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On Benimadhab Barua

Thanks for your note. I hadn't realized its copyvio status earlier. I wonder what the source is though.

Patoldanga'r Tenida (talk) 06:44, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. Let me see what I can do to fix this. Patoldanga'r Tenida (talk) 07:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Illegal immigration in India

I am working to improve this article. Currently this is a jumble of newspaper references. Many are not even available any more. Most of the newspaper reports and other sources refer to the long obsolete 1991 Indian census. I am doing data mining on this issue and I need your help on the particular case of stranded Pakistanis.

1. How many stranded Pakistanis are now present in Bangladesh? Current(2010-10-20) English wikipedia article suggests two different stats. 2,40,000 to 3,00,000 and 6,00,000+. Bangla wikipedia says 2,75,000 but doesn't site any reference. Please confirm

2. How many were there in 1971? Bangla wikipedia suggests that 10,00,000 came after partition. Is this correct? There number should have increased by 1971. Any idea? 1961 census in Bangladesh (then Pakistan) may throw some light.

3. How many got refuge in Pakistan? Around 1,70,000 according to English wikipedia. 2,00,000 according to an Indian source. Please confirm.

4. Are they granted Bangladeshi citizenship yet? In all or part?

If you have any dependable source of information on this kindly let me know.

--Iball (talk) 08:12, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

A request

Hi, I have a request for you. Can you help to salvage the following articles: Antara Chowdhury, Utpala Goswami, Swapna Ghoshal, Uttama Das, Purba Dam, and Indrani Sen?

Sincerely,

Sidhu Jyatha (talk) 10:16, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren

The article Jodi Kichhu Mone Na Koren has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced since 2006 - are Bangladeshi tv shows inherently notable?

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. LessHeard vanU (talk) 17:42, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

DC and contributions

Greetings! Please excuse this intrusion on your talk page, and allow me to invite you to participate in the newly-formed Wikipedia Contribution Team (WP:CONTRIB for short)! The goal of the team is to attract more and better contributions to the English Wikipedia, as well as to help support the fundraising team in our financial and editing contribution goals. We have lots of stuff to work on, from minor and major page building, to WikiProject outreach, article improvement, donor relations, and more—in fact, part of our mission is to empower team members to make their own projects to support our mission. Some of our projects only take a few minutes to work on, while others can be large, multi-person tasks—whatever your interest level, we're glad to have you.

If this sounds interesting, please visit WP:CONTRIB and sign onto the team. Even if there does not appear to be anything that really speaks out as being work you'd like to do, I'd encourage you to join and follow the project anyway, as the type of work we'll be doing will certainly evolve and change over time. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, or ask on the team talk page. Regards, ⇒DanRosenthal ^{Wikipedia Contribution Team} 02:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

As an aside, I'm also a local DC Wikimedian. We'd love for you to attend the next DC meetups. I'm specifically contacting you as you expressed interest in the Campus Ambassador position, and both the DC Wikimedians group and the Wikipedia Contributions Team have a lot of interest in working along with the Campus Ambassadors. You can reach me on my talk page, or by email at drosenthal@wikimedia.org with questions; I can't guarantee that I'll be checking back on your talk page often enough to hold a sustained conversation there. Regards, ⇒DanRosenthal ^{Wikipedia Contribution Team} 02:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Bangladesh/Wikiprojects

Portal:Bangladesh/Wikiprojects, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Bangladesh/Wikiprojects and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Bangladesh/Wikiprojects during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 01:28, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Hassan Shahriar

Hello Ragib. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Hassan Shahriar, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: editor of a daily newspaper and president of Commonwealth Journalists Association is certainly enough to pass A7. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 17:56, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

List of medical colleges in Bangladesh

Hello Ragib! I noticed something different about the list of medical colleges in Bangladesh. It has the word 'colleges' instead of 'schools' unlike other articles of the same nature. See lists of medical schools. You will notice that the word 'schools' is the standard when it come to professional training institutes. Only articles intended for Bangladesh and India do not follow this standard pattern. As you are the only currently active and the frequent editor of this article, I suggest you move/merge this article to List of medical schools in Bangladesh. Cheers. Farjad0322^{(talk|sign|contribs)} 11:39, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Farjad,

The institutions for medical education in Bangladesh are officially named "Medical College"s. So, I'm not sure calling them "Medical schools" just for conformity with US naming style is the right way to go. It will simply increase confusion. --Ragib (talk) 18:40, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Another thing, has Bangladesh Medical Research Council anything to do with these colleges. Id so, we can mention it in the introductory paragraph. Farjad0322^{(talk|sign|contribs)} 03:54, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Need Help

1. I made a mistake. a. I want to set now "Ekram Ahmed Lenin" instead of "Ekram Ahmed Lelin" in his Biograpy profile. Even I want to see the change in catagory lists. b. I also uploaded Ekram Admed Lelin.JPG in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ekram_Admed_Lelin.JPG that I want to change as "Ekram Admed Lenin.JPG" How do I do it? Can you please help me ?

