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I got this article here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Rontez_Miles 71.180.91.32 (talk) 18:56, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

April 2013 wikification awards!

The Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar
For scoring 5th place on the leaderboard of the April 2013 wikification backlog drive, Pratyya Ghosh, you are hereby awarded the Greater Working Wikifier's Barnstar. Congratulations! :)
The Silver Wikification Barnstar
For wikifying 63 articles, you are also awarded the Silver Wikification Barnstar. Keep up the good work! :)

So a print encyclopedia, a strawberry shortcake, and a sycamore walk into a bar - wait, have you heard this one? (talk) 20:38, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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Nomination of Henry Walsh for deletion

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Article requests

Hi, Pratyya! Do you do article requests in Bengali? WhisperToMe (talk) 14:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes. I do. But if you can wait for 3 days then I can translate your article. My exam is going on and it will end 5 May. So I'll start working from 5 may evening. So if this suits you, you can give me your article. Cheers. --Pratyya (Hello!) 14:37, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
That's fine! I'll wait until your exams are over. I'll post the requests here and when you are ready, you may do them :)
WhisperToMe (talk) 17:40, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Since it's been 3 days, are you ready to begin one of them? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:40, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Ya. I've started. But due to bad connection of my internet I'm doing them in MS Office. Don't worry. They'll be done.--Pratyya (Hello!) 01:58, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you! Please let me know when they are finished :) WhisperToMe (talk) 05:36, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Submitted Article

I submitted this article for review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Zach_Rogers 71.180.91.32 (talk) 02:39, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

afc

While eviewing old afcs, I notice you have rejected some as "all plot" where the article isn't about a wortk of fiction, e.g. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Watershed Highschool. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Walter Erwin Diewert , Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gabriel john Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Omar Newell, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Maya Eventov, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Latonya Holloway, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kamal Khetan, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Printing Processes, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/RAD21L, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Smiling Mind, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Steve Babb, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Bloody Minded, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Choijin Lama Temple Museum (I moved this one to mainspace) , Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Conducting From the Grave, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Data in Use Encryption, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Camille Armstrong, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ben Zane. Most of these are unsuitable, but the authors deserve to know the correct reason why, so they will understand, and in cases where it is fixable, fix the article. Some of these are rescuable, but the author will now be long gone. What now needs to be done is to go back over them, decline them for the appropriate reason, and write a personal message to each author explaining the error. (there were a few others where it fit a speedy deletion criterion & I simply deleted them) I suspect you just chose the wrong item from the drop-down list-- it's an easy error to make, and one of the reasons why why I almost always give a custom explanation.)

We all make errors. I certainly do. When I am told about them, I apologize and fix the problem. DGG ( talk ) 20:00, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

DGG thank you. Yeah I made mistakes there and most of them are 3 or 4 months old. Some are almost 5 months. And I made lots of mistakes that time. So I am a bit busy this time. When I'll get time I'll do what is need to do. Cheers.--Pratyya (Hello!) 03:26, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
well, at least I caught these. If I find other similar errors from the period I will list them, so you can deal with them eventually also. And I'll fix what I can immediately fix myself, as always. Once we clear up the backlog of old AfCs, all this will be easier. DGG ( talk ) 05:01, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

RfC:Infobox Road proposal

WP:AURD (Australian Roads), is inviting comment on a proposal to convert Australian road articles to {{infobox road}}. Please come and discuss. The vote will be after concerns have been looked into.

You are being notified as a member on the list of WP:AUS

Nbound (talk) 05:57, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Help

Hi Pratyya,

I had submitted an article on 'Cullen Investments', which was declined on 17 April 2013. Here's the link for your reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Cullen_Investments

Previously the article was declined on 31 March 2013 due to insufficient references considering which the reference list was updated considerably.

This time the reason for rejection is 'promotional stuff'. I'll be grateful if you can help me with the editing and successful submission of the same article. Additionally it will be good if you can point out a few lines in the article which sounds like promotional stuff.

Thanks

Ingoddess2805 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ingoddess2805 (talkcontribs) 10:01, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Okay, Ingoddess2805, I'm watching that article.--Pratyya (Hello!) 03:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

