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[edit] Please reassess the page on A. K. Faezul Huq

I have left a message on A. K. Faezul Huq's discussion page regarding his 'importance' assessment. Please have a look when you find time. Thank you. The Minister 09:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for clearing noticing and clearing up that Bangladesh Wikiproeject Article Clean Up mess. I wish I noticed your post to that mistaken page earlier. Aditya(talk • contribs) 14:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Simplifying proposal for technical feasibility

It is worth mentioning that there are academic research projects on-going looking at client / browser side solutions to the article credibility problem. You may wish to check out these external sites: U of California Santa Cruz Wiki Lab' Wiki Trust Coloring, PARC's Wikidashboard and an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 17:37, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Un conference

Arman bhai, if you agree about en wiki project of starting a compitition, an announcement of this can be given at January's wiki unconference in Dhaka. Ragib via told me to tell you this at today's wiki adda. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 16:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello... here's a peer review

I have taken Sitakunda Upazila to Wikipedia:Peer review/Sitakunda Upazila/archive1, and so far recieved no comments, almost. Please, take a look, and be ruthless if you want. I have high hopes for the article. Aditya(talk • contribs) 19:47, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:plz contact

of course, I'll contact with you, Ragib via is staying the Eid in Dhaka and will go to Chittagong a few days after Eid, I'll give him you number too. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 07:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sitakunda Upazila

Would you take another look at the article and the the peer review when you have time? Aditya(talk • contribs) —Preceding comment was added at 17:58, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

  • The article is good enough for me. Best wishes for the upcoming GA/FA review. Arman (Talk) 05:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I'm back

Bhaia, I'm really sorry for not replying to your message here. I was extremely busy these days. You can understand my situation, a new city, new university and a new life. I had to go through some extremely bad days. But, now I am completely fine. Hopefully my net connection (at home) will be available in few days. Then I can be back with full speed and josh. Cheers - Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 19:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ayub Quadri

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[edit] HNY

Happy New Year! Though we wish every year as "Happy" but at the end we usually find lots of pains and sorrows. Hope, this year will bring something different in your life. Standing on pains and sorrows, we still HOPE for the best, thus we are human being.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 12:57, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] T:DYK.

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Congratulations! · AndonicO Talk 20:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposed. What do you think?

I have proposed that Mahfuz Anam be merged into The Daily Star (Bangladesh) and Chutir Dine be merged into Chutir Dine. We might have more formidable articles that way, instead of dispersed information spread over multiple articles. None of the articles have enough material to justify forked existence at the moment. When there is more information gathered, the merger can be undone to make space for expanded entries on Anam and the magazine. In the meantime, redirects would lead readers to the merged pages. What do you think? Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay. The Prothom Alo merger is done. The other proposal remains as it was. Aditya(talk • contribs) 02:49, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A lot to tell

A lot has happened in the last one hour or so. Here goes:

  • Yes, the collaboration on Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar must begin now. Let's be bold and start on both. A few help will be needed to advertise the issue:
    • Updating the collaboration page to move Bangladesh Liberation War to past collaborations (a section in the bottom may be just right), while keeping Education in Bangladesh, probably, still a candidate as it is one of the core articles (another section in the middle of the page). Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar should be fetured as the current collaboration (a section at the top of the page). What do you think?
    • Updating the project banner to reflect the changes, as well as the notice board and the announcer. I couldn't figure out how to do that. There may be a need to make appropriate changes to talk page of the Liberation War, Sundarbans, Cox's Bazar and Education articles to make it complete.
    • The announcer will need a bit of content and code fix, though there is no immediacy. This one could be used as a brief version of the larger update list (well, I have moved it to the notice board... I hope I did right). There may be further changes to the notice board, but again there is no immediacy.
  • When you posted to the noticeboard, I was in the middle of a major rehash of the very noticeboard. I picked ideas of a few Wikiprojects, and posting to the talk page is anyways easier (it let's us use that + button on the top to make new sections). I also refactored a lot of posts (being bold at the moment). Please, check if I did right.
    • I had a "In use" notice while working, but probably you didn't notice it. I apologize in advance if I have been the reason for any inconvenience. I have refactored that post to the non-strategic discussion page and the collaboration talk. I hope it was alright.
    • In fact I am planning to spam the post to all active members of the project, as well as a few vigorous other users, old and new, who may take an interest (and also to the BanglaWiki YahooGroup, if it requires).

