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Nice pseudonym! I'd like to see how long that beard and hair is... unless it infringes on your privacy :) --hydkat08:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Let me be one of the welcomers as well! You must have toiled a lot to find out that Ganabandhu thing. Weird facts there are in the mythologies!--Dwaipayan (talk) 12:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for noticing :). I will make it my priority to tend to these articles. This is one area that needs major attention. Though I am feeling limited by internet resources. I wish I had more access to books in this area. --Longhairandabeard18:06, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Thanks again for Manmath Nath Gupta. Great going. Yes, web resource for freedom fighters is very few in number. I can name two more users who are interested in this topic. Rama's Arrow (talk·contribs) and BobClive (talk·contribs). Especially BobClive can be a great source of information. I sometimes ask him for prodiving references! Regrds.--Dwaipayan (talk) 13:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Extremely sorry for my mistake. I didn't notice that you had answered Q23 but given your chance to Hydkat. I will update the tally-board and make the appropriate change. Sorry once again. Congratulations for winning the round. - Aksi_great (talk - review me) 17:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I claim innocence! :) I honestly thought you are still online and did not expect the question to last very long. Then I found I wasn't very clear with the question... well... what can I say except I really botched it up! --hydkat20:04, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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I wish you All The Best on the ocasion of the Indian festival of light, Diwali. I am sure that the light of hope, confidence, and all positive attributes shall always remain inside you – lighting your path and guiding you to attain higher and higher levels of excellence in all your endevours! All the best! --Bhadani16:52, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi LHAB, just noticed that you worked on improving this article. Great rewrite! A map of Malgudi is available here. You may want to have a look at that website. I've added a section on "Malgudi restaurants" as well. --Gurubrahma17:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for commenting on this. I will review the case of Narayan and the others you mentioned. Rabindranath Tagore has written poetry saturated with Vedic imagery and Vaishnavite devotion, and translated Kabir. I included Amrita Pritam because I haven't yet found many modern Sikh writers - maybe she can be replaced with better examples. Vivekanda and Dayananda are missing because the template says "1900 to present". I had to restrict the time frame - otherwise the list of authors for the template would tend to be too big. Maybe we could say "1875 to present" instead? Tilak is somewhere between the 19th and 20th century, and could be included, as also some of the others you mention, and you can include them if you like. The template is young, it will mature with time. --Bondego21:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Dariyal,
please correct the article Bramhastra. I thought of cleaning it up. But it was so grossly badly written that I didnt feel like doing something minor. I think you should have a go at it.
Aur Kya chal raha hai? --Dr.saptarshi03:19, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have matched in UConn IM. Right now at Hartford, getting oriented to the program. You must be heaving a sigh of relief that you are past the first year now. Which place you are at?--Dwaipayan (talk) 22:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the reason is quite obvious ... in Bangla Wikipedia, we have shifted our focus from increasing article count to increasing article quality. Unforunately, most of the other south asian wikipedias do the opposite ... I did a quick check at Nepal Bhasha, Telegu, Hindi, Marathi, Bishnupriya Manipuri, and most of the articles there seemed to be written by bots and had only a single sentence, or even worse ... only a table generated by the Bot.
While we did have about 3000-4000 bot generated articles on Indian cities, we have stopped doing that. We now focus on content, and only write articles if we have enough content to fill a screen. I guess that's why the "Depth" parameter has such a high value for Bangla Wikipedia.
I suggest that you focus on content generation rather than increasing article count, and disallow creation of one-liners, table-only stubs by bots. That ought to increase your article quality gradually.
Actually, users should be allowed to create short articles in their topic ... but not extremely short stubs. For a random sampling, I checked out Hindi Wikipedia, and hit ctrl-x for 10 random articles. The majority (8) of them were either empty shells (with an brief infobox), one-liners (looked like "X is YZ"), or bot generated article whose total info content can be summarized in 1 short sentence. Asking the users to at least provide 3 to 4 sentences will go a long way towards making content richer. There would always be many users trying to create the bot-generated empty shells ... but at the end of the day, those serve no purpose other than giving a false sense of pride (in terms of number of entries). You might notice that in Bangla Wikipedia, we rapidly crossed 10,000 in 2006, but then stopped increasing article count. At one time, Bangla was one of the two South Asian wikipedias in 10K+ list. But we chose to focus on quality, have more and more featured level content. Just check the recent changes in bn you'll see that most new additions are at least one paragraph long.
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Residency is going good. Never knew i could do with so less sleep. I was an at-least-8-hour-sleeper, and used to get up around 9 am in the morning. what a life it was!
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