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Next, I've noticed you have edited the Ionomer article recently, and so you may be familiar with ionic polymers. Shall I move the Ionomer article to Ionic polymer, which is empty right now, or shall we keep Ionomer where it is and simply make Ionic polymer a Redirect to Ionomer? H Padleckas ( talk) 04:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Ionic polymer:
Polymer composed of macromolecules containing ionic or ionizable groups, or both, irrespective of
their nature, content, and location. |
Ionomer:
Polymer composed of macromolecules in which a small but significant proportion of the constitutional
units has ionic or ionizable groups, or both. |
i am using wikipedia for many years. but editing is very new to me.
i was studied in Town Higher Secondary School
when i saw the comment "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it." i felt bad.
so i added some info. but u ppl undo my data.
How to add colorful letters as u did for vanichenu talkm.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srinivasan.smart ( talk • contribs) 11:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
i have two doubts.
Are you superior than normal user?
Do you work for wikipedia? Srinivasan.smart ( talk) 11:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srinivasan.smart ( talk • contribs) 11:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
<span style="color:red">I want to type in red</span>
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Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
At the top of the page you have asked to click on Save page, but, I personally use Alt⇧ Shifts, do I need to change my habit? :-) BTW, I have replied to your post here -- Tito Dutta ✉ 08:48, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Currently I am reviewer of Talk:Independence Day (India)/GA1 for Good Article. If you have some time can you please join as a guest reviewer? It is not a difficult task. Read the article Independence Day (India) and if you find some problem, errors or if you have some suggestion/question, write in GA review page Talk:Independence Day (India)/GA1. I am doing main review work. Being a guest reviewer is not very difficult, I think! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 15:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Are you using Avogadro (software)? Unfortunately I can not use it properly, every time I start building a molecular structure, I end up creating a meaningless and useless structure like this. :( But, I think this might be helpful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling etc -- Tito Dutta ✉ 12:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for mentioning these redirects at WP:RFD; as you may have seen, they were deleted some days ago. In the future, if you find a page that redirects to a nonexistent page, you can take a faster course than RFD — while there's nothing wrong with sending them there, you can tag such a redirect with {{ db-g8}}, and it will probably be deleted much faster than if you'd gone through RFD. Nyttend ( talk) 02:56, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
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Dude, why haven't you created your user page yet? Just asking out of curiosity. I get to see red links in view history :P BPositive (talk) 10:38, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
You have a new message here: Talk:Independence_Day_(India)/GA1#Section_08 with title "Message @ Vanischenu" -- Tito Dutta ✉ 15:34, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Yes, you deserve it. Vanischenu 『m/ Talk』 17:52, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ✉ 17:59, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, If possible please join this discussion: User_talk:Titodutta#Aryabhata.27s_Calculation_of_Pi -- Tito Dutta ✉ 19:58, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, I will follow it, regard. Tnt1984 ( talk) 07:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
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NML Cygni is the largest known star with 1650 solar radii (1650 times larger than Sun). Since there was not any article on the biggest star, I have started the article stub. Though I have read few journal articles, still continuing it single handedly is not my cup of tea/coffee/milk/watre. Could you please help a little bit in this biggest star's article (if it survives)? If we can add some good content it'll be suer shot and one of the best DYKs pointing "largest star, 1650 solar radii etc etc)-- Tito Dutta ✉ 03:14, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Cygnus |
Right ascension | 20h 46m 25.6s [1] |
Declination | +40° 06′ 59.4″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 16.60 [1] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | M6III: D. [1] |
B−V color index | 2.0 [1] |
Other designations | |
