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Contents 1 Thank you notes 2 Thank you Bhaia 3 Thanks 4 Thanks 5 Thanks 6 Thank you 7 Thanks 8 Category renaming 9 Replies 10 Mansfield quotes 11 Jayne Mansfield 12 wikibreak 13 PUI 14 Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAA 15 msg from Ragib 16 I am here! 17 Seminar 18 Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts 19 Keokradong 20 Typing Bangla 21 Re: Category: Bangladeshi laws 22 About Paharpur and Mahasthanghar 23 borges 24 Mazharul Islam 25 Re:Education in Bangladesh 26 Re:Education in B'desh 27 RU 28 Your vote 29 Education in Bangladesh 30 Thanks and other 31 Grameen Bank 32 Re: 33 {{WPSchoolsAssessment}} take II 34 Regarding East West University Sources 35 My Barnstar 36 I am back 37 Active user verification 38 Re: WP BD 39 Template:WPBangladesh Navigation 40 Quick reverts 41 DRv 42 Welcome to VandalProof! 43 Rehashing the Bangladesh Wikiproject 44 Wikiproject History of Bangladesh 45 Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup 46 Re:Forgive Me 47 Template:Universities navbox a slight problem 48 Looks good to me 49 Thanks for your compliments 50 Encyclopedic Picture 51 Incorrect Merge 52 Editor Review 53 Template:WP Bangladesh 54 BD Portal Header ?!? 55 re:PAF images 56 Template:WikiProject Bangladesh/back to main page 57 Reply 58 How are you 59 Welcome to VandalProof! 60 Niaz_bd became Niaz 61 190319m9 62 Just another magic 63 WP Bangladesh template 64 Template:Non-extant Bengal places 65 Picture 66 Namaskar! 67 Photo upload service 68 The Competition 69 Rollback 70 Cool! 71 Gone AWOL 72 History Worgoup of Bangladesh Wikiproject group membership 73 Deshipedian: The next steps 74 Page Tabs 75 Request for Rollback 76 Greetings 77 HNY 78 শুভ নববর্ষ। 79 শুভ নববর্ষ 80 শুভ নববর্ষ 81 শুভ নববর্ষ to you too! 82 শুভ নববর্ষ 83 শুভ নববর্ষ to you

Thank you notes

Category renaming

Hey Aditya, you would have to list it for renaming. See [[1]] for more.Gamesmaster G-9 20:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Replies

1. What about my proposal to join the Project on Bangladesh? How do I do that?

Just go ahead and add your name to Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh.

1. And, how can I ask for help to create that infobox of "Dhaka Thana

You can take a look at Template:Infobox City, and copy it/modify it to suite the thana articles.

Thanks

--Ragib 18:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

BTW, do you write "natoks"? I'm curious because this Eid, I saw a natok written by one "Aditya Kabir" (probably on Channel I). So, was it you? --Ragib 17:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Mansfield quotes

FYI if you look at the references, the Strait book is already cited; no need to continue citing its full title and publication after the first reference

Jayne Mansfield

Dear Aditya,

Sorry I didn't respond earlier. I seem to be running around WP putting out fires, and not getting much of anything useful done. I'm pressed for time at this time of year (I still have several feet of beading to do on a dupatta I'm giving to my daughter!) but I'll see what I can do. Zora 01:52, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

wikibreak

I'm on a wikibreak :). I'll address the issues with the school and university articles when I get back. BTW, we had a wiki-adda in Dhaka recently, and I took a lot of photos of Old Dhaka. Thanks. --Ragib 06:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

PUI

Hi Aditya. Thanks for all of these! I wasn't able to find any of the three images that you said were also on Commons. If they're there under different filenames, please list them for speedy deletion on Commons. I'm not an administrator there, but I can help you with the listing if you need it. Keep up the good work. ×Meegs 13:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAA

This little piece of code does the wonder: <span style="position:absolute;top:-50px;left:-175px;z-index:-1">[[Image:FeaturedAAA.png|225px]]</span> Cheers, Миша13 10:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and if you actually had the meaning in mind, this is a reference to AAAAAAAAA! being a Featured Article on Uncyclopedia. ;-) Миша13 17:43, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

msg from Ragib

I keep forgetting to tell you, but nice work with the universities, and Shahbag.