Currently my net-line is going very slow. But, still I'm ready to jump into the fray this very night. Thanks. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:06, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

As of now the biggest help would be to nominate both articles together for collaboration and update all the relevant pages to announce that (I hope I have been quite thorough in identifying those page, but you'd know better). It would be also helpful, if you spammed some of the active members of the project with the update. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll be out for sometime, and will start working on the articles when I get back. Aditya(talk • contribs) 03:19, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your contribution about "Eastern Housing Limited" topic. I have more information about Eastern Housing Limited like:

  • Business Strategy
  • Market Analysis
  • Competitors and Business Risk
  • Types of Customers
  • Types of Service offered in the market
    • Plot
    • Apartment
    • Super Market
  • Government Control
  • Special Laws or Rules & Regulations

If you give me any e-mail address I will send the MS WORD file to you. --Farsad (talk) 21:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

Thanks for your note. I'll have a look on the articles you mentioned. Thank you.--NAHID 05:38, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Exactly, in fact, I was thinking about it. I'll try my best. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 11:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Let's Collaborate on Sunderbans and Cox's Bazar

Bhaia, that's a nice idea. In fact, these two articles should get our maximum priority. Cox's Bazar is now staying at the top while Sunderbans is at position two. In addition, I would like to propose that we (Bangladeshi Wikipedian) should start working on Ganges River article as well. It's current position is third! Three location, either fully or partially from Bangladesh!

I am planing to open a separate activity page on WikiProject Bangladesh so that we can discuss about these three articles and their improvement. We may propose a guide line for their structure, picture, citations etc. and try to work together on these three articles.

Please let me know. Cheers. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 14:37, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Cox's Bazar and Cox's Bazar District apparently are the same thing, and the articles are almost the same as well. May be we can incorporate "Cox's Bazar Town" into the District article, and make "Cox's Bazar" a redirect page (or, vice versa), or may be we can develop the District article to represent the bigger scene and leave the appropriate information on the Town to "Cox's Bazar", putting a link leading to "Cox's Bazar District" on it. What's your view? I have also posted on Talk:Cox's Bazar about this. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I have always felt that the town and district pages should be different. Unfortunately for the Cox's Bazar pages the same text is used for both the town and district pages. An effort should be made to separate them. I do not know much about the area and as such I am unable to put in my mite. Regards- P.K.Niyogi (talk) 15:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I think Cox's Bazar town and Cox's Bazar District can be arranged in a single article. It won't create much difference. But, we should have a standalone article on Cox's Bazar Beach with massive information and a rich gallery. In addition I prefer to create a disambiguation page on Cox's Bazar to arrange them. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 18:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Help. Arman, dear, can you solve the Cox's Bazar dillema once and for all? Whatever decision you take, I'll accept as final for now. Not too many editors are interested in solving the problem, and it's getting more complicated everyday. It's time to be bold, I guess. All I request is that we make a central page (Cox's Bazar? So be it... with links to all five articles you listed out), and fill that up. The rest of the titles of the ring of articles in the topic can develop later. Please, post to the merger discussion. Aditya(talk • contribs) 16:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Here is the logic that was evading you - "Right now, without enough materials, starting 5 articles don't make sense to me." Your amicable solution was - make Cox's Bazar "the article" - right? My tiny little problem was - Cox's Bazar is not just a beach and a tourist town. But, for the sake of development, I am quite willing to agree to you. Anyways, let's see what Ragib has to say on this. Aditya(talk • contribs) 04:14, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Forgot to add - the beach doesn't lie within the jurisdiction of Cox's Bazar, which, of course means the town. May be that was the missing part of the logic you were looking for. Aditya(talk • contribs) 04:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New7Wonders of Nature Nominees from Bangladesh

Bhaia, I have created a page - New7Wonders of Nature Nominees from Bangladesh - to start a collaboration between Bangladeshi Wikipedians to work on three articles: Cox's Bazar, Sunderbans and Ganges River. Please visit the page and restructure it properly. I will get back here tomorrow again and will try to work massively. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 18:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] compitition

arman bhai, unconference is not going to take place, so we have to announce it ourselves. What do you think? Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 14:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Arman bhai, I've read the page, let's move on now. Yes, I'm in NSU now. So, no problem. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 05:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Comedy