V* V1489 Cyg, RAFGL 2650, IRC +40448 | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Sorry for the delay.–it took us only 13.75 ± 0.11 billion years to create an article on NML Cygni (of course NML Cygni was not born right after big bang, but, I don't know age of NML Cygni, so let' consider 13.75 ± 0.11 billion years (maximum). So, no worries if it takes some more time to expand it. If you are ready you can go ahead and copy paste the infobox. Else I need to provide attribution (since your post here is under CC SA etc etc). BTW, what is the constellation NML Cygni? -- Tito Dutta ✉ 21:54, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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Suggestion of the day If this ghost comes to you, don't ask to straighten dog's tail. Better ask to count NoCTiK! |
...creating the universe is a huge taskYeah! Very huge task indeed (2,658 bytes!!!). And took about 55 days
On another thought, we can still jump for DYK, if we can add 300 more characters. This PDF file has lots of information. You can nominate for DYK immediately you'll think it is ready! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 05:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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NMLCygniorNMLCygisaredsupergiantstarandthelargeststarcurrentlyknown,atabout1,650timestheSun'sdiameter.Itisoneoftheextremeluminousgiantstars.Thedistancefromitisexpectedtobearound1.7kpc.Thisstarhasadustyenvironmentsurrounding.Thisstarexhibitsabean-shapedasymmetricnebulawhichiscoincidentwiththedistributionofitsH2Ovapormasers.Itisasemiregularvariablestarwithaperiodofaround940days.NMLCygniisapartoftheCygOB2association.TheCygOB2associationspansnearly2°onthesky,or∼30pcinradiusatthedistanceof1.74±0.2kpc,thusitoneoftheclosestmassiveassociationstotheSun.Ithasanestimatedmassof∼50M⊙Thebolometricluminosity(Lbol)forthisstarisnear3×105L☉.Itsbolometricmagnitude(Mbol)isaround−9.0.Itisoneofthemostluminoushypergiantstars.Itwasdiscoveredin1965,byNeugebauer,MartzandLeighton.ThenameNMLcomesfromthenamesofthesethreediscoverers.Fromtheobservations,itisestimatedthatthisstarhastwodiscreteopticallythickenvelopesofdustandmolecules.Theopticaldepthoftheinnershellisfoundtobe1.9whilethatoftheouteroneis0.33.Thestarhasoneofthelargestmasslossratesataround2×10-4M☉peryear.Thesedustenvelopesareformedduetothestrongpost-mainsequencewindvelocityandthehighmassemissionrate.Thepost-MSwindvelocityis23km/s.BecauseofitsuniquelocationwithintheMilkyWaythestardoesnotdominateitslocalinterstellarenvironment.NMLCygisamassiveoxygenrichstarThecompositionofthisstarbegantoberevealedwiththediscoveryofOHradioemissions(1612MHz)in1968(WilsonandBarrett).ThepresenceofmoleculeslikeH2O,SiO,CO,HCN,CS,SO,SO2andH2Swasalsorevealedinthelateryears. |
at http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml (searched by excluding whitespaces and ref numbers and joining everything in a single line) and got number of characters as 1502 :) . So it has crossed the limit.
I would like "...that NML Cygni is the largest star known at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter." but that was already mentioned in the article List of largest known stars. Please give some suggestions so that a hook be created.
Please list some more and decide which is the most interesting on.
What should be the format? What about this: Did you know that ... the largest star known, NML Cygni, is estimated to have two discrete optically thick envelopes of dust and molecules?··· Vanischenu 「m/ Talk」 08:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Unfortunately the citation given on the article doesn't help as it is a link to abstract of a book. We need access to verify it. And they say,
The "Did you know?" fact must be mentioned in the article and cited with an inline citation since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. Many submissions fail to meet one or both of these criteria.
Alas! Really sorry for having this.
Further to this, there occurred a conflict, recently, between two editors on which star is the largest one. It is at Talk:VY Canis Majoris#Actual size. this reversion.
On WikiBlame, I searched for NML Cygni and 650. Though I do not know how to interpret it completely, I was able to note that this was added by this edit. Shall we contact the user to get some help?··· Vanischenu 「m/ Talk」 21:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
New message from Dwaipayan (keep DYK in mind) Tito Dutta ✉ 22:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.1850 Lithopsian ( talk) 14:35, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ✉ 02:06, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
A news has been published today in almost all West Bengal newspaper's front page. I hope it is more or less same in Kerala too. On 15th September (this year) president of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, US/International is coming to Kolkata to situate milestone plaques in respect of Jagadish Chandra Bose and C.V. Raman.
