User talk:Tarif Ezaz/Archive03

Bangladesh
It is so nice of you to get in touch with me. I don't think I will need any support physically as my family contacts in Bangladesh would he providing that. My stay in Dhaka will be short but I would try to contact you. I will be travelling with my family to Dhaka by bus. I wanted to have an experience of the Padma crossing. I am a retired person and as such neither do I have the energy of youth nor the physical fitness. For the Tangail-Bogra trip, I intend to hire a car/ taxi. For the Mymensing-Netrakona trip I will probably use a bus. I have a great fascination for rivers and so I wanted to have the experience of a steamer trip but I have dropped that for the time being. I will be carrying a digital camera and so will be taking a lot of pictures.

I would like to buy some books about Bangladesh. My interests are geography and local history (say history of Bogra or Mymensing). I already have the Lonely Planet tourist guide. Where should I look for books in Dhaka? Do you know of any book about the howals of Sylhet and the rivers of Bangladesh (Bengali/ English)? Is there any informative book about Dhaka? The Lonely Planet guide is supposed to be the best and has a lot of information but I am hungry for more. In the past, I have bought some books from the Bangladesh stalls in Kolkata Book Fair. I have good general maps of Bangladesh but I would like to have one showing the howals of Sylhet.

By the way, is it raining very heavily in Dhaka? It is still raining in Kolkata - rather unusual.

With regards P.K.Niyogi 11:22, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Selected biography
An IP user blanked the page. I undid already. Arman (Talk) 03:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

DYK
Tarif I wonder how you track all these DYKs! Is it possible for you to retrieve the actual DYK entries? If you could post them on my talk page, it would be much easier for me to add them to relevant portals. Arman (Talk) 04:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the DYKs. I've added the relevant ones to Bangladesh portal. I have also established a more state-of-the-art randomization scheme for Bangladesh DYKs.
 * Once you're done with the additions to ShereBangla article we need to submit it for GA. We need Biography articles like these in the pipeline for Portal:Bangladesh Nomination. Regards, Arman (Talk) 07:09, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Salahuddin
No policy says that Portal DYKs must be the ones displayed on the main page. I'll go ahead and add the Salahuddin DYK anyways. Arman (Talk) 02:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

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An article which you started, or significantly expanded, William Ouderland, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 02:44, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well done! Keep it up! → AA (talk) — 08:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

My trip
I am sorry I could not contact you during the trip. It was a good trip except that my daughter fell ill and as such we had to cut off many programmes. Anyway, I am quite happy about whatever I have been able to visit and I have collected some books and maps. The most exciting was a trip to the haors in Sunamganj. I should be able to contribute to some of the Bangladesh pages in due course. Thanks for all your support and assistance. With regards - P.K.Niyogi 05:04, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Invitation
Sorry Tarif, I'm busy these days. I'll be free most probably after 10th December. Thanks for your invitation. --NAHID 08:51, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Hii...
Hi bro, wassup ? Thanks for your invitation but I am now in Dublin, Ireland :-s. Doing my MSc here at Trinity College Dublin. I would love to attend a meeting and meet you people at BD when i will be there. Nowadays fighting with the new life and hopefully will be back on WP with same energy soon. Till then, take care and keep in touch.

Regards,

Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  12:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep, I have also heard about it. Hope you all will remain safe and sound. Take care. -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  14:56, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Sidr
According to the JTWC, it was a high-end Category 4 (155 mph, at the top of the category). CrazyC83 (talk) 15:25, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Salam Tarif. I sysop from Bahasa Melayu wikipedia.Many Bangladesh at my place. Malekhanif (talk) 04:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Korotoa River, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 22:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Congrats! Added to Bangladesh Portal already! Arman (Talk) 01:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

A proposal
I have a proposal at WikiProject Bangladesh/Outreach. Please take a look and share your view. Arman (Talk) 01:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Regarding "bangla wiki": that's exactly the area where you can help. I am not very familiar with Bangla wiki staffs yet. I don't know exactly where to raise it. I also know you guys have a periodic gathering in Dhaka on wiki-related matters. Please raise this proposal there as well. Unfortunately I usually can't attend these sessions as I live in Hong Kong. I'll visit Bangladesh in about a month for a week. We may try to meet then. My Dhaka residence is at Mirpur. You live in Shangshad Bhaban area, right?


