User talk:Dwaipayanc/Archive 10

Thanks from Yanksox

Hey, Dwaipayanc/Archive 10, thanks for supporting my RfA, with a tally of 104/4/7... I am now an admin!!! I was and still am very flattered by all the kind comments that I recieved, I will also take into account the comments about how I could improve. I guarantee I will try my best to further assist Wikipedia with the mop. Feel free to drop in and say hi or if you need anything. Again, thank you so much! Yanksox 07:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Help with translations

I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help , then please help by filling in the blanks. For example I need help with several Indian languages, including Bangla. Thanks, --Soman 12:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Bangla wikipedia

Dwaipayan, I know you are busy with the FACs and other things. But if possible, take a look at Bangla-wiki ... we have reached 3560 articles as of now, with বাংলাদেশ becoming the first full length article, and many others on the queue. You've been missing there since April/May, and it would be great if you comeback there when you have time. :) --Ragib 16:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

hahahahaha

Are really patients demanding your attention, or a particular nurse? Rama's arrow 17:04, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

• If nothing really happened I'll remove the objection, obviously. Hugs. --Pedro 20:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Darjeeling

Hey there! I had a look at it a bit ago, and thought I'd pass along some ideas here to you.

• Book references to specific passages should include page numbers – for example, ^ (Kennedy 1996)
• I'm concerned about the comment on FAC about no earlier history?
• On quick glance, I see some prose problems (a bit more copyediting needed - just some samples from one paragraph):
  • Colonial architecture characterizes most buildings in Darjeeling, with mock Tudor residences, Gothic churches, the Raj Bhawan (Governor House), Planters' Club and the various educational institutions. (I actually am not sure what this sentence says?)
  • There are small monasteries which showcase the Buddhist pagoda style architectures. (Not sure - is architectures ever plural?)
  • Reduancies: Darjeeling is traditionally regarded as a centre of music and a niche for musicians and music admirers. Singing and playing different musical instruments is common and popular to most of the resident population, who take pride in the traditions and role of music in cultural life.
  • Western music is also popular especially among the younger generation(comma) and Darjeeling is a major centre of Nepali rock music.
• Another paragraph:
  • As Per the 2001 census, the Darjeeling urban agglomeration (which includes Pattabong Tea Garden), with an area of 12.77 km²(comma) has a population of 109,163, while the municipal area has a population of 107,530.[20]
• Till early nineteenth century, Till ??

Give it another once over before Tony gets there :-) Sandy 19:52, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I read your note, and will check in on it in a few days. Tony is a far better writer/copy editor than I am, so I can only give some suggestions, which I hope help! Sandy 14:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Your locator question

I don't know an answer to your question. I have requested Nichalp's help. Hopefully we should have a solution soon. - Ganeshk (talk) 15:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Ray FAC

Do u think its time? Things have stabilized, it seems--ppm 02:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I put it up for FAC. let;s see what happens--ppm 03:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject Newsletter August 2006

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Darjeeling

But grammatically correct is functional. And it's a matter of elminating redundancy as much as getting the grammar right. This is at issue in all languages, not just English, so acquiring the skill of tight writing will cross over.

I can't work on every FA that I review. There are good Indian copy-editors on WP. Please locate them, flatter them, beg. See the FA logs and the history pages of other India-related articles to identify the right people. Tony 12:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan. I started with a minor copyedit of the lead, but have paused due to some work. I'll start copyediting soon. -- Sundar ^{\talk \contribs} 12:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dwaipayan - don't worry about the FAC - Sundar and I will fix Tony's points in the next 24 hours. 2 of the object votes are unfounded anyway. Rama's arrow 12:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

In accordance with Tony1's comments, I'll be starting a massive copyedit now. Para-2-para, line-2-line, so please make sure that you check this article within the next 12 hours or something. I'll also fix Jeronimo's objection. Rama's arrow 11:52, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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KOKBOROK WIKI TEST PAGE

Hi, thank you for your interest in Tripura related pages. This May the Kokborok language wikipedia test page was started.

http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-WP/kb

Could you help me out in the designing and other simple nuances of the wiki creation, Borok is also going to contribute in the language. If you have any idea, do tell me about the timeframe and the page quality, contributions,etc, which this new wiki will require to be migrated to a full wikipedia.