Reading from the Wikipedia article–
Bose was not provided with facilities for research. On the contrary, he was a ‘victim of racialism’ with regard to his salary. In those days, an Indian professor was paid Rs. 200 per month, while his European counterpart received Rs. 300 per month. Since Bose was officiating, he was offered a salary of only Rs. 100 per month. With remarkable sense of self respect and national pride he decided on a new form of protest. Bose refused to accept the salary cheque. In fact, he continued his teaching assignment for three years without accepting any salary. Finally both the Director of Public Instruction and the Principal of the Presidency College fully realised the value of Bose’s skill in teaching and also his lofty character. As a result his appointment was made permanent with retrospective effect. He was given the full salary for the previous three years in a lump sum.
Now to honour these two scientist representatives of IEEE are coming to Kolkata. India will be third country in Asia and Kolkata will be first city in India to get this honour.
On 30 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article NML Cygni, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the red supergiant NML Cygni is the largest star currently known, at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NML Cygni. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Congrats! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 02:19, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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I just wanted to let you know that I have replied to your message on my talk page. Sorry about the late reply - somehow I missed your comment until just now. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 12:37, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks and well done for making the Template:WikiProject Polymers banner template. We will expand it when we get a chance to include article importance and rating. Right now, I plan on starting to place it at the top of polymer article Talk pages. H Padleckas ( talk) 00:31, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
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First, thank you for your message of appreciation regarding adding the Polymers banner to many polymer article Talk pages.
Next, I've noticed you have edited the Ionomer article recently, and so you may be familiar with ionic polymers. Shall I move the Ionomer article to Ionic polymer, which is empty right now, or shall we keep Ionomer where it is and simply make Ionic polymer a Redirect to Ionomer? H Padleckas ( talk) 04:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Ionic polymer:
Polymer composed of macromolecules containing ionic or ionizable groups, or both, irrespective of
their nature, content, and location. |
Ionomer:
Polymer composed of macromolecules in which a small but significant proportion of the constitutional
units has ionic or ionizable groups, or both. |
i am using wikipedia for many years. but editing is very new to me.
i was studied in Town Higher Secondary School
when i saw the comment "This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it." i felt bad.
so i added some info. but u ppl undo my data.
How to add colorful letters as u did for vanichenu talkm.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srinivasan.smart ( talk • contribs) 11:45, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
i have two doubts.
Are you superior than normal user?
Do you work for wikipedia? Srinivasan.smart ( talk) 11:49, 18 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Srinivasan.smart ( talk • contribs) 11:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
<span style="color:red">I want to type in red</span>
and the resultant text will be : I want to type in red. You may like to visit
Help:Using colours to see more options.Hey all!
So, big news this week - on Tuesday, we ramped up to 5 percent of articles :). There's been a lot more feedback (pardon the pun) as I'm sure you've noticed, and to try and help we've scheduled a large number of office hours sessions, including one this evening at 22:00 UTC in the #wikimedia-office connect channel, and another at 01:00 UTC for the aussies amongst us :). I hope to see some of you there - if any of you can't make it but have any questions, I'm always happy to help.
Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 20:48, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
At the top of the page you have asked to click on Save page, but, I personally use Alt⇧ Shifts, do I need to change my habit? :-) BTW, I have replied to your post here -- Tito Dutta ✉ 08:48, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Currently I am reviewer of Talk:Independence Day (India)/GA1 for Good Article. If you have some time can you please join as a guest reviewer? It is not a difficult task. Read the article Independence Day (India) and if you find some problem, errors or if you have some suggestion/question, write in GA review page Talk:Independence Day (India)/GA1. I am doing main review work. Being a guest reviewer is not very difficult, I think! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 15:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
Are you using Avogadro (software)? Unfortunately I can not use it properly, every time I start building a molecular structure, I end up creating a meaningless and useless structure like this. :( But, I think this might be helpful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling etc -- Tito Dutta ✉ 12:25, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for mentioning these redirects at WP:RFD; as you may have seen, they were deleted some days ago. In the future, if you find a page that redirects to a nonexistent page, you can take a faster course than RFD — while there's nothing wrong with sending them there, you can tag such a redirect with {{ db-g8}}, and it will probably be deleted much faster than if you'd gone through RFD. Nyttend ( talk) 02:56, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hey again all :). So, some big news, some small news, some good news, some bad news!