why did you think my contributions to wednesday novel wasn't constructive?. Be precise, please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.190.3.240 (talk) 16:02, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hello I am the one who created the page in Bengali wikipedia. It was fully written in Bengali script but only the title was in English. It got deleted by User:Suvray without any reason. He may have moved it to the bengali spelling title of the page instead. Solomon7968 (talk) 13:50, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Hey Solomon7968. Okay. I understand that you used Google Translator. But the fact is Google Translate's Bengali Translation is not that good. In fact it doesn't give the correct translation. So it is difficult to understand an English Translation to Bengali. In fact we can change that but you see we don't have much people working on Bengali Wiki. Again an un-understandable language in article space will reduce WP's rating to general people. That's why Subroto da I mean User:Suvray deleted the page. I hope you understand. At last I want to say that your "English Title" is not the problem the problem is that article translation was un-understandable. I hope you understand.--Pratyya (Hello!) 14:14, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I got in Bengali wikipedia with a vision to develop the mathematics and computer science section. The response I have got truly makes me sad. If you check the article I translated you will get to know the importance of the article. Now you cannot just make a scientific article understandable. And I was not going to just keep the article the same. But User:Suvray deleted it without any notification on the IP talk page which truly makes me sad. Even worse is the quality of the Bengali wikipedia. You have got thousand of editors editing articles on Quran, Islam but when a single editor even tries to make a science article, it is deleted without a notification, forget discussion. Hats off Bengali wikipedia. Solomon7968 (talk) 14:36, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Solomon7968, I don't have admin rights on Bengali Wikipedia. So I don't know what did you wrote at that deleted article. But you can give me that. So that I can translate that for you. So what's your opinion? I really wanna help you and I found that article interesting, that's why I asked you? PS, I am a science student.--Pratyya (Hello!) 14:47, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
It was a clear Google translation but I visioned to add separate articles for every technical translations of the book. To tell you the significance of the book the name is Godel, Escher, Bach. Godel is one of the pioneers of computer science. Bach is one of the three greatest composers ever born on this planet along with Beethoven and Mozart. And M. C. Escher is a great Dutch painter. It explores the mathematics of Godel through the music of Bach. Added to these it is a classic even after 40 yrs and is one of its kind book in history. The book was written by Douglas Hofstadter whose father is a nobel laureate. I have no other way to explain you the significance of the book. Solomon7968 (talk) 14:59, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Solomon7968, I know everyone of them and I have found the importance of that book. That's why I told you that I want to translate that article.
Also please don't blame Bengali Wikipedia. It has only 6 active admins and only 30+ user who edits that wiki regularly and wants to improve that wiki. And Subroto da is a new admin so he's learning about the admin tools So he may be forgot to notify you and deleted the page directly. And now I know you so if you have any problem at Bengali Wiki you can come to me. Again don't think bad about Bengali Wiki. Cheers.--Pratyya (Hello!) 15:06, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

I have lost faith in Bengali wikipedia though I will continue make India (and Bengal) related articles on English wikipedia. I am editing only since mid 2011, though I enjoy it very much now and here collaboration is much easier and we have really got some Very smart people on English wikipedia. Solomon7968 (talk) 15:12, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

GSCE revert

You reverted my correction of the typo 'GSCE' in the Ullswater article. I have re-corrected the typo so please don't revert it back again! I have explained the acronym in the edit's description. Thanks. 109.231.237.74 (talk) 09:22, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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Varg Vikernes

One article from over a decade ago was used to justify Vikernes's inclusion. He has since said he is not religious and this can be found on the very same site. He writes about Germanic heathenry but does not believe in it. He is not a pagan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.161.195.137 (talk) 00:43, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

HI

I didn't make any contribution in Deepak bansal. And I have not any shared IP. Taking over the matter people who use my system are not smart enough to edit a Wikipedia page. I checked my history though, it shows some contribution. Make sure I do not recieve any message from you in future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peeyush maverick123() (talkcontribs) 11:27, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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Help needed

Hi Pratyya, if you know Hindi/Tamil, could you help me to translate this article? Thanks. Arctic Kangaroo () 14:40, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Tamil is in no way related to Hindi. Solomon7968 (talk) 15:10, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Agreed. Tamil to a native Hindi speaker is almost like Greek to a native English speaker. smtchahaltalk 02:32, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Okay. Sorry for the late reply. I was busy these days and now I'm free. Now Hindi and Tamil isn't related. It's true. And I know hidi and I can speak it fluently. But the problem is I can't write hindi. I don't know the hindi alphabet. So I can't help you. But I can help you with Bengali. What's your opinion Arctic Kangaroo.--Pratyya (Hello!) 15:11, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey Pratyya, I have come back in Bengali wikipedia. I seriously need help. See this bn:Calyampudi রাধাকৃষ্ণ রাও Solomon7968 (talk) 15:36, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 Done, Solomon7968. --Pratyya (Hello!) 15:14, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: You've got mail! 21 May 2013

 Done Arctic Kangaroo () 14:54, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank youuuuuuu

I thank you very muche for your gift! May I translate someone in LMO Wiki, my dialecti, or EML Wiki?

