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I see that you haven't done a lot of editing over the years, so a warm welcome seems appropriate at last. It's very gratifying to see you working on the Bangladesh upazila articles, which could use all the help they can get! I look forward to seeing you around. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

SM Sultan

It was done automatically by the software, rather than being a change that I intentionally applied. Looking over what happened, though, I believe the problem was that you were using the <ref name=german><!-- Gloss by itself --></ref> format in the article body. That doesn't work as intended, unfortunately — a gloss can't be split off from the reference content in that manner so that it's standing alone as the only content nested inside a particular invocation of the ref tags, but rather has to be directly next to the actual content of the reference it's glossing.

So in this particular case, if the gloss is necessary for one particular invocation of the reference but not applicable to others, it might be necessary to create a separate ref=german2 citation for the content that needs to be specifically glossed as "supports solo", citing the specific page number in the source that "supports solo" instead of the entire page range of ref=german, so that the gloss can be left in the references list alongside the content of that particular citation.

Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

SICPA submission

Hi Worldbruce. First let me thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my SICPA article. I am very aware of the conflict of interest issues and extremely keen not to fall foul of the rules. I'd just like to ask two favours from you.

The first is just a bit of clarification. You say that links to organisations that SICPA has a relationship with are not so good but I thought that close connections with organisations like the World Bank and Interpol - given the industry that SICPA is in - would be relevant. The problem is finding independnet references that aren't directly from those organisation's websites. Is it still best to simply remove this?

Secondly, would you be happy to review my next draft? And, if so, what is the best process to go about this?

Again, many thanks for your help. IainIainplunkett (talk) 09:31, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

@Iainplunkett: Wikipedia doesn't prohibit the use of non-independent sources like the press releases from the World Bank and Interpol, but the bulk of any article has to come from independent sources. To get the draft into article space it must clear the hurdles of notability and neutrality. Press releases don't help because they can't prove notability and don't present an unbiased view. In practice, they can hurt; one reference a reviewer doesn't like can sour their view and result in a declined submission. I would keep such sources only if they support unique information vital to an understanding of the range of the company's operations.

The best references are books or journal articles written by academics and published by academic presses, for example [1]. Next best are journalistic sources from reputable newspapers or magazines, such as [2]. The latter is not an in-depth source, but contains some choice nuggets, like "The ink for more than 80 percent of the world's currency, including the dollar, comes from Sicpa S.A."

Take your time improving the draft. When it's as good as you can make it, resubmit it using the blue button in the big pink box on the draft. Odds are another volunteer will review it. They may give you different feedback, which can be frustrating, but they may have different strengths than I do. --Worldbruce (talk) 14:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Dead link on the VidAmerica page

Hi. This link on VidAmerica is dead for some reason. Can you re-upload it please? 110.34.81.71 (talk) 17:32, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

I can't re-upload it, because I no longer have access to newspaperarchive.com. It may, as the error message says, be a temporary condition. If not, you could get an account with them so that you could clip the article yourself. Or you could do nothing. It's only a convenience link to a resource that is also available on paper. It doesn't matter if the link is dead, there's no requirement that the source be available online. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:43, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

So, can you re-upload it on Scribd.com pr something? 1.227.241.243 (talk) 21:51, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

No. As I said, I don't have access to newspaperarchive.com. Even if I did, uploading material copied from it would be a violation of copyright and of their terms of service. If you want access to newspaperarchive.com, get your own access. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:03, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Dhaka

Hello, again. Thought I'd continue this on your page. After further research, I was able to find some maps showing the defined municipal limits of the north and south Dhaka city corporations:

Map 1

Map 2

These probably don't include the recent incorporation of more land and suburbs into the city corporations, but they at least show the thanas and upazilas. I guess my final question is how the Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area (seen in the second map) is defined? Are the building blocks for this upazilas/thanas or something else? If it's upazilas/thans, exactly which ones outside the city corporation are included in this statistical metropolitan area? It seems that the Greater Dhaka page includes this Dhaka Metropolitan Area and then many, many other upazilas/thanas and municipal corporations. I know see that the term "Dhaka City" actually refers to the "Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area" as opposed to the incorporated city, which is how we'd define "city" here in the United States. I'd like us to nail down the area and most recent census population numbers for: Dhaka City Corporation (north and south) and Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area, and then on the city's page to be clear throughout the article what we're talking about when we mention "Dhaka" or "city." I might even look into "Greater Dhaka," but that doesn't seem to be an officially defined area, and we'd have to figure out which upazilas (and which parts when the it's only part of them) are included. For that, we'd have to delve down into a level even below upazilas, which I guess are union parishads.