On the "big news" front; we've now deployed AFT5 on to 10 percent of articles, This is pretty awesome :). On the "bad news", however, it looks like we're having to stop at 10 percent until around September - there are scaling issues that make it dangerous to deploy wider. Happily, our awesome features engineering team is looking into them as we speak, and I'm optimistic that the issues will be resolved.
For both "small" and "good" news; we've got another office hours session. This one is tomorrow, at 22:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office connect - I appreciate it's a bit late for Europeans, but I wanted to juggle it so US east coasters could attend if they wanted :). Hope to see you all there!
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This is the format. Sorry if I am wrong, shouldn't we change "an
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Dude, why haven't you created your user page yet? Just asking out of curiosity. I get to see red links in view history :P BPositive (talk) 10:38, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
You have a new message here: Talk:Independence_Day_(India)/GA1#Section_08 with title "Message @ Vanischenu" -- Tito Dutta ✉ 15:34, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
I am afraid I have to disagree with you. You deserve it more than a typical one who has got the other 3 times. Look!
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Yes, you deserve it. Vanischenu 『m/ Talk』 17:52, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ✉ 17:59, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, If possible please join this discussion: User_talk:Titodutta#Aryabhata.27s_Calculation_of_Pi -- Tito Dutta ✉ 19:58, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, I will follow it, regard. Tnt1984 ( talk) 07:24, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
Using Windows XP? -- Tito Dutta ✉ 17:21, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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Nice article at Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-3-hydroxyvalerate). Bearian ( talk) 22:23, 9 August 2012 (UTC) |
Most probably clarification needed What do you mean by Most probably? Okay, I am not sure, but, after giving it a try, I have not found any way to do it you can not link/get feedback to/for this page -- Tito Dutta ✉ 13:36, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
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I don't know the answer to your question. Try asking at WP:VPT.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:30, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
NML Cygni is the largest known star with 1650 solar radii (1650 times larger than Sun). Since there was not any article on the biggest star, I have started the article stub. Though I have read few journal articles, still continuing it single handedly is not my cup of tea/coffee/milk/watre. Could you please help a little bit in this biggest star's article (if it survives)? If we can add some good content it'll be suer shot and one of the best DYKs pointing "largest star, 1650 solar radii etc etc)-- Tito Dutta ✉ 03:14, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000 | |
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Constellation | Cygnus |
Right ascension | 20h 46m 25.6s [1] |
Declination | +40° 06′ 59.4″ [1] |
Apparent magnitude (V) | 16.60 [1] |
Characteristics | |
Spectral type | M6III: D. [1] |
B−V color index | 2.0 [1] |
Other designations | |
V* V1489 Cyg, RAFGL 2650, IRC +40448 | |
Database references | |
SIMBAD | data |
Sorry for the delay.–it took us only 13.75 ± 0.11 billion years to create an article on NML Cygni (of course NML Cygni was not born right after big bang, but, I don't know age of NML Cygni, so let' consider 13.75 ± 0.11 billion years (maximum). So, no worries if it takes some more time to expand it. If you are ready you can go ahead and copy paste the infobox. Else I need to provide attribution (since your post here is under CC SA etc etc). BTW, what is the constellation NML Cygni? -- Tito Dutta ✉ 21:54, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
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Suggestion of the day If this ghost comes to you, don't ask to straighten dog's tail. Better ask to count NoCTiK! |
...creating the universe is a huge taskYeah! Very huge task indeed (2,658 bytes!!!). And took about 55 days
On another thought, we can still jump for DYK, if we can add 300 more characters. This PDF file has lots of information. You can nominate for DYK immediately you'll think it is ready! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 05:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I typed
