Talk:Luton

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Hello Luton editors,

Would it be possible for Luton to have a rejig of content according to WP:UKCITIES? The guideline also has hand tips on acheieving GA (and FA) status, and obtaining thoroughness for place-articles. --Jza84 |  Talk  16:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

i've looked through the guidelines and i will try and make sure its done soon enough - or at least make sure others know Random articles (talk) 19:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

I have started to get some of the improvements in. Reordered the article so it is more in line with the project recomendations. There is much to do if we are going to get this to good article status.--GazMan7 (talk) 15:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

once in a while you should put the history of luton and the meaning of history means back in those days —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.198.182.14 (talk) 16:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I dont understand what your getting at?GazMan7 (talk) 08:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Notable Lutonian: Abdul Ahad

I propose we add this gent from Luton named Abdul Ahad. He is a notable astronomer who defined the Ahad's Sphere of the Sun:

File:Ahad sphere solar illuminance2.jpg

His short bio:

Abdul Ahad was born in the Sylhet district of Bangladesh on 15 December 1968. He has since been educated in and is now domiciled in Luton, United Kingdom. He is a notable alumni of the University of Bedfordshire.

Major Works

• First Ark to Alpha Centauri (2005)
• First Ark to Alpha Centauri 2 (2006)

External Links

• Local media coverage
• Article in bangladeshi wikipedia
• Bio page at Astroscience.Org

that seems perfectly reasonable to me to add him in, go for it Random articles (talk) 16:20, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI, Ahad has continuously tried to promote his vanity biography in the last 2 years. His article has gone through an AFD, and has been deleted 5 times. --Ragib (talk) 14:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, I expect quite a few of us were present at that AFD; I expect his notability has *significantly* improved since that time. You don't award 'Honorary Membership' to a non-notable person, as his Bangladesh Astronomical Society has done - unless he is of 'international repute'. No, really I think our Ahad has done pretty well considering ;-) Uranometria (talk) 16:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Sure, references will be quite useful. Of course, they can't be from his *own site* astroscience.org, which is linked above. :) Provide references that fulfill WP:V,WP:RS, WP:N. --Ragib (talk) 16:08, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

References are all on his media page:Local media coverage. If you want to verify the 'letter of invitation from his Astro society why not write to this Mr. F. R. Sarker guy via the Bangladesh Astronomy Society website? I could do it, but then I'm not the one who's debating notability here.Uranometria (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

:), no, it is *your* task here to establish notability and provide references. --Ragib (talk) 16:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Alright then, I will write to this Society though I can't promise my reply anytime soon. In the meantime, I found a link to Ahad's paper on that site. (out of interest, since you edit all the Bangladesh pages on wiki I assume you read Bengali unicode, do you dispute his full page bio in the bangladesh wikipedia? All I get is a series of Bengali sentences hopelessly meaningless to me :-)Uranometria (talk) 16:39, 25 July 2008 (UTC)