Thanks! --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

A noble quest, Criticalthinker. I have more than a gigabyte of 2011 census data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Give me a few days to poke through their reports and see what answers I can come up with. --Worldbruce (talk) 05:58, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for this. I have one additional question that I thought you might have the answer to. In the city and municipal corporations, are wards a subdivision of the upazilas/thanas whithin those corporations, or of the city corporations, themselves? I guess what I'm wondering is if, as optional divisions, if wards cross upazila/thana borders in cities, or if they are fully contained within their upazilas/thanas? This is just a personal curiosity, not much relating to my interest in redoing the civic administration on Dhaka's page, as I imagine it'd be hard enough to find a total list of thana/upazilas in Dhaka, let alone exactly how many wards it has. --Criticalthinker (talk) 11:11, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Wards follow city/municipal corporation boundaries, but don't always align with thana boundaries. I'm not aware of any that cross three thana borders, but plenty include portions of two thanas. In contrast, union parishads, the administrative unit below upazilas, are always wholly contained within their upazila. Dhaka's councillors are elected by ward, so when there are municipal elections someone knows exactly how many wards there are, what their boundaries are, what their populations are, who ran for election, and who won. They don't necessarily share the details though, or keep any information that is publicly accessible up to date. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:10, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. This is what I figured and wanted to be sure of, and it's pretty similar to most other countries. Wards are an electoral division of cities/municipalities as opposed to being in the system of administrative divisions. Since I got that out of the way, this gives me another question: When cities or municipalities want to expand into surrounding areas and they don't annex entire upazilas/thanas, are they required to annex entire union parishads/municipalities/cities (administrative divisions) or can they simply annex specific wards (electoral divisons) of those union parishads/municipalities/cities. To put it more simply, do you know of any cities/municipalities which have jurisdiction over only parts of territory adjacent union parishads or other cities/municipalities? --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

@Criticalthinker: I've never before had occasion to dig into these questions in depth. What I found upends some of my assumptions. Read on. --Worldbruce (talk) 22:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

2011 Census

The key source for Dhaka census data is: "Population & Housing Census 2011: National Report Volume-3: Urban Area Report" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. It gives the following historical background:

The Dhaka Municipality was established in 1864 ... The municipal committee was reconstituted as paurashava in 1972 ... In 1983 it was replaced as Dhaka Municipal Corporation and finally in 1991 it got the status of a city corporation.

When the report refers to the city (usually as Dhaka City, but also Dhaka Metropotitan [sic] City or Dhaka Metropolitan Area) it means an area larger than that covered by Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). A third entity, Dhaka Mega City, larger than Dhaka City, is mentioned briefly.

Dhaka City

The report describes the city as follows:

[The city] consists of 42 thanas including Dhaka City Corporation with 92 wards, 2 restricted areas, and 837 mahallas and its adjoining 17 unions as other urban area. The thanas are Adabar, Badda, Bangshal, Bimanbandar, Cantonment, Chakbazar, Darusalam, Demra, Dakshin Khan, Dhanmondi, Gendaria, Ghulshan, Hazaribagh, Jatrabari, Kadamtali, Kafrul, Kalabagan, Kamrangir Char, Khilgaon, Khilkhet, Kotwali, Lalbagh, Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Motijheel, Newmarket, Palton, Pallabi, Ramna, Rampura, Sabujbagh, Shah Ali, Shahbagh, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Shyampur, Sutrapur, Tejgaon, Tejgaon Industrial area, Tongi, Uttara, Uttar Khan and Wari.

Their phrasing is difficult to parse without studying their tables, and I hope you can come up with a clearer explanation. Breaking it down, Dhaka City consists of the 42 listed thanas. Another way to put it is that Dhaka City consists of DCC plus 2 restricted areas and 17 union parishads. Those 17 unions are parts of 12 of the thanas, specifically the portions of those thanas that extend outside DCC. (Four of those unions are split among thanas, something I didn't know could happen).