2. If you have confusion about the Novel Writer “ Ekram Ahmed Lenin” , Communicate to the publisher address in below: ……………………… বিশ্বসাহিত্য ভবন। ৩৮/৪, বাংলাবাজার, ঢাকা-১০০০। ফোনঃ ৭১১৪৪২৪। (Phone: +88027114424) ................................... This publisher’s some books (50) is listed in another popular website: http://www.dailymatebd.com/daily/booksworld/?p=bbp&bpid=28 However, Ekram Ahmed Lenin has written seven books. 1. নানা রকম গল্প (NANA ROKOM GOLPO) 2. ব্ল্যাক ডাইমন্ড (BLACK DIAMOND) 3. কিশোর ক্রিকেটারদের সুন্দরবন অভিযান(KISHORE CRICKETERDER SHUNDORBON OVIJAN) 4. বসনিয়ার অশ্রু ঝরে মধুমতির জলে (BOSHNIYAR OSHRU JHORE MODUMOTIR JOLE) 5. জল্লাদ (JOLLAD) 6. মহানায়ক (MOHANAYOK) 7. আমরাও পারি(AMARAO PARI) / ISBN-984-8309-468-3 I’ll give you all ISBN numbers for his other books. So I hope you trust him after verification. Mrkshahin (talk) 20:51, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Illegal immigration in India

I have replied to your comment. Please check.--Iball (talk) 19:36, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Please check again.--Iball (talk) 03:53, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Political families of Bangladesh

The article does meet the notability guideline. Mr. Ragib is lower class enough not to like such an article. Grapes should not bew sour if Ragib does not come from a political family. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.208.194.118 (talk) 20:27, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

LOL, oh my honorable Mr. Siddiky, Thy bow in front of your greatness ... please forgive me sire, my infraction at not recognizing the greatness of you. LOL. Seriously, please do not launch such pathetic personal attacks. --Ragib (talk) 20:31, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Bangladeshi Political Families Edit

You have not explained your notability issue. How the hell Wiki allows you to make such comments? Go and find yourself a minimum wage job.

Ha, ha, Mr. Siddiky, I'll do that ... in the mean time, why don't you stop your self-glorification campaign? :) --Ragib (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Ekram Ahmed Lenin

Can you please retrieve this page of "Ekram Ahmed Lenin" from deletion ? Your single comments made it deletion. I am really getting less hope and lost my faith to Wikipedia because peoples here work as administrator who delete the articles without justify it. The writer ""Ekram Ahmed Lenin"" has written seven books in Bangladesh and I am trying to include him in Wikipedia. Wikipedia team may ask me for resources for verification or give me scope to bring those proof they required. I should not write or contribute anything from today either it is not resolved. Please solve it. Mrkshahin (talk) 18:38, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

The article was deleted through proper process. You have not provided any references supporting the subject's notability. (not surprising, since anyone can pay to publish 7 non notable books ... that alone doesn't make one notable). You had a week to add supporting materials. Even in your last edit, you didn't add anything that shows even the minimal coverage on the subject in third party sources. --Ragib (talk) 18:43, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Not everything you get proof in Website. Bangladesh is still developing country. He has published his books and those books was selected for "Boi-Mela" fair (A yearly fair for BOOKS through Bangla Academy). Tell me what exactly you want to see as proof for his Biography ?Mrkshahin (talk) 19:12, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't make me laugh out loud by claiming Bangladeshi authors have no coverage :). I know plenty of self-published authors who regularly pay to publish their books in Ekushey Boi mela each year. "Selected" !!! oh please!! Don't try to misguide others with this false claim. You even claimed earlier that Mr. Lenin is as famous as Sharat Chandra or Zafar Iqbal sir ... that's an amazingly false claim. For notability proof that is needed, please refer to wikipedia's policies. --Ragib (talk) 19:23, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

