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Re Articles for Deletion - Booty

Hi - I decided to post a reply here to this discussion in AfD.

I am no authority on this, but here goes: the same Wikipedia standards certainly should apply across the board. "Whose standards"? First of all, your own (what you choose to contribute), and then, everybody else's plus your own (how the article is further edited/discussed/and so on, by you and everybody else on Wikipedia).

If an article ends up in AfD (Articles for Deletion), like Bangladesh Booty, it's because a user has decided it may contravene Wikipedia policies, and so it may require deletion. As you will have seen, lots of inappropriate articles are added to Wikipedia every day. It is not always a bad thing to be in AfD, as long as the problem can be fixed. In AfD, this process takes over (the discussion of the articles, as you have seen).

The article will stay in AfD for five days before an administrator assesses the consensus (it isn't a straight vote, it is an assessment that takes account of all the opinions expressed) and then takes action. The exception is a Speedy Keep/Delete, which doesn't take five days - but Booty has not been recommended for Speedy Delete, so it's OK.

If you want to know more about how an admin decides on consensus, you'll need to get an admin to describe their job to you, because I am not an admin, and I do not know exactly what they do either. But admins are the ones who finally "decide" whether to keep/delete articles in AfD. (They also sign the articles in AfD when kept/deleted, and so you can easily find an admin by clicking their usernames in AfD and leaving a question on their talk page - any of them will be able to answer your questions.)

Anyway - Booty is in AfD because someone decided it seemed to be an unnotable film and there was no evidence that it was notable.

To make this film verifiably notable, you must describe what is notable about it in the article - what separates it from the hundreds of other films released every week. As you have said (and I personally believe it is true), this film is somewhat notable. I am not saying it is definitely notable enough to avoid deletion, but it has a chance.

Now, the trouble is, you cannot simply state in the article "it's notable because of X and Y and Z" - you must also back up statement X with at least one quote from a verifiable source - a reputable book, or a newspaper, or a media source, etc. - but not a blog, a forum or unknown website. Bangladeshi sources are fine, so long as they are trustworthy ones. The quote will show the reader that X has also been said by someone notable. This makes X something the reader can trust. And you must back up Y, Z and so on the same way.

This is the approach Wikipedia wants, because Wikipedia does not allow original research. Original research includes people saying "X and Y and Z" in an article without any evidence to back it up. Not good, because it means people could just make up anything they liked.

So, if you can find some media sources and quotes to put into the article that back up your claims about the film - first, that the situation for Bangladeshi women in general is how you state it, second, that Bangladeshi film actresses are not treated favourably, and third, that public and/or critical reaction in Bangladesh to Booty was positive, the way you describe it in the article, then that would be very good news. You don't need to create a perfect article. No one is expecting that. You just need to show that what you say has also been said at least once somewhere by someone notable. That's all. If you do that, I think you will get a few Keeps in AfD.

If you have these sources already, but do not know how to insert them into the article, I can help with that. But sadly I cannot help with finding the sources myself. I have looked online, and I couldn't find any. But if you need help with editing them into the article, reply on the article discussion page, and I will do what I can. I am watching the article, so I will see if you post there. BTW, it's better to post there about editing the article than in AfD, because it annoys the admins to post too much discussion in AfD, and the discussion is now too long. But you can still post questions about the deletion process etc. in AfD, of course.

Finally, again re "whose standards" - it is obviously going to be harder to make a porn film seem "notable", compared to the average Christina Aguilera album, because Aguilera is already a verified notable star, whereas the average porn star - which includes Jazmin, because we have no verifiable information about her on Wikipedia - isn't. But that shouldn't discourage you from trying.