		Union
		Badda	Beraid	Bhatara	Dakshingaon	Dakshinkhan	Demra	Dhania	Dumni	Harirampur	Manda	Matuail	Nasirabad	Saralia	Satarkul	Shyampur	Sultanganj	Uttar Khan
Thana	Badda	•	•	•											•
	Biman Bandar					part
	Dakshinkhan					part
	Demra						•					part		•
	Jatrabari							part				part
	Kadamtali							part				part				•
	Kamrangirchar																•
	Khilgaon				part								•
	Khilkhet					part			•
	Sabujbag				part						•
	Turag									•
	Uttarkhan																	•

The city is divided into 92 wards, but one doesn't need to know that to understand the census area and population. The number of mahallas is also a red herring.

According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Dhaka City had an area of 315.98 sq km, and a population of 8,906,039. According to the 2001 census, it had an area of 1371 sq km, and a population of 9,672,763. There is a discussion, that I will leave to you to read, of how the census bureau abandoned the concept of Statistical Metropolitan Areas (SMAs) after the 2001 census and how that makes comparisons between the censuses difficult.

DCC

Historical population

Year	Pop. (000)	±%
1981	2,476	—
1991	3,613	+45.9%
2001	5,327	+47.4%
2011	6,970	+30.8%
2011 population excludes the restricted areas of Biman Bandar and Cantonment Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics

According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, DCC had an area of 126.34 sq km, and a population of 6,970,105. The 2011 census excluded from DCC the two restricted areas, Biman Bandar and Cantonment, which previously had been included in the DCC line item. I believe this accounts for the decrease in the area of DCC from 153.84 sq km in 2001. The exclusion of the restricted areas also decreased population somewhat, but that was more than offset by population growth.

Dhaka Mega City

The report doesn't say much about Dhaka Mega City, but it is evident that they define it as Dhaka City plus five paruashavas (municipal corporations), and six upazilas. The paruashavas are: Gazipur, Tongi, Savar, Narayanganj, and Kadam Rasul. The upazilas are: Keraniganj, Bandar, Narayanganj Sadar, Gazipur Sadar, and Savar Upazila. According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Dhaka Mega City had a population of 14,171,567.

Subsequent events

After the 2011 census, DCC was split into DNCC and DSCC.

In May 2016, DNCC was expanded from 82.63 sq km to 114.58 square kilometres (44.24 sq mi), and DSCC was expanded from 45 sq km to 64.17 square kilometres (24.78 sq mi).

Basic arithmetic is not original research, so we should be able to compute the population, as of 2011, of the area now within the bounds of DNCC and DSCC. This post is getting long, so I'll leave that for another day. --Worldbruce (talk) 22:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

References

Thanks. This is a lot to take in but it answer basically all of my questions. To sum everything up:

- Like in most places I've studied, municipal and administrative divisions are two different layers. As an example, we've learned that city/municipal/union councils can exist in multiple thanas/upazilas. These municipalities are overlaid atop the administrative divisions.

- Apparently, when Dhaka's two city corporations annex land from surrounding municipalities, they annex entire council areas and not just parts of the council areas.

- Dhaka City Corporation (now split between DNCC and DSCC) is what we'd call a "city proper" and this is what the page should be centered around as it relates to the population and area listed in the infobox and throughout. So, at the most recent census (2011) we had a city proper with a population of 6,970,105 at 127.63 sq km in size. While we won't have an official population until the next census (though, there are certainly estimates), what we do know is that the city proper with the addition of 16 union councils has now added an additional 178.75 sq km to the existing 127.63 square miles for a total area of 306.38 sq km.

- Dhaka "City" is a statistical area/definition that adds in close-by suburbs. To better differentiate it from the city proper, I'd most likely almost always refer to it by it's official name to avoid confusion: Dhaka Statistical Metropolitan Area. What I'm far less clear of is the whole 42 thanas thing, so it'd need to be specified which of these thanas are totally within the two city corporations, which whole thanas exist outside of the two city corporations, and then finally which parts (union councils) of the remaining thanas are included. I'm not sure if the 42 number is just the thanas in the city corporations or if the 42 number is whole thanas and parts of others.