Thanks for your comment at Wikipedia:Portal peer review/Comedy. I responded to your request over there, those were the original colors when I first started editing the portal, I'd love to hear thoughts on a better coloring scheme at the peer review if you have an idea. Cirt (talk) 03:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Re: BRCT

Marginally notable. It clears the notability criteria, just barely. Though I agree that much vanity put into the article. Apparently the editor has also put the name and description of the organization in as many places possible. The article on the founder looks like perfect merge material (doesn't fulfill the notability criteria as far as I can see). May be the article can stay, but a lot of cleaning up will definitely be needed. Aditya(talk • contribs) 08:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Dhaka District: References external URL update

Hi, Nice to have you active. Please remove the www from the external URLs links to Banglapedia site at http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/ . Thanks. --zbd (talk) 14:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Finally Survived

After a hard debate finally the article of Eastern Housing Limited has came out from the Black Shade of AFD. You & Aditya vaia deserves something more than a Thanks for this. Congratulations at the 8th Birthday of Wikipedia.--Farsad (talk) 14:14, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Dear Arman Aziz, Thanks for your contribution in wikipedia, and helping & upgrading Bangladesh Related Articles..--Librarianpmolib

[edit] Re:About Image:EWU University Pic.jpg

I do completely agree with you. Actually I didn't have enough good pictures and had to put something to show an extra curricular event. Besides, all other pix at EWU article are also not good at all - in terms of quality and photography as well. Recently Salman joined us here in WP. He is one of my junior bros at EWU and a talented photographer. I requested him to take some appropriate pictures of EWU and upload them to replace existing pix. Current semester of EWU has just started and hopefully by February he will have done with those stuff. Cheers. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 12:56, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Bhaia, sometime it is called that a picture can speaks better than a thousand words prose. But, of course not those EWU pictures. Just allow me few days, I'll either remove or replace them with appropriate substitutes. Regards, -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 11:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grameen Bank

Good work on fixing the issues at Grameen Bank. I was wondering why you used Credit for Alleviation of Rural Poverty: The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh when you made this edit. The book you cited is from 1988, and there is no page 240. Could you find another source? Nishkid64 (talk) 22:58, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Independence Day Award

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[edit] A request

I would like to request you to have a look at two articles (including talk pages): List of universities in Bangladesh and North South University. Cheers. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 16:47, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Yep Bhaia :-). I am actually trying to finish remaining work with List of universities in Bangladesh so that I can fully concentrate on our core activity, i.e. Sundarbans and Cox's Bazar. In the mean time I requested Salman to collect reference and materials to improve Matiur Rahman and eventually we'll cover all the seven related articles. And about North South University, I just tried to draw your attention about what's happening there. Regards. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 12:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] An award for the Award

The Society Barnstar
Yep, this is for your amazing work for the Independence Day Award article. It is accompanied by a deep bowing action that ends with my hat in my hand and my knee on the floor. What a pity you can't see that action. Well, at least we all can see the article. Cheers. Aditya(talk • contribs) 02:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Photo upload service

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

[edit] Feb 21 FA

FYI. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests#February_21, and comment on the nomination. --Ragib (talk) 08:26, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Deshipedian