If you find the sources in the next day or two, I think the article has a chance of survival. Good luck. --DaveG12345 07:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so very much. This is what I have found to be greatest strenght of wikipaedia - the oneness of attitude. I really hope there would be someone out there who would take notice, cut through the crap and come up with solidly useful solutions. Thanks again. I think I have a direction now. (Aditya Kabir 04:54, 25 June 2006 (UTC))
No problem, good luck with the changes and remember to post a comment back at AfD when you have made changes, so that people can check out the article and maybe reconsider their position. --DaveG12345 10:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and I forgot to mention - if there were users in the AfD who said Delete and you think they may reconsider their verdict based on the new version of the article, remember to leave a note and a link on their user discussion pages, politely encouraging them to go back and maybe take another look. --DaveG12345 10:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
More on the Bangladesh Booty debate
AfD discussion • User talk:Yamla • User talk:Mwhorn[1] • User talk:Snugspout • User talk:Bwithh

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  1. ^ Revision log of Mwhorn's talk page which was deleted by User:Omgitsasecret
Jazmin DVD covers debate
User talk:Yamla 01 • User talk:Yamla 02

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I offer my sincere apologies for not getting back to you regarding the pictures. I have been dealing with a number of personal issues which have been taking most of my time and energy. As you can see from my talk page, I'm on a semi-Wikibreak right now. Please understand that it was nothing personal (though I can understand why you may have believed it to be) and I hope to find a moment to answer your well-presented questions. In the meanwhile, I am quite happy to let the pictures stand and I apologise also for not acting quickly enough to prevent their initial removal. I hope you have no hard feelings. I certainly harbour no hard feelings toward you. --Yamla 15:12, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Riya Style1.jpg

Discussion at User talk:Yamla/Archive 8#Riya Sen Image.

This image (Image:Riya Style1.jpg) is marked for deletion. It's a film screenshot and is not being used to provide critical commentary on the film. Additionally, it is a copyrighted image and so fails WP:FUC's first criteria. Only freely-licensed images may be used to depict living people. Also, you need to provide a hand-written fair-use rationale for any use of a copyrighted image on the Wikipedia, though in this case it is irrelevant as it is being used to depict a living person, thus will always fail WP:FUC. Note that WP:FUC's wording has changed recently. What used to be accepted no longer is. --Yamla 00:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Images which are replaceable (as per WP:FUC) are not permitted to be used until replaced. --Yamla 18:30, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

You said: "Hey dude, I have added a fair use rationale for the biopic on the article Riya Sen. Please take a look at it. And, oh, since I have removed the deletion tage from the image as advised on the tags (i.e. the tags mat be removed if provided with a fair use rational), I also have removed the line from the article page that says the image is scheduled for deletion. I also have changed the licensing information from screenshot to fair use in Riya Sen and Style (film). I also have looked for another image to be used (yes, using google), and have done so. Well I admit that it didn't vary much, if any, in source and copyright status from the earlier one. But, I think before there is a replacable picture available it may stand. Please, check and advise."

I already responded prior to this message, but just to be clear... WP:FUC prohibits the use of a fair-use image to depict a living person, so this still fails the criteria. We can't wait until a replacement image is provided, that's not sufficient grounds under WP:FUC. Additionally, this is a film screenshot so we cannot use a different license. And given that, we are not using the image to provide critical commentary on the film but rather, just to illustrate an actress. It still violates the license. I know you are working hard here and you definitely are editing in good faith, but the image still violates WP:FUC. Please feel free to ask for more detailed explanations. --Yamla 18:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

(In response to your comments) They have not been noticed. There are in fact a large number of similar images currently in violation. It takes time to track them all down and tag them. WP:FUC was tightened up recently. It used to be permitted to use a fair-use (non-freely licensed) image to depict a living person (with appropriate rationale). This is no longer the case. As to what "replaceable" means, it really comes down to whether it would be reasonable for someone (not necessarily you) to create a free image. For example, you may not own a particular car but if this car is or was sold, someone else may and could take an image. You may not be able to take a free image of a living person but someone else certainly could. In both cases, the fair-use image is replaceable. --Yamla 19:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

(In response to your comments) Why does 1 not apply? Is the person dead? If so, I apologise. But if the person is still alive, criteria 1 most definitely applies. "No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information. [...] However, if the subject of the photograph still exists, a freely-licensed photograph could be taken." If the person is still alive, the subject of the photograph still exists and a free equivalent "could be created that would adequately give the same information" (in this case, what the person looks like) simply by having someone take a picture of her, or having her agent release a promotional image under a free license. As to having the image replaced within the time, this follows from the current image violating WP:FUC so therefore, see the non-compliance section in WP:FUC. Images that fail WP:FUC must be deleted within 48 hours or 7 days, depending. --Yamla 19:30, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

