User talk:Dwaipayanc/Archive 11

Surprise!
I =Nichalp   «Talk»=, award you this barnstar for your contributions to India-related content. Enjoy! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  14:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
You voted for Confederation of Indian Industry, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Hi
Thanks for the kind words. Babub→ Talk 14:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks form me too. :)-- thunderboltza.k.a.D e epu Joseph 14:45, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan
Arre boss thik achhe... I understand. I wanted to contribute more but my day job (which pays all the bills) takes up so much time. I am going to get the Byomkesh and Tenida pages thoroughly revised over time but I need to read each and every novel again. Right now I am working on Pother kanta but I'll do all the novels sooner or later. I'll look into the West Bengal site too. Always glad to be of help. Anirban --Antorjal 17:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late response. I just got done with Pother kanta. Mind taking a look and making changes/suggestions/improvements when you get the time? :)

I've looked for the map for quite a bit... it's really shocking that I can't find a map of the district post division but I'll let you know if I find anything online. TC --Antorjal 21:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the end-spoiler template and the relinking. I'll use the spoiler and end-spoiler from now on with the other 30 odd stories. So I'm done with one, now I have 30 more to do (and that too only for Byomkesh). I want to get the Tenida one done properly too. Thanks again. :D--Antorjal 21:27, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi This is Pinaki
Hi,

Yes, I am Pinaki, son of Prabir Ghosh. Nice to talk to you. My site is www.pinaki.bravehost.com. My new sites coming up this september are www.rationalistprabir.bravehost.com and www.prabirghosh.com. Last 2 sites are not yet ready. Will start by mid Sep.

Pinaki

Re: Hi
Essjay put up a PHP version of Interiot's tool here. It works much faster, so that's what I usually use. You've got 7596 edits. Kewl. You should be gearing up for adminship soon. And yeah, the T'puram article is coming up well. Rajith has been working on it for sometime now. I'll take a look at W. Bengal later in the day. Cheers!-- thunderboltza.k.a.D e epu Joseph 05:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Stoneman
I've added about 3 more links and reread parts of Stoneman for clarity. Hope that helps for Did you know. Sorry I had missed your message before today. --Anirban 04:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I didn't know if you were online so I nominated it myself because this would be the 5th day from creation. Sorry for the delay in reading your message. --Anirban 04:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
Hi. Thanks for nominating Hrishikesh Mukherjee for INCOTW. The article cannot be accepted because only stubs (2-3 paragraphs)are allowed to be nominated. Hence, I am removing the nomination. Please feel free to add another article (but a stub). - Mayuresh 17:35, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Dwaipayanc. I hadn't noticed that you had nominated the article. Should I change the rules? - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
You voted for International Dolls Museum, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

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West Bengal
I thought you would like to know that West Bengal is on FAC. I saw from the history that you are working on the article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 13:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Midnapore Map for West Bengal
The process that you noted sounds like a process that will work. I was thinking on similar lines but I was thinking that I'd find a map with the subdivisions in both districts (which might be fewer in number than constituencies). I think the district was broken up without fragmenting any subdivisions, but I haven't searched for that yet. I think your method is equally effective and you've already done the ground work! Great job on that! Can you do a read-up of Tarun Majumdar when you get the time to edit anything I might have missed?--Antorjal 16:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:Help needed
Hi Dwaipayanc, sorry man... I just joined the project to learn from the maestros. I have no skill at this.. -- Lost (talk) 16:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal
I just did a copy-edit of this article, fixed all the typos and converted some spellings to US English, so you can now strike out one more thing over at Featured article candidates/West Bengal. — Wackymacs 17:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Photos
I was actually writing an article on Singalila National Park (do take a look), and Sandakphu was an incidental step in removing red links. I will upload the few pictures of Kolkata that I managed to take as soon as I can to wiki commons. cheers. Pradiptaray 04:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Midnapore Map
Regarding your method, there is no reason why it shouldnt work. Its just that the constituencies are way too many in number, so it could be a little time intensive for me to try it. If you dont want to wait around till a map becomes available on the net, just follow your method on the map using mspaint and mail me the jpeg, i will make the required changes to the svg map --Plane Mad 13:15, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Dwaipayanc, since the Indian map experts do not seem to be very active these days, why dont you try asking at WikiProject Maps. If there is not too much work, maybe those guys could help... -- Lost (talk) 17:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: WB FAC

 * I should take back my comment about Gombhira and Bhawaiya, as Rangpur and Dinajpur definitely overlaps with nearby WB districts, and these two are a common feature.