Sorry that real life suddenly decided to whisk me away from the Wikipedia, temporarily. Though I do open the watchlist and look at it longingly, my activity is much compromised right now. I promise to format the Deshipedian 2008 page as far as I can in a day or two. And, I think I like the e-mail very much. I have just two observations - (1) may be it would be nice to have the names and userpage links of the judges panel on the Deshipedian right from the outset... there may be a project coordinator as well; and (2) may be you could include the number of Bangladesh related articles in the e-mail (about 2,000 now). For the coordinator and the second judge I propose you, and for the first judge I propose Ragib. And, for the media coverage Ragib may be able to talk to Munir (who made the Prothom Alo tech page news possible). Cheers. Aditya(talk • contribs) 12:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I do agree with the proposals of Aditya Bhaia. I will try my best to circulate this news to as many people as I can. In fact, nowadays Facebook became a craze and I have access (admin power) to some extremely giant groups such as University Students of Bangladesh or Wikipedia. Through them I will also convey this news to our young generation. In addition to these, I am planning to go for a large article on Star Campus. I will request Shahnoor Bhai for a cover page article. In past, I made a cover page in Star Campus and also Shahnoor Bhai requested me to made another which I couldn't as I had to leave Bangladesh at that time. I am being optimistic here :-D. I also sent an email to Mahdin (you may call him 2nd-in-command in Star Campus) informing this issue. Last week Mahdin showed his interest to join Wikipedia. He is a very active person and I am sure he can help us massively, being a part of us. And last but not the least, Salman is also interested to become an active wikipedian. He is a bit busy these days as he is going to be sent in China under UN funding on a youth project. He'll be back soon.
The nutshell of this post is, I am requesting each and every one to join WikiProject Bangladesh Army. At the end of the day this army will be ready to prepare and protect Bangladesh related articles here. And Deshipedian competition will be the first official step to form this army. Once again I am placing my promise - I will do my level best for this competition. Kind regards. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 20:12, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
This is fantastic! Looking forward to a nice collaborative effort here. Arman (Talk) 02:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Arman vaia, I have a question? Can I contribute to this program by distributing leaflet about this competition to my university (AIUB) students? If you permit me, I with few of my friends will do it. I will distribute the photocopy of the printed "draft email". I have already start sending this “draft email” to my friends & known person. Thanks.--Farsad (talk) 12:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Of course you can and should, and thank you very much for your interest. I'm not going to put you on any committee etc. as I want to keep the option for entering into the competition open for you. Arman (Talk) 01:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)


Hi Arman, I read the email. Good work. Please include a link to List of Bangladesh-related topics. Another thing: from my experience about WP-related-advocacy emails ... people tend to get distracted when they see a long email. So, perhaps you can reduce the size of the mail to fit into two or three small paragraphs.

I am getting touch with Munir bhai to co-ordinate BDOSN's participation, and also about publicity. Tarif is now at NSU, so he can probably do some publicity there. BTW, Our photo campaign has received 300+ photos so far. --Ragib (talk) 02:50, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Just got your message, that's great idea. We can work on them soon. I'm trying to get some of my friends in this competition. Thanks for your nice effort on these projects.--NAHID 18:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Arman, dear, is it possible to clarify the "organizing committee" and the "jury panel" on the deshipedian page? Without naming any names at all, both propositions are currently looking pretty dodgy. Aditya(talk • contribs) 23:19, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grameen Bank

The second paragraph in "Criticism", the entire "Rural telephone programme", the figures in "Regional Information" and the financial figures in the infobox still need to be sourced. I haven't read the entire article yet, but so far, those are the only issues clearly visible. Nishkid64 (talk) 23:22, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi there Arman. WP policy discourages having separate criticism sections, so it should be integrated into the main body where the article discusses the Grameen banking model. The other thing that I noticed and have corrected partially is that the refs are not done in a consistent manner, expecially in the page numbering style, there are some with dots, no dots, P, p etc.

"On July 11, 2005 the Grameen Mutual Fund One, approved by the SEC of Bangladesh, went IPO" - what are SEC and IPO?
It's better to try and prosify lists if possible.
"although it should be noted that this opinion is likely influenced by Islamic banking principles, which forbid interest-bearing investments in accordance with Islamic Law" - after Hasina's comment -> If the Economist pundit said this then it should be attributed, else it has to be removed as personal defense by a supporter
Ref 21 by DC Barua is not actually independent since Mr Barua is one of the GB's managers. In general for the statistics, independent sources should be used, to eliminate possible false/self-promoting information by businesses/religious/political organisations etc. So in this case, independent statistics should be used for things like success rate, coverage rate because organisations are not trusted to give a non-inflated account of themselves. Of course, self-sourcing is allowed to state the press releases/POV/policy statements of the organisation.
In some places there is USD and others US$. Consistency in style needs to be checked.
"In a country in which few women may take out loans from large commercial banks, the fact that most (97%) loan recipients are women is a significant accomplishment." the second part is POV and needs to be attributed to some economist saying that the female involvement is notable.