He is not self published author who pay to publish. Do you think that what you mean !! I don't think that you are living in Bangladesh. He is not such people that you consider because he already has nice position as joint secretary of Bangladesh Government.Don't try to make anyone false. Oh yes that(Sharat Chandra) was my fault because I used the template code of Humayun Ahmed. I corrected it later on. Zafar Iqbal is the writer of Children books and Mr. Lenin is also. Zafar Iqbal sir is my direct teacher and his wife Dr. Yesmine was my supervisor and I know them very well. I am requesting to attend to the meeting of Bangladeshi writers and proof yourself that he is false writer. Tell me the date and time; I would call invite them. Also tell me whom do you want to meet there? Mrkshahin (talk) 20:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Rather than arrange an inquisition, why don't you spend the time finding references from reliable third party sources, that show the author's notability? :) That will be much easier. As a rule of thumb, if you have to go to these lengths to "prove" someone is notable, then there is high chance that he isn't. Finally, I'm quite familiar with Bangladeshi literature scene, so don't try to pull the wool on my eyes. --Ragib (talk) 20:09, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

See the reliable third party sources 1.Amrao Pari 2. মহানায়ক

pls see the address in url and verify it from Bangla Academy either he is false writer or not: A. Amrao pari B. Black Daimond C. Jollad D. Nanarokom Golpo E. Shundorbon Ovijan If Bangla Academy, Bangladesh make it false notable; I would nothing to say. Mrkshahin (talk) 21:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Honestly, you need to take some time to read WP:RS. I asked you for real sources ... not online book publisher catalogues. Also not facebook pages. Boi-mela.com and dailymatebd.com are both book seller websites, and if I pay to publish a book today, both of this will gladly list that there. So, stop wasting my and everyone's time with your repeated conspiracy theories and go find some real sources. --Ragib (talk) 03:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

You are also misinterpreting my request for references. No one is doubting that Mr. Lenin published seven books. However, mere writing and publishing seven books does not make one a notable person (books can be self-published). Authors need to satisfy notability criteria such as significant coverage in multiple reliable sources, recognition via notable awards etc. --Ragib (talk) 03:31, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Political families of Bangladesh Citations

Hi Ragib, Good to know you from Sachalayatan and the web. I want to add citations but don't know how to add external sources such as digital copies of the "Sanad" charter granted by the Mughal Emperor Akbar and Lawrence Hastings to my forefathers. I have a digitized copy of this charter in jpg format in Flickr but I don't know how to add it. May be you can help out this ignorant Zamindar...LOL. By the way, can we connect through LinkedIn to get to know each other better? I sent you an invitation recently. Best Wishes, Irad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.208.194.118 (talk) 22:31, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

References need to be from reliable sources. For example, if a notable book from a reputable author/publisher supports the charter or mentions it, that suffices, rather than the digital copy of the charter (which is less preferable since it is a primary source). You can get more information on this at WP:REF. You can also find a citation tool at the top of each edit box ... click on that and then on "templates" to select the type of citation you want to add. Hope this helps. By the way, you should sign up with a user account rather than editing from anonymous IPs. --Ragib (talk) 22:35, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Partition of India Map

Thanks for letting me know. I'd be happy to fix whatever you see as a problem, but I'm afraid I don't see where the map is wrong. I realize it doesn't show Portuguese/French India, but the other one didn't either, so I doubt that's your concern. Thanks. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 18:47, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Better? Or at least, moving in the right direction??

Re:Email

Hey, it is currently finals week for me, so getting involved in the debate on the talk page would be poison for me because it would continually distract me. I will not be thoroughly free until after the 17th at 10:50 PST. Perhaps Aditya Kabir may be of some help, or Elockid (they are a student too, but if they are on quarter system they might be done with exams already)

I've got bored with the South Asia page a long while back, and my "domain of editing" migrated away from these geographical regions articles; thus, I am not sure about who else is still active on this article that can help. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 19:55, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Just so you know Yogesh never responded on South Asia again. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 04:50, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky

Thanks Ragib for your kind words. How do I upload the picture of Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky to his page? Any tips? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthonitibid (talk • contribs) 04:23, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Uploading images. -- Alexf^(talk) 20:39, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Reversion of Ranking of the Page

Hi Ragib, Just curious about the problem of assessing this page for a higher ranking. The purpose of the talk page is to discuss this and I have noticed a previous admin (see history) not doing that and reverting the post with respect to this practice. Also, vandalism has occured when anonymous poster tried to post the Chowdhury Family of Chittagong before the Shere Bangla and Sheikh Mujib family. This admin named Alex reverted my correction of that as well. He has no local knowledge and should stay off this article and let the local admins like Aditya and you do it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arthonitibid (talk • contribs) 17:11, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