 * Bhatiyali refers to the Bhati region, which is the low-lying lands of Mymensingh, kishoreganj, Netrakona in Central Bangladesh. Bhatiyali is definitely a local phenomenon.


 * From Maimansingha Gitika: Maimansingha gitika or Môemonshingha gitika is a collection of folk ballads from the region of Mymensingh and around of Bangladesh. My objection is to the sentence West Bengal has a long tradition in folk literature, evidenced by Maimansingha Gitika, Thakurmar Jhuli or stories related to Gopal Bhar. . This is contradictory, as Mymensingh Gitika is not really indignous to West Bengal, and I believe there are similar regional folk traditions in West Bengal. Adding Mymensingh Gitika here gives a weak impression ... I'm not doubting that the Gitika is known in WB, but to say it is a part of the long tradition of folk culture would be factually incorrect. I suggest replacing it with similar folk anthologies from WB.

The article should be an FA ... but that means a lot of weak points should be addressed soon. Yeah, Siraj was a bad omission, considering his capital and everything was near Murshidabad. The 19th century is also missing.... how about listing Bengal Renaissance or the Brahmo Samaj? --Ragib 18:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Jimmy visit
As per this, he's expected to be in B'lore. And he said, "There is nothing on this planet more important for me than to have meetings with Wikipedians! The only reason I travel is to meet Wikipedians. Therefore, I will make whatever time in my schedule is necessary to have the Wikipedia meetup." in his email. But, I'm still waiting for his reply on the schedule. I'll update the meetup page as soon as I get a reply from him. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 09:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Sidi Bashir mosque
Glad you liked the article. I still have a few more mosque articles that I have to create. Ahmedabad seems to have a lot of them. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:53, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ritwik Ghatak
Yeah I can work on Ritwik Ghatak since I've read some stuff on him and seen all of his films. I've also referenced the Soundtrack section of Sholay. Thanks.--Antorjal 14:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Plan
Hi. Your plan is good. I never knew such a template existed. I had a glance at all the articles and tried to separate out the ones most in need. Here are the results on my work:


 * Total - 24 articles
 * Already FA - 3 articles - Economy, Flag, Geography - brings us to 21
 * Holidays is redirected to a list of festivals - can be kept aside for now (20)
 * IMO Cinema, Culture, Citizenship and History are good articles but need some person to take specific interest in them to bring them to FA status. Culture has been through INCOTW, Cinema is supported by a project. That leaves us with 16
 * Out of those the following are the ones which may generate enough interest and may benefit the most - Climate, Geology, Languages, Law and Military. We can bring them to INCOTW first (1)
 * Foreign Relations, Politics, Religion, Sports, Transport, Cuisine, Government are better and may also generate interest (2)
 * The rest - Demographics, Education, Literacy (3)

So how about always nominating 2 articles at INCOTW from these articles? We can start with (1), then move on to (2) and (3). Whatever happens will be better for these articles and Indian articles in general. What do you say? - Aksi_great (talk) 16:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. We must start nominating the articles when atleast half the people are active. I will start pinging all people. Hopefully there should be some activity by the time you come back. - Aksi_great (talk) 16:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the encouraging words.

I have already had a look at West Bengal. I will look at it seriously again. -- P.K.Niyogi 02:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Durga Pujo
Wish u a very very very happy pujo in advance. Where are u residing currently?--Iball 15:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Map
My edits count has dwindled over the past week, and from tomorrow, I will be completely offline and will be so till late October. (u can expect some stray edits though). As for the map, since you have been a long time contributor, you can get hold of inkscape, and go through the tutorials. It's easy to draw maps, it just requires some trial and error. I too was frustrated at one point of time waiting for people to draw maps, so I taught myself in photoshop, and then when svg was introduced, I switched to learning inkscape. To make a map, get hold of a high-res one, and start tracing. Deeptrivia can also help out. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  12:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Just dropped in to say hello, I saw you recording your views on ICOTW page. All the best. --Bhadani 19:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, you still remember. Actually, I tried to get a transfer there as my home-town Ranchi is nearer to Kolkata. However, I could not go. So I am continuing in Chennai. May be next year, I may try for Ranchi or Kolkata. --Bhadani 19:40, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Re West Bengal FAC
Hi... I was unaware that West Bengal was already a candidate for featured article. Please give me 48 hours to get the Flora and Fauna section written up. I am still at work (US EST) and I have work until this time tomorrow but I can get it done soon after. Thanks.--Antorjal 20:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, Dwaipayan. I'll work on the flora later. Today I was busy rewriting Narayan Debnath and expanding Batul The Great. I also wrote up Nonte Phonte and Handa Bhonda. Let me know what you think og these. Respects. --Antorjal 08:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

