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WikiProject AFC is holding a one month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from October 1st, 2013 – October 31st, 2013.
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74 | Project-706 ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
23 | Ataullah Mengal ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
303 | Bangladesh Army ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
545 | Handicraft ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
178 | Bangladesh Armed Forces ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
53 | Six point movement ( talk) | Add sources | ||||||
3 | Abdullah Fakhruddin ( talk) | Cleanup | ||||||
72 | Gohar Ayub Khan ( talk) | Cleanup | ||||||
2 | Hasan Badruddin (17th Dai) ( talk) | Cleanup | ||||||
1,154 | Louis Farrakhan ( talk) | Expand | ||||||
1,613 | Emblem3 ( talk) | Expand | ||||||
8 | 2011 in Pakistan ( talk) | Expand | ||||||
75 | Ali Gomaa ( talk) | Unencyclopaedic | ||||||
51 | Ghulam Azam ( talk) | Unencyclopaedic | ||||||
189 | Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ( talk) | Unencyclopaedic | ||||||
245 | Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ( talk) | Merge | ||||||
5 | Defence of KamalPur ( talk) | Merge | ||||||
13 | Pakistan–Soviet Union relations ( talk) | Merge | ||||||
92 | Noakhali District ( talk) | Wikify | ||||||
277 | 2010 Pakistan floods ( talk) | Wikify | ||||||
6 | Noor Mohammad ( talk) | Wikify | ||||||
8 | Jafar us Sadiq Mufaddal Saifuddin ( talk) | Orphan | ||||||
3 | Md. Tofazzal Islam ( talk) | Orphan | ||||||
3 | History of printing and publishing in Dhaka ( talk) | Orphan | ||||||
Vrishanana yogini ( talk) | {{{CONTENTSTUB11}}} | {{{HEADINGSSTUB11}}} | {{{IMAGESSTUB11}}} | {{{LINKSSTUB11}}} | {{{SOURCESSTUB11}}} | Stub | ||
1 | Badshahi Road ( talk) | Stub | ||||||
6 | Battle of Kushtia ( talk) | Stub | ||||||
3 | Manjula Anwar ( talk) | Stub | ||||||
1 | Thrash, West Virginia ( talk) | Stub | ||||||
7 | Mansôa ( talk) | Stub |
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The reference dialog for all Wikipedias, especially the way it handles citation templates, is being redesigned. Please offer suggestions and opinions at mw:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog. (Use your Wikipedia username/password to login there.) You can also drag and drop references (select the reference, then hover over the selected item until your cursor turns into the drag-and-drop tool). This also works for some templates, images, and other page elements (but not yet for text or floated items). References are now editable when they appear inside a media item's caption ( bug 50459).
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Looking ahead: Development work right now is on rich copy-and-paste abilities, quicker addition of citation templates in references, setting media items' options (such as being able to put images on the left), switching into wikitext mode, and simplifying the toolbar. A significant amount of work is being done on other languages during this month. If you speak a language other than English, you can help with translating the documentation.
For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sanaullah Haq is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanaullah Haq (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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Hi Faizan, regarding a couple of reverts you made (don't worry it's nothing you've done wrong): WP:ANI#Rangeblock may be required. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 12:37, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
I think you made a mistake. I wrote "iff," meaning "if and only if," because that is the correct statement for a definition. The current statement is an implication. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.19.84.64 ( talk) 13:14, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
This is to let you know that your recent confrontational edits to the page Bangladesh Liberation War have been a great disappointment to me personally. Your recent semi-retirement now seems to be at an end, but your attitude and patience do not appear to have improved in the meantime. If you do not withdraw yourself from editing Bangladesh-related pages, and remove the userbox that states that you are a member of WikiProject Bangladesh, then I intend to proceed to proposing a topic ban. Please tone down your edits and withdraw yourself from this contentious area. Please also either remove or clarify what you mean by the superscript "Al-Badri" next to your name on your user page. As you may be aware, a partisan group known as Al-Badr participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War, and having someone editing Bangladesh-related pages under that banner is not conducive to a harmonious editing environment within Wikipedia. Thank you. Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 20:43, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Secondly the innocent User:Ct205, whom I and another user "bited" was an experienced "Sock puppet", and he has been blocked. Fai zan 13:13, 15 November 2013 (UTC)