As you are talking about me, lets answer. Local knowledge is not needed to follow policy. You made a mess of the talk page and it had to be cleaned up by me, then again by Ragib. You insist on "assessing the page for a higher ranking" as you put it. As you noticed the rankings are maintained by the WikiProject Bangladesh. As of this writing you are not a member of it, so don't you think it would be proper to ask the project how they want to rate a page, instead of unilaterally changing it yourself? Even in the case you strongly feel the article should be ranked higher in their scale, and going ahead and changing it yourself, you still should do it properly. If you do not know how, please ask in the Talk page and somebody will come out and help you. Now for the more serious stuff; you added unreferenced controversial information about living persons on User talk:128.86.145.179 which had to be removed. It is a core policy of Wikipedia not to do defamation. Unless you have verifiable, sources for your accusations, please do not post them as they will be promptly removed and may lead to a block on your account. Also, please remember to sign your posts in Talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). -- Alexf^(talk) 20:36, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Page protected for six months

The page Human rights in Bangladesh was protected by you in June, indefinitely. It seems to me that such a page, even if it has problem editors, should not be permanently frozen. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:14, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Image amalgation query

Hi Ragib,

I was planning to make an image of "32 Bengalis" for the Bengali people page. All these are public domain images used in Wikipedia. I was hoping to know how in pages such as French people or British people, they have amalgated all these images. Can you help?--RevenC (talk) 12:36, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

And since the page is protected, I want to make the image and give it to you so that you place it.--RevenC (talk) 14:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Agragami Adivasi Samiti

Hi. Could you add the name in Bangla script for this article? thanks, --Soman (talk) 12:41, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! --Soman (talk) 20:16, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Muzharul Islam, not Mazharul Islam

Mazharul Islam is wrong incorrect, Muzharul Islam is correct. Don't revert without checking it. For further, go to his official website http://www.muzharulislam.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rossi101 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Your changes had to be reverted, because you are doing them technically incorrectly - I have explained some of it on your Talk page. We have a specific mechanism for moving articles to different titles, and we'll need to request that - I'll do some checking and will set up the request if I think it's correct. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to see further proof that his name is spelled that way. The site you mentioned above is not his personal site, rather a site set up by a foundation. I have no problem in moving properly to the correct spelling, if supported with references. --Ragib (talk) 17:28, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I've commented further at User talk:Rossi101 - Google quite strongly supports the "Mazharul Islam" spelling by 26,000 hits to 1,760. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:34, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

I have opened a discussion at Talk:Mazharul Islam, which is the correct place for an article content discussion - can we please continue there. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 17:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi again. Just to let you know that after a bit more searching, I think it's clear that "Muzharul Islam" is the correct name, so I've requested a move at Talk:Mazharul Islam. (As there is a redirect in the way, it will need an admin to do it.) If you agree or disagree with the request, please add a comment there to "Support" or "Oppose" the move -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:26, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Mujib pictures

Hello Ragib,

Remember me? I posted a colour photo of Bangabandhu a month back. I hope you agree that we need a better photo of him in the infobox, atleast he should not be wearing a suit and it should be from the late 60s or early 70s, the period for which people remember him most. And I had told you earlier I would try to get the permission for the image I uploaded earlier.

Now, there are dozens of rare pictures of Bangabandhu in this website http://banglar.webng.com/banglar/bangabandhu/album/album.htm . It would be very kind of you if you could just check that web page and see whether these are public domain images so that they can be uploaded to wikipedia. I can edit the pictures and place the much needed portrait photo of Bangabandhu in the infobox. --Umran Chowdhury (talk) 22:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Bangladesh Culture Parallel Cinema

Ragib You reverted my edits to Bangladesh page under Culture with note "needs reference and IMDB is not reference". However the items I added were names of parallel film movement leaders Tareque Masud, Tanvir Mokammel, Morshedul Islam, Yasmine Kabir, etc. Only Yasmine's link was IMDB, the rest were links to these directors' pages on Wiki. In addition, there was a reference to Dhallywood, also with link to Wiki. Why would the Wiki pages not count as reference? Of course I can link to newspaper articles about each of these directors, but I thought the Wiki page would be more accepted. Thanks in advance for your reply. Shilpakala (talk) 19:39, 22 January 2011 (UTC)Shilpakala