I can't really say anything about the content since I don't know anything about financial matters at all. I think the consistency of style needs to be looked at. The article probably could/should be longer [I prefer detail in my writing] since the organisation won a Nobel Prize and is much discussed. Generally speaking the writing style is probably ok but could always be improved, especially if you want FA eventually. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism by ScholarsBangladesh

ScholarsBangladesh is happily plagiarizing content from Wikipedia without mentioning the source at all. Check out [1] with Mahfuz Anam (seeing that you started the latter page, just compare the text!!).

I'm raising this issue because at any later time, people might claim a WP article to be copyvio from scholarsBangladesh. So, we need to keep their plagiarism in mind. --Ragib (talk) 08:26, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Next step

Sorry for late reply. MY internet connection was down for the last couple of days. I've seen your pages. Let's go! Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 04:23, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I have personally talked with Munir Hasan (GS of BdOSN) about the Deshipedian. Also planning to add notice to various universities. Will let you know any additional information and updates. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 07:21, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
How about creating a shiny flyer/poster for this? Perhaps one nicely designed small poster can be affixed to the public noticeboards of universities. --Ragib (talk) 07:44, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deshipidian

I've posted a request to buetian group(yahoo group) for joining the competition. Thank you. Tanvir che (talk) 16:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Images

I support your position Talk:Muhammad/images. Because it is buried under the mountains of discussion, here is my addition: [2]. Nice work -- if only more editors from both sides of the dispute approached it as cogently. I love Wikipedia and believe in its tenets. This is an example where it fails. Miserably. Good luck! ∴ Therefore | talk 17:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

I added in my statement of support (not a cut and paste but an expansion of my thoughts), though, sadly, it is an idealistic position that won't come to fruition at this point. ∴ Therefore | talk 06:00, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalised

Two Bangladeshi university articles namely: Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University and Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University had changed intentionally.What should I do? I've just reverted these article. Thank you. Tanvir che (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Happy V. Day

Nahid wish you a happy valentine's day with love and friendship
Nahid wish you a happy valentine's day with love and friendship

Happy Valentine's Day. I wish you enjoy this day with your family and may all your dreams come true.----NAHID 07:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Arman (Talk) 11:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deshpedian

How is it going? =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Africa portal header

There is a discussion regarding the header ongoing at Portal talk:Africa#Header Image. Black Falcon (Talk) 18:43, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User WP Bangladesh

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Comment. There's another template serving the same purpose {{User WikiProject Bangladesh}}. May be you'd like improve upon that older template. Use of a image of a Central Asian mosque didn't seem too appropriate to me. I am sure you'd have better ideas. Aditya(talk • contribs) 06:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks from Librarianpmolib

Dear editor arman Aziz. Thanks for your valuable information. I am trying to enrich that list. I have a booklet regarding the award. It is written in Bangla. So it is hard to me to speel properly. Ok. I will follow. Actually, in the gap of the time I can work. So it will take a lot of time. --Librarianpmolib (talk) 03:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Salute to your effort

The Islamic Barnstar
This is a salute to your Gladiatorial efforts in Mohammad article to remove that controversial picture even though it wasn't successful finally. I believe, your efforts and arguments must show a path-way in future when this debate will rise again. May Allah bless those disbelievers who intentionally protested this act so that they can realize the fact! -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 12:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Wow! Thanks, but I am not sure I did any "Barnstar" worthy contribution here! As a matter of fact, in the past I intentionally kept myself away from Islam related topics on Wikipedia because I believed my religion is not a kind of subject on which I would like to be directed by a source which "any one can edit" especially in an environment where majority of the editors are non-muslim and often prejudiced with anti-islam bias. In this case (Muhammad images), however, I felt that a group of editors are bluntly violating all core principles of Wikipedia (WP:NOR, WP:VER and WP:NPOV) by moving away from the practice of almost all acceptable reliable 3rd party sources, and still they are trying to establish their wrong doing as an act of Wikipedia community. Hence, to be on true to my integrity of beliefe in Wikipedia principles as a member of the community, I had to speak up. And I've not given up yet. May be I'm not very active now-a-days due to real life priorities, but I will reengage my self in the debate. It is not a question of whether I succeed or fail, it is a question of expressing whether I am accepting this act as a member of wikipedia community. Arman (Talk) 02:00, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
  • I think you deserve this Barnstar because of your contribution in that particular debate in terms of smart dealing with Wikipedia policies to make other people understand a religious view point standing at a neutral platform. I noticed that you didn't mention any argument that can be accused for violating NPOV (though some of the editors, perhaps without reading your arguments properly, attacked you indicating that you are Islamic-biased), instead as an experienced wikipedian you showed them how things are going wrong there strictly staying at core WP policies.
  • Actually, I got a feeling like you and I never worked or even looked at any Islamic article on WP. But, this time I had to, and found a massive anti-Islam biased ill-activity there. You may notice that I compared your argumentative fight with Gladiator who used to fight with animals that don't care about rules and civilization. I found you experiencing similar picture in that debate. Once again salute to your efforts. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 15:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation: WP:WikiProject_Debating