Anyway, thanks, again. If you ever need me for any advice if you ever try to clarify the page, always feel free to ask. --Criticalthinker (talk) 12:37, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Actually, the more I think about this the more I want a list so we know which complete thanas/upazilas and which parts of others (the unions) make up the two municipal corporations. I want to be able to clearly define this. Also, do you happen to know the translation of the texts on this map in the map's key? Because that might help with this. --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:10, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you Worldbruce, but were you ever able to compile a list of all of the thanas completely under the jurisdiction of the two Dhaka city corporations, and then those union councils under the city coporations in the adjacent thanas/upazilas?

Hello? --Criticalthinker (talk) 08:22, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi Criticalthinker. Your question is not forgotten. I was on the road, and consequently not editing, for a couple months earlier this year, and have never caught up from that. As near as I recall, all the necessary information is in the above references, it's just a matter of digging it out. Anyone can do that, you don't have to wait for me. I don't think the map on the Dhaka District page contains enough detail to be useful for your purpose. The legend reads, from top to bottom: District borders, Thana, Union, Thana headquarters, and District headquarters. What it calls thanas have, since 1984, been called upazilas, it doesn't show any subdivisions within the city, and it doesn't show all the unions. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:12, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

I only ask you, because I have tried researching this myself. You've layed out many of the problems I find: the maps don't show the thana/upazilas, or the ones that do don't show the unions. It becomes even more difficult given that I don't speak or read the language. Curiously, there seems to be many maps showing the wards, but those aren't administrative divisions of the state. We've nailed down that the two municipal corporations includes both thanas in their entirety (though, we still don't have a comprehensive list of even these), but also that they include only parts of thanas (unions), too, but nailing down which of those unions belong to the two city corporations has proven very difficult. --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:44, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

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Fareast International University

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Please update national Parliament of Bangladesh articles, election 2018

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Thank you for your clean up

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Welcome to the drive!

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bKash

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Rudranarayan

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Welcome to the drive!

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Fix a random page lacking sources

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East Pakistan constituencies names

Good day Worldbruce Hope you are doing well. Recently saw your contribution in List of members of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan page. I saw you added Constituency names. I wanted to request you to tell about the source from which you watched these constituency names and one more thing. Do you know about 1970 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election results constituency wise. I want to add constituency wise results and also want to make 1970 election map of East Pakistan assembly election. Saad Ali Khan Pakistan (talk) 22:31, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

@Saad Ali Khan Pakistan: The 1965 constituency names (Mymensingh-IX, etc.) are listed in the cited source, https://na.gov.pk/uploads/former-members/4th%20National%20Assembly.pdf. I don't possess a source for the constituency-wise results of the 1970 election to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. A Google Books search for "Faridpur—XVIII" turns up some possibilities. The results with a 1971-1972 date after the constituency name are about the abortive 1971-1972 by-elections for the provincial assembly that Pakistan intended to run to fill vacancies created by deaths and disqualifications. Skipping those, your best bets would be:

• S. G. M. Budruddin (1970). Election Handbook, 1970. Pub. & Marketing Associates. OCLC 1006194734.
• Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta (1971). Revolt in East Bengal. A. Dasgupta. OCLC 1129476998.
• Khāledā Hābiba (1991). Bāṃlādeśa nirbācana, Jātīẏa Saṃsada o Mantrisabhā, 1970-1991 (in Bengali). E. Āra. Muraśeda. OCLC 27146030.

The first looks like it would be especially useful for map making, while the others might contain results. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:24, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Worldbruce I live outside United Kingdom so I cannot get access to these books. Can you guide me how i can access this book? Saad Ali Khan Pakistan (talk) 17:36, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

@Saad Ali Khan Pakistan: WP:RX is a service that will scan sources and email them to you. They can't copy an entire book because of copyright restrictions, but they can copy a modest amount (10-20 pages). If you create a request there, be sure to clearly describe which pages you want. Most requests are eventually fulfilled, but it can take up to three months. --Worldbruce (talk) 18:23, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

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Help

Mr Bruce, Could you over look the page Sylhet Division? as it has been vandalized within the infobox. We want to maintain Sylhet Division just like other Divisions of Bangladesh has been maintained. an User has violated WP:4RR within the page and I can't report it to the administrators! Eager to hear from my. Salam from a Bangladeshi :(