(In response to your comments) Yes, it does. "However, if the subject of the photograph still exists, a freely-licensed photograph could be taken." A living person is a subject of the photograph that still exists. A dead person would be a subject of a photograph that no longer exists. I agree that it is not spelled out explicitly but I assure you this is how it is meant to be understood. As to your other point, that you are not using the image merely to show what she looks like, I disagree. The image is in the page's infobox and thus is definitely showing only what she looks like. If it was not in the infobox but instead was attached to a paragraph discussing that particular movie and that paragraph made specific note of what the character looked like, then it would be an example of an image not being used solely to depict the person. As of now, though, it is not attached to any such paragraph and in fact the article makes only passing reference to that movie. --Yamla 19:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Cupcake

For Aditya Kabir, for remaining civil while discussing hard-to-grasp minutia
For Aditya Kabir, for remaining civil while discussing hard-to-grasp minutia

Discussion at User talk:Yamla/Archive 8#Nice cupcake, thanks.

Here's a cupcake. I appreciate that you have remained civil in your discussions with me while we have been hashing out areas of WP:FU that have driven lesser people to distraction. --Yamla 19:59, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

(In response to your comments) I have not tried taking a picture of any celebrity, actually, but I have worked with some celebrities and non-celebrities to get a freely-licensed image for use on the Wikipedia. None of them were Bollywood actors or actresses, however. As to the infobox, these are used to provide basic information and to depict what the person looks like. If an image is to be used to provide critical commentary on a film, it needs to be attached to a paragraph providing that critical commentary. Often, an image which was attached to a paragraph and was fair-use there is moved up to the infobox but then must subsequently be removed for exactly this reason. Some of this stuff, unfortunately, is not explicitly spelled out. Other times, we try to spell something out (criteria #1 of WP:FUC) but people understandably read it differently than was intended. And then what about a situation where, say, the person is still alive but is in hiding? They still exist so a strict reading of #1 says we cannot use a fair-use image of them. But it's not reasonable to create a replacement. Now, try to write out a clear policy that will take all of these crazy situations into account, and you can see the problems. In the end, the only way to really go about things is with discussions like this, even though they take time. And thanks for noting the other image problems. I'll try to mark at least some of them when I have a moment.--Yamla 20:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to butt into the conversation, but I think it is better to have a bad quality free-licensed image than to have a great-looking non-free image-under FU. If a person is alive, sooner or later, a photo will be available. An example is Sunil Gangopadhyay, whom I met last month during a programme, and the photos I took were uploaded to commons, to be used in various WPs. If there is no pic yet at commons, then perhaps it is better to have no pic at all. Many other ventures have gotten into trouble due to copyright problems, and we need to be extremely careful about that. My 2 cents. :) --Ragib 22:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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You said: "It seems that the speed that you had in tagging Riya Sen's image I uploaded is not manifesting in addressing other images. Let me remind you of the images I posetd for you to take note:

  • Image:3180834 Bernardo Bertolucci.jpg
  • Image:ALFRobinWebbSHAC.jpg
  • Image:ALI IBN RABBAN AL-TABARI.jpg
  • Image:Aarti Chhabria.jpg
  • Image:Abdul Hamid.jpg
  • Image:Abdul Rahman(convert).jpg
  • Image:Ahmed Makarfi.png
  • Image:AdamRyland.jpg
  • Image:Akhatova.jpg
  • Any picture uploaded by Scorpio80 with a name that begins with ac
  • Any picture uploaded by Rglovejoy with a name that begins with 19

Please, take a look, and let me know - why the image of Riya Sen from Style the movie was less of a fair use image than msot of these. Precedence is as good as law (even in the US, as far as I know), and these images set a very different precendence over the one that got the image in discussion deleted."