thanks n regards, User:Bdebbarma

Bangla wikipedia

Busy? If not, come revisit Bangla wikipedia. We now have 3850 articles. A monthlong campaign is also underway. --Ragib 06:04, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Being Busy

Hi,

Saw your comments on my page. Although I am back in KGP, resuming full activity would take another two days, and would get fully active only after Thursday night. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

St Joseph's College, Darjeeling

First; I like what you are doing in the Darjeeling category. I was led to the St Joseph's College, Darjeeling article and have one suggestion (if my guesses are correct). The Principal is a Father with the Jesuits, correct? I would have made it read more clearly if I was sure. Thanks! Stormbay 18:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I changed the information about the principal to how I think it should be written, Someone will correct it if I am wrong. You also should add a section to identify your source(s). Good Editing! Stormbay

Thanks

Thanks for your incredible work on Ray, which is now an FA--ppm 16:00, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Indian food stub

Right now, Indian food stubs are only part of the Indian culture stub category (though the majority). I have proposed an Indian food stub, especially since you, Ragib and I have been collaborating on the Bengali food articles. The proposal is [1].Bakaman _Bakatalk 03:01, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

AfD

Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Syamaprasad Jana Jagaran Manch. The article is about a west-bengal political party and you may be a better judge of the article than me. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 08:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Ray FAC

Hi. I apologize for not being able to help furing my wikibreak. I still need to congratulate on the FA from you and Shmitra; the article finally does justice to the man. Thank you. Saravask 04:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Darjeeling

Will review tomorrow evening. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

AB INCOTW

Hi. Can you have a say here. I too am concerned about the declining interest in INCOTW. At present, even PINQ contributes more to India-related articles that INCOTW. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 14:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Happy Independence Day 2006

Greetings on 59th Independence Day of India!

JAI HIND. --Victor 21:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

15 AUGUST

A DAY TO REMEMBER OUR PATRIOTIC HEROES.GREETINGS.

BobClive —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.93.102.74 (talk • contribs)

Hey

Nope, not from DBPC. In fact, I'm from the school that all Boscovites hate - LMB. But which batch are you from? I have many friends from Bosco.Gamesmaster G-9 13:52, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Samit and I were in class together at Presidency, which is how I know him.59.93.200.13 14:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Reg Darjeeling

Hi Dwaipayan,

I can do the changes, but Sukh thinks otherwise (see FAC). BTW, even you can change it yourself...just copy and paste from the FAC. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: INCOTW

I will be more active on INCOTW myself from Semptember (exams next week). I will ask Nirav, Samir and Deepu to help too. If 4-5 good of us may more attention to it then I don't see any reason why we should not be churning out great articles every week. This week has not been a good one. Not a single edit after I put the INCOTW tag. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 16:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Varanasi

I would very much like to have more editors editing the Varanasi article, and make it a featured article. Please consider me willing by all means.--Anupamsr 18:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. I also have been searching the net with not much success. For example, Mark Twain's quote about varanasi is not reported to any credible site, but only quoted on a number of pages. It may well be urban legend :)

Btw, there are some links that I found out. I will shared them with you. Currenly I am working on the Culture and Temples part. The Art part is really very small as in not cited well. It has a vast potential. As of now, I am no where near Varanasi, so I cannot help with the civic administration. None the less, I will be going to Varanasi in coming september, where I plan to collect a lot of material which is hard to find on internet and images too, especially the link to the famous gali where most of the musicians live etc. Tourism can be absorbed, I actually forked many sentences to form it from the article itself. Terrorism should be a heading, if not a different article because it is based on Current News IMHO. I agree that Geography and Climate should not be of much problem, and they can be dealt later.

