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You wanted some help, here I am! How can I help you? You can ask your questions right here, and I will respond.--Commander Keane 15:56, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I could not make any meaning of 'fair use'. How to use it?

Hopefully Wikipedia:Fair use can explain it, or maybe Fair use.--Commander Keane 16:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

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Indian locomotives page move

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nice to meet u.

sorry bout dat. i left my comment at da wrong place. Thank you for giving me such a warm welcome. You may already know about this, but i have a strong passion and pride for my country and its history. So you're from India? Korea and India have many historical ties. I won't get into detail, but they were mutual overall. If you want to organize my article about Emperor Chi-Woo, then feel free to do so, but just don't change any of the content. Anyways, its very nice to meet you, iball. User: Kprideboi 4:41 PM, 10 August 2006 (EST)

Hi...thanks a lot

Hi! That was a plesant surprise!!! I mean the barnstar. I see many of your contributions are related to India. Are you from West Bengal also? I see also you contributed in articles relating to Hooghly. Today only i uploaded a pic of Hangseshwari temple near Banshberia. You can see it here. Could not create a substantial article due to lack of material...though creating a stub is not difficult. I saw some of your edits in Feluda. satyajit Ray has recently become a Featured article. Anyway, thanks a lot. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 16:49, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi! My hometown is Barasat. I studied in Medical College Kolkata and passed MBBS in 2005. What do you do?--Dwaipayan (talk) 15:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Bangla wikipedia

Hi Debottam, I'm an admin/bureaucrat in Bangla wikipedia, and I was wondering if you'd like to take a look at it, and possibly contribute there. Right now, we are fast reaching 5000 articles there. Though we have a lot of active contributors (20+), we only have 3 or 4 from West Bengal. So, if you can, please join us there.

The only things you'd need are: Bangla unicode fonts/rendering support to read the text, and a Bangla keyboard (Avro, Shabdik, Ekushey are some options).

Feel free to ask me any questions. Thanks.

--Ragib 16:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I forgot to reply to your questions ... so here we go. For viewing Bangla wikipedia, you need Bangla unicode support. For typing, you need a software like Avro. I'd suggest getting and installing Avro keyboard from [1], though you can use other software like Shabdik or Ekushey. Avro comes with the fonts and the instructions on how to set up Windows XP/2000, but you can also find them here. Most of these typing systems support phonetic typing, so you don't really have to memorize the layout. If you are using avro, just choose the "Avro phonetic" mode. In that mode, to type kolkata কলকাতা in Bangla, you'd have to type k-o-l-o-k-a-t-a. To type poschimbongo পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, you'd have to type p-o-s-c-h-i-m-o-b-o-n-g-o. Let me know if need any more help. --Ragib 18:02, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Please visit Bangla wikipedia regularly. Ragib is a great gyu managing the Bangla wikipedia almost single handedly. However, participation ftom West Bengal is relativeley less.--Dwaipayan (talk) 17:49, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi... nice getting to know u

Hi Iball... its nice to meet a fellow railfan ;-) Its also nice to hear someone trying to build a compendium of information on Indian locos. However, my interest is more on the passenger side... I am planning to create articles on Indian trains.

However, I have to inform u something. I wanted to take a look at the articles you had specified, but bcoz u had not provided links, I had to use the search box. When I searched for say, WAG-7, I am not redirected to the WAG-7 page. Rather, I see only the search results. Maybe we could provide redirects?

Also, am sorry for the late reply. The Silent Contributor 09:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

You said that, I was wondering whether my approach on righting these articles is right and needed somone else to look at them. Well, I believe you'd like someone to assess your articles. For rail-related articles, go here and request an assessment. Also, since this is India related, go here and request an assessment. The Silent Contributor 07:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

from Pinaki Ghosh

Hi Iball,

Thanks for your message. Read about u too. I am very new to Wikipedia editing, but with help of u and other helpful wikipedians, I'll learn it soon, hopefully. BTW, if u r interested to know more about me, u can check out www.pinaki.bravehost.com. I am a regural writer of Unish Kuri magazine.In fact in the current issue of Unish Kuri magazine, there is a serial novel (dharabahik uponayash) by me, named Mission Dangerous. It was amusing to read about how u see your name.