TS Review
To Dwaipayanc, Xyzzy n, Wouterstomp, Wikipedical, TimVickers, Arcadian, NCurse, TedE, Jkelly: to all who have helped me develop the article Tourette syndrome, I was hoping you'd have a new look. Jkelly has checked the images, I've asked Tony to do a thorough copyedit to polish the prose when he has time, and I've completed the referencing and expanded the Screening section. I think I've done all I'm capable of, and would appreciate any new input you may have. Sandy 23:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Good old days!!
Oh yes, believe it or not, when I was five or six years old, I was known as the "comic master" among the cousins and they still tease me by that name. Mandrake/Narda/Lothar/Hojo/Xanadu... Lol,I could go on like this for all the characters :) -- Lost (talk) 19:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Wokay, consider it done... Just let me look up a juicy DYK for it -- Lost (talk) 19:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan, your wish has been granted -- Lost (talk) 08:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

re: the meet...
I can't! :( I'm stuck with other commitments from 25'th onwards... I seriously wanted to go though. How many r going to bangalore? --h y dka t 20:22, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Dont think I'll be able to make it. Dont forget to take photos for us. Enjoy. :) -- thund e rboltz(Deepu) 15:05, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Re Chinese of Calcutta
Hi... I'm glad you liked the article. It is a bit of a story how I decided to write that one up. A couple of friends and I went for Indian Chinese for lunch a few days ago (you know the regular chilli, manchurian, etc stuff). My friend is from Mumbai and he kept going on and on like it is only found there... so when I came back to the lab, I checked wikipedia and found it had information only on food in Mumbai. I revised that article and then looked at the Chinatown, Kolkata and Tangra, Calcutta articles. I noticed the amazing picture that you found and I visited that website, which is like a treasure-chest. So that's when I decided I would write one on the Chinese of Calcutta. There is an article on Chinese in Banglapedia but I think this one is more up-to-date and NPOV. I've put a fact up for DYK. But on my to-do list for now is Flora and Fauna of West Bengal, which will take maybe 2 days. Take care. --Antorjal 14:56, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Kazi Nazrul Islam FAC
Hi Dwaipayan - when you have time, please do check out this article's FAC. Thanks, Rama's arrow  23:10, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

review
Hi - Please do me the kindness of visiting and sharing your views at Editor review/Rama's Arrow 2. I need your advice and criticism, and I would be immensely grateful if you could spare a little time on this. Thank you, Rama's arrow  15:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject West Bengal
Created WikiProject West Bengal. Please join, add, enhance. --Ragib 06:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
You voted for Indian Armed Forces, this week's Indian Collaboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

BAGHA JATIN Postage stamp
Does it not require a second thinking before deleting it ? Thanks.--BobClive 14:39, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal Wikipedians
Please add this code to ur user page to claim that u are from west bengal. Be proud to say that U are a Bengali from West Bengal. Amartyabag 04:46, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

An evening with Jimmy Wales
It was inspiring to be with you all on the evening of 29th September 2006 during the event,An evening with Jimmy Wales. Indeed, it was a wonderful experience for me. Regards. --Bhadani 13:27, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Dwaipayan! Read the blogs et al. Really envy you guys. ;-) BTW, following a discussion on #wikipedia-in, I've removed the names on the page. Somebody might perhaps have privacy concerns with their names being displayed.-- thund e rboltz(Deepu) 07:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi
I am doing fine. I got carried away with a couple of articles and offline duties and hadn't done the flora fauna thingie. Once I get back from work tomorrow I should have a huge chunk of time to be able to write up the article and the summary paras on the West Bengal page. I'll probably do them simultaneously so that I can nom the Flora Fauna for DYK. But that would be one I would probably work on for months to try to get to FAC. After that I've got many ideas related to Bengal lined up that should keep me out of trouble. Glad to know you saw the man. That is awesome! Oh haan arekta katha, Shubho bijoya!--Antorjal 02:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Done with a brief Flora and Fauna section. It took about 3 hours to write that small section because it was hard to write brief and to the point. Good thing is now I am done! Take care. --Antorjal 01:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Shubho Bijoya
Hi Dwaipayan, Happy Bijoya (Shubho Bijoya). Onek shubhechchha ... many happy returns of the day. :) --Ragib 21:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