Bhaia, it would be really nice if you join this project. I know it's not our main concern but still I think, if we can at least guide other people with WP policies then those debate related articles will become slightly mature. Currently all the articles are mainly written by anonymous users and at some point violation of core policy will occur (or have already occurred in some articles). If we spend one or two hours time per month on them, it will be quite enough. Cheers. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 16:09, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] now I think it is ok.

Now I have selected right link. Is it ok? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arju2 (talk • contribs) 06:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed format

I have proposed a format for Bengali literature article on its talk page (Talk:Bengali_literature#Proposed_format). Could you please come and express your views and opinions or update this format? Cheers. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 14:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Yunus not a GA anymore?

I see that you have hidden Muhammad Yunus from Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/Featured and good content. But, as far as I can see it still remains a GA. Would you prefer to check again? Aditya(talk • contribs) 13:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry my mistake. Thanks for catching and fixing. Arman (Talk) 09:41, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
No problem. Oh, forgot to congratulate you on the great work done about Grameen Bank. When the Cox's Bazar and Sundarban collaboration is over, I guess, this would be a worthy candidate for the next drive. Target? An FA. Aditya(talk • contribs) 14:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deshipedian

Arman bhai, first of all sorry for being not so active at Wikipedia. I will help with the ongoing work from now on. Regards --Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 06:27, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Arman bhai, can we start now? Regards--Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 05:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Ha ha. I was out of touch for a while :( I ve seen the pages. Regards--Tarif from Bangladesh (talk) 18:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request to place your review

I nominated List of universities in Bangladesh on 25 March 2008 as a Featured List candidate. So far, four editors reviewed the list and requested significant changes and modifications. I tried my level best to meet all the recommendations. It would be really nice if you also review the list and place your opinion (support/oppose). I am looking forward to receive your comments and recommendations on the nomination page. Cheers! -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 10:44, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For recognizing the surreal painter in me. Couldn't have done it better myself. BTW, did you think of posting an announcement to the talk pages of the participants? Aditya(talk • contribs) 02:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Yahoooooo

Finally we made it! List of universities in Bangladesh is now a Featured List. :-). -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 15:14, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Bhaia. I will try my level best to improve Bengali literature but I need your support and guidance. I am slightly off from Wikipedia, busy with getting British visa and also my admission in London. But, will be back very soon with doubled energy. -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 12:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] শুভ নববর্ষ।

নতুন বছরে নতুন করে জীবনকে ভালবাসার মোড়কে জড়িয়ে ফেলার স্বপ্ন নাও এই সকালে।--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:19, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
শুভ নববর্ষ।
শুভ নববর্ষ - I wish you all the best. - P.K.Niyogi (talk) 14:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] শুভ নববর্ষ

শুভ নববর্ষ
এসো হে বৈশাখ এসো এসো.... বৈশাখের খরতাপে আর প্রখর সূর্যলোকে দূর হয়ে যাক সব গ্লানি। আজ এই দিন শুরু হোক নুতন করে, আজকের উচ্চারন হোক, ঐ নুতনের কেতন ওড়ে কাল-বৈশাখী ঝড়.... শুভ নববর্ষ। -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 20:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the advice