 * I would be very glad if you could run with this project from the front. I am more interested about running the competition for the English wikipedia first. If there are other interested donors, we can replicate it for Bengali wikipedia as well. Arman (Talk) 10:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Van den Brouck’s map
I have provided the description. The above is the correct spelling. I made a mistake when uploading the map. I am sure you are following the main page. I am now working on the haors. I am hoping to put it up for DYK sometime next week. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Bangladesh competition
Dear Tarif: I have taken the liberty to nominate you as the "Secretary" of the organizing committee of the competition that we discussed. I have done this in the new page that I have created to discuss this competition. Could you please take a look and express your opinion there. Arman (Talk) 05:52, 26 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Next step for you would be to indicate on the page whether you are o.k. to take up the secretary role :). Right now we are just discussing. Ragib bhai will kick off the work when he goes to Bangladesh. Arman (Talk) 11:17, 27 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Please go ahead with the discussion. No need to check with me at all.. you are the secretary... you can take any step you want. Just let me know the outcome of the discussion. Arman (Talk) 05:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Reply
Hi! You can try Template:Sisterlinks or Template:Wikimedia for th eMujtaba Ali article. Unfortunately, I am very busy these days, and cannot really come to wikipedia regularly. I could not go to Urbana to meet Ragib either. When will he be returning to USA?--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:03, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Ichamati River
Ichamati River is a totally English article and all the references are also English, including that Bibhutibhusan quote. My good wishes to all of you joining the adda. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 08:28, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Pls contact me
I'll be in Bangladesh from tomorrow till Dec 26. I'll have limited access to internet. Could you please give me a call at 01911303007?  Arman  ( Talk ) 01:57, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

North Bengal
Hey... are you missing in action or busy with the on-ground happenings in Dhaka? I have just read through the article North Bengal, and did a little bit of editing to incorporate Bangladesh into it. But, it still reads like North Bengal is a West Bengal thing. I couldn't remember a more diligent editor than you to make this request - can you edit the article to include more of Bangladesh? If you are stuck with anything, I'll be there to help of course, at least as much as I can. How are things going at the Bangla Wiki? Cheers. Aditya (talk • contribs) 14:59, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * War crimes? How very exciting. What are the articles? 1971 Bangladesh atrocities? Al-Badr, Razakars, Jamaat-e-Islami? What is the progress rate? There seems to be a massive opportunity there. Just list out the possible articles that have this topic and let's see if we can get the community involved. And, about North Bengal, I don't think we need book cites right now. Just put down what you know already. Then let's take it forward from there. Aditya (talk • contribs) 05:52, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

HNY
Happy New Year! Though we wish every year as "Happy" but at the end we usually find lots of pains and sorrows. Hope, this year will bring something different in your life. Standing on pains and sorrows, we still HOPE for the best, thus we are human being.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  13:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Hey there Tarif. The last six months have been hellishly busy and I haven't had time to do much more than jump on Wikipedia to look around for moments at a time. But life has slowed down a bit and I'm more or less back to regular business. Hope everything is going well with you. Trusilver (talk) 22:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Let's Collaborate on Sunderbans and Cox's Bazar
Hello! Please note Sunderbans and Cox's Bazar have been selected as the current WikiProject Bangladesh collaboration topics. As you may be aware that these two are currently candidates for natural wonders of the world, it is extremely important to ensure that the Wikipedia articles on these topics make a clear and complete reflection of these topics. Any contribution that you can make to these topics is very welcome.  Arman  ( Talk ) 03:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

What do you think?
Tarif, please visit this link and let me know what do you think about this proposal? -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  14:40, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Banglapedia
Of course we can. Go ahead. Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

belated Christmas greetings
Hi Tarif, I know this is late, but I hope your holidays were wonderful and I hope you have a good year. -- Kyok o  17:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Competition
Of course, let's start it. First, let's design and announcement page on wikipedia... I'll start the work shorthly. Then we can set out for an email campaign with link to the page.  Arman  ( Talk ) 01:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Tarif, if you have settled down with your admission related work, please take a look at User:Armanaziz/Competition and let me know if this is good to go.  Arman  ( Talk ) 05:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

:)
I'm safely back to my "bhutta khet", after a extremely boring, "daat-tular-moto-biroktikor" trip. Got your sms right before my flight ...

It was nice meeting you, and also nice to see the larger turnout for the Wiki Addas.

Though I'll be away from bd for some time, I'll arrange various things to publicize bn WP events.