Some of these were not in violation. Image:ALI IBN RABBAN AL-TABARI.jpg is missing an accurate source, but presumably the painting was never protected by copyright. Image:Abdul Hamid.jpg is not replaceable as far as I can see, though it is missing a rationale for its current use. However, it was uploaded before the rationale requirement was added, so that image is okay. Similarly, Image:Abdul Rahman(convert).jpg and Image:AdamRyland.jpg. As to the non-specific images you have also listed, I am sorry to say that I am kept above capacity and am not looking for more work. If you believe these images are incorrectly tagged or are missing mandatory information, please mark them as such. Also, I direct your attention to WP:POINT. Thank you. --Yamla 21:11, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

You said: "Thanks for the point. It stated exactly my sentiments. Thankfully I sought advice from an admin, before I did anything else. I guess, to remain on the fair side, I am going to mark pornstar images uploaded by Rglovejoy, they are mostly from Palyboy, a source that's pretty thick on copyrights. They have right to, considering the amount of infringement they face. Thanks again."

Thank you, I appreciate your efforts. --Yamla 21:29, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Riya Sen

Hey Aditya. Glad to see your level of activity on WP. Regarding the points you made about the Riya Sen article, I removed the links to the languages, because its Wikipedia policy to wikilink a word only once in an article. Since the words Hindi and Malayalam appear earlier in the article, I don't wikilink them a second time. This prevents an excessive number of wikilinks, which would make reading the article difficult.

As for the picture, please feel free to replace the one I have with a better one. The only problem is that copyright rules are pretty stringent, so the best option is to get posters or screenshots, crop her head out, and lower the resolution so it satisfies the fair use laws. I decided on this one because this was a shot that was in keeping with her image, but if you find a better one, go ahead and upload it - just be sure to replace the old one rather than uploading a new one, otherwise there's a huge excess of unused pictures.

I also made a couple of changes to the external links you added - I redirected the link to the relevant section. Also, I removed one of the other two external links since they point to very similar articles. Another thing I did was to the page on the Ganguly brothers - a small point but very important. Please make sure that all titles and sub-headings use lowercase letters except for the first letter and proper nouns. Otherwise Wikipedia links get very confused. In fact, if you find a page with too many capital letters, please go ahead and change it. Gamesmaster G-9 16:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

More on the Riya Sen debate
Wikipedia:Village pump • Talk:Riya Sen • User talk:Gamesmasterg9 • Image talk:Riya promo.jpg • Image talk:Riya Book.png

Image:Riya promo.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Riya promo.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

  1. Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
  2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Oden 16:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Artcell AfD's

I just bundled them all together because they either all meet WP:MUSIC or all fail it. A bundled AfD is easier in this case.--Isotope23 19:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about it... it's not a big deal.--Isotope23 19:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Artcell notability

I am not on Wikipedia enough to do the changes. However, if you notice there are articles about band members from regional bands that are not really known world-wide. The examples are numerous. The question of how well-known is well-known enough for WP is a tough one ;-). I'd say let's go ahead and remove the stubs that have no information other than names and if someone has enough information (s)he can create an article. urnonav

I think the notability issue is solved. You don't complain; so I am assuming you agree. The second issue is with the article Artcell itself. I am having trouble seeing what you want. Could you just go ahead and do the edits? If I disagree, I'll edit and we'll get somewhere. Just a request: try not to REMOVE information. If the wording is bad, sure, change it, but I don't want to lose information that someone gathered. If it's uncited, mark so or move to discussion page. Thanks, urnonav 01:18, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I assure you it won't be an edit war. It will be constructive editing to improve the article. I am quite aware of Wikipedia's various so-called "standards" and my personal opinion on the matter is, there is no reason to believe that the creators of these "standards" are super-human. The standards are their compromised opinion and more often than not major flaws show up where two standards contradict. (Check out the war about Kolkata versus Calcutta that took place a few months ago.) Once again, I need to know exactly what you are complaining about to know what is wrong. I cleared up some stuff from the article that I thought were blatant flattery and not information.
As far as your liking Artcell goes, not everyone likes everything. A band like Dream Theater or Queensryche will be called seminal and will make history and will yet sell fewer records in their lifetime than just-another-pop-singer, like Britney Spears, will sell over a few years. I am not comparing Artcell to these great Progressive Metal innovators, but I am saying is what you or I think hardly matters. They have a fan-base and their current popularity is fairly easy to guage. urnonav 08:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
The Artcell debate
Deletion log 01 • Deletion log 02 • User talk:Urnonav • Talk:Artcell

