.S.; he's managed to become one of my intellectual heroes, so here (at least) I've tried to see that his work is properly documented, linked, represented, and categorized so that others can easily access it.

Thanks again, and any thoughts or suggestions are very welcome, David--Davidals 11:55, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Jana Aranya
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Jana Aranya, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! --TonySt, Vandalism Ninja 16:46, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Pratidwandi
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Pratidwandi, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing!--TonySt, Vandalism Ninja 16:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

December 11, 2005
I'm going to put any other copyright infringments in here, as there appears to be many of them. --TonySt, Vandalism Ninja 17:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Ganashatru, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. For more information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, take a look at our Five Pillars. Happy editing! --TonySt, Vandalism Ninja 17:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Jana Aranya, Pratidwandi and related stuff
You wrote: Thank you for letting me know that the articles have crossed copyright infringement ethics.I have tried to modify the articles.Please let me know whether these are proper for Wikipedia now.If anything is wrong(in these articles or anywhere else),I will try my best to conform with the norms. Dwaipayanc


 * My Response: The 'norms' are simply this: Don't copy stuff from other web sites. If you feel as though you know enough about a topic, write the article yourself rather than copying from a copyrighted source. See Wikipedia Copyrights for more information. I can also see that you have been doing a lot more than just plagiarizing - you are a good editor. I know you meant well, but please, don't take content from other web sites. --Tony(Talk), Vandalism Ninja 20:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Gfapastr5.jpg
Regarding this image, you have claimed 'fair use,' but you have not provided a source (where the image came from) nor have you provided a reason why the image qualifies for fair use. Please provide this information or the image will be deleted. Thanks! - SCEhard T 21:15, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello
Nice to seesomeone else from close to home. Do you know Aparna Gupta? Loom91 07:22, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * You are a most peculiar person. You had contacted me first, and yet now you ask me where I'm from! That information is freely available at my user page. Loom91 08:42, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Copyright approval from creator
Hi, that's excelent.

The image also needed a copyright tag, but I went ahead and added those. You can find the full list of the "aproved" tags at Image copyright tags.

Since the image is copyrighted I used in combination with Withpermission and added a small rationale (reasons for thinking it qualifies as fair use). In this case I also added fairusereplace seeing as it would seem possible that someone could make a freely licensed image of someone making Lassi, though that's not strictly speaking a copyright tag. A good rule of thumb when using copyrighted images is to use the Fairusein tag (unless there is a "specal" tag for that particular kind of image, like for example bookcover) in combination with a rationale to show what article the image is intended to be used in and why. We are supposed to have "good reason" in order to justify a "fair use" claim because it is basicaly a "justifiable copyright infringement". Getting permission to use the image is naturaly a very good "excuse" :) Although a completely free (as in freedom) image is still much better, because it allows modification, re-use and does not restrict where and how an image can be used, pluss many countries don't have "fair use" laws, so if someone wants to publish something based on Wikipedia in a country with no "fair use" law they have to first remove all copyrighted images (or at least obtain spesific permission for each image).

Also, after adding a tag to an image be sure to read what is says and double check that the image are used in the way it suggests, some "common sense" is allowed naturaly, but if someone for example upload a high resolution scan of the front of "The Da Vinci Code" and use it in an article about the Catholic Church they have stepped more than a little outside the bounds of what is considered good "fair use" practice. Anyway I'm getting a bit long-winded so I'll stop there, ask if you have any spesific questions I failed to adress above, and I'll (try) to answer. --Sherool (talk) 11:33, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Foreign Language
Do you use a translator? If so, what is its make and model? This bit of inquiry relates to the position of adverbs and prepositions in your sentences. Furthermore, I am interested in interlingual communications and culture, along with the more technical: telecommunications and cryptology.


 * Lindberg G. Williams, Jr. 19:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC).

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Abol tabol
Feel free to copy any material that was not a copyright violation from Abol tabol, and add it to Abol tabol/Temp. However, please do not make any changes to Abol tabol. In a few days the copyrighted material will be removed and the administrator who does that will move the version you created at Abol tabol/Temp to replace it. - SimonP 14:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

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Articles on India in Swedish Wp
Regarding your question to me on my Swedish user's discussion page I can tell you that I never visited India. I did however briefly visit Dhaka, Bangladesh, twice. My interest in India is somewhat coincidential, and can perhaps be compared to Immanuel Kant, in that Kant wrote travel guides for far away places without ever leaving Königsberg.