It's a pity I couldn't get in touch with you when I was in BD during December-January. Anyway, hopefully, I'd get in touch with you the next time I visit there. In the mean time keep up your good work.

Thanks. --Ragib 09:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Arild from somewherein contacted me about this earlier, and I arranged these two members to be present in the somewhereinblog seminar. We did have a seminar on Open Information Access on January 15th. The room was packed, which is always a nice thing to see. :) --Ragib 06:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not totally sure, but most likely Munir Hasan (BDOSN, Prothom Alo, Math Olympiad), and another person will be there. --Ragib 06:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

He edits in the Bengali wikipedia. --Ragib 07:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I am here!

Thanks for ur message. Sure, I will work on that topic(private university). Besides, I have some plan to work on some other area like Debating, Programming Contest etc where I spent my whole university life. I hope, I can make some constructive contribution here. Besides, Would you please help me in doing Bangla writing at bangla wiki? I am bit confused about those stuffs. It will be a great help for me if you do so. (Niaz bd 16:23, 16 February 2007 (UTC))

Seminar

So, how was the blog seminar? Did anyone from Bangla wiki show up? --Ragib 05:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Just replied to your question by email.

Too bad someone from Bangla wiki didn't turn up. I hope the blog will get a lot of news coverage. Our Bangla wiki project needs organisational backing like the blog, though we have several very dedicated volunteers. When you get bangla unicode set up in your machine, please do venture into Bangla wiki too. --Ragib 20:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

The new user page with the back story is interesting. Only if we could get more people like you from BD!! And only if I could get you interested in Bangla wikipedia ;).

We are planning a CD version of Bangla wikipedia, to be created and distributed by the end of this year. It will have more than 2000 articles in Bangla. --Ragib 09:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The report on Banglapedia is from [ http://bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=10&id=60051#tp60051 here]. If you don't want to sign up, bugmenot is available. --Ragib 00:37, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Vernacular scripts

go read the discussion.--D-Boy 05:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

are you trying to make trouble? I was more active in the discussion than you were. AND I WAS FOR THE SCRIPTS! go back read it again! Now go away and leave me alone.--D-Boy 04:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Keokradong

I removed your tagged unsourced claim because the sources cited, SRTM, Russian topographic mapping and GPS readings are adequately cited. Claims that that Keokradong is the highest point in Bangladesh are nonsense. Viewfinder 14:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Typing Bangla

Does the following work?

1. Go to control panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Language, and check the "Install files for complex scripts and right-to-left languages" option. You will need your Windows XP SP2 installer CD to install these new files.
2. Install Bangla support on your browsers:
   1. On Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> General -> Languages, and add Bengali as a language.
   2. On Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Edit Languages..., and add Bengali as a language.
3. Go to your browser's "view" menu and set the "character encoding" or "encoding" feature to: Unicode (UTF-8).
4. If you want to change to a favorite Bangla Unicode font for your webpages:
   1. For Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools-->Internet options-->Fonts, choose Bengali from the Language Script pulldown menu and select from one of the available Bangla fonts in your system.
   2. For Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools -> Options -> Content tab -> Advanced... in the Fonts and colors section. In the pop up window titled "Fonts", select Bengali from the "Fonts for:" pulldown Menu and set a Bengali font of your choice for various kinds of fields like Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace, etc. to be shown on webpages.
   3. For Opera 9: Go to Tools -> Prefereces -> Advanced tab -> Fonts>International fonts>choose bangla from drop down list. Select Bangla font of your choice. In most of the cases,opera automatically detects your support for unicode onece you have it in operating systems and installed fonts. So, you may not require the steps above.