Rex Momo (talk) 19:02, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Exhausted, Need help!!!!!!!

Check this:

I have made this on the model of List of colonial universities in Latin America. Help needed in sourcing, info and references. Solomon7968 (talk) 15:19, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Solomon7968, do you want me to translate or you want me to check these 2 articles?--Pratyya (Hello!) 15:28, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

No I am asking you to source the English article. As far I know only Dhaka University of Bangladesh is of colonial era, 17 from India and I have no knowledge of Pakistan. But these are all scattered in different sources. This list can be a good reference then. Solomon7968 (talk) 15:41, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Solomon7968, I'll be offline any moment. So I think I'll not be able to check them today. But I'll check them tomorrow obviously. Cheers. And one question, What's your country?--Pratyya (Hello!) 16:00, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Chandannagar, West Bengal, India. Solomon7968 (talk) 16:03, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
West Bengal!!!! Just beside our country.--Pratyya (Hello!) 16:05, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Actually

On Mather Zickel I was reverting unconstructive vandalism.

Actually LieutenantLatvia. I'm Sorry. I made the mistake. You were right. But you undid the revision. You needed to revert that. And Cheers.--Pratyya (Hello!) 15:27, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Carful with the STiki

Hello Pratyya Ghosh, my name is Howicus. I noticed you undid User:LieutenantLatvia's edit here [1], but when you did so, you accidentally re-added a huge block of nonsense characters that LieutenantLatvia removed. I'm sure it was just a mistake, and you've been doing a great job fighting vandals in general. Just double-check before reverting. Howicus (talk) 15:31, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Annnnd I really should have checked the other sections first. Never mind. Howicus (talk) 15:36, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
No worry,Howicus, very very much thank you for showing me my mistakes. Thank you for this. --Pratyya (Hello!) 15:38, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you :) WhisperToMe (talk) 16:53, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

The Missing

Um, my edit on The Missing (novel series) is true, and not a vandalisim. It is true the next book is IN FACT, not "Kept", It is "Risked". The ORIGINAL title was "Kept". I will add back my edit, please don't block me, I don't vandalize! Sincerely, IHateBirds99. :D — Preceding unsigned comment added by IHateBirds99 (talkcontribs) 21:43, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry IHateBirds99. I didn't know. And also sorry for the late reply. Anyway I can't block you. An admin can block you. Also make good edits and stay here. Cheers. --Pratyya (Hello!) 09:57, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Please reconsider your reversion of my edit to the Seymour Benzer article

I don't want to be blocked so am hoping I have figured out how to "talk" to you.

I looked up "good faith" and the tool you used.

This is what I want to tell you.

(1.) It's the truth and Seymour Benzer himself talked about his Jewish background. Many many sources, but here is one good one. Please look at session 1. http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/27/1/OH_Benzer_S.pdf

(2.) It is not incidental. Many immigrant or first generation Jewish boys from that time period and the metropolitan NY area wound up as noted scientists. Many credit their cultural ethnic background. Great example is I. I. Rabi who cites his mother when he came home from school, and asked him if he asked a good question (not what he learned, but what he questioned). Questioning, whether or not one arrives at an answer, is a particularly Jewish way of approaching intellectual material.

(3.) Given European Jewish history, in the time period, calling Jews from Poland or Russia, either Polish or Russian, fails to capture the reality of the contemporaneous identities as seen both from the governments in question, and from the individuals. (For assimilated Jews in Germany say, calling those individuals Germans could in fact be correct in a way that it would not be for those living in Poland and Russia. Moreover, Seymour Benzer's parents were "shtetl" Jews in his own words -- they would not have identified as Polish, or being from Poland without the qualifier or being Jewish.)

Thank you for considering this. If I have not persuaded you, please give me another chance. If I have, please let me know whether I do the "undo" link or you ... this is my first experience with this editing.

~~ Gregorian date 29 May 2013, Hebrew date 21 Sivan 5773, signed by a Jewish teacher and student — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.103.18.66 (talk) 01:34, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

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See here. :) — иz нίpнόp ʜᴇʟᴘ! 15:31, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

— иz нίpнόp, you may want to watch This--Pratyya (Hello!) 15:50, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for Synnex revert

I am an employee of Concentrix Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Synnex Corp. Our physical address is Pittsford (Rochester), NY. I noticed that you reverted a vandalism edit to the Synnex article, for which I am grateful. Nick Lemendola is also an employee here. Your "You have new messages" sign showed up on a common computer in a hallway here. I therefore have reason to believe that the vandalism originated here. I made our IT department aware of the situation, but there seems to be little they can do as it occurred outside our "firewall".Writtenright (talk) 18:18, 31 May 2013 (UTC)