Hi there, thanks for the advice. I will now completely understand before I upload pictures to Wikipedia, be 100% sure! Thanks. P.S. You Arman from BanglaCricket right? with the Futurama pic, i am sure its you?? Moshino31 (talk) 13:34, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks from --Anwarul Islam (talk) 09:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear editor, thanks for your kind evaluation. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 09:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Dear Arman, thanks. Actually, unfortunately I chose that user name, how can I change it. If you have any idea please let me know or mail me anwarpulak@gmail.com . Thanks again. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 04:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rajshahi University

Is on FAR at this moment. Needs emergency fixing to keep its status as a featured article. --Ragib (talk) 01:46, 22 April 2008 (UTC)


And also see this!!. --Ragib (talk) 04:50, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you Bhaia for the appreciation. It's an honor for me and I will always try my best to maintain it. Regards, -- Niaz(Talk • Contribs) 15:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: What is the question

I assumed that the tags on that particular bit was asking for refs on geographic locations of the hostels. But, apparently it was for the very existence of the hostels. That has been dealt with. And, oh, while you at it, please, lend a hand in citing sources (and also, if possible, work on the strong POVs present in the article). The time-frame of two-weeks for FARs, I'm afraid may be too short for me. Aditya(talk • contribs) 11:59, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] And more ...

Before Blnguyen or anyone else nominates Bangladesh for FAR, I think we need to fix the references in an urgent basis. --Ragib (talk) 03:44, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


I have started acquiring sources. The information may need slight updating. Please, lend a hand. I promise to be good as and when you need my hand, but for some more time I may not be as active as is required. Aditya(talk • contribs) 06:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Here goes:

Foreign policy and military
  • For the number of military personnel, from Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies: [3] <couldn't open the page>.
  • For overseas mission completed, from Bangladesh Army: [4] (more links are the page, there also is linked list on this UN Peacekeeping mission page) <added>
For starters, that section was added later by someone ... it wasn't there during the FAC. --Ragib (talk) 06:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Geography and climate
Culture
  • For the impact of Hindi films, from Newindpress [8] <added> and from the Daily Star [9]
Answering your question to my talk page: Oh, I have come down with a fever, and I am afraid that my concentration level is not at its best. Information update (which requires careful copywriting, my big weakness already) and attending to the cite templates (which require pressing the preview button, a dread task for my slow internet connection at home) would be bit difficult for me. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I see one else I can turn to. If you are busy or something, I'll add them tomorrow. For now I was just responding to Ragib's urgency. Cheers. Aditya(talk • contribs) 07:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
O I see. I'll add as many as I can and put a tag <added> next to the items above. Thanks for your usual hard work and dedication. Cheers, Arman (Talk) 07:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for visiting Bagha Jatin. shubho nababarsha!--BobClive (talk) 07:44, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kazi Nazrul Islam

Dear vai Arman, thanks. I have just gone through the article Kazi Nazrul Islam. It needs a lot of citations. I will try to collect those. If possible I will add them or I will inform you. Continue your efforts. Good luck. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 08:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Please see the following link [10] it may help you to cite in Rajshahi University. If it helps you, please let me be acknowledged. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 09:07, 4 May 2008 (UTC) Dear Arman, It is very hard to cite, some of the quotations are not absolutely true, or it is very hard to collect. If you permit I will rewrite some of the setences. If it is possible, then I amy help. Please inform me. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 09:46, 7 May 2008 (UTC) Dear Arman, please see the article, I have made a lot of changes, and help us to fix the citation as per the rule. One para was written by me without log in, you may see the IP which is my connection IP. If you have any suggestion please write me. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 10:22, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Panta bhat image

That's a mouth-watering image of Panta Bhat you added in the article. Although I do not usually eat shutki, my parents would simply drool over the image :)--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite of the assessment scheme

Hi Arman, thanks for alerting us at WP:1.0 to the Village Pump discussion on A/GA. I notice that you added a couple of comments onto the rewrite proposal. Are you signing up to help with the rewriting process, or did you just want to contribute your ideas for us to consider while we're rewriting? If you'd like to help rewrite things, can you sign up in the sections where you'd like to contribute? I don't think we will be making any major changes just now, but I think you might have some helpful insights for the rewrite. Let us know. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 03:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Just sign under the small header saying "I want to help with the rewrite", "I want to help with the refining process" or "I'm willing to help write the FAQ page". Walkerma (talk) 03:32, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bangladesh Dhaka refs

