Talk:List of Bengalis

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on December 27, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep.

[edit] adding new people

- Please refrain from listing a person twice in two categories even though the person may qualify to belong in two categories. Please avoid redundancy.

- Please only add a person that has an article on Wikipedia. That means there should not be any red names in the list. If person don’t have an article, please create one and then add that person to the list.

- The Actors/Actress and Musicians category is getting too big. Please only add notable actors/actress or Musician that got contributed something new or got recognition outside of Bengal. In other words, please don’t add all the popular actor/actress or Musician of Bengal; if so then the list will go forever. Tarikur 18:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with adding more people, as long as the article is within the 32 KB limit. Jagged 85 14:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Certain people may not have an article of themselves, but may have played a key role and had their name mentioned in an article that is on wikipedia. We should keep them
On another note, if we could all try to alphebetize the categories instead of just randomly adding them that would help with organization. Arnabdas (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Orwell

Claiming George Orwell to be a Bengali is incorrect. The [1] "reference"] provided to support this claims:

This day marks the birth centenary of George Orwell, born 100 years ago on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, then in Bengal. After the partition of Bengal, Motihari became part of Bihar. Orwell is thus a Bengali, Bihari, Indian and an Englishman, and also a Burmese, having worked in Burma as a member of the Imperial Police Service, when Burma was part of India.

A cursory look at the above shows that it doesn't support Orwell's being a Bengali by ethnicity in any way. Rather, the next paragraph clearly mentions his family's ancestry being from Essex, England, and of English ethnicity.

Please provide other references from reliable sources to show Orwell's ethnicity even in part being Bengali. --Ragib 20:23, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red link

I've found some red link exists in this entry. Are they really notable?--NAHID 20:54, 22 November 2007 (UTC)