--Ragib 17:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

So, did this work out? --Ragib 17:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Category: Bangladeshi laws

Statutory law refers to written/codified laws, chiefly those passed by a legislature, as opposed to case law or common law. It has nothing to do with the British Crown, although of course in civil law systems case law and common law don't really apply. -choster 11:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

About Paharpur and Mahasthanghar

Hello Bhaia, One of my hobbies is to visit monuments/historical places and related museums and collect documents. During 1998-99 I lived in Rajshahi when I visited all the historical places along with the museums and collected some resourceful documents. During that period I visited Paharpur and Mahasthanghar several time and collected lots of myths, stories and real facts. I also purchased an expensive 'photo album' that contains all the important 'Borendro' pictures though copyrighted by Bangladesh Government. I believe, I can help you in those fields. If you need any assistance from me, just feel free to ask. Regards, (Niaz bd 04:56, 12 March 2007 (UTC))

Did you take any photos as well? We can't use the copyrighted photos, but if you took some yourself, or know someone who took them, it will be a great help. Thanks. --Ragib 05:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

borges

from the last time someone asked me months ago:

can't help much w/ that (unless u speak spanish) its from a story called 'El Idioma de John Wilkins' in the spanish collected works, it isn't in 'labyrinths', the commonly avail. penguin collection. i have this from a bio of michel foucault who quotes it in the intro to a book of his, so i don't even know if its been trans into english

& i still havn't done any checking for translations so still can't help much. but possibly i should apply WP:CITE to my talk page :) ben  ⇒ bsnowball  16:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Mazharul Islam

Hi, I tweaked the table a bit. Do you think it is better now? --KFP (talk | contribs) 13:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:Education in Bangladesh

Wow! This seems to be a nice article. I am very busy for next 15 days. Still, would try. You have done a massive work, collected the references. Now please try to provide inline citations. Rama's Arrow (talk · contribs), Ragib (talk · contribs), Shmitra (talk · contribs) may be interested. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:Education in B'desh

Hi Aditya - yes I am happy to help - will definitely check the article out later. I suggest you advertise about this at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bengal, WT:INB and at Wikipedia:WikiProject Education. I'm sure some of the Bengali writers will help at the very least. Cheers, Rama's arrow 18:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

I just had a look at the article. It is really in very bad shape. The main problem is that it is virtually unreferenced. All the references are bunched together. This sort of an article cannot stand unless it has in-line references. A lot of POV is inbuilt into the article. People who worked earlier wrote in a newspaper style trying to analyse and fix the blame. Therefore, the first thing to do about it is to put the in-line references in place. Certain parts which cannot be referenced properly should be deleted. That is a task that I cannot do, because I am not that knowledgeable about the subject. Therefore, I can poke my nose in at a later stage. My interface with a similar subject was in Literacy in India. With regards. -- P.K.Niyogi 01:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I'll be glad to help in developing this article in all possible ways.-Arman Aziz 05:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

RU

Hi, I am still not totally sure about your points on Rajshahi University. The incidents you mention through the two links you provided on the talk page are there in the "criticism and controversy" section (which, by the way, is probably larger than any such section on any university on wikipedia), maybe using different references. Is the concern about the 1908s violence? There are allusions to it in the article, though I couldn't find references. In any case, once I understand which things specifically you would like to see included, I can try to work on them. Thanks for your support and comments--ppm 17:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

added JMB in last section--ppm 20:32, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Your vote

You didn't give any reason for your vote at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Natural History of South Asia mailing list (2nd nomination). AfD is not a vote, so unless you give a reason, your vote is not considered. utcursch | talk 05:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Education in Bangladesh

Hello, thanks for your message. I have a lot on my Wikipedia-to-do list at them moment, but I did take a quick look at the article. It is certainly a helpful article already, even though of course there is work to be done. I made a few small changes to the article. I also imbedded a couple of questions/comments into the first part of the article using hidden text that you can see if you go into edit mode. I will try to help a bit more as I have time. Best, Johntex\^talk 06:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and other

Thanks for you incisive comments and help throughout for Rajshahi Univ. I'll be taking a short wikibreak, so won't directly help on Education and Shahbag, but maybe later. However, one thing you can do is put 1 or both them up for a peer review. That might bring in more editors and I'll be able to contribute since reviewing is always easier than editing :D--ppm 16:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