If you don't mind lending a hand I'll put appropriate sources here for you to get them fixed into the article. That way we can share the work. If you are busy or something, I can, of course, come back later incorporate them myself. One thing though - which part in the Culture section you want me to find a source for? I can see the tags on Transport, Education and Sports sections, and currently are working on those. Aditya(talk • contribs) 04:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I guess the green-taxi thing needs to be sourced as well, and the all three links together make for a comprehensive source for the whole sentence.
  • Major rail stations: Marika McAdam, Bangladesh, page 66, Lonely Planet, 2004, ISBN 1740592808 <added> (looking for more)
For now, this should be enough till we find something better (and as unambiguous).

Sorry, I was out. Back now.

  • Sadarghat: Sadarghat on Banglapedia and Dhaka, Asian Highway Handbook, page 28; United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Publications, 2005, ISBN 9211201705 <added>
I guess the South Asia bit needs to go out. Not supported by sources.
  • Private carriers: Private airlines take off, aim higher from the Daily Star <added>
  • ZIA: ibid (till we get an even better ref)
  • Growth of academic institutions: Kamal Siddiqui, Social Formation in Dhaka City: A Study in Third World Urban Sociology, page 42, University Press Limited, Dhaka 1990
  • Largest medical colleges: Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Higher Education and Employment in Bangladesh, page 181, UNESCO, 1983
  • Largest university: BBC News, VOA News
  • Most popular sports: Bangladesh, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (ed. Robert MacHenry), page 717, Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1993, ISBN 0852295715 <added>
  • International cricket: ibid
The sentence is not really NPOV, and has a bit of weaseling. Making it difficult to source.


What happened? Some of the refs are unusable? What? Let me know the problem, these refs can definitely be improved upon. The article still looks dreadful with those citation-needed tags. Oh! Forgot to thank you. This little collaboration seems to have worked alright in most part, and I remember you starting it. Aditya(talk • contribs) 15:18, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh! My bad. BTW, did you notice that Sameer is back? Aditya(talk • contribs) 04:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Kazi Nazrul Islam

Hi Armanaziz - as you are a key contributor to this article, I would like to like to inform you of the changes I've made. Please don't take offense at the removal of data. My reasoning is this - speaking in context of the overall article, why risk removal of FA status. Its a subject on which there doesn't seem to be as many sources available. As a solution, I don't see why we can't just remove the non-essential sentences/facts without due citations - none of them seem critical or vital to the article. It won't diminish, as it doesn't seem people here can find any better literature. And is it worth risking the status of the overall article over those non-essential sentences? I don't think so. To be sure, I've left those alone which I felt were of some importance. Regards, Vishnava talk 12:43, 23 May 2008 (UTC)


I have completed the fixing of the FA status article Kazi Nazrul Islam. There was not any alternative without rewriting some sentences. Please, watch my works and comment. --Anwarul Islam (talk) 14:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems a lot more work is necessary. I think the concern about biased statements is legitimate, but I can't understand why Banglapedia is being declared as biased. You gave a good answer to those comments. Vishnava talk 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I'm attempting something a bit sweeping to make sure most objections are addressed. It will possibly mean removing many sentences. Please keep an eye on me that I do it properly without ending up damaging the article. Vishnava talk 22:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
Oh boy, those arguments don't make any sense, but we must try to address them as far as possible - replacing Nazrul Institute sources with any books we can find on Google Books or Amazon. By end of tomorrow, I'll post a complete progress report and copious response to objections. Vishnava talk 07:22, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Harbhajan Singh

I see that you have listed the above article for FAR. While you have every right to do so, it would have been good if you had used the talk page to get the things addressed. FA is a long drawn out process and people would have spent enormous amount of effort to get it listed as an FA. If you are not happy about the state of the FA article, atleast you could give time to the authors to address those concerns in the talk page of the article. By going ahead and listing it in FAR, I feel you have pushed the trigger early. This is just a suggestion though, ignore it if you think otherwise. -- ¿Amar៛Talk to me/My edits 11:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I have replied to your comments on my talk page. Note that I have no interest in continuing with this matter, but thought your message on my talk page deserved a response. Regards, Mattinbgn\talk 11:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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