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NMLCygniorNMLCygisaredsupergiantstarandthelargeststarcurrentlyknown,atabout1,650timestheSun'sdiameter.Itisoneoftheextremeluminousgiantstars.Thedistancefromitisexpectedtobearound1.7kpc.Thisstarhasadustyenvironmentsurrounding.Thisstarexhibitsabean-shapedasymmetricnebulawhichiscoincidentwiththedistributionofitsH2Ovapormasers.Itisasemiregularvariablestarwithaperiodofaround940days.NMLCygniisapartoftheCygOB2association.TheCygOB2associationspansnearly2°onthesky,or∼30pcinradiusatthedistanceof1.74±0.2kpc,thusitoneoftheclosestmassiveassociationstotheSun.Ithasanestimatedmassof∼50M⊙Thebolometricluminosity(Lbol)forthisstarisnear3×105L☉.Itsbolometricmagnitude(Mbol)isaround−9.0.Itisoneofthemostluminoushypergiantstars.Itwasdiscoveredin1965,byNeugebauer,MartzandLeighton.ThenameNMLcomesfromthenamesofthesethreediscoverers.Fromtheobservations,itisestimatedthatthisstarhastwodiscreteopticallythickenvelopesofdustandmolecules.Theopticaldepthoftheinnershellisfoundtobe1.9whilethatoftheouteroneis0.33.Thestarhasoneofthelargestmasslossratesataround2×10-4M☉peryear.Thesedustenvelopesareformedduetothestrongpost-mainsequencewindvelocityandthehighmassemissionrate.Thepost-MSwindvelocityis23km/s.BecauseofitsuniquelocationwithintheMilkyWaythestardoesnotdominateitslocalinterstellarenvironment.NMLCygisamassiveoxygenrichstarThecompositionofthisstarbegantoberevealedwiththediscoveryofOHradioemissions(1612MHz)in1968(WilsonandBarrett).ThepresenceofmoleculeslikeH2O,SiO,CO,HCN,CS,SO,SO2andH2Swasalsorevealedinthelateryears. |
at http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml (searched by excluding whitespaces and ref numbers and joining everything in a single line) and got number of characters as 1502 :) . So it has crossed the limit.
I would like "...that NML Cygni is the largest star known at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter." but that was already mentioned in the article List of largest known stars. Please give some suggestions so that a hook be created.
Please list some more and decide which is the most interesting on.
What should be the format? What about this: Did you know that ... the largest star known, NML Cygni, is estimated to have two discrete optically thick envelopes of dust and molecules?··· Vanischenu 「m/ Talk」 08:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Unfortunately the citation given on the article doesn't help as it is a link to abstract of a book. We need access to verify it. And they say,
The "Did you know?" fact must be mentioned in the article and cited with an inline citation since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article. Many submissions fail to meet one or both of these criteria.
Alas! Really sorry for having this.
Further to this, there occurred a conflict, recently, between two editors on which star is the largest one. It is at Talk:VY Canis Majoris#Actual size. this reversion.
On WikiBlame, I searched for NML Cygni and 650. Though I do not know how to interpret it completely, I was able to note that this was added by this edit. Shall we contact the user to get some help?··· Vanischenu 「m/ Talk」 21:05, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
New message from Dwaipayan (keep DYK in mind) Tito Dutta ✉ 22:32, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.1850 Lithopsian ( talk) 14:35, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
-- Tito Dutta ✉ 02:06, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
A news has been published today in almost all West Bengal newspaper's front page. I hope it is more or less same in Kerala too. On 15th September (this year) president of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, US/International is coming to Kolkata to situate milestone plaques in respect of Jagadish Chandra Bose and C.V. Raman.
Reading from the Wikipedia article–
Bose was not provided with facilities for research. On the contrary, he was a ‘victim of racialism’ with regard to his salary. In those days, an Indian professor was paid Rs. 200 per month, while his European counterpart received Rs. 300 per month. Since Bose was officiating, he was offered a salary of only Rs. 100 per month. With remarkable sense of self respect and national pride he decided on a new form of protest. Bose refused to accept the salary cheque. In fact, he continued his teaching assignment for three years without accepting any salary. Finally both the Director of Public Instruction and the Principal of the Presidency College fully realised the value of Bose’s skill in teaching and also his lofty character. As a result his appointment was made permanent with retrospective effect. He was given the full salary for the previous three years in a lump sum.
Now to honour these two scientist representatives of IEEE are coming to Kolkata. India will be third country in Asia and Kolkata will be first city in India to get this honour.
On 30 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article NML Cygni, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the red supergiant NML Cygni is the largest star currently known, at about 1,650 times the Sun's diameter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/NML Cygni. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Congrats! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 02:19, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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