Best,,

//Rudolf 1922 11:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Crimbo!
Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. , in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! Dr. McCrimbo 23:27, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Cricket
Hi, I saw that you live in Calcutta, one the most passionate cities in the world for cricket. If you love the great game, then you may wish to join the Cricket WikiProject we have here. Thanks -- D a  Gizza  Chat  14:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Maps
Unfortunately you´d need to use some image editing software to mark the location. I suggest you get familiar with the basics of inkscape, since we plan to draw vector based maps from late January. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Bibhutibhushan.gif
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Great
Great that you updated West Bengal geo-stub with an image. --Bhadani 15:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes you are right - all Indian stub pages require more images. --Bhadani 17:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Greetings on India’s 57th Republic Day. --Bhadani 08:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note
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Stub?
Why do you think the Dil Chahta Hai article is a stub? It seems complete to me. Zora 00:19, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: De-stubbibg Rang De Basanti
Hi, I apologize because I have taken the liberty to again add stub to Rang De Basanti, reverting your edit on 1 February. I think there are lots more to be added to the article.Let's just wait and watch.Lots of accolades and awards are on the offing for this fantastic cinema.We have to add those stuff, and perhaps lots of other pieces of info in near future !!!Ciao--
 * No problem. But if we encourage people to add more, it may result in people adding only reviews - which are best posted in the talk page instead of the main article. Rohitbd 15:37, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I guess, review links are ok on the article page...but adding actual review content (text) on the article page risks making the article look more of a promo. I don't know...let's see how it goes with time. Rohitbd 16:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Kolkata neighbourhoods
Your article on this topic has been nominated for speedy deletion and deletion. Could you please add more information so that it is at least a viable stub. Capitalistroadster 00:50, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding more information. Hope you weren't offended by my addition of the speedy tag, but as it hadn't been changed for a month and a half I thought you might have forgotten about it. --Malthusian (talk) 09:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan ... I've rendered this stub slightly more readable (I hope!) but it's crying out for additions. I don't know enough about the subject to help. As in the case of Habra, just trying to make things readable as well as revert inflammatory edits. I'm more familiar with Bangalore and Delhi nabes. (In fact, I'm making my first trip to Calcutta/Kolkata in March). Grusl 05:24, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Copy vio Rang De Basanti
Ooops, they made the synopsis a copy vio!!Good that you did your best to re-write the synopsis.I think this page is getting good traffic nowadays, and a copy-vio stub does not look good in such a page. Anyway,I think you are also in love with the movie just like I.How is the reaction to the movie abroad?(I see that you live in Geneva). Ciao--Dwaipayanc 10:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC
 * I am glad that I saw the movie. You know what? I went to the theatre *just because* they were showing a Hindi movie, but little did I know what was in store! It hit me like thunderbolt...anyways, AFAIK the reaction of most (> 90%) Indians who saw it is very positive, can't say about non-Indians, though. Even on sulekha site (http://www.sulekha.com/movies/moviehomepage.aspx?cid=306527) the responses are all very positive. It seems the movie is (out of 5 stars) either getting 4-5 stars or 1-2 stars (no average), but most are 4-5 stars which shows that it has affected many people positively. I just hope that in India maximum people (especially youngsters) see it. I guess being abroad myself, I don't have the right to give sermons about patriotism though. Rohitbd 12:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi.Yes,at least in Kolkata (wgere I am) the film is gonna be a big hit I think.College students are flocking to thr thratres.I am planning to see the movie once again.It's worth multiple watching!Read the BBC review link that I added to Rang De Basanti.The review is short but good.--Dwaipayanc 12:45, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. It is worth watching many times. I read the BBC review link, even sent my comments (don't know if they'll publish it) and its good to see its doing good in UK. I mean this movie is going to be a big hit - for the simple reason that you & I and all youngsters can readily identify with the characters. I mean in college we WERE those characters!! I have asked everyone that I came across to see it...and am currently pushing my younger brother via chat to see it :-) Rohitbd 12:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

About Rang De Basanti synopsis
Hello, Please see Talk:Rang De Basanti. It is regarding the sysnopsis - perhaps it should be shortened, because as it stands the whole story is revealed in it and this may risk another copyright violation. Thanks. Rohitbd 09:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

History of India

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Image copyright problem with Image:Ujjayanta.jpg
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Open tasks in History of India project
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Another Esperanzial note...
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