Bhortir khobor ki? Oita niye ekhon kaj koro ... :) --Ragib (talk) 21:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

hi,

I am a Canadian in which I am grateful for the freedom we have in terms of expressing our needs and feelings and to be heard as a citizen by the government or any hierarchy here. I see that in Cuba the people have to live in such silence of expression because some idiot Castro thinks he is better but he isnt and he will not live forever. I am grateful to see him leave and in this life I will propably see him leave eventually and so the people are given more freedom and room to shuffle their power back for the country and for what they need, not what the government need. So people out there who are imprisoned in the cuban country the time is soon that this can happen and it is in all your power to do something about to free yourselves. I am quite sure there are more of you citizens there in Cuba than the government. They use intimidation tactics to make you all think that they have so much power but they dont and you have to believe that. For example, when a woman is in an abusive relationship with a man, she will feel intimidated by him and will start thinking he has so much power to control her life but it is only a tactic used to keep you from information and the knowledge to say bye bye I have the freedom to say something about this. So Cuba Hurray hosay come on citizens you have the power to free yourselves from the Castro government. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.128.79 (talk) 00:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

LOL, ha ha ha, Tarif, the above Canadian dude thinks you're a Cuban!! :) --Ragib (talk) 02:31, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Hahaha. ¿Qué se siente, mi amigo de Cuba? Aditya (talk • contribs) 02:41, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The Competition: Next Step
Hi Tarif, I think we are now all set to move to the next phase of the competition that we discussed earlier on WikiProject Bangladesh Outreach page. For this purpose, I have started the Deshipidian 2008 page and have also drafted an email for mass circulation to promote the competition. Please review the page and the draft email and let me know if you have any comments. I'm proposing that we circulate the email widely starting February 1, 2008. In addition, if BDOSN can help promote this competition through some newspaper coverage that would be fantastic. Yours truly  Arman  ( Talk ) 09:20, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

বাঃ! :)
অনেক অভিনন্দন - so great to have all your hard work recognised like this. তারিফের জন্য শত তারিফ - সত্যি-ই তাই! :) ~ Riana ⁂ 17:08, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Got your mail, congrats brother. BTW, could you please upload some free images of NSU?--NAHID 19:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow! darun!!! That's great. Kudos to you people! The "Prothom Alo" front page report was a great read. And thanks to it, there will be much more hits from Bangladesh to the article today. I will try to keep an eye for any unwanted changes. --Dwaipayan (talk) 08:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Gone AWOL
Hi Tarif bhai,

Just wanted to drop you a quick note with my sincere apologies for being "offline" for so long and not able to assist you with any of the articles (and expect to remain so for a while longer). Real life issues have taken priority and therefore WP has had to take a backseat (or rather been at a standstill!). I'm visiting Bangladesh shortly also for a couple of weeks and will try and take some photos for increasing the WP free image portfolio. Anyway, hope you're all keeping well and keep up the good work!

Regards, AA
 * Not sure I got your number - can't see any mails in my inbox. You can try and send it to me direct wiki.aa@gmail.com. I certainly will give you a buzz if I get it in time :-) -- AA 13:36, 21 March 2008 (UTC) (anon because I can't remember my pass and don't want to reset it from here) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.56.7.169 (talk)

Proposed format
I have proposed a format for Bengali literature article on its talk page (Talk:Bengali_literature). Could you please come and express your views and opinions or update this format? Cheers. -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  14:19, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to join discussion
Dear member, I have started a collaboration discussion on WikiProject Bangladeshi Universities talk page to start a collaboration among the Wikipedians who are working for this project. Initially we want to know who are working on which articles and what are the problems they are facing while editing those articles. Moreover, we want to create a standard format suitable for Bangladeshi universities, which will also be discussed there. I would appreciate your effort to come and express your views regarding this issue. Kind regards, -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  14:27, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Deshipedian: the next steps
Please take a look at WikiProject Bangladesh/Competition and provide your comments there.  Arman  ( Talk ) 07:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for your review
I nominated List of universities in Bangladesh on 25 March 2008 as a Featured List candidate. So far, four editors reviewed the list and requested significant changes and modifications. I tried my level best to meet all the recommendations. It would be really nice if you also review the list and place your opinion (support/oppose). I am looking forward to receive your comments and recommendations on the nomination page. Cheers! -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  10:47, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Hi Tarif, H A P P Y - B I R T H D A Y - T O - Y O U. Keep all the best wishes as a gift from me. Be Happpy :) --farSAD  (talk •   contribs)  02:42, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Deshipedian
Not sure what you meant by getting started. I believe we've already got started. However, the response from the contestants is not very encouraging yet. Aditya has done some excellent work in organizing the contest pages. Please take a look and see if you have any more suggestions.  Arman  ( Talk ) 06:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yahoooooo
Finally we made it! List of universities in Bangladesh is now a Featured List. :-). -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  15:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

BAKSAL
I noticed you edited this page. It says in there, BAKSAL was a "political amalgmation of the Awami League with the Krishak Sramik Party". As far as I know there was no such party in Bangladesh by that name. "Krishak Sramik Party" I mean. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anisur57 (talk • contribs) 06:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

শুভ নববর্ষ।




 নতুন বছরে নতুন করে জীবনকে ভালবাসার মোড়কে জড়িয়ে ফেলার স্বপ্ন নাও এই সকালে। --Dwaipayan (talk) 05:20, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