Also, Vanarasi has lots of problems, pollution and ineffective administration are major part of it. I will inquire them when I go to Varanasi. For culture, temples etc., here are my bookmarked links:[2][3][4][5]

Varanasi.nic.in is as you said. [6] also seems to be a informative site but it may cause NPOV problems. For now, let us make the Civic Administration title our focus since it is mostly empty.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Anupamsr (talk • contribs)

Ok, I will continue with the Pople and History thing. Meanwhile I will keep a keen eye on Economy and Civic administration for... otherwise we will just wait and see :) cheers :)-- -Anupam.sr|UTC   12:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Calcutta photos

The Calcutta trip came and went in a whisk - I did not get any time to go for a photo shoot. I will nevertheless upload some photos. cheers. Pradiptaray 04:55, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

Congratulations for Darjeeling. It is a pleasure to our articles get FA status together. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 06:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the featured article! Now that the edit war at Kochi is over (for now), I'm hoping to get it to FAC soon. -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}06:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Kochi

Could you take a look at Kochi and give your comments? -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}13:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

No probs. Take your time. :) -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}17:50, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

My bad

Hi,

For the second time today, I forgot to substitute the template. Don't worry, its my bad day. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 19:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Tireless contributor barnstar

For his great efforts and especially for his work on Satyajit Ray and Bengal related articles, I award Dwaipayanc this Tireless contributor Barnstar.--Iball 16:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Feluda

Ya... I have a copy of Anandamela released after Satyajit Ray died that had a ton of information on Feluda but I can't find it anywhere, otherwise I'd take the initiative and do it myself. Right now I am working on Byomkesh and Sharadindu. I hope to add at least some more information within a day or two.

Thanks for taking the initiative on so many Bengal and Bengali related articles and entries. Let me know if I can help in anyways possible. My areas of interest are literature, films, and music. Have a nice day! Ani. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Antorjal (talk • contribs)

Thanks man... I'll get working on many of those articles... just went and did a partial rewrite of Narayan Gangopadhyay. Within a few days, I'll do Tenida. (Probably tonight... khek)... but let's see... I'll work on an many as I can and as often as I can. I've done a lot of edits before but only anonymously. Now I'll just use this account. Take care.--Antorjal 17:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the reminder. An FA star has been placed in the article. I think this means that it has got FA status. ^Babub→Talk 17:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

humble effort

Its just my humble effort, an offering to the Divine Mother. I am glad you liked the edit. Thanks for your nice words. VMO 23:52, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

You have really done great job

Almost on every articles related to West Bengal i have found your contribution. i live in Bhadreswar in Hooghly. where is your hometown ? and that was a great image indeed. i linked that on the hooghly district page--Iball 04:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

INCOTW

You voted for Bismillah Khan, this week's Indian Colloboration of the Week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 07:10, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Re Mysore

Thanks for your comments, have re-organized the page content along the lines of the Template. Will continue to work on it. Do take a look at it when you have the time. Sdsouza 22:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

That was what I thought too (Re : lists and "sub"-pages). In my first bout of working on this page, I focused on things like obvious grammar, syntax, factual issues with existing content, as well as copy-edit of material that showed up unchanged from other websites. I'll do some significant revising and bother you again when i think it's worthwhile. Thanks for the advice and patience, Sdsouza 11:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Kochi

Thanks for the review. I've adjusted the article as you suggested. Could you check if it is okay now? Anything else you'd like changed? I, nor Tintin, nor an encyclopedia I consulted mention anything important enough to be marked in history happening since the 1960s. The only (possible) thing I could think of, is the Coonan Cross Oath. But I'm uncertain how important that was as far as the city is concerned. It was important as far as Christianity is considered, as it lead to a lot of unfortunate events (Christian community was split) and an incomparable cultural loss (Indian christian traditions were forcefully rewritten to bring under papal authority). -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}11:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Kochi isnt actually a million plus city. Only the urban agglomeration of Kochi has a population > 1m. There werent any upheavals or major movements to protest the name change either. Btw, I've shamelessly ripped off two sentences from Kolkata. I hope you dont mind. :P The history section is getting kinda long, dont you think....?-- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}06:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Merciless chopping, is just what the doctor ordered. Thanks! :) The text needs to be a peped-up, per the concerns on the FAC. But it has already been worked on by Nichalp, Sarvask and Sundar. I doubt what more I can do... :( -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu Joseph |TALK}07:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

USMLE

Hi Dwaipayan, I eavesdropped on your note to LHAB... USMLE's are EASY... (hopefully they haven't changed from when I took them 6 years ago now...) Cheers -- Samir धर्म 16:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Agartala gi1.jpg

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Welcome!

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fair use image rationale

Thanks for your note. I'll look. This is all new to me, too. Cheers,  :) Dlohcierekim 12:36, 24 August 2006 (UTC)