Talk:A. K. Fazlul Huq

Bengali name

Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq (Bengali: আবুল কাসেম ফজলুল হক) -- here the part of name "Kashem (কাসেম)" isn't spelled correctly, I guess. Because in Bengali SH refers to শ and S refers to স . It should be either Kashem with শ or Kasem with স. --NAHID 13:24, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. - Arman ^(Talk) 01:37, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

FROM IQBAL50000: Sher-e-Bangla is actually a phrase of Persian origin, meaning Bengal tiger or tiger of Bengal. In Urdu it happens to have the same meaning, as Urdu has adopted many Persian and Arabic phrases and words. This is what distinguishes Urdu from Hindi.

Info Chart

I tried adding the spouse and children name in my grandfather's info box, but it fails to appear. Can someone fix this? Thanks in advance. The Minister 06:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

wow, he's a kind of grandfather to me as well. Anyway, I got the Chotoder Fazlul Huq book. will add some info from there. Regards--Tarif from Bangladesh 01:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Good article

Looks good to me. Minor issues are my distaste for Harvard referencing and no explanation of what a "Pathshala" is. Otherwise good though; nice job.--SeizureDog (talk) 07:46, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Delisted GA

This does not meet the GA criteria (WP:GA?). At a glance, it fails 2b (no inline citation) and 1a (the prose is poor in many areas). Thus, I have removed it from the GA list (WP:GA). You can argue this at WP:GAR. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 08:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Good article reassessment

This article was nominated for good article reassessment to determine whether or not it met the good article criteria and so can be listed as a good article. The article was not relisted. Please see the archived discussion for further information. PeterSymonds | talk 11:04, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Hi. I was not aware of this recent change (regarding the infringement / copyright issue) with this article. I had (earlier) provided some information regarding my late grandfather (Sher-e-Bangla A. K. Fazlul Huq) by virtue of this article, and that his body was kept at 27, K. M. Das Lane, Tikatuli, but it appears that the latter info was removed despite having no relevance with the other copyrighted material. Just letting you know. Regards.

(A. K. Fazlul Huq Jr. 18:48, 26 April 2012 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Minist3r (talk • contribs)

He was legendary for his speeches

If someone could post quotes from his speeches. He was a jolly good speaker in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.--Bazaan (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Boycotting legislatures

The Congress refused to form government due to its pan-Indian policy of boycotting legislatures - there is clearly something wrong with this - the Congress did form governments in several provinces, which required them to have a majority in legislatures. What is 'boycotting legislatures'? Ranban282 (talk) 16:56, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

My guess is the editor was thinking of the mass resignations of Congress from provincial legislatures in October and November 1939, after India was dragged into WWII, but in summarizing sources they got their timelines muddled. In 1937, Congress would no doubt have liked to form a government in Bengal, but didn't have the seats on their own and weren't willing to form a coalition with Huq's Krishak Praja Party. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Messing up the infobox

@James Conan Niag How does linking Saturia to Rajapur Upazila align with MOS:OVERLINK and MOS:GEOLINK? How does linking Bengal to Bengal Presidency comply with those guidelines? Bengal and Bengal Presidency are distinct entities with separate pages, so you can't link one to the other. The same applies to British Raj and British India. Additionally, how does not linking present-day locations adhere to the policies mentioned above? Don’t confuse your personal preferences with WP policies. Check Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a featured article; it includes links to both the original locations and the present-day locations. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 01:50, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

I will leave you two to discuss what the text should be and what it should link to. But note that Template:Infobox person/doc instructs that for birth_place, "What the place may correspond to on a modern map is a matter for an article's main text". The less clutter there is in the infobox, the more effectively it serves its purpose, which is summarizing the essential facts about the person at a glance. Constructs like "(now ...)", "(present-day ...)", "(subsequently ...)", etc. should be avoided in the infobox.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah shouldn't say "(present-day Sindh, Pakistan)". In addition to violating the infobox conventions, doing so violates the Manual of Style sections MOS:ACCESS#Font size and MOS:SMALLFONT by using {{small}} in an infobox, where font sizes are already reduced. Even featured articles can often be improved. --Worldbruce (talk) 03:55, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

• @James Conan Niag I have opened a WP:3O request as this is not progressing. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 03:55, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

  Hi, I have declined the WP:3O request. Per the guidelines Before making a request here, be sure that the issue has been thoroughly discussed on the article talk page. There does not seem to be substantative discussion that has taken place here. It has only been roughly 24 hours between when this discussion was created and you seeking a WP:3O, and the only response in the discussion thus far is from a third individual. Even if the disagreement has only been between two editors, and the third editor above was just offering a comment, 3O is only for assistance in resolving disagreements that have come to a standstill. Per WP:NEGOTIATE, Talk page discussion is a prerequisite to almost all of Wikipedia's venues of higher dispute resolution. If you wish at any time to request a third opinion (3O) or request for comment, use the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard (DRN), or open a request for arbitration, you will be expected to show there has been talk page discussion of the dispute. Actual discussion is needed; discussion conducted entirely through edit summaries is inadequate. Emphasis added by myself.