Ragib, Saw your note on my talk page and agree that the names of the directors are better suited to the Bangladesh Cinema page. However, I believe that there should be a reference to parallel cinema on this page, and then link over to Bangladesh Cinema page (I'll leave it to you to add it as you see fit). And a reference to Dhallywood should also be added. Shilpakala (talk) 21:31, 24 January 2011 (UTC)Shilpakala

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Ragib! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Bagha Jatin

How are you ? Busy with a few other projects, I have been away from the Wikipedia activities. Published a new biography of Bagha Jatin in English with the National Book Trust (New Delhi) and my French thesis for the DLit on INTELLECTUAL ROOTS OF INDIA'S FREEDOM MOVEMENT (1893-1918) has been brought out by a publisher in Paris. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Bengali entry on Bagha Jatin. Except the passage that after knowing Sri Aurobindo in 1903, Jatin started his physical education programme. And the importance given to M.N. Roy at this junsture (in 1903 he was hardly 16 and, even in later years he looked upon Jatin as his mentor, AND NOT THE OTHER WAY). All the best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BobClive (talk • contribs) 14:14, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Re Bangalopedia

Thank you and I am sorry for jumping to the conclusion that it was a poorly researched wiki based on the unprofessional look of the homepage. Active Banana (^bananaphone 20:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Editing Article Pabna

Dear Ragib, I edited the article about a district is Bangladesh called Pabna. In the Notable people section, a person's name was wrongly mentioned. His name is Samson H. Chowdhury who is a christian. But in the article, his name was written as Samson Hossain Chowdhury, which is a muslim name and there is no one from Square (Bangladesh) who is the chairman and called Samson Hossain Chowdhury. I hope it will clarify the issue to you. Please check the company website for details http://www.squarepharma.com.bd/ChairmansProfile.html

Shah Jalal article

Someone has dumped a huge amount of Bangla text into the English article on Shah Jalal. Well-meaning no doubt, but still messy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jalal -- Peripatetic (talk) 10:42, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Hunterian transliteration for Bengali - a way to end the OR issue

Hope you're enjoying your wikibreak but thought I would leave this here just in case you're back soon. Could you please engage on the Bengali script talkpage on a comment I left there. The Wiki standard is definitely OR and should be replaced (I know there was painful consensus behind it). However, I feel that virtually all of it will survive intact as non-OR by linking it to Hunterian transliteration, which was shockingly uncovered in Wikipedia though it is the fundamental fabric on which most Indic transliteration has been built over the past 150 years or so. I am doing this for Hindi-Urdu as well. --Hunnjazal (talk) 21:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Bangladesh: Distinguish

Why would someone confuse Bangladesh with West Pakistan? If there is a chance of that to happen, there's a greater chance of them to confuse it with East Pakistan. Ratibgreat (talk) 14:14, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Bengali Calendar

Ragib, I don't why are you removing the link of the Bengali Calendar of Viswayan from the external link. It was me who added that without logging in. The Bangla calendar which is provided as an external link is the calendar used in Bangladesh. But I think that there must be another link for the calendar used in India. We Indians have nothing to do with the reconstructed calendar of Bangladesh. Since we mostly follow the Gregorian calendar the usage of Bengali calendar is low. But for all Government departments, newspapers and periodicals and also for religious purposes wherever Bengali dates are applicable we use our traditional calendar. We have no connection with the Bangladeshi calendar. So please consider to keep that calendar as an external link. -Trinanjon Basu (talk) 07:55, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I was doing a quick spam filtering on my watchlist, and that edit seemed like a drive-by linkspamming by anon IP. If the link you mention adheres to WP:EL, I have no problem with it. Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 08:39, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

India at FAR

India is now at FAR. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 13:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Bangladesh

I see that Bangladesh article suffers regular vandalizing edits from un-registered users. I guess that, it is best to keep this page semi-protected for infinite period of time.--নাফী ম. সাধ nafSadh^talk 17:03, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Discussions concerning Indian Subcontinent

An ip user Special:Contributions/76.67.18.192 is trying to bring up discussions about this at South Asia and Indian Subcontinent. They are also trying to rename a section from "Definition by South Asian Studies programs" to "Definition by tertiary studies programs"

Since you were active on this subject in the past, I thought I should warn you. (you are being informed of this because I saw you participated in discussions in the Talk:South Asia archives) Thegreyanomaly (talk) 01:04, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Mohsin_arman and

