User talk:Hikingdom

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Hikingdom, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Thanks for the warm welcomeHikingdom 02:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Kalidas Baidya

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[edit] Tagore debate

Hikingdom - We are building an encyclopedia. The call is for factual, reliable knowledge, not POV-pushing. I am sure you are a very decent person whose contributions we need, but if you believe that WP carries an anti-Hindu bias, you are wrong. Any biased edits are the work of people who don't understand WP, and will be cleared out by unbiased editors. There should be, and ultimately won't be, any bias, against Hindu or Muslim.

Please be courteous and helpful to all, even your critics. Please observe WP:AGF at all times.

There is no need to be so rude on Tagore not being a Bangladeshi - since B'desh came into existence in 1971, that is a settled question. If you continue to badger and insult other users, Bangladeshi or otherwise, it will be WP:WIAT. Also, if you create other user ids or edit via anon IP, it is WP:SOCK. Also, you must not yourself, as an ideological crusade or otherwise, make edits that do not conform to WP:NPOV. All are serious violations of WP policy. Rama's Arrow 22:24, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmm...sorry but when did i say that wikipedia carries an anti-Hindu bias? How is Hinduism coming here? My opposition is Tagore should not be categorized as a bangladeshi, I said nothing about religion. Also, when did i create a sock puppet. Furthermore, I think it is pretty sad that we are deciding the citizenship of Tagore through a poll. I am against such low attitude. I personally don't think that is a personal attack, I think that's a fact. Sorry if I am mistaken. Hikingdom 00:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Your userpage until recently contained a pro-Hindutva declaration of sorts. You have been very uncivil towards editors on the RT page - you must not use language like "force," "defeat" and insinuations like you can't put us down by force, etc. Your language incorporate a lot of broad political subjects that are not in question. Your edits to Bangabhumi are not exactly NPOV. Over sockpuppets, it was an advanced warning - in such situations, editors with poor intentions are often induced to create alternate ids and edit anonymously. You must not consider doing anything like that.
Undoubtedly you are a valuable editor, but the issue on the RT page and elsewhere must always be dealt in a civil manner. Also, there is no need to abstain from commenting on my talkpage - there is no situation regarding my rfa. I withdrew it for clear reasons and am moving on with other work. Rama's Arrow 02:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay understood. Thanks for letting me know. However, I did not have anything related to Hinduism or Hindutva in my userpage [1]. Even if I did, it could not be used as a proof that I consider wikipedia biased towards Hindus. For last couple of days, I just had three words, "Jai Sri Ram" but that was it. I even removed it later. I being a very recent victim of Islamic extremism in Bangladesh, Bangabhumi (or Bangladeshi Hindus) is a controversial issue but also an issue very close to my heart and I am trying to work on it as neutral as possible. Please do let me know if I am drifting away from the path of neutrality on that article or anyother article concerning Bangladeshi Hindus. Hikingdom 02:18, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


I am very pleased with your positive attitude. I apologize if I appeared to have been making any unfounded accusations. Civility and NPOV are the chief cornerstone of Wikipedia. Others violating this does not mean you should too. The best strategy is to work with credible references and accept criticism positively. You are a valuable editor for Wikipedia. Rama's Arrow 03:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


Btw, there is no need to remove Jai Shri Rama or anything in particular. Even I often put up Rama ki ji Jai when I feel like it, and I always carry Rama in my username. There is nothing wrong with that. I only spoke of your earlier userpage as indicative of some convictions pertaining to Hindutva. Rama's Arrow 03:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


Sarcasm also is a violation of civility, in reference to your very recent comments on Talk:RT. Rama's Arrow 03:51, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


Thanks. I have used sarcasm in that page and won't happen again. However, I was being very serious about my recent comments. Using exactly the same arguments that has been used on favour of inclusion of "Bangladeshi" category could be used in favour of inclusion in "Pakistani Category" or even "UK Category." Hikingdom 03:58, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Frankness and lucidity with civility are extremely powerful weapons. I understand your fears - there have been few cases of revisionist history, which I don't like one bit. I've been thinking that maybe Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi editors need to meet up on a talkpage to frankly discuss these issues regarding "British India," "South Asia" and partition-related question marks. Rama's Arrow 04:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, that would be the best thing to do in my opinion. In this way, in the future, we won't have to confront such nasty debate. We need to come up with some specific rules on how to categorize the people, who died before the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh. Should we categorize them on the basis of their birthland? influence?Hikingdom 04:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
No, it is based on their citizenship. Even when we know that Allama Iqbal was the first conceiver of Pakistan, he is an Indian and not Pakistani. Now if there are valid terms, like Irish-American, Indian American etc. then they must be used. Rama's Arrow 04:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
It seems like Allama Iqbal had a tremendous impact on Pakistan but still considered an Indian. Following the example of this article, I believe Tagore should also be categorized as an Indian and Bengali but not a British Indian or Bangladeshi as it is used now in the article. Nevertheless, I would like to discuss this matter with other members of South-Asian/subcontinental community so that in the future we don't face such problems. Thnx Hikingdom 05:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the edit in Kazi Nazrul Islam. I was excited and had little time for a complete edit. So, I wanted to thank you. Think about it, someone named his son and people are digging conspiracy from it. I haven't read any autobiography that states the person's naming of his son. Zahidbuet 09:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Part of that Nazrul page has been taken directly from some book from Bangladesh. As I was reading the english version, I could tell that I have read that somewhere in Bengali. I think I would change it a bit to make sure that we are not violating any copyright law. Hikingdom 12:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] AfD Progressive Bloggers

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