Academic sources on the Bangladesh genocide

In the RfC on the Bangladesh genocide you summarised an impressive list of scholarly sources on the genocide; is there any chance these sources and the different opinions of their authors on the genocide could be integrated into the articl? Eldomtom2 (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

@Eldomtom2: That, of course, is what should happen. As of yet, however, there is no consensus in that RfC, so it's difficult to get any major change through. Either additional seasoned editors need to weigh in on the RfC with well-reasoned contributions, or the question will need to be reshaped and a new RfC held to try to break the deadlock (as has been suggested at Wikipedia:Closure requests). --Worldbruce (talk) 16:46, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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Please understand that I am correct about my edit on Awami League page

Dear Bruce, I have been editing Awami league page for last two days simultaneous with strong evidence and it still gets taken down. Once again, I have given two very valuable examples of awami league being secular.2607:FEA8:A75B:7100:5A4:16B3:2839:64DB (talk) 16:35, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

I need you to do something about some users that are removing my correct edits about awami league left wing

Dear bruce, This discussion that Awami league is a left wing party has already been accepted by many users that argued before but now agree, For Example,Helper201, also at the end finally accepted Awami league as leftist party after argument with |Wiki N Islam|. Therefore, confusions must be stopped. Also, Awami league has never ever supported right wing and neither are they like theMuslim Leage . Awami league is the party that helped bangladesh assure independence and created a secular country born out of fighting against imperialism. Users like,|Vif12vf|,|Nzs9|, have been repeadingly removing my outstanding and corrected edits with strong proof. Therefore, I personally request a user like you to make edits on Awami League page without letting others vandalize.2607:FEA8:A75B:7100:5A4:16B3:2839:64DB (talk) 17:10, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Someone pretending to be you, maybe

Just saw a single edit by this user [[3]].Vinegarymass911 (talk) 11:09, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Have a look

Could you have a look at these changes. Thanks. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 17:38, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm on the road until this time next week, so it's hard to look at or do anything complicated. Changing to ALLCAPS is bad. Changing edition or printing is not forbidden, but needs a good reason. Worldbruce (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

@Fylindfotberserk: Now that I can examine the changes on a full screen, I see that Simple Kamal changed citations from Majumdar's 1943 original (The History of Bengal) to his 1971 revision (History of Ancient Bengal). On the pro side, Majumdar said he made extensive rewrites incorporating discoveries made by excavations in the intervening years, so the newer volume should represent newer scholarship. On the con side, Majumdar reused much of his 1943 text, so a reader has to realize that when he wrote "present-day Dinajpur district", for example, he wasn't talking about one of the districts in 1971, but about the pre-partition district.

I checked the new citations, and feel they support the text as well as the earlier citations did, so I'm going to call this a well-meaning if perhaps unnecessary edit. If you see a problem, feel free to undo it. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:12, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. What do you think of these changes. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 19:31, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Your thoughts?

Hello @Worldbruce, you have a lot experience in this region so I wanted to ask your opinion regarding Talk:Maratha Empire#Requested move 17 April 2024. PadFoot2008 14:13, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Regarding vandalism

The page of List of medical colleges in Bangladesh is being constantly vandalised lately by some users. Notably, someone is trying to put Mugda Medical College in 4th place without providing any substantial reference. I hope you'll take proper steps about it. Litton123 (talk) 17:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Bangladesh ISBN

Bangladesh uses ISBN-13 starting with 978-. However using it here on {{cite book}} shows error. How can I overwrite/ignore this message? Regards — Meghmollar2017 (UTC) — 12:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

@Meghmollar2017: Did you mean 13-digit numbers beginning with 984-, as in your sandbox example? I've seen such numbers labeled as ISBNs in Bangladeshi books, but they're not legitimate ISBNs. Valid ISBN-13s must start with 978- or 979-. I don't know who is to blame for the 984- ones, perhaps the national library, perhaps the publishers. You can make citation templates ignore the error by using the double parentheses accept-this-as-written markup, in other words |isbn=((984-70152-0155-5)). That downgrades the issue from an error to a warning. --Worldbruce (talk) 05:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

It will work for now. Bangladeshi publishers really use such invalid ISBN codes that we had to introduce |ignore_ISBN_error=yes code for citation templates on bnwiki. — Meghmollar2017 (UTC) — 09:55, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Clean