Please have a look on Contribs of Mohsin Arman . All he does is, pushing links of http://www.everyneededinfo.com/ or copy-pasting texts from that particular site. Finding and removing such spams are ridiculous. :( I hope, you may suggest an act or help. --নাফী ম. সাধ nafSadh^{talk | contribs} 18:51, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Salvation of Bengali Hindu

Hi Ragib! The article Bengali Hinduis propagating parochial views. It is being relegated to a propaganda write up by its creator. Would you please look into it's salvation? Thanks. Unmesh Bangali (talk) 08:57, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Nahid Kabir

You've tagged Nahid Kabir with PROD and COI. Both tags were removed as in here and after restoration, PROD been again removed as in here with a comment “(prod is contested, please take it to afd instead if you wish to have it deleted (per WP:PROD))”. According to this, AfD:Nahid Kabir is created. You are being notified as you tagged t with PROD for the first time.--nafSadh did say 16:49, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Bangladesh

The article Bangladesh was made semi-protected for a while, and we escaped a lot of revert vandals. But, temporary SP is ended and IP vandalism is going to rise again. This article is affected by most vandalizing edits (in my watch list). I hope to have some suggestion from you about this. --nafSadh says so 19:20, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Bakrbinaziz

Just so you know, our old friend Bakrbinaziz is back to his old tricks with Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam's history section. Managed to slip past us a month ago while we stopped paying attention... sigh... you'd think he'd give up after a year of this... —CodeHydro 21:59, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Tibet on South Asia

Quigley seems to want to start a discussion on the inclusion of Tibet in South Asia. Please chime in if you can. You are being informed of this as you took part in similar discussions on Talk:South Asia in the past. Thegreyanomaly (talk) 08:23, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

bn: bureaucrat?

Hi. I can't read Bengali but bn:উইকিপিডিয়া:Bureaucrats seems to indicate you might be the only user with bureaucrat status on that wiki. Am I right? If not, could you please direct me to the proper venue?

I'm trying to get a unified account, because apparently some of my edits are being imported at other wikis and then effectively hijacked by whatever random holder of the account there (that's what happened on de:). However, bn:ব্যবহারকারী:Joy, a bot operated by User:Jayantanth, stands in the way - I would need to usurp the same name over there (and at bn wikisource, presumably affecting the same person) before unifying my account. Here are the overviews of the situation: [1] [2].

I have asked the stewards to help last year, but the request was rejected as being too generic for them to handle.[3] I proceeded to ask Jayantanth about the matter[4], but got no reply either to e-mail or to the user talk message.

IMHO renaming a secondary bot account in favor of a real user account doesn't seem like too much to ask. A simple one letter difference should suffice.

Could you please lend a hand? Thanks in advance. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:08, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I'm the admin of Bengali Wikipedia. However, you need to sort this out with the operator of the Bot. Since Jayantnath is active mainly on Bengali wikipedia, perhaps you can leave a message at bn:User talk:Jayantanth? Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 02:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, I tried. [5] [6] --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:39, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I got no reply, again. Please help. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 16:08, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ragib Bhai,again need your help, I feel may user:joy should be renamed as user:joybot or user:jayantanthbot. So he may be merge/unified his account. Thank you.-- - Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 21:13, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Ragib, can you please tend to this now that we have confirmation? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 13:03, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi Joy, I have renamed Jayantanath's bot. So, can you now unify your accounts? Or do I have to do anything else? --Ragib (talk) 07:41, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

That's great, thanks. Can you also rename it at bnwikisource please? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 09:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

I am not an admin/bureaucrat at bnwikisource. You need to contact User:Bellayet for that. --Ragib (talk) 17:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you Ragib Bhai.--- Jayanta Nath ^{(Talk|Contrb)} 17:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

IP edit on Bangladesh

Can you check recent edits by IP user in Bangladesh article. these edits don't look like improvement. Not blatant vandal but I'm afraid are Sneaky vandalism or something. I already reverted once but can not continue, there exists 3RR. » nafSadh did say 18:07, 13 June 2011 (UTC)I notified Ragib, coz, he is experience user and is concerned about the article and I'm afraid some expert's help is needed to handle this particular situation.  » nafSadh did say 18:13, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

On Jana Gana Man Font Size

In Jana Gana Mana article introduction I removed "bold" tag and added "big" tag. I dislike "bold" tag use unnecessarily. And I do not have any personal opinion on "Big", but, "Big" tag is common in use for Bengali pronunciation in Wikipedia and have been used in many other articles. What do you think? Thanks!
--Tito Dutta (Talk) 14:42, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