If I am to do it, I'll wait for a while, need a break badly. If that's fine with you, great, or you can do it yourself. Thanks--ppm 17:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Grameen Bank

You were probably looking for The good article collaboration. I would support a nomination. Just having it listed there will get the article some more attention. And you are right, it is probably easy to improve the article by information from their site. --DorisHノート 18:04, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I just had a look at Zora's page and contributions - don't worry, once the wikipedoholism kicks in, she might well be back. It's a good idea to take a break when she's exhausted. The collaboration: we'll have to see what the others say, they have tried to maintain it for so long and might not want to change the concept so quickly. We'll see. When I get around to actually researching and writing, instead of reverting vandals and doing maintenance work, I'll try to work on Grameen Bank myself, it's an interesting topic. --DorisHノート 16:09, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's Japanese and means noto (=note in English). It is on the talk-tabs of the Japanese Wikipedia. But I don't really speak much Japanese.--DorisHノート 17:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Re:

What the court mentioned seems to be the role of Major Mohiuddin, that he engaged in a politically motivated coup. I'm not sure how significant it is, given that we have more to the point cases (the Bongobondhu Hotta mamla).

It's a great idea to go to those colleges and museums. If you can, please take a Digital camera ... we can always use more photos of anything from Dhaka. UGC page needs a photo of the building ... try to get that.

For lead para, see Wikipedia:Lead_section. For sections, see Wikipedia:Guide_to_layout#Body_sections. Generally, long sentences are very hard to read. So, use simple sentences or at most, sentences with two clauses. Thanks. --Ragib 05:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

{{WPSchoolsAssessment}} take II

Ok, I've completely revamped the template, I hope this fixes your problem, thanks for the input Adam McCormick 21:15, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding East West University Sources

Bhaia, thanks a lot for your constant support at East West University page. I do agree about the lack of proper sources. Actually I took the tag that you added positively and started to find some secondary sources and I found some sources also. Some are newspapers hard copy and some are online links from Daily Star. I will update them soon.

I really feel honored to know that this article is moving towards GA nomination. But, my personal feeling is, still way to go :-) . Still I need at least 3 months time to organize this article. I will reorganize different sections, add proper sources and change some of the pictures and then I may say that it is now ready for GA nomination. I will be extremely happy if I get your help and support during this journey. Take care.

Niaz bd 15:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

My Barnstar

My first Barnstar!! Thank you. It is proving a tough job keeping both Royal Bengal Airline and Air Sylhet factual. Considering that Wikipedia is in the top five Google results for either company, I can see why this controversy would want to be stifled. → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 15:02, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I am back

Adity Bhai, sorry I was in Bangladesh last 3 months. I had very slow internet connection there, so I just check my mails or any new comments. I just got back to USA 2 weeks ago. We were talking about an off website before, which is back now; please visit Bangladesh govt.'s site: http://www.bangladeshgov.org/mop/ndb/arpc91_v1/tables04.htm or http://www.bangladeshgov.org also open a new site at: http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd, so both are working now.Usingha 03:13, 9 June 2007 (UTC) (sorry forgot to sign)

Active user verification

Hello, Aditya Kabir. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:WPNN, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on WP:WPNN. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. Diez2 03:36, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: WP BD

Go ahead, Be bold ... :) --Ragib 17:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:WPBangladesh Navigation

Hi Aditya Kabir. I tweaked the template a little bit (diff) and it should be better now. Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 10:27, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Quick reverts

I use WP:TWINKLE - nothing else. It doesn't work with IE but works well with Firefox. What problems did you have? Maybe I can help you get it working. → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 19:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

That is no longer my user - it can be somebody else. → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 19:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

DRv

Discussion at User talk:Golbez#How to?.

