Talk:List of people from West Bengal

message: Please justify why the following people are listed in this article:
*Upamanyu Chatterjee, born in 1959, at Patna, Bihar.
*Kishore Kumar was born in a Bengali family as Abhas Kumar Ganguly, in the small town of Khandwa of Madhya Pradesh. 
*Rohan Gavaskar(born February 20, 1976 in Uttar Pradesh) is a cricket player and the son of former Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar. He is a specialist middle-order left-handed batsman and a part-time left-arm-orthodox spin bowler.
*Saba Karim(born November 14, 1967 in Patna) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.
I think the scope of the article doesn't allow people not "from" west bengal to be included. Thanks. --Ragib 05:46, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  questions? 

message: Don't you guys think more important is the language than the birthplace? If someone can't speak read or write Bengali, even then only on the basis of birthplace or bloodline can someone be considered as Bengali? I think this two critera should come into effect only when we are not sure if the person in context doesn't know "Bangla". Just a suggestion! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Debapriyo (talk • contribs) 08:34, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Check here GDibyendu (talk) 18:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Khulna is in Bangladesh, and was in erstwhile East Bengal ... NOT West Bengal. --Ragib (talk) 18:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is a bengali? e.g. Dia Mirza?? 

message: You can include the name of Tibbetibaba in the section 'Religion' of your article. Tibbetibaba was a famous Bengali saint of India whose life was based on both Advaita Vedanta teachings and Mahayana principles.
There is an article on Tibbetibaba in Wikipedia.