Private Universities in Bangladesh

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You removed the redirects in the Private Universities in Bangladesh substubs. I recommend you either write some content or put the redirects back, else someone will delete them speedily under CSD A3. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-15 19:58Z

Thanks for your concern. But, instead of misleading people off to a list of schools in Bangladesh, which is only related to the subjects redirected, why don't you do it the honest way, and write on the universities yourself? These subversive techniques to keep shoddy contributions out of the editors will achieve nothing but more hassle for them. Remember, everyone works for free here, and no one deserves that extra hassle. I have tried to comply to your request and attended to 9-10 of those empty entries. But, I guess, it's time that User:NAHID, who created those entries, and you, who tried to hide them from the editors, get your hands dirty. And, oh, some of those entries do deserve a deletion (no notability and such). Thanks again. I'm sure your contributions will make WP a better and more knowledgeable place. - Aditya Kabir 15:49, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Apologies: I had to come back and write again. Sorry, that I was irritated at your suggestion. I know that you've been trying hard and working harder. But, that redirect trick was still unacceptable (you ought to know better). And, I'm sure you'll agree that overzealous creation of entries after entries on hardly-notable topics should be encouraged or protected. If these entries go deleted, that may be hard on the user, but not WP at all. Thanks. I hope your Esperanza spirit still holds. - Aditya Kabir 16:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for writing stubs for some of them. I'm not sure why you think a redirect is a "dishonest trick"? It is actually a very good, honest, useful trick. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-16 21:58Z
Explanation. I think redirecting an empty entry (an entry that doesn't have single word written) symbolizes sloppy contribution and making others do my bidding. It should not be protected as such. If necessary, the contributor can re-create the entries, if they get deleted, and at least make a stub. Besides, I believe that editors (that includes you too) have a job already hard enough without having to find out which redirects are real and which are just there to protect someone's sloppy work. Dishonesty may be too strong a word used out of frustration, but I still think this trick does the original over-zealous contributor any good.
Everyone should learn the WP ways by learning the obstacles, not by being pampered. That, of course, is my personal opinion only. I am learning it the hard way, and I see even editors bear pretty funny ideas on what's proper and what's not. Let's not encourage ignorance through our li'll tricks. - Aditya Kabir 08:24, 17 December 2006 (UTC) (P.S. I plan to add to more of the entries in discussion, just give me a couple of dyas more time)
Thanks, and go ahead and tag the ones you think aren't notable with {{db-empty}}. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-18 02:12Z

Hello, perhaps you have this figured out by now, but we cannot have empty articles lying about. Articles that only contain templates (such as {{Private Universities of Bangladesh}}) are considered empty and can be deleted on sight. And redirects are used so that if a person searches for a school, it goes to a list rather than saying we don't have an article on that. If you want to write articles on the individual schools, go ahead. Cheers, Fang Aili talk 18:54, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza is for everyone, though right now it is going through some changes. You can go ahead and add your name to the membership list if you like. About donating--I really don't know. I imagine they have Paypal or something like that. --Fang Aili talk 17:25, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Another playboy breast list deletion debate

I notice that you were involved in the last deletion debate for this article. Have you seen this: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Playboy Playmates with D-cup or larger breasts. Interestingstuffadder 19:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Ian King

I'm having trouble finding sources for it. Why don't you post it at WP:AWNB and see if they can help out and save it. Cause if he has "trained world-class athletes on four continents" then there must be stuff floating around that will help him pass the criteria. DXRAW 17:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I have responded on Talk:Ian King. I believe the main problem is that no one checked the book he authored to begin with, otherwise his qualification to write it with Lou Schuler wouldn't have been questioned. Regardless, the AfD has been relisted to generate further discussion: you have not removed these claims earlier, and I really feel it's inappropriate to do so now during the AfD. Kind regards, --Greatwalk 04:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Discussion at User talk:Greatwalk.