DRV is for a dispute about any deletion debate, whether it came out pro or against. Renominating these articles three days after the AFD failed is right out. --Golbez 12:46, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

The point is, they shouldn't have been nominated in the first place; the error is yours, not the closing admin, so come to think of it, I don't really think DRV is the proper place. Perhaps you want to contact the original closing admin. If you still want to go with publicly challenging the close of the AFD, just go to DRV and instead of linking a deleted article, link just one of these AFD discussions, mention that it contains a list, etc. --Golbez 04:53, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Again - just make a DRV, but instead of linking to the deleted article link to the AFD or whatever, don't make a list, just mention that the list is located in the AFD. I'm not an expert on DRV, perhaps what you should do is ask on DRV's talk page. --Golbez 07:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, and I'm sorry for being brusque and unfriendly. --Golbez 09:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Aditya Kabir! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Daniel 04:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Rehashing the Bangladesh Wikiproject

You mean like this :). → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 20:51, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Replied. Also, maybe you could consider updating your signature so it includes a link to your talk page to allow quicker replies :) → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 07:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Replied - I've added the photo= parameter to the project template. → AA ^{(talk • contribs)} — 10:20, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Replied - done all the outstanding requests :) → AA ^(talk) — 11:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject History of Bangladesh

I support the move of intigrating this wikiproject with WP Bangladesh. I don't think we have enough active editors to regulalrly maintain two separate wikiprojects.-Arman Aziz 01:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup

Yes, I do agree. There is no point to keep two different page for a single project. We should delete the previous one.

I do apologize for not being an active participant at this group. History and Economics are always my filed of interest and I love to work on them. From now on, I will try my level best to contribute at this group. I have a rare collection of historical books at my personal library that I collected from different "Barendra" museums of Rajshahi. I think those books can be used as printed references.

Regards,

Niaz bd 05:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Re:Forgive Me

First of all let me congratulate you for Bengali Language Movement. Thanks again for your wonderful message(I'm still not well enough). That new sple page looks fine. But to be honest, I don't have a lot of ideas about deletion. May be Ragib bhai can help you with it. Regards and thanks again for the Barnstar. Tarif from Bangladesh 17:05, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I will support you on whatever you plan to do to improve the Bangladesh project.Bakaman 18:34, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Template:Universities navbox a slight problem

It is fairly standard to have centre aligned text in a navigational template like this whatever the topic as they are mostly based on a standard template (which this uses). The use of the dot has also become common as the use of a pipe breaks the master template. To help, you could use Template:! to generate a pipe or you could try splitting the list into two or more (such as North and South) to break it up a bit? mattbr 22:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Longer lists are always harder to navigate than smaller ones whatever the list/topic, so you could try to split it up. As I mentioned previously, you could try North/South, or any other suitable groupings. You could also shorten the names, as the template is for universities in Bangladesh, you don't necessarily have to mention those parts of the name. So for example American International University - Bangladesh could become American International, United International University could become United International and Northern University, Bangladesh could become Northern. Some this wouldn't really be appropriate for, such as International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, but this could significantly cut the amount of text in the list and make it easier to navigate.

Of course you don't have to use the standard templates, but they just help to create a more uniform appearance in the boxes across the project. mattbr 10:18, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me

Dear Aditya Kabir, thanks for the nice, polite and kind information you left on my talk page. Mostly I am working on Upazila pages, so I do not have any idea about the deleting old . I have support your new and nice idea. Also I am working on Unions of Bangladesh on Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia (example: আলীনগর ইউনিয়ন. If everyone agrees, I will start Union articles on English wiki too. Thanks again.--Usingha 01:53, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your compliments

Thanks for your compliments of my work on the portal page and the image on Jamuna Setu.

The image particularly is not as encyclopedic as you described - the main object, the bridge, is not clearly visible and part of my speedboat can be seen on lower right corner of the image. That's why I didn't even bother nominating it for Featured Picture. But perhaps it is good enough for Portal:Bangladesh page.