The big tag is completely unnecessary. Unless your browser is misconfigured (assuming you are using an old version of Windows XP with the broke Vrinda font), there is no reason you need to increase your font size to see Bengali text. No, Big tag is not a common thing for Bengali or any other text in Wikipedia, rather it results from a few users not fixing their own browsers. I have no opinion on bold tag ... I don't see the reason for having that as well. We can just use {{lang-bn}} for the Bengali text in the intro sentence. Hope this helps explain my edit. --Ragib (talk) 14:50, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I too think only {{lang-bn|শব্দ}} is perfect. Thanks! --Tito Dutta (Talk) 15:00, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

And I am using Windows 7 Ultimate--Tito Dutta (Talk) 15:19, 27 June 2011 (UTC) :)

Category:Indian people of Bangladeshi descent

Ragib, confused about this cat. It consists of people who lived even before Bangladesh as a country came to exist. Do you think the category is a valid/necessary one? Most other ABCian people of XYZian descent cats consist of people who hold/held ABC citizenship but were of XYZ birth/descent. I'm not sure we can say the same for Tagore (who died before either country came to exist) or SD Burman and so on. What are your thoughts? cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:38, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

The category has big problems inherently. "Indian" is not an ethnicity, rather it's a nationality (or geographic association). There are hundreds of ethnic groups in India, and at best it can be thought as similar to the adjective "European" or "African".

There are several issues here. First, there are some people who were born in the region now under Bangladesh. But after the partition of India in 1947, they went to Republic of India. For example, Sunil Gangopadhyay. They are clearly Indian people of Bangladeshi descent.

However, with Tagore, the issue is not like that. Tagore was born and died during the British Raj. So, he can neither be marked as an Indian citizen (i.e., Citizen of the Republic of India) nor of Bangladesh. So, he should just be marked with his ethnicity, that is Bengali. --Ragib (talk) 19:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Not Actually A Talkback - But Requesting You To Participate Here

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Correction/Information

Dear Sir, The name Khurram Khan Choudhury is being put incorrectly in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladeshi_political_families#The_Chowdhury_Family_of_Chittagong

He is not from Chittagong and is an MP from Mymensingh. Please dont put his name there. I have edited few times, but this keeps coming back.

Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.185.144.124 (talk) 10:24, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

New Book on Bangladesh Liberation War by Harvard Proff

Hi,

I'm new to wikipedia. Wanted to edit/add information on the the Bangladesh Liberation War to include the new information provided by the new book: Dead Reckoning by Sarmila Bose. How can I do this? Thanks.

Major problems in Rabindranath Tagore Article

There are some major problems in Rabindranath Tagore article currently. Wrong formatting, unnecessary bold letters, vandalism etc. I am trying to correct. Have a look if possible. --Tito Dutta (Talk) 14:17, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

A Mistake

At article Tareque Masud, I uploaded a file named Tareque_Masud_Syl.jpg [7]. On the image file's page I put on the capturing date 23 December, 2011 at file history comment. Actually, that should be 2010. But I don't know how to correct it. Would you please help me. --Rossi101 (talk) 20:57, 14 August 2011 (UTC)Rossi101

I fixed it in the article description page. This should suffice. Thanks a lot for uploading the photo ... I was looking for a photo of Tareque Masud for the article. --Ragib (talk) 21:02, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Dhaka University

The article University of Dhaka is not shown for so long. It should be solved soon. Rossi101 (talk) 09:34, 21 August 2011 (UTC)--Rossi101

Nabinchandra Sen, a Bangladeshi?

Ragib, you have reverted my removal of Bangladeshi categories from the article Nabinchandra Sen. Nabinchandra Sen died in 1909, 62 years before the birth of Bangladesh. So how can he be a Bangladeshi? Regarding the usage of category 'Indians of Bangladeshi descent', you have admitted that people who have died before 1947 are neither citizens of the present Republic of India or Bangladesh. So going by your logic Nabinchandra Sen can't be a Bangladeshi. Therefore I am removing the Bangladeshi categories once again.