Thanks for the kind words on my talk page. As you can see, the Ian King article is no more. I think there is a philosophical debate going on between editors at Wiki...sort of Type A/Type B differences of opinion: Some believe, with enough culling and standards maintenance, Wiki will eventually become a 'capital -E'- Encyclopedic material, while others believe that Wiki's main claim to fame will always be that its articles are the first thing to come up in a search engine...so the articles have to be catchy and informative ( 'small-e'-encyclopedic material, if you will). I fall into the latter category, because most editors (in my observation) are too young, and the vast majority of editors are too inexperienced, to make Wiki anything else. I think Wiki does what it does really well, though...and that it's a great opportunity to put back into the WWW in a meaninful way. That said, I feel this article was sourced well enough for more conservative subject matter, but, because 'body-building' looks a bit tacky, these sources weren't deemed notable enough. I feel the article did, in fact, meet Wiki standards, but obviously never would have been included in Encyclopedia Britanica (which, I feel, is outside Wikipedia's scope.)

I'm sorry I didn't respond to your query and will do so now...I suspect this is a fundamental difference in opinion on how to interpret what appears to be purposefully broad guidelines provided by Wiki. Specifically, while I understand that you believe it is in a publisher's best interest to promote their authors, I do not agree it is in a publisher's best interest to falsify information about their authors, and in particular (since any book is a publisher's investment), it is not in any publisher's best interest to sign on an author that has made false claims about their background. I also disagreed that I had provided Amazon.com's assessment of the book as reference. The published work itself provides that information, it is an offline reference by nature, and the only online reference I had available was the amazon.com resaler. This is a confusion that constantly takes place with editors, I find: Offline reference material is valid too, and a reference to a book sold at amazon.com is not an amazon.com reference, per se. Sometimes the description available does tend to verify that the book contains certain content, though.

Secondly, I looked at Google references to the co-author of Ian King's Muscle book, and at references to the people who were paying attention to Ian King. Lou Schuler has co-written a published work with Ian King, Tom Venuto recommends most of Ian King's books second-to-none (including his own) and an interview with Ian King by Rob Wilkins has been included in almost every online body-building site available. This is a fairly quick Google search... so my question is...I can verify that these people are notable contributors to their field, and they all credit an older athlete (Ian King) as important, and some verify the claim about training athletes, etc. This seems notable to me, by Wiki standards (not necessarily my own)...and your concern that this is somehow all self-generated promotion, or false promotional claims made by profiteers seems highly unlikely to me.

I think there was call to ask for the article to be cleaned up, but not deleted. There were enough references to validate the minimal claims made, and certainly that a more knowledgeable person would eventually be able to source properly ...as always, the need to WP:Cleanup is not grounds for WP:Deletion and while your call to have the article improved was the right move, that call should never have been subject to a time-limit... IMO, the article should have been left for a qualified editor to say more, in their own time.

Thank you again for your kind words of support...they are much appreciated. You are also (by far) the most tactful and diplomatic editor I've had a disagreement with since I've been here...and as soon as I find just the right barnstar (I've been looking), I'll send one to you. Kind regards, --Greatwalk 07:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

  • LOL...Ok, on your advice I'll save looking for a barnstar. Seriously, if you're wondering why people don't respond to straight quotes of Wiki guidelines, your reply could give a few clues: I write about our differences in interpretation of guidelines, and you reply with (more) Wiki quotes and indisputable red-herrings ( "(it's) not about truth, but verifiable facts..." ).  :-)
No worries...and thanks for tips and the kind words. Whether it's your habit or not, they are much appreciated and do make a difference. Kind regards, --Greatwalk 22:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Ian King

Ian King is an Australian, hence the article being listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia for the benefit of other Australian editors who may be able to provide a rationale for keeping the article. It could potentially be listed within a sports related deletion sorting page also, but I don't frequent sports articles all that often and am not aware of a similar deletion sorting page for the purpose. The article btw was eventually deleted. -- Longhair\talk 11:09, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

You could always use Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Australia as a template, and edit accordingly for your intended project. -- Longhair\talk 12:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Other grameen initiatives in the article on Muhammad Yunus

Hi Aditya: do you have plan of creating stubs/articles for the different grameen initiatives mentioned on the page, i.e. Grameen Shikkha, Grameen Mothsho, Grameen Baybosa Bikash, Grameen Software Limited, Grameen Knitwear Limited, and Grameen Uddog? (I don't think that would be a worthwhile excercise.) If not, I'd like to remove the wikilinks as the redlinks don't look good. Arman Aziz 09:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. If you have plans of creating articles then that is very much comendable. Please do so. However, while most of what you said was right - you missed a simple point - which is - creation of wikilink should follow the creation of article. Creating links for articles which will be created in future is like adding cart before the horse. I also fully agree that adding real value to an article is more important than making it look beautiful - but I still don't understand how link to non-existing pages add value to an article. I would also beg to differ that creation of articles for organizations like Grameen Mothsho or Grameen Baybosa Bikash, which generate 0 google-hit outside the Grameen website, is a more worthwhile excercise than creating Portal:SAARC or Portal:Bengal.

