User:Pradiptaray

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Pradiptaray is a grad student at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh working on bioinformatics who tries to improve articles he feels strongly about in a burst mode. Scroll down to see edits I have made. If you are interested in contributing to present projects, please do so. If you are interested in contributing to future projects - do not hesitate to contact me, most of the future work just needs a fillip to get started. Having completed 100 destubbings, I am presently taking a break from Wikipedia. Mail me to contact me.

To do

De-stub / create

Copyedit

Add sections and material

Stub

  • Removal of all red links in Gerald Durrell
  • Independent bookstores and bookshop districts in Kolkata
  • Famous sweet shops and eateries in Kolkata
  • Historic movie theaters in Kolkata
  • Museums, permanent exhibits and galleries in Kolkata
  • Sports clubs and stadiums in Kolkata
  • Palaces and mansions of Kolkata
  • Parks in Kolkata
  • Buick Super automobile

Possible future projects

  • Import The Annotated Asterix, or whatever is left to import
  • Etymology based stubbing of Kolkata streets, localities, and suburbs.
  • A Kolkata / West Bengal portal
  • An Etymology of Indian Geographical Names project
  • Uploading public domain Indian photographs, and art.
  • All Simon and Garfunkel songs
  • All Peter, Paul and Mary songs
  • Pittsburgh images
  • Bengali cuisine in depth
  • Kolkata images

Edits

Articles

I have a wide range of interests. De-stubbed articles and articles created from scratch to non-stub status, or with significant edits, include:

The life sciences
The life sciences: Conservation and natural history
The social sciences
The social sciences: Industry
Socio-cultural topics: Kolkata
The social sciences: Political systems
The social sciences: Religion
The literary arts
The performing arts
The visual arts
Bookkeeping

Diagrams created

Include

A schematic of hiking trails in the Singalila National Park

Photographs taken and uploaded and linked

Include

Arobindo Bhavan, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Jheel, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Templates created

     
The Life and Times of Gerald Durrell

Institutions associated with: Durrell Wildlife Park • Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust • Wildlife Trust • Wildlife Preservation Canada • Mauritian Wildlife Foundation • Madagascar Fauna Group

Co-conservationists: Lee Durrell • David Attenborough • Peter Scott • Jeremy Mallinson • Edward Whitley

Expeditions undertaken: Argentina • Australia • Belize • Bhutan • Cameroon • India • Madagascar • Malaysia • Mauritius • Mexico • New Zealand • Paraguay • Russia • Sierra Leone

Species associations: Aye-Aye • Gorilla • Mauritius Kestrel • Pink Pigeon • Pigmy Hog • Rockfowl • St. Lucia Parrot • Volcano Rabbit

Books authored: The Overloaded Ark • Three Singles to Adventure • The Bafut Beagles • The New Noah • The Drunken Forest • My Family and Other Animals • Encounters with Animals • A Zoo in My Luggage • The Whispering Land • Island Zoo • A Look at Zoos • Menagerie Manor • Two in the Bush • The Donkey Rustlers • Rosie is My Relative • Birds, Beasts and Relatives • Fillets of Plaice • Catch Me a Colobus • Beasts in My Belfry • The Talking Parcel • The Stationary Ark • Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons • The Garden of the Gods • The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium • The Mockery Bird • Ark on the Move • The Amateur Naturalist • How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist • Durrell in Russia • The Fantastic Flying Journey • The Fantastic Dinosaur Adventure • The Ark's Anniversary • Keeper • Toby the Tortoise • Marrying Off Mother and Other Stories • The Aye-Aye and I • Puppy Tales • The Best of Gerald Durrell

Illustrators: Ralph Thompson • Edward Mortelmans • Peter Barrett • Graham Percy • Keith West • Cliff Wright

Famous TV Series: Two in the Bush • Catch Me a Colobus • The Garden of the Gods • The Stationary Ark • Ark on the Move • The Amateur Naturalist • Ourselves and Other Animals • Durrell in Russia

Notable others: Jacquie Durrell • Lawrence Durrell • Achirimbi II • Theodore Stephanides • Douglas Botting


     
National Parks of India
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Campbell Bay • Galathea • Mahatma Gandhi • Mt. Harriet Island • Middle Button Island • North Button Island • Rani Jhansi • Saddle Peak • South Button Island Andhra Pradesh: Kasu Brahmananda Reddy • Mahavir Harina Vanasthali • Mrugavani • Sri Venkateswara Arunachal Pradesh: Mouling • Namdapha Assam: Dibru-Saikhowa • Kaziranga • Manas • Nameri • Orang Bihar: Valmiki Chhattisgarh: Indravati • Kanger Ghati • Sanjay Goa: Mollem  Gujarat: Blackbuck • Gir • Marine • Vansda Haryana: Kalesar • Sultanpur Himachal Pradesh: Great Himalayan • Pin Valley Jammu & Kashmir: Dachigam • Hemis • Kishtwar • Salim Ali Jharkhand: Betla Karnataka: Anshi • Bandipur • Bannerghatta • Kudremukh • Nagarhole Kerala: Eravikulam • Mathikettan Shola • Periyar • Silent Valley Madhya Pradesh: Bandhavgarh • Fossil • Kanha • Madhav • Panna • Pench • Sanjay • Satpura • Van Vihar Maharastra: Gugamal • Navegaon • Pench • Sanjay Gandhi • Tadoba Manipur: Keibul Lamjao • Sirohi Meghalaya: Balphakram • Nokrek Mizoram: Murlen • Phawngpui Nagaland: Intanki Orissa: Bhitarkanika • Simlipal Rajasthan: Desert • Keoladeo • Ranthambhore • Rajiv Gandhi • Sariska Sikkim: Khangchendzonga Tamil Nadu: Guindy • Gulf of Mannar • Indira Gandhi • Mudumalai • Mukurthi Uttar Pradesh: Dudhwa Uttaranchal: Corbett • Gangotri • Govind • Nanda Devi • Rajaji • Valley of Flowers West Bengal: Buxa • Gorumara • Neora Valley • Singalila • Sundarbans
Protected areas • National Parks • Protected areas of India • National parks of India

Memo

The Deep Web

If you are working in low data scenarios, these information sources might be of use to you:

Non-googlable Virtual Repositories

Books

Journals

  • JSTOR - the archive of scholarly journals - Athena login required (ask your librarian)
  • Google Scholar - search of published literature
  • arxiv.org

Libraries

Magazines, Periodicals and Newspapers

Encyclopaediae

  • EB - Athena login required (ask your librarian)
  • Encarta - the MS backed encyclopaedia
  • H2G2 - this is free and googlable, but I'm including it for completeness

Auction Sites

Image repositories

  • Flickr - this is also free and googlable, and included here for completeness
  • British Library image search - large public domain image collection
  • eBay - to reiterate, the best place to find rare book covers
  • Library of Congress media repository

Peer process

Strange. An article I stubbed with one line has become a DYK snippet based on that line now that the article was well destubbed.

Did You Know An entry from Humshaugh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on February 2, 2007.
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And a barnstar to boot!

To the silent contributor to a plethora of India-related article, I award you this Barnstar. — Ambuj Saxena

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