I agree with you that Nabinchandra Sen was not Bangladeshi. But I don't agree with you that he was not Indian. We have to keep in mind that even though the Republic of India was born on 1947, India as a geopolitical entity existed from the ancient times. The Europeans, the Arabs, the Persians and the Chinese all used the term India or its variants like Hind to refer to the Indian subcontinent. Even the official name of British India was Indian Empire. By this logic Ashoka, Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar all were Indians. See their articles. Therefore the people who were born in the Indian subcontinent and died before 1947 are also Indians. Therefore Nabinchandra Sen is also an Indian. BengaliHindu (talk) 09:29, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:List of universities in Bangladesh#Default Sort Order

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List of universities in Bangladesh#Default Sort Order.  » nafSadh did say 17:41, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Mubasshar Hussain

I am failing to create the article Mubasshar Hussain. But he is a very important person. He is the current president of Institute of Architects Bangladesh and immediate past president of Architects Regional Council, Asia ARCASIA. Please help me regarding this matter. --Rossi101 (talk) 12:17, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Rossi101

SUST

The user 123.49.23.217 has done a lot of harmful edits on the article SUST. and he has done it repeatedly. I am now undoing them. Rossi101 (talk) 17:56, 27 October 2011 (UTC)Rossi101

A. K. Fazlul Huq

Could you please take a look at this article? I spent a lot of time improving it, but apparently someone from admin has reverted all my edits due to some copyright concern. I did heavily rely on an article from daily star but I tried my best to restate the facts in my won words. Arman ^(Talk) 07:46, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Buddhism in Bangladesh

Hello, there is a lot of content copied into this article from http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/B_0641.HTM. I noticed you added it here back in 2005. Since about 2/3 of the article contains text from Banglapedia and no one has removed it, it stands a chance of being deleted. Please see the article and report at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2011 November 1. Thanks.--NortyNort (Holla) 01:53, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

You are absolutely right about the article. I think it was a case where I forgot to rewrite the content using information from Banglapedia. I see that Moonriddengirl has already cleaned the issues, but thanks for notifying me. Regards. --Ragib (talk) 09:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Timeline in the article on Nurul Momen

Hi, Could you please help me with the Timeline in the article on Nurul Momen; I tried to follow that of Rabindranath Tagore but it does NOT look so! your help will be highly appreciated. Thanks and regards. Zafor2010 (talk) 15:09, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Bangladeshi nationality law

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Copyright

Hi! I'm curious, I came across a couple of your pages on NPP, where you patrolled for copyright. I'm mostly curious, though, is there a reason you favor copyright investigation instead of {{db-g12}}? --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 10:04, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Dennis, in general, I favor copyvio tag when the topic is notable but the article content has copyrighted text. That is, if there is hope that the article can be salvaged by removing the copyvio text, I go for copyvio rather than db-g12. But that's speaking in general. Thanks for your comment. --Ragib (talk) 15:21, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Fazlur Khan

Hi Ragib. I will accept your knowledge of Bangladeshi nationality law but suspect something must be left out either in that article or in Khan's. Bangladeshi nationality law says that "Bangladesh law grants citizenship to a person whose father or grandfather was born in the territories now comprised in Bangladesh and who was a permanent resident of such territories on 25 March 1971 and continues to reside there", but Khan was a permanent resident of the US and had been naturalized in 1967, so that wouldn't cover him as written (unless it means that the father or grandfather must have still been residents, in which case it is not very clearly written). I suspect it had something to do with his support for the Bangladesh Liberation War but it would be good to fill in that gap. Dual citizenship is always a tricky issue, especially when there are multiple changes of government during a person's lifetime. I do want to make sure the dual citizenship is properly documented in his article, as good documentation always helps the stability of details in the article. Best regards, Yworo (talk) 00:39, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

why TAG?

hi RAGIB, it's d first time to talk ur page. someone (a BOT) tagging in [File:S d barman,Comilla.JPG]. but why? i don't know yet properly. plz keep that in your mind & solve it as soon as possible. have a nice day. - Subrata Roy (talk) 19:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Help in Kolkata article

Hello!! Hope its all fine at your end. Currently Kolkata is in FAR. In the FAR, it has been requested that IPA transliteration for certain Bengali terms must be given in the Etymology section. Hope, you can help in this regards. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 06:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Ragib,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 03:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Bengali poetry needs indefinite semi-protection.

Ragib vy, Bengali poetry is subject to persistent vandalism. Everyday a lot of unregistered users edit the page and add a lot of trash to it. So please, protect it from vandalism. And please, check the page Wikipedia:IPA for Bengali; I have opened it, put all the Bengali sounds and their English equivalents exemplified with words. Anyway I will exemplify them with Bengali words too. But why doesn't it work when I try to show Bengali pronunciations in articles? It shows template errors then; I do not know why. Please, check it if you have time. -- Smmmaniruzzaman (talk) 15:06, 19 February 2012 (UTC)