Anyways, you friend Nahid has already dedicated himself to remove the redlinks, so I am not going to get further involved there. Arman Aziz 05:23, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your Counsel

Thanks for all the suggestions about how to discuss on wikipedia etc. on my talk page. There are definitely points in your post that I can learn from. Let me assure one thing to you, I also consider you a very valuable partner and wish we could work with greater synergy on wikipedia. I do not want to get rude with anyone unless there is a reason to believe someone is trying to take advantage of my politeness. Just wanted to raise a hypothtical situation to you... you are a knowledgable person, you'll understand the context.

Assume, one fine morning you log-in to wikipedia and discover the follwoing posting from me on Wikipedia talk:Featured content:

Is there any policy on the what kind of articles should be featured on Wikipedia? Or do we feature articles indiscriminately? I have found this featured article on Rajshahi University that makes little sense at all. Rajshahi University is an almost non-functional university (unlike the Cornell University, which is a world famous University and deserves to have a featured article), and the university has serious problems including terrorism where there is no safety to the life of teachers or students. Out of all the universities in the world, even a good article on this university seems unnecessary let alone a featured article.

Well, I have just discovered Shahbag, another featured article by the same user - User:Aditya Kabir, which depicts a defunct name for a location in a third world city. All the material of this article overlaps with Dhaka and Bangladesh. I guess, I am a bit surprised at this indiscriminate featuring of articles.

What will your feelings be? Will you be able to remain calm enough to be diplomatic and avoid being rude? If you think you can - I'd say you are a saint.

My sincere appologies: I am not a saint.

I don't know the full history of your interaction with Nahid and Niaz. But if there is any point of disagreement between them and you I will support them when I think they are right and I will support you when I think you are right. Nahid and Niaz have done a great job by creating all these small articles on Bangladeshi universities. I don't believe all articles on wikipedia have to be featured or even good articles. We are still far ... far from that achievement. But the way wikipedia has grown, it is now almost essential for any university to have an entry on wikipedia even if just a stub. And Niaz and NAHID have achieved that. I wish someone created stubs or start class articles for all banks or newspapers or hospitals in Bangladesh with equal enthusiasm.

Your's truly Arman Aziz 08:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted to have a few comments about the historical incidents you raised. BD Portal header: When I had that discussion with you I was only looking at the portal from IE. And from IE what you were doing did not look like anything other than vandalism. So, I might have been a bit rude. Later User:B helped me to understand that actually the portal looks different from different browsers (IE and Firefox). Only then I realized that you were probably using Firefox or some other browser and that's why you were doing all those. I immediately appologized and requested you to reconfirm that you are using firefox - which you never did. Ultimately, I installed firefox just to solve this problem. Muhammad Yunus: I still think article first and then links - that should be the proper sequence. I saw those redlinks lying around for days and wanted to close them. But didn't find interest to create those articles as the notability of some of those organizations seemed marginal to me. So, I just asked you whether you have plans of creating articles for the redlinks or not. Instead of just saying "yes I have plans" you took it personally and went furious with me. And now that is an example when I loose head! Bangladesh geo-stubs: On wikipedia everyone has different priorities and preferences. You find interest in pornography, I find 0 interest there. I enjoy creating portals for my region, to you that is an indiscriminate activity. There is a need to allow everyone to choose their area of focus. You sought my help with that template and I tried to help you get started. But then I didn't want to engage further on the same activity as to me it was not a priority. So I tried to disassosiate myself from that endeavor and leave it to you and AA. May be I was not outright professional in my word choice when I did that. Since you're obviously superior to me in diplomacy on wikipedia talk pages, perhaps you can forgive my insubordinance now? Last but not least, my opinion about portals etc. - compared to wikipedia's 2,000,000 articles we still have too few portals (only one per 2,000 articles). I think we could use some more portals - at least 10 times what we have now. Adios. Arman Aziz 00:55, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
More on the debates with Arman Aziz
Redlinks • Rudeness • Nahid • IUB • Portal 01 • Portal 02 • Daily Star