Pinaki Ghosh

Far from Konnagar

I don't belong to Konnagar. I had some links there in the past and so got interested in improving the page on Konnagar. But all the same, nice to know you. Thanks for taking the initiative. Please keep in touch. --P.K.Niyogi 16:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi! Thanks for your wishes. Happy pujo to you, too - though its still far (I never make plans that far ahead - to quote Rick Blaine form Casablanca !). Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

India links

Hi! Thought I'd drop you a few links to India related pages that you might be interested in:

	Links for Wikipedians interested in India content
Newcomers: Welcome kit | Register: Indian Wikipedians | Network: Noticeboard | Discussionboard Browse: India | Open tasks | Deletions Contribute content: Collaboration Dashboard - India WikiProject - Wikiportal India - Indian current events - Category adoptions

Cheers, and happy editing!-- thunderboltz^(Deepu) 12:36, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the wishes. A very happy Durga Puja to you too. :)-- thunderboltz^(Deepu) 05:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Category for locos?

On the Category:India rail stubs page, we can see a list of all locomotives that run on Indian Railways. Would it not be better if we had a separate category for Indian locomotives? This category could also be a subcategory of Category:Locomotives by railway. We should think of a suitable name for this category. Waiting for your feedback. The Silent Contributor 05:26, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

You'll create the category, then? The Silent Contributor 13:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Shubho bijoya...

Hi. I was editing many West Bengal location stubs when I noticed many of our interests coincide. Shubho bijoyar priti o shubechha roilo. I hope you keep up the good work. Take care. Anirban. --Antorjal 18:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal:West Bengal

Have you seen Portal:West Bengal? It is great work by Dwaipayan. Best wishes. -- P.K.Niyogi 05:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Bangla

Hey, didn't figure out it was you when I saw you join Bengali wikipedia ... :) Great to see you there. Please edit entries that you like. We need more editors from West Bengal ... please edit regularly. Thanks. --Ragib 08:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: How to create a new category

It's pretty simple to do, just go to the page where the category would end up and add at least one parent category. We don't already have categories for locomotives by country, so might I suggest Category:Indian locomotives for a category about locomotives in India, and setting its parent category to Category:Locomotives. If the new category gets too big (more than 200 articles), it can be subsplit by power type, e.g. Category:Indian steam locomotives, Category:Indian diesel locomotives and Category:Indian electric locomotives (these subcategories would also be subcategories of Category:Steam locomotives, Category:Diesel locomotives and Category:Electric locomotives, respectively).

Oh, now that I look at my notes in preview mode, I see that Category:Indian locomotives was created earlier today as a subcategory of Category:Locomotives by railway. Slambo (Speak) 15:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Happy Diwali

Hi! A belated Happy Diwali!--Dwaipayan (talk) 19:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

FYI

Hi! West Bengal is in FAC. Express your views in the nomination page. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 09:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal Portal

Portal:West Bengal has been vastly improved by riana_dzasta and S.D. ¿п?, with automated selection of articles. It is now a Featured portal candidate. Please have a look. Regards -- P.K.Niyogi 04:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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Since the term has been discussed in publications and newspapers beyond the scope of a dictionary definition, it passes Wikipedia notability policies. But, you can request to have the title changed to "Greater Bangladesh conspiracy theory" at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Take a look at the varied array of conspiracy theories with articles of their own at Category:Conspiracy theories. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 03:42, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

It really does need a radical improvement in terms of copy and organization. I plan to get back to that when I have a bit more time on hand (life is all work for some time now... sad). Maybe you can lend a hand there, especially considering that your English way better than mine. Say what? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 14:13, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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