শুভ নববর্ষ।


 * Thank you, আপনাকেও জানাই নতুন বছরের সুভেচ্ছা। --soum talk 08:28, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year
 ❤ শুভ নববর্ষ ❤

May the year be full of joy and happiness and lots of featured articles. May the year bring no pain or hardship or ArbComs. May the force and those Jedi Knights be always with you. Live long and prosper, longer and better than those pointy-eared Vulcan people. Aditya (talk • contribs)


 * শুভ নববর্ষ - Many thanks for your good wishes. I wish you all the best. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Happy new year to you too Tarif and keep up the good work! → AA (talk) — 14:37, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

শুভ নববর্ষ
 শুভ নববর্ষ এসো হে বৈশাখ এসো এসো.... বৈশাখের খরতাপে আর প্রখর সূর্যলোকে দূর হয়ে যাক সব গ্লানি। আজ এই দিন শুরু হোক নুতন করে, আজকের উচ্চারন হোক, ঐ নুতনের কেতন ওড়ে কাল-বৈশাখী ঝড়.... শুভ নববর্ষ। -- Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  20:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Bangladesh pages
One anonymous editor using PC with ID No. 203.88.64.10 has been editing the Mahasthangarh and Pundravardhana pages. Some of it seems okay but not everything. Since you have personal knowledge of the area you would be a better judge. Please have these pages on your watchlist and do as you think best. I am not keeping good health and hence am not able to contribute much to Wikipedia but am vigilant about the pages I created or worked on seriously. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 04:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Biman Bangladesh Airlines on MainPage
Hi Tarif,

Hope you are well. Been a while since I did any real stuff here on WP due to other commitments but noticed that Biman Bangladesh Airlines is scheduled for the mainpage on Sunday, 28th September. It's been a while since it became FA and there have been major changes to the organisation since then. I'll try and spare some time to brush it up a bit. Please take a look and keep an eye during its mainpage debut. Thanks. → AA (talk) — 11:26, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Back?
I am so happy to see you back. Hopefully you aren't going to vanish again any soon. Aditya (talk • contribs) 18:37, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * :). It will be great if you do the same magic you did with the Language movement page. If classes are not too heavy, take a day or two to have the Bir Sreshtho articles ready by December 16. BTW, you can ask Milli Rahman for some more photos of Matiur Rahman, go through Munir bhai for this. --Ragib (talk) 21:46, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Surprise is the biggest thing I expect from you particularly, and in a very positive way. That was one of the biggest reason I missed you (alas, I still miss Uttam, the other super-editor from Bangladesh). { Aditya (talk • contribs) 08:43, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Can't wait to see the results. Suspense, too much. Aditya (talk • contribs) 11:22, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

stamp
To be able to use the stamp under a Fair use claim, you need to have at least a paragraph on the stamp itself (e.g. BD post office released a commemorative stamp on so and so on this date. The stamp was priced at xyz paisa etc.). Otherwise, the stamp use will be invalid. --Ragib (talk) 21:34, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * That will be the Mohiuddin Jahangir article. I haven't checked who added it there, but since you are working on it now, may be you can fix it as suggested. Good luck. --Ragib (talk) 21:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I didn't mean an "article" about the stamp :). Just create a section about "Commemoration" or "Legacy" in Mohiuddin Jahangir, or may be a paragraph somewhere in that article, and add info about the stamp there. --Ragib (talk) 21:53, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Dhaka
There's only one way to do this - adding sources to every information that's been challenged. Books, newspapers... any mainstream media would do. Beyond that I have no clue. Start the work, I'll join in. Aditya (talk • contribs) 23:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Reply
Dear youg wikipedian. It was my good lcuk too. You did a lot but expressed me less. I am sorry, I could not do more than you in Wiki. Carry on. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 09:00, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year 2009
''' Happy New Year !!!! I wish for you and your family to have a wonderful 2009!!! Have fun partying and may you make many edits!!!   -<font color="maroon" size="4" face="Monotype Corsiva">--NAHID 21:50, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Happy New Year!!!--Dwaipayan (talk) 23:52, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Happy New Year. Aditya (talk • contribs) 02:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Same here. Happy New Year Tarif. Hope everything is going well over on your side of the globe. Trusilver  04:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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Re: Hi
Hi, wassup? I'm doing fine; just busy with my thesis. I'm gonna submit it in this April Inshallah. How are you doing? I saw the article related to recent BDR incident in Bangladesh on the front page of WP. Let me have a look at the article. I'll then get back to you with my comments. Cheers. - <font color="Green" face="tahoma">Niaz (Talk •  Contribs)  01:04, 8 March 2009 (UTC)