User talk:Ragib

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Re: Pogose School

Sorry, my mistake. I have already inversed the merged. BTW, the new talk page layout here looks like a disaster. Do something, man. :) Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 17:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

A. K. Faezul Huq

Raghib Bhai, the article on my father has been rated 'low'. Would you please do something about this? I don't understand why people ignore the fact that my late father was the only son of late Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq - one of the only few honest and patriot politicians in his time.

In the meantime, I will get some historical pictures scanned asap - my father's childhood photos with my grandfather, the photo in which my father is shaking hands with Bill Clintin, British PM Margaret Thatcher, cricket legend Imran Khan, etc, etc.

Please help me make my father's article one of the best on wikipedia dot org. The Minister 02:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Wards in Dhaka

I have seen a report on Ward 31 of Dhaka city in Prothom Alo last week. Looks like they are going to continue covering all of the Wards. Should there be separate articles for each Ward? Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh 07:07, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

J Das

Hi Ragib, Thanks for defending the writing of the article on the talkpage. I have accumulated a large number of resources on the poet (about 15 books which I just bought in Bangladesh, as well as photos from a trip to Barisal) and will try to make this an FA over the next few months. Would greatly appreciate your guidance/suggestions/comments as the article develops. Thanks etc, Peripatetic 13:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello

After a long hiatus in which time I got married, I am now back to wikipedia. Just messaging to say "hello". Take care. Antorjal 17:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

A. K. Faezul Huq

Raghib Bhai, someone has been trying to vandalize the article on A. K. Faezul Huq. Truth is, Faezul Huq, in his active years, never acknowledged the so-called wife (Marium Begum), or her children (Raju and Ripa) claiming to be his. At least we should know about this. However, they have been successful in impressing the press and media to publish their names on websites and newspapers, television programs, etc.

Moreover, Faezul Huq had registered number of complains with Gulshan Thana Police Station accusing Marium Begum, Raju, and Ripa of defaming my father various times, and of various crimes like blackmail, threat, etc. Please protect the article from further innocent and ignorant users from editing it. Thank you bhaiya. The Minister 17:57, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Binoy Majumdar

Ragib the link to www.boipara.com I added to the page did not contain pirated or illigal copy of the book. Its a well known archive maintained by some little mag fans. And the page I linked to, did not contain all the poems in the book (it is mentioned in that page ) I dont know about the copyright law which plays a role here, but boipara isnt illigal Jeroje 04:23, 29 July 2007 (UTC)jeroje

A mark of appreciation

		The Original Barnstar
		Perhaps you now find barnstars redundant. Still, I wanted to show my appreciation to the editor who originally inspired me to devote a lot of my time and effort to wikipedia. Arman Aziz 04:35, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair Use Licensing Question

Hi Ragib,

Since I am not very well-versed in Wikipedia fair use licensing questions, I thought I'd ask for your opinion. I recently uploaded an image of Iqbal's poem for the Saare Jahan Se Achcha page. The image (see here) is that of the poem rendered in Urdu calligraphy and is from a book, kulliyaat-e iqbaal urduu, Lahore: Shaikh Ghulam Ali and Sons Publishers, 1973. p. 83. I downloaded the image from the Columbia University, Dept. of South Asian Studies WebsiteTaranah-e-Hindi. Since I couldn't find the calligraphic image of the poem anywhere, I uploaded it under fair use (see my fair use rationale here. The image was, however, removed by user Sarvagnya, with edit summary "rm pic with suspect licensing." When I asked him on his talk page why the licensing was suspect, he replied here to the effect, "Its not like that image is Iqbal's own calligraphy or something(and hence of historical value). It is in all probability the work of a local calligrapher and any calligrapher should be able to create it. Also, we already have the Urdu transliteration in the article and the image doesnt add anything of significance to the article." I am a little confused by the explanation, since Iqbal was not a calligrapher, and the Urdu transliteration (or even the cyber/unicode urdu script) provided on the page is hardly a replacement for real nastaliq. I could try and locate the first edition of Bang-i-Dara (1924) and scan it in to create a public domain image, but that would take time. In the mean time, isn't there any way to keep the image? As far as I am concerned nastaliq calligraphers are not exactly a dime a dozen, and finding or creating a public domain replacement is not easy. Let me know what you think. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:03, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I didn't realize that anyone could write out the poem in Nastaliq and scan it. (The reason why I thought that was that although the poem is 103 years old, it has only been 69 years since Iqbal's death (i.e. PD-old-70 does not apply). But I just realized, that in Pakistan and India the copyright period is 50 years after publication (I'll double check), and most likely the book Bang-i-Dara (in which the poem was first published was published in British India). Anyway, I do have someone (an excellent nastaliq artist) in mind. Let me see what I can do. You do not need to reply to this post. Thanks again! And good luck on the summer job! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:22, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Weekly Notification