peer review
Put up Peer review/Rajshahi University/archive1 for a peer review. pls take a look.--ppm 00:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan!
It was great meeting you in person; I could not write a report as I was travelling and fell sick later. Should hv actually consulted you. I'm fine now. The report as well as the write-up on signpost look great. Thanks a ton, --Gurubrahma 10:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Dhaka FAC
Hi Dwaipayan - please do check out Dhaka and its FAC. Cheers, Rama's arrow  15:52, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW
You voted for Ritwik Ghatak, this week's Indian Collaboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk) 16:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Back to bn-wiki?
Dwaipayan, how about taking another peek into Bangla wiki? I have links to several tools to enable people write in Bangla without installing any software (for example, see http://www.bangla.org.bd/ ). I am also halfway through creating city pages for West Bengal (am done with smaller states like Goa, Arunachal, Mizoram, Tripura, nagaland etc.).

So, join us there again, if you have time. --Ragib 17:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

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Hi
কেমন চলছে? Do you think it would be feasible to get Portal:West Bengal ready like the recently created Portal:Maharashtra? Let me know what needs to be done. Take care. --Antorjal 18:01, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal Portal
Congratulations, for launching the West Bengal portal -- P.K.Niyogi 11:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm really excited now. I'll try to help as much as possible with the news section and the DYK. As far as pictures, some of the Calcutta pictures you found can be used as well, since there is no copyright on them. I will provide whatever I have myself. This week I am going to start emailing everyone I know to start visiting the portal and more importantly to contribute new articles and improve the ones we already have. Take care.--Antorjal 13:03, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Nice work kicking off the West Bengal portal. We have so many sub-portals to Portal:India now. Since the Indian selected is going now, maybe you can ask Ganesh to insert a new parameter for the west bengal portal in WP India instead of West Bengal selected. There's one for the Kerala portal already; so it shouldnt be hard to implement.--thunderboltz(Deepu) 14:47, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes. I can add the parameter. Now that we have many portals coming up, let me work on a bit to make the parameter generalized (one parameter work for all). Please give me some time. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 15:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Good job on the Portal! -- Samir धर्म 23:18, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I have added the parameter now. Please check this. - Ganeshk  ( talk ) 05:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Image of districts of WB
Hi... I've created an updated image of the districts of West Bengal in svg using Inkscape. Unfortunately, the file works fine with software but doesn't format correctly on the page itself -. So I've created an exported png bitmap file too and I'm using that one - until the experts can fix the svg file (which would be awesome). Take care. --Antorjal 14:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually I don't know who to contact for the locator map so if you could let me know or go ahead and contact the person{s} involved that would be great. I'll go through the entire WB article with a fine-tooth comb in the next few hours. Hopefully, it will go though FAC positively. --Antorjal 15:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

"Tigress of Chittagong"
Hi - I just wanted to check: was Pritilata Waddedar known as the "Tigress of Chittagong" or was that someone else? If it wasn't Waddedar, I request you to create an article (and DYK) for that lady. Rama's arrow 15:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

WB locator map fixed
Ive fixed the map, thanks for the png. You can contact me if you need any more help. You may have to refresh the page or clear your cache if you are seeing the old one -Plane Mad 16:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Re West Bengal
I can take responsibility for the scanning and reworking the history section (if necessary) as I have read a couple of great books on Modern history of Bengal (1740-1942) lately. I can also add some details on the tribals on West Bengal to the culture section, since I am greatly interested in Santhal rituals etc. Also I'll work up decent articles on Budhhadev Dasgupta and Goutam Ghosh. However, give me the next 3-4 days to work on Ritwik Ghatak, as I've been meaning to do that first per my comments on the talk page. I'll also try to add information to the News on Portal:West Bengal time permitting. Take care. --Antorjal 19:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Mangalkavya

 * I created tha article using info mostly from Banglapedia. Since you know a lot about it, I would like to request you to help out.Bakaman Bakatalk 21:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangla
My feeling abt the Bengali language article is that we should go for an FA drive and fix remaining problems on the fly. I asked User:SameerKhan abt the idea, but unfortunately didn't get a response. What do u think?--ppm 21:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal:West Bengal
I have put in some news items because nothing was there. You can delete or replace them whenever you like. -- P.K.Niyogi 03:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Please have a look at the Wiquiquote West Bengal page linked through Portal:West Bengal. Maybe, I will be able to add one or two quotes more. However, others can also put in quotes about West Bengal. I am not able to think out anything about the Wikisource link. Portal: India is linked to Indian speeches. Possibility of West Bengal speeches in Wikisource is very low. Moreover, most writing would be copyright-barred for Wikisource. -- P.K.Niyogi 12:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)