User talk:Pratyya Ghosh/Archives/22 (2014-06)

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Books & Bytes, Issue 6
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Issue 6, April-May 2014 by ,

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You seem to be confused
Dear Pratyaya Ghosha

On the basis of your letter to me, you appear to be confused between your fictitious notion of what is "constructive", and the actual truth.

When I state that balut is a food that guarantees its eater a long residency in Hell, this is called the truth.

Whatever your subjective and wrong opinion of whether the truth is "constructive", it is nonetheless the truth.

Thank you Yours Sincerely Liam McMahon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.130.151 (talk) 20:51, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Hey thank you. -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:12, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Chitrojogotlogo.png
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Happy Birthday! :)

 * Thank you very very very much my friend. Yeah I'm going well. -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 14:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Happy Birthday Pratyya
Happy Birthday Pratyya. Enjoy your birthday and keep editing.--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much friend. -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 15:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Happy belated birthday
Hi Pratyya. Happy belated birthday! Sorry for not wishing you on time. Jianhui67 T ★ C 17:28, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem my friend. Thank you very much for wishing me.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 14:11, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

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RE: Ridley High School
Please STOP reverting my changes to the Ridley High School info. I am an alumni of Ridley and the website coordinator for Ridley Football and am updating info for our new website and football history.

Any changes that I am making are not "vandalism" I am PROUD of my school and am correcting incorrect info!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crisp93 (talk • contribs) 14:06, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject Bangladesh Premier League Elections
Dear Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League member. I hope you are having a great time. As you know, it was agreed at the time of the advent of the project that there shall be an election to elect Coordinator and Vice Coordinator every six months. Since the time has arrived now, we hope to conduct an election to elect the new Coordinator and Vice Coordinator. All the people hoping to contest to the posts can leave a message in the '''project talkpage. The election will end by 01 July 2014 00:00 (UTC) starting from 24 June 2014 00:00 (UTC). We sincerely hope you participate in the elections and thereby help improve the quality of Wikiproject Bangladesh Premier League and it's organisation. Cheers -- Pr at yya  (Hello!) and   ƬheStrike  Σagle    15:12, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014
Did you know? The character formatting menu, or "" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

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Award 4 U
awarded to Pratyya Ghosh for (being a whisker away from) joining the 25,000 Edit Club Vjlmhds (talk) 15:37, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey thanks. It really made my day.  -- Pr at yya   (Hello!) 12:55, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 June newsletter
After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's, whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

The round saw this year's first featured portal, with taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from, a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of.

The judges would like to remind participants to update submission pages promptly. This means that content can be checked, and allows those following the competition (including those participating) to keep track of scores effectively. This round has seen discussion about various aspects of the WikiCup's rules and procedures. Those interested in the competition can be assured that formal discussions about how next year's competition will work will be opened shortly, and all are welcome to voice their views then. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. and 18:48, 30 June 2014 (UTC)