Just a super quick note, Wikipedia Weekly Episode 21 is out and can be downloaded at the usual places (if you've forgotten, WikipediaWeekly.com works wonders. -- Tawkerbot 01:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Bangladesh Scouting

Thank you so much for your contributions! Can you render Sebar jannoa sada prastut thakte jathasadhya chesta kara or simply Sada prastut (Be Prepared), the Scout Motto, into Bengali? Thanks once again! Chris 04:06, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

University.....:)

Hello Ragib bhaiya,
Y Done (Template:Private Universities of Bangladesh). At last we did it. Like other foreign university templates, no other red link exist in it at all (আমরা আর পিছিয়ে রবো না). What a long journey was it? BTW we should move forward to the Public university article, which isn't being maintained properly. I've encouraged some of my friends about wikipedia who are studying in Public university. But the problem is, they have lack of internet facility. I'm hoping, soon they'll be involved here (But not sure). Thank you--NAHID 19:57, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

{{INA stub}}

Hi Ragib, wonder if you can help. I created a stub for articles to with Azad Hind and Indian National Army, and it has just been nominated deletion on what I thought were more to with MoS grounds rather than substance and importance of the content. I don't know wether you know anything about this at all, but if you do (or if you have any comments), could you please have a look here. Cheers.Rueben lys 12:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

My email

I think it is fixed now. Thanks for notifying. Arman Aziz 07:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Hi there. Just to let you know that the above page was requested for unprotect on WP:RPP. I took a look at the situation in your absense and unprotected to see how things go. I'll monitor the article and if the warring resumes, I'll re-add the protection. Thanks - Alison ☺ 07:23, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Urgent: India page

Hi Ragib, Since you are one of the people who made substantial comments in the last RfC we had on the Talk:India page concerning addition of new material (see here), I thought I would get your opinion about a new development. Yesterday, out of the blue, Blnguyen, who has no history of editing on the India page, made a post on the page suggesting that the India page be expanded to twice its size, which needless to say, has created a lot of confusion. Please see this section of the talk page there. As a result, User:Sarvagnya, for example, has returned to his scheme for de-constructing the India page. (By way of background: Nichalp, who usually watched over the article is busy this summer; Ragib, who was subbing for Nichalp is busy too. Blnguyen seems to think that the page is in bad shape and is about to be de-FA'd. He feels that it needs many more citations (and their lack) is reason enough for it to fail an FAR. Nichalp, when he was active, discouraged over-crowding the text with too many citations (especially when the text was composed in the summary-style, as India is). I think Blnguyen has some valid points: the page needs more (and certainly better) citations and the prose (especially of some new sections that were created by other people) needs revamping, but I think you might be in a better position to assess Blnguyen's idea of expanding the article to twice its size.) Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:03, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

THANKS

thanks MAN! But how did you know I passed (don't worry, I did)? And thanks for not asking my poor looking GPA :) I hope you're alright. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh 17:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bharatveer

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bharatveer. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bharatveer/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bharatveer/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Newyorkbrad 15:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Bengali sour citrus

Hi, can you answer the question at the bottom of the discussion page of Yuzu? Badagnani 18:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

please dear young man i do not mean to question your sentiment but please try to be calm when making changes to your man Aladin. please i do beg you. i have spent time needlessly this afternoon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontwantaccount2 (talk • contribs) 10:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your kindness to let new generations provide addition if and when some new news to add to his notability arises. Peace be upon you. I am signing now Idontwantaccount2 13:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)