Talk:Chittagong

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I have changed the importance of this article to "Top". The reason is - Chittagong is the largest Sea Port of Bangladesh, the Commercial Capital of Bangladesh and also a place of high historical and cultural significance. Hence it qualifies the requirement for being rated as TOP important, which is - an English language encyclopedia must have an article on this topic.-Arman Aziz 08:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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I think the role of "Mastar da" Surya Sen needs to be added in the History section. Can someone add it? I don't have the detailed history right now, but the "Armory Case" was a pivotal movement in the Indian Freedom Movement.

Professionalism

I feel that although this is a beautiful description of Chittagong and Chittagonians, it is not written to a standard appropriate for an encyclopedia. It sounds a little too dramatic and poetic and I have begun the process of wikifying and removing POVs. If someone else can go through and help out, this will be much faster. The information is all good - it's just that some of the flowery descriptions and epic wording needs to be toned down. Thanks!

--SameerKhan 18:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Biases, missing information and absence of rigorous analysis

There is a lot of information in this article - but none of it is substantiated. There are no references, no independent views and no systematic and chronological observations from a historical perspective.

"SameerKhan" understates this by saying it is "poetic". It is far from poetic - and more a case of fantasizing. A common perception of the muslim citizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh is the assumption that history begins with the advent of Islam to the sub-continent.

Chittagaon existed long before the "Arabs" or "Mughals" discovered it. Moreover, Chittagaon had a significant Hindu population (the entire district had a significantly larger Hindu/Buddhist population than Muslim) prior to partition - given over to East Pakistan solely because it was the only port that could serve the rest of the province. Significant portions of Hindu migration from Bangladesh to India are due to persecution. While recently, this persecution has reached fever-pitch, it existed prior to 1971.

A more studied and analytical article would be helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.89.122.201 (talk • contribs)

Whoever you are, you seem to have enough "analytical knowledge" about the past of Chittagong, so why don't you do this "studied and analytical job" yourself? Anyway, this is the first time that I have come across this funny information that Chittagong was 'given over' to East Pakistan because it was the only port in the region. Your analytical genius seems to have become confused with heavy-handed and self styled history lessons - provided by God knows who! Besides, you are talking about 'persecution' of people which (as per your analysis) has reached a fever pitch these days!!! Who are you and where do you live to pan out ridiculous gibberish about Chittagong? Can you furnish any proof in support of your lunatic claims? I challenge you! Kazimostak 17:50, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

{{Sofixit}} --Ragib 18:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Not 'Language', but 'Dialect'

The 'Language' section of the article was faulty becasue Chattigaiya was not a seperate language, but a dialect of Bengali. So I have changed it completely. Any thoughtful comments or further change is welcome. Kazimostak 17:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

It was not faulty. I added a reference to a highly-respected linguistic organization. --SameerKhan 18:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Please reformat

The article is long but does not include a lot of information that the reader might need. I suggest someone editing to conform to wiki's templates for major cities. Dhaka is an excellent example. The additional historical and cultural details can be added to new articles linked from the main page.

copyvio

This whole article is a massive copyvio. Copyscape shows a lot of text directly copied from elsewhere. --Ragib 05:15, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I have removed some parts

I have removed Cox's Bazaar section because Cox's Bazaar is by no definition under Chittagong city - it is not even under Chittagong district. I have also removed the image of "Cittagonian People". The image doesn't reflect any cultural distinctiveness of the people of Chittagong. Even the face and dress of the photographed individuals are not clearly discernible.-Arman Aziz 02:24, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do check the article for cut-pasted text ... most of the article was taken verbatim from websites. --Ragib 03:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)