Could you please clean North South University, BAF Shaheen College Dhaka and Daffodil International University. 37.111.207.169 (talk) 18:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Jaintiapur Upazila

Hi, Jaintiapur Upazila needs clean up. A user added large text without any sources + some unnecessary list. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 09:46, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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Removal of Citations

Bainnachola-Manikpur High School, I see you removed citations that are said to be unreliable and a reference citing a article published by Jago News 24 was removed. I have no problem with this, I did cite some unreliable sources, however, I don't think Jago News 24 is unreliable. If there are any other reasons for the removal, Reply If you want. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 13:00, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

@BangladeshiEditorInSylhet: Jago News 24 is reliable for the sorts of things newspapers are generally reliable for. One also has to consider the particular piece. It is an advertisement, a job posting. Every school advertises for teachers at one time or another. It is a non-independent (authored by the school) primary source. So it does nothing to help establish notability. About all it can do is confirm the school's existence - its name and what upazila it is located in. Those points are not in question, they are amply supported by the other sources. So there is no reason to cite this Jago News 24 piece, doing so is a form of citation overkill. That is the more detailed reason that I removed that particular citation. --Worldbruce (talk) 14:00, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Reliable Sources

Hello, are CtgJournal24 and Cvoice24 reliable sources or not? The reason for this is because I was looking for some citations about Chattogram related articles, And I found some from these 2. but I was not sure. BangladeshiEditorInSylhet (talk) 10:01, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

@BangladeshiEditorInSylhet: A definitive answer always depends on what statement you want to support with what exact webpage, but generally speaking, no, I see no evidence that either one has a reputation for accuracy and fact checking. Among regional news outlets in Chittagong, I recommend sticking to Dainik Azadi, Dainik Purbodesh, and Dainik Purbakon, or perhaps CNA News 24 or CTG Times. There's a place where you can ask about reliability and at least potentially get a broader response, the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. --Worldbruce (talk) 16:28, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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9th Infantry Division (Bangladesh)

@Worldbruce:, 9th Infantry Division (Bangladesh) was created in 1975, not in 1976, if you can read Bengali language please read the book (the reference) which is present in the article, I am giving you the pdf of the book, you may read the pdf of the book here, in the page number 97, the division's year of raising has been written and also the first commander of the division was Mir Shawkat Ali - it is also written. YM Gud (talk) 06:21, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

@YM Gud: Thank you for your explanation. Page 97 alone does not make the year clear, so I've broadened the page range to include enough context to make clear that it was 1975. --Worldbruce (talk) 12:11, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Women in the Bangladesh Army

@Worldbruce:, Improve the Women in the Bangladesh Army article, you may add this reference too with new information. YM Gud (talk) 00:32, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Worldbruce:, I have improved the article, please check. YM Gud (talk) 05:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Wrong info about Abdul Hai in Jessore-3?

I'm not up to the task of fixing it, but I think there must've been an error in your work at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jessore-3&diff=prev&oldid=846088134 - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jessore-3#Abdul_Hai_in_1988_must_be_wrong? for explanation. ExplodingCabbage (talk) 16:05, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Lots of renaming by a user

Hi, James Conan Niag renamed lots of Bangladesh-related articles. Please review the renaming. আফতাবুজ্জামান (talk) 15:33, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Warning Regarding Edits on Bangladesh Schools

Hello, @Worldbruce:.

I've noticed that you've been removing information from articles about schools in Bangladesh. This information is important for understanding the educational context in the region. Please understand that these are schools, and they do not appear in newspapers. So it’s difficult to add references for them. Wikipedia relies on contributions from users like us to provide comprehensive information. It's important to ensure that any removals are backed by reliable sources. I encourage you not to remove informations from those articles.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Cerium4B (talk) 05:09, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

@Cerium4B: One of the fundamental pillars of Wikipedia is that all content must be verifiable with citations based on reliable sources. If information about a topic doesn't appear in such sources, then no matter how "important" that information is, it must not be added to the encyclopedia. Knowledge from editors' personal experience does not belong on Wikipedia.

Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed, and I will continue do so, as will most other experienced editors. I will also sometimes add a source or tag the problem for cleanup if I think the information is likely to be verifiable, as well as encyclopedic, and it will not make the article based unduly on non-independent or primary sources. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:25, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

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