  See WP:DISCFAIL for further guidance on what to do with the disagreeing editor never replies. Brocade River Poems 04:32, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

• @James Conan Niag According to the Banglapedia article, Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla or Hak Saheb, was born on 26 October 1873, at his maternal uncle's house at Saturia, a prosperous village in the Southern parts of the district of Bakerganj. Therefore, the district name should not be removed from the birthplace field in the infobox. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 03:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

@James Conan Niag: I've asked twice that you please discuss this matter. I'm going to go ahead and make the change I've described above. If you revert without responding here, then I'm going to have to file a complaint against you at ANI for disruptive editing by reverting without discussing.— Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 13:07, 11 September 2024 (UTC).

Template:Infobox person/doc instructs that for birth_place, "What the place may correspond to on a modern map is a matter for an article's main text". The less clutter there is in the infobox, the more effectively it serves its purpose, which is summarizing the essential facts about the person at a glance

Bakerganj is not a province but a district that was part of Bengal province. It is irrelevant to put district name unless the first level administrative unit along with the place of birth is not verified in wikipedia which in case of this biography, it already is. See MOS:GEOLINK if you're not familiar with it. It is clearly stated For a geographical location expressed as a sequence of two or more territorial units, link only the first unit. Perhaps you could change his ancestral origin which Banglapedia stated that But his ancestral house was at Chakhar, a village 14 miles away from Barisal town not in Patuakhali instead of involving a futile argument. James Conan Niag (talk) 17:16, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

The issue of linking present-day locations was addressed by Worldbruce, but it seems you disagree, as you are linking a present-day location, Rajapur Upazila, to Saturia, the village where A.K. was born. While Rajapur Upazila may include Saturia, the two are not the same, as subdivisions are generally larger and cover multiple villages. Additionally, where in MOS:GEOLINK does it specify that the district name should be omitted from the infobox or that two separate entities, Bengal Presidency and Bengal, should be linked together? Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 18:07, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

In sources there is no verification on whether Saturia or Rajapur were subdivisions however, Modern day Bangladesh sorted the subdivisions from former British province or even from East Pakistan as Upazilas (Which basically the same meaning as subdivision in most South Asian countries) Saturia was an estate that was part of Jhalokhati subdivision to be more precise which is now a district. Whether it was a possible or un-verified location then we both could abstain it, but it is already verified that Huq was actually born on that location which may corresponds with the present day. However, since we already know the first level administrative division which is the Bengal Presidency. For cases of Bengal Presidency is a same as abbreviating the Assam Province and Assam State as Assam or the Punjab (region) and Punjab Province (British India) that in most case are identified as Punjab in most articles in spite both have distinct articles for them The only difference as per MOS:OL. MOS:GEOLINK Indicates to be as simple as possible, most reader won't bother searching the districts of former provinces but they would know that his birth place was in Bengal province and the rest corresponds the present day (such as, Now in, present day) are part of articles main body for more please see Parameters. James Conan Niag (talk) 18:29, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Putting all arguments aside, as I previously mentioned from the Banglapedia source, I'll restate it for you: Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla or Hak Saheb, was born on 26 October 1873, at his maternal uncle's house at Saturia, a prosperous village in the Southern parts of the district of Bakerganj. This confirms that Saturia was a village and that it was in Bakerganj District, both of which are verified by the source. Therefore, I believe we should not omit these two entities. Next, we need to determine the administrative division in place at the time of his birth in 1873. For that, we refer to the Bengal Presidency article, which confirms that it was the next-level administrative division from 1699 to 1947, a period that includes 1873. The reason we have separate articles for Bengal and Bengal Presidency is that the administrative division of Bengal Presidency covered a far larger area than the ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, so the two are not the same. We do not list ethnolinguistic regions as places of birth. To maintain clarity and accuracy, we should include Bengal Presidency without piping it into Bengal. In the examples you provided, Assam Province should not be piped into Assam since Assam State and Assam are the same, but Assam Province and Assam are not. For entities disambiguated by parentheses, it's appropriate to pipe them into what comes before the parentheses. For example, it’s fine to pipe Punjab Province (British India) into Punjab Province or Punjab (region) into Punjab, but piping Punjab Province (British India) into just Punjab would be factually incorrect. Consider the example of the Muhammad Ali Jinnah article, where Bombay Presidency is not piped into Bombay. Doing so would be entirely illogical and factually incorrect. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 20:50, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

I have also reached out to @Nikkimaria and Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography in the hope that someone will assist in resolving this issue. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 20:52, 11 September 2024 (UTC)