It's nice working with you.-Arman Aziz 10:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopedic Picture

First of all, thanks a lot for the barnstar. It was my first one, so it really means a lot! You may submit the image for FP, but I am quite frustrated with myself for going all the way there and not being able to take a fully clean shot. Earlier I tried to feature another photo of mine (Image:Ruins of Saint Pauls.jpg). The result was - I was rejected with a lot of good advice on how not to ruin good photo taking opportunities. So, I'm reluctant to go there again, unless I am confident to be able to defend rude comments from people.-Arman Aziz 00:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect Merge

The merge was proposed from Pogos High School to Pogose School (not the other way around). Note that, the spelling, per Banglapedia, is Pogose School. [2]. --Ragib 17:52, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the merge. As for my talk page layout ... I'm immersed in coding now :(, so that'll take some time to fix. --Ragib 18:10, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Editor Review

Finaly, got round to doing this :) (sorry for the delay) → AA ^(talk) — 00:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:WP Bangladesh

Replied. → AA ^(talk) — 21:50, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

BD Portal Header ?!?

Hi Aditya - did you put two extra paragrph breaks after the header for any reason or by mistake? Arman Aziz 04:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

O, I see what you tried to do. The breaks were actually flowing to the main portal pages. I have now moved them to "noinclude" section. By the way, I am not sure whether the title color change actually improved the look of the portal. But sense of aesthetics may vary from one person to another. I have posted a comment request on portal talk page. Let's be guided by majority. Arman Aziz 04:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

If you also feel that the color in the title is a bit odd looking, I request you revert it - so that it doesn't appear I'm trying to force my opinion. Just to add: if you take example of some other featured portals on countries like India, Australia or Germany - none of them have used flag color in the title. Probably its better to leave the title in one color. I have no more concerns about the breaks. (and you are welcome!) Arman Aziz 07:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't get this. Why are you moving the breaks out of the no include section again? Can't you see it is abnormally distorting the portal pages? Arman Aziz 09:46, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

The color of the selected tab (in our case white) and the border of the tab section (in our case red-line) are expected to flow continuously into the intro section. That's also how other portals (e.g. Portal:Australia) are doing it. If you are only trying to get some more space, then the break should be added in the Intro section - not to the header section. Please let me know what your concerns are and let me try to fix it. Arman Aziz 10:02, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Please don't get me wrong - ofcourse I welcome your views. I have added extra breaks into the intro section so that it doesn't look crammed any more, but at the same time continuity of the background color and border is maintained. I hope this addresses your concern now. Arman Aziz 10:36, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your understanding. Do support the featured portal drive when you think it is appropriate. One small info - It is not entirely one person show - Tarif Ezaz is helping me in the background (although he has not got directly involved in coding). Arman Aziz 01:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Serious talk about the header: First of all, are you using FireFox? I am using IE and to me BD Portal header looks as good as (or probably even better) than that of Australia Portal. But User:B has mentioned in the featured portal discussion that under FireFox it looks different, and from what you are saying it seems you also see something different.

Since I cannot see the problem, It is difficult for me to solve it. Could you please do some experimentation on a sandbox and try to fix the problem? But it must look good (and preferably same) under both IE and FireFox.

If you are also using IE, then appreciate if you could share a screenshot. The way I see it is same as the "IE Good" shown here.
Arman Aziz 05:23, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

By the way, thanks for the second barnstar. I believe by definition WP:BANGLADESH maintains WP:BD. But if you feel a formal workgroup would help to ensure continuity of maintenance of the portal, would you please start one? You have done history workgroup before- so you know what all needs to be done better than I do. Arman Aziz 05:32, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

• I think I have finally fixed the problems you were talking about. Sorry for my previous arrogance as I was not aware that the headers looked awkward in some browsers. Please take a look and let me know whether the portal header looks o.k. to you now. Arman Aziz 07:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

re:PAF images

Hi Aditya! I went back and added minor info to my own pictures, whatever I thought would help. I also added sources to PD pictures I've added recently. I also uploaded 2 fair use images for the PAF article recently here and here. I believe the fair use rationale for these pictures is sufficient, but if you feel something is lacking or the rationale could be improved overall, do go ahead and advise me. Zaindy87 21:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Also, I would appreciate it if you could give your opinion on this issue. Zaindy87 21:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Bangladesh/back to main page