Brazilian wax merge and redirect

Was this discussed somewhere? I don't agree with it, could it be undone pending discussion? Anchoress (talk) 20:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thong edits

Hi, you edited the Thong (clothing) article to clean it up by removing the gallery. This has been a "project that takes an eternity", though, and improvements are welcome. I think that the current selection of images includes those images that are necessary to illustrate what is discussed in the article. However, I disagree on the point of removing the gallery. There are a lot of potential images for the article and collecting them in a gallery helps with keeping the article (relatively) clean. People will attempt to add new images of differing quality to the article. Moreover, the gallery included images for illustrating different kinds of thongs on a plastic manikin — these were lost in the cleanup. These are details (even in fine details) that are essentially are subjects of the article. (I posted this to the personal page because the general talk tends to attract a lot of responses.) --Vuo (talk) 21:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)


Re: Indosphere

Hi Aditya. The way I see it, Indosphere is a pretty different concept from Greater India and has a good scope of expanding on is own. Greater India and Indies, however, are pretty similar. Indosphere is similar in definition to Persianate society (contrasted to Greater Iran) or Sinosphere (contrasted to Greater China). Ideas like Greater India and Indies have some geographical basis, but Indosphere is a purely cultural concept (just like Anglosphere.) This could be a classical mergist splittist kind of a discussion. deeptrivia (talk) 03:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Jayne Mansfield in popular culture

Hi, Aditya, I'm sorry for the delay; I peeked in on the AfD, and it looks like you've gotten the situation under control. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Bihari people

Hello Aditya, sorry for my actions. I was unaware that their was a discussion going on. I have provided my comments on the talk page of Biharis. Nevertheless, I did make several useful changes to the Bihari people article which I am restoring. I hope a decision is soon reached regarding the issue. With regards, AnupamTalk 06:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

TOC

I disagree with your views on layout but I am not seriously worried about such matters. I enjoy experimenting at certain times. I have stopped inserting TOC left long ago, merely to save you the bother of deleting them, but may be some TOCs I had put in earlier are still there. Since you are so worried on that point, you can delete them as and when you find them. I don't even remember where I may have inserted these. To be of some help I will also delete them when I locate them. Regards. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 00:37, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Your tagging of several userboxes for deletion

I would like you to be aware of a couple points related to the tagging you did:

  1. When you tag a page which is, or is likely to be soon, transcluded on a page, please place it between a <noinclude> and a </noinclude> tags.
  2. Although in this case the creation of the pages was against the rules, it isn't always the case that "creating subpages using another user's userspace without permission is explicit vandalism". Moving a page into a user's namespace is, in some way, "creating subpages using another user's userspace"; and in some situations, moving a speedy-deletable page into the author's namespace is the correct thing to do.

עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:01, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

What's your problem?

Bhaia, what's your problem? Why are you tagging pictures that I have uploaded? If there is anything going wrong, you may tell me directly. I always respect you and your activity and even in all the pages (including this one) address you as a Bhaia which means a big bro. So, I expected attitude like a big bro. We are not enemy here! I hope you can understand why I am leaving this comment.

Kind regards,

Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 18:39, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Don't take me wrong. We are like a family here, working together. You can at least ask me why did I create userboxes on someone's space? Bhaia, you really hurt me. :-( . - Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 19:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Actually I always consider you, Arman Bhaia, Ragib Bhaia and some other Wikipedians out here, not only as my senior brothers but also as my guides. I know, I am getting emotional and WP is not a place for emotion. But you cannot ignore emotions; at the end of the day we are all human being. I hope in future if I do anything wrong, or you feel any confusion regarding any of my edits, you'll guide me on the right path, not as a Wikipedian, as a senior bro. That's how actually community develops. Cheers - Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 15:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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