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 edit

De-stub / create edit

Copyedit edit

Add sections and material edit

Stub edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

Articles edit

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

Diagrams created edit

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A schematic of hiking trails in the Singalila National Park

Photographs taken and uploaded and linked edit

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

Templates created edit

     
The Life and Times of Gerald Durrell

Institutions associated with: Durrell Wildlife ParkDurrell Wildlife Conservation TrustWildlife TrustWildlife Preservation CanadaMauritian Wildlife FoundationMadagascar Fauna Group

Co-conservationists: Lee DurrellDavid AttenboroughPeter ScottJeremy MallinsonEdward Whitley

Expeditions undertaken: ArgentinaAustraliaBelizeBhutanCameroonIndiaMadagascarMalaysiaMauritiusMexicoNew ZealandParaguayRussiaSierra Leone

Species associations: Aye-AyeGorillaMauritius KestrelPink PigeonPigmy HogRockfowlSt. Lucia ParrotVolcano Rabbit

Books authored: The Overloaded ArkThree Singles to AdventureThe Bafut BeaglesThe New NoahThe Drunken ForestMy Family and Other AnimalsEncounters with AnimalsA Zoo in My LuggageThe Whispering LandIsland ZooA Look at ZoosMenagerie ManorTwo in the BushThe Donkey RustlersRosie is My RelativeBirds, Beasts and RelativesFillets of PlaiceCatch Me a ColobusBeasts in My BelfryThe Talking ParcelThe Stationary ArkGolden Bats and Pink PigeonsThe Garden of the GodsThe Picnic and Suchlike PandemoniumThe Mockery BirdArk on the MoveThe Amateur NaturalistHow to Shoot an Amateur NaturalistDurrell in RussiaThe Fantastic Flying JourneyThe Fantastic Dinosaur AdventureThe Ark's AnniversaryKeeperToby the TortoiseMarrying Off Mother and Other StoriesThe Aye-Aye and IPuppy TalesThe Best of Gerald Durrell

Illustrators: Ralph ThompsonEdward MortelmansPeter BarrettGraham PercyKeith WestCliff Wright

Famous TV Series: Two in the BushCatch Me a ColobusThe Garden of the GodsThe Stationary ArkArk on the MoveThe Amateur NaturalistOurselves and Other AnimalsDurrell in Russia

Notable others: Jacquie DurrellLawrence DurrellAchirimbi IITheodore StephanidesDouglas Botting


     
National Parks of India
Andaman & Nicobar Islands: Campbell BayGalatheaMahatma GandhiMt. Harriet IslandMiddle Button IslandNorth Button IslandRani JhansiSaddle PeakSouth Button Island Andhra Pradesh: Kasu Brahmananda ReddyMahavir Harina VanasthaliMrugavaniSri Venkateswara Arunachal Pradesh: MoulingNamdapha Assam: Dibru-SaikhowaKazirangaManasNameriOrang Bihar: Valmiki Chhattisgarh: IndravatiKanger GhatiSanjay Goa: Mollem  Gujarat: BlackbuckGirMarineVansda Haryana: KalesarSultanpur Himachal Pradesh: Great HimalayanPin Valley Jammu & Kashmir: DachigamHemisKishtwarSalim Ali Jharkhand: Betla Karnataka: AnshiBandipurBannerghattaKudremukhNagarhole Kerala: Eravikulam Mathikettan SholaPeriyarSilent Valley Madhya Pradesh: BandhavgarhFossilKanhaMadhavPannaPenchSanjaySatpuraVan Vihar Maharastra: GugamalNavegaonPenchSanjay GandhiTadoba Manipur: Keibul LamjaoSirohi Meghalaya: BalphakramNokrek Mizoram: MurlenPhawngpui Nagaland: Intanki Orissa: BhitarkanikaSimlipal Rajasthan: DesertKeoladeoRanthambhoreRajiv GandhiSariska Sikkim: Khangchendzonga Tamil Nadu: GuindyGulf of MannarIndira GandhiMudumalaiMukurthi Uttar Pradesh: Dudhwa Uttaranchal: CorbettGangotriGovindNanda DeviRajajiValley of Flowers West Bengal: BuxaGorumaraNeora ValleySingalilaSundarbans
Protected areasNational ParksProtected areas of IndiaNational parks of India

Memo edit

The Deep Web edit

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

Non-googlable Virtual Repositories edit

Books edit

Journals edit

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

Libraries edit

Magazines, Periodicals and Newspapers edit

Encyclopaediae edit

  • 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 edit

Image repositories edit

  • 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 edit

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

  An entry from Humshaugh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on February 2, 2007.
 
Wikipedia

And a barnstar to boot!

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