Ok, I made it a little smaller. Ask away if you want other changes to be done to it... And sorry about not getting back to you on Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup/Announcements, I wasn't quite sure what to do with it and then forgot it. I'll try to look. --KFP (talk | contribs) 18:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I think Gracenotes has fixed it now. --KFP (talk | contribs) 22:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your comment on my talk page: if you need any assistance, please do ask! Template coding is a forte of mine, so feel free to contact me about any tasks/problems/improvements. Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 20:00, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Reply

No, Munnabhai was developed by Classicfilms. I helped with the part "Production", then got hooked and helped in other necessary aspects like formatiing the citations, re-structuring etc. Well, I wastalking to Ragib a few days back. He is having great time :) Went to Grand Canyon while returning from California. Unfortunately, I am also pretty busy these days, and unable to give much time here.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:22, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

How are you

Hi, Aditya bhai, what's up (nothing is up, everything is down, one of my friends used to answer like this)? Anyway, I've got Broadband connection!! I tried to tell you this with a good news and here it is. My next target is to work on your demands. So you could see some changes very soon. You are doing really great at Biman Bangladesh Airlines, keep it up, and ask me if you need anything on that. May be Trusilver could also help you. Hopefully you could have your flight very soon. Yours truly --Tarif from Bangladesh 14:25, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Which connection do you use. I am using BracNet and it is giving me great service. Speed is very good and there's no cut down. May be you can try this too. Yes, I may still need cell phones anyway (but not so far). Thanks for your information about Torun Sharkar. If he continues, I'll too. May that would help me to chip in with a few more DYK's as well. Thanks again for congratulating me, Dwaipayan da really helped a lot as well. Keep up your great work (from Ragib bhai :) --Tarif from Bangladesh 17:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Aditya Kabir! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. β^_command 23:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Niaz_bd became Niaz

This is a common message from Niaz

Fellow Wikipedians,

This is to notify you that recently I have changed my username (through userpatation) to an appropriate one and from now you'll recognize me as Niaz instead of Niaz_bd.

Kind regards,

Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 09:16, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

190319m9

Hey, I have used closing tags whenever I format text written by me. If there was some error, it must have been a mistake. Please try to mention of the page where I didn't used tags properly. Apologies if you were troubled.
Manik (talk) 02:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Just another magic

I was reading my archive (!) of unread mails of yahoo! and saw your message about publishing my "Epic Journey" story to wikiproject bangladesh :) I somehow missed it, but you can still do it if you want, if it inspires others. Ya, i like to work on North Bengal, please give me any reference book name or others if you want, I'm currently working on war crimes as you know and mukti juddho in general. will start editing very soon. bn.wiki is ok, we're probably not organizing any unconference this time :( but work rate is good

Regards Tarif --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 19:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

haven't started any editing yet, just gathering info. Tell you and others when I do start. 2008 will be a year for me of this project. --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 16:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I was reading the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities and surprisingly didn't find any information or comments about Soviet Union. Can you find some? Please let me know. Let me know any specific guidelines if you want as well. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 22:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

WP Bangladesh template

Hello Aditya, and happy new year! I'm afraid I don't know how to fix that. I tried something but didn't get it right. I can look for someone else to help, though. Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 17:54, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, Kalan fixed it. :) --KFP (talk | contribs) 19:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Template:Non-extant Bengal places

I have not been happy with the heading. Now that you have pointed out, I have changed it but I am not sure if it is okay even now. Some of the places do exist but with a separate identity. These are dead places, sometimes archaeological excavations only. I made the template to link them together. If you have some idea, please come up with it. Regards - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Picture

Thank you so much for your acknowledgment on my photography. I really appreciate that. And thanks again for letting me know about the image caption. I'm very new to this place and no doubt i've got a long way to sail. I will always look for your advice and comments on my work on Wiki. Please feel free to inform me at any state you find necessary, or even if not! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SalmanHossain (talk • contribs) 05:48, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Namaskar!

Hello Aditya. Thanks for your nice note. I must admit I was just casually learning about the (very compelling) history of the foundation of Bangladesh and reflexively copy edited where the grammar looked funny. I do not in fact know very much more about Bangladesh except what I read last night (well, that and the fact that the world's most awesome river deltas is there, and maybe a few man-eating tigers roaming around in the woods). I try to stick more to ecology related articles, since people can be so touchy about history! I do have a question you might help me with: does "Sundarbans" mean "beautiful forest" in Bengali? I know "sundar" means beautiful in Hindi, but I assume that the name of the park is Bengali. By the way, a pleasant surprise to see Tsar Saltan on your page! It's an image straight from one of my children's books. Best, Eliezg (talk) 11:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Photo upload service

Check today's Prothom Alo, "Computer Protidin" section for the news. --Ragib (talk) 05:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

The Competition

Dear Aditya, we are now all set to move to the next phase of the competition that we discussed earlier on WikiProject Bangladesh Outreach page. For this purpose, I have started the Deshipidian 2008 page and have also drafted an email for mass circulation to promote the competition. Please review the page and the draft email and let me know if you have any comments. I'm proposing that we circulate the email widely starting February 1, 2008. In addition, if BDOSN can help promote this competition through some newspaper coverage that would be fantastic. Yours truly Arman ^(Talk) 09:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

I have replied on my talk page to keep the thread in one place. Pedro :  Chat  14:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Cool!

Today, I visited your Homepage. To be very honest, it is a nice piece of creative work. And you gave a new dimension to the practical joke segment redirecting it to author's talk page which made me so damn confused! But, really nice work. Well, just a confession, I copied (stolen) many stuff from your page to create my userspace. I always get new idea from your pages. Keep creating and keep providing us ideas :-). Cheers. -- Niaz^{(Talk • Contribs)} 13:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Gone AWOL

Hi Aditya bhai,

Just wanted to drop you a quick note with my sincere apologies for being "offline" for so long and not able to assist you with any of the articles (and expect to remain so for a while longer). Real life issues have taken priority and therefore WP has had to take a backseat (or rather been at a standstill!). I'm visiting Bangladesh shortly also for a couple of weeks and will try and take some photos for increasing the WP free image portfolio. Anyway, hope you're all keeping well and keep up the good work!

Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by AA (talk • contribs) 12:11, 10 March 2008

Replied via e-mail. → AA ^(talk) — 16:31, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

LOL. I got the copy to myself but it seems wikipedia mail is flaky! Let me have your mail address and I'll forward it on to you. Mine is Wiki.AA@gmail.com (forgot my pass and don't want to reset it from this internet cafe so I'm anonymous!) -- AA 13:32, 21 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.56.7.169 (talk)

History Worgoup of Bangladesh Wikiproject group membership

Dear Editor,thanks for your kind proposal. I am interested to be the member of this project. I want to be the member of Wikibanglaproject too. Actually I am inerested only in Bangla and Bangladesh. Your activities are praised worthy. Please do something for our bn.wikipedia.org and bn.wikisource.org, if you wish may mail me. --Librarianpmolib (talk) 03:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Deshipedian: The next steps

Please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Competition#The next phase of the Competition and provide your comments there. Arman ^(Talk) 07:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Page Tabs

You wrote me for help regarding how to set up page tabs. I have some suggestions. Look at the source for my user page as well as my user talk page and the archives of my user talk page. Also, see the actual Template:PageTabs for more information. I'll do a quick example for you using the items you have above (news, policy, techincal etc.) and if you examine the source of this comment on your page, I think it will give you some ideas. The tab sample below also appears at the top of your user page. Notice the only difference between this one and the one on your user page is the This=1 on that page and This=2 on this page, for determining which page tab is marked in white. (Once you figure it out, you can remove the one on your user page if you want.)

If you have additional questions, feel free to write me again. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 20:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Request for Rollback

Hi Aditya. I've granted your request. Pedro :  Chat  09:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Greetings