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Was not finished with the edit. It's not vandalism. Doriden (talk) 08:12, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ah, Okay, I've undone my undo. Sohom Datta (talk) 08:14, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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xinbenlv Talk, Remember to "ping" me 05:07, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Edits to Sramana Mitra
Dear Sohom, two categories I added to the page Sramana Mitra were quite aligned with her profile - Entrepreneurship and MIT alumni. Any specific reason for removing those? With suitable categories linked, the profile will get more visibility. Saikatblogger (talk) 07:11, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- I think I edited a older version of the article which caused the removal. Feel free to add the category. Sohom Datta (talk) 06:50, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
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Wrt: paid editing
Sorry, I was occupied due to festivity. Just saw the template you left in my talk page. I got to know about paid editing from the template. I have been fighting spam and vandalism primarily at WP. From now on I will try to fight paid editing too. I see it needs much experience to judge such cases. also it seemed first such template used by you. Is this your first wp account? --☆★Mamushir (✉✉) 21:40, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
- Cool. Imma take your word for it. Wrt to the account, this is certainly my first account unless you count some non-substantial edits I made to Wikipedia as an IP address in 12th grade. Sohom Datta (talk) 02:53, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
@Mamushir: (pinging you since I've realized that I forgot to do it in the comment above) Sohom Datta (talk) 13:34, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Explanations Please
Hello there, you left this at the talk page of Mamushir, insinuating they may engaging in UPE & my question is why would you presume such if I may ask? If the reasons are ones you can’t discuss on-wiki then you may send me a mail as to why but if it can discussed here then please do so. Furthermore you are strongly advised not to directly edit articles you have COI's with, rather, you are to suggest changes at the talk page of the article. Celestina007 (talk) 23:18, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
- I'll be willing to discuss over email. Feel free to send an email to sohom.datta
learner.manipal.edu so that I can ping you back/send the details. Wrt conflict of interest, I recently re-read the COI guidelines and realized that just declaring it is not enough. I'll certainly only suggest edits to the institution's pages from now on. Sohom Datta (talk) 02:49, 7 November 2020 (UTC) - To sort of explain everything, it basically requires me to reference stuff not on wikipedia which AFAIK is prohibited.(I think) Sohom Datta (talk) 02:59, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
@Celestina007: (pinging you since I've realized that I forgot to do it in the comment above) Sohom Datta (talk) 13:32, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
- I think, for transparency and dispelling any confusion or doubt its better to keep things openly accessible. I may be wrong, but I think, nothing restricts us to refer other stuffs on wiki. Especially, when it involves me as a subject and I do not have any problem. Lastly, with the spirit of Wikipedia which is an open forum, I think its better to keep things openly accessible. Besides I am curious to know the basis of your presumption as Celestina questioned. --☆★Mamushir (✉✉) 20:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Mamushir: and @Celestina007: Cool since both of you are asking me to keep everything public, I'll go ahead.
- REDACTED
- Contrary to what you just stated, my very first entry implied if you couldn’t discuss this on-wiki you should send me an email instead. Anyway, your evidence seems very interesting I must say, I think I’d take it from here. Celestina007 (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- Cool, will keep that in mind for any other issues related to off wiki stuff. Also, thanks for taking a look. Sohom Datta (talk) 02:50, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
- It appears your evidence was substantial enough for a very pertinent action to be taken. Thank you for observing & reporting such, if you suspect more foul play by any editor anywhere you could leave me a message in my email & if you have cogent evidence of undisclosed paid editing you might report it straight to by e-mailing @MER-C. Thank you once again for countering undisclosed paid editing. Celestina007 (talk) 19:28, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
- Was there? It was me who revdeled the report both here and on my talk page because you asked for it and I agree it should not have been posted publicly. Mamushir remains unblocked. Please send the evidence to paid-en-wp wikipedia dot org. MER-C 19:32, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
- Cool, sent email to paid-en-wp. Sohom Datta (talk) 03:49, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
- Was there? It was me who revdeled the report both here and on my talk page because you asked for it and I agree it should not have been posted publicly. Mamushir remains unblocked. Please send the evidence to paid-en-wp
- It appears your evidence was substantial enough for a very pertinent action to be taken. Thank you for observing & reporting such, if you suspect more foul play by any editor anywhere you could leave me a message in my email & if you have cogent evidence of undisclosed paid editing you might report it straight to by e-mailing @MER-C. Thank you once again for countering undisclosed paid editing. Celestina007 (talk) 19:28, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
- Cool, will keep that in mind for any other issues related to off wiki stuff. Also, thanks for taking a look. Sohom Datta (talk) 02:50, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
- Contrary to what you just stated, my very first entry implied if you couldn’t discuss this on-wiki you should send me an email instead. Anyway, your evidence seems very interesting I must say, I think I’d take it from here. Celestina007 (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
- I think, for transparency and dispelling any confusion or doubt its better to keep things openly accessible. I may be wrong, but I think, nothing restricts us to refer other stuffs on wiki. Especially, when it involves me as a subject and I do not have any problem. Lastly, with the spirit of Wikipedia which is an open forum, I think its better to keep things openly accessible. Besides I am curious to know the basis of your presumption as Celestina questioned. --☆★Mamushir (✉✉) 20:46, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hi my friend. A 2011 census is twelve years old. Its evidence should be described in the past tense, not the present tense. Thanks. Best regards, BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 05:25, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
- @BoyTheKingCanDance It's the latest census we have right now :( But I do get your point of refering to in past tense. Sohom Datta (talk) 05:30, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
- Right. Of course. Thanks. BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 05:31, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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- Same applies for you as well, thanks for reviewing the articles :) Sohom Datta (talk) 07:04, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
- And thanks for all your hard work. You are a credit to Wikipedia!!!!!! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 05:32, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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I want to create and publish the places and things based in West Bengal, i need your help in reviewing and proofreading those. Can you help? Syed A. Hussain Quadri (talk) 07:52, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Hey I saw your helpful comment on the RFC and wanted to discuss. You're correct about specific technical blockers when it comes to the current Graph extension. It's probably impossible to make it secure. It feels like the Foundation could invest in a Community Wishlist team being able to build some kind of secure graphing feature for MediaWiki though. Like why can't we natively add graphing libraries that don't require calling an insecure third party resource? The underlying need of visualizing graphs is a real one that needs a solution, agnostic to whether it's specifically the existing extension or something else. Steven Walling • talk 15:45, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Steven Walling Graphs in general are pretty hard to generate (D3.js which is the state of the art in graphing libraries is over 290kB minified, (for comparism, Wikimedia ships around 28kB of JS per page load). and will definitely require calling some third party libraries somewhere. Building our own graphing libraries will take a massive amount of effort not to mention that it will lead to much severe problems if not maintained properly :(
- I think the current approach is arguably the better one (use sandboxed third-party resources), however, I definitely agree that using a more up-to-date graphing library would be a nice additional safety net (not to mention the new features that could be added).
- I think the second part could be proposed in the next Community Wishlist Survey (provided the current Graph extension is up and running by the end of the year) and is something that the Community Wishlist team could work on even with it's current funding status (based on my understanding). Sohom (talk) 03:47, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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Update to Prosus Wikipedia page
Hi Sohom. I work on the communications team at Prosus and see that you have previously updated/made edits to the Prosus Wikipedia page. I'm getting touch because the current CEO mentioned on the Prosus Wikipedia page is incorrect. Bob van Dijk is no longer CEO of Prosus and Ervin Tu is the current interim CEO. Please see links below to news sources from Reuters, Bloomberg and TechCrunch confirming this. Would it be possible to update the page?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/naspers-prosus-ceo-bob-van-dijk-steps-down-2023-09-18/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/17/prosus-naspers-ceo-bob-van-dijk-abruptly-steps-down/amp/?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIrRFCKMPWfFBq2rDpr_wQHpaeBlJpVpRxG8EgGvZmmFObgi7GDJyHWS4V56T9X8W74HI0wy6sDRerxy7tz-QFrbNXqSZesaQxzdfdE6EYu7STnqGT3W-iql1X1GMrHuuO3kfyBYWSK9oNUcDcEEkyzMb6fmHlbOvzQPAjrzzoI0&guccounter=2 77.102.185.77 (talk) 04:41, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello Sohom Datta:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Streak award
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Rack and pinion Award | |
| This award is given to Sohom Datta for collecting more than 15 points per week in the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for your continuous contributions to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:38, 1 November 2023 (UTC) |
- Thank you Hey man im josh :) Sohom (talk) 12:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
October 2023 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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The New Page Patroller's Barnstar | |
| This award is given to Sohom Datta for collecting more than 100 points during the October 2023 NPP backlog drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to the drive! Hey man im josh (talk) 01:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC) |
- Thank you Hey man im josh :) Sohom (talk) 12:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Cross-site leaks
The article Cross-site leaks you nominated as a good article has failed 
; see Talk:Cross-site leaks for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Equalwidth -- Equalwidth (talk) 10:02, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Replied at User talk:Equalwidth Sohom (talk) 13:00, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Cross-site leaks
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Cross-site leaks you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of RoySmith -- RoySmith (talk) 23:22, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
Tag removal on Syntax section of V
Hi Sohom Datta,
I have removed your tag, after providing citations for the syntax used. I have also updated the safety and memory management sections with citations and removed the bulleted list style. Please review if sufficient, will strive to make corrections or improvements, and feel free to make suggestions. Thank you for your time and consideration in advance. Wukuendo (talk) 07:09, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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MediaWiki Extensions Barnstar | |
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Your GA nomination of Cross-site leaks
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About that undo
Any reason we can't keep the example but adding a comment suggesting the compiler error? that code snippet is supposed to explain how lifetimes have to do with the scope of a variable, and there is a sentence below that does say that that example fails to compile. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 11:33, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
- @0xDeadbeef I did not see your message till I had finished my edit, I had a similar idea and decided to modify the code so that it compiles and then add a note saying that it was copied from X and has been modified to compile properly since it was being used in a different context. Let me know if that works :) Sohom (talk) 11:40, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
- Looks good to me. thanks for working on this! 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 12:18, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
DYK for Cross-site leaks
On 14 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cross-site leaks, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that cross-site leaks can be used to gain information about your web browsing habits? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cross-site leaks. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cross-site leaks), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Spelling of defense
Just so you know, I'm fine with using American spelling, but it does violate RETAIN since the article is not America-centric. If no one objects it won't matter, though. If you do change the spelling back, also change it in the body of the article, and beware that someone might revert you. My apologies if I came across as rude, though! Best, -- RockstoneSend me a message! 18:58, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
- @Rockstone35 I'm going to think/mull it around a bit and then make a descision. I do not have a preference for eithier as well, and given that I am basically the only major prose contributor, I don't think there are going to be any objections eithier way. Also, you did not come across as rude, I was agitated at that point about something onwiki (and offwiki as well) which probably led to some of it translating into the text I was writing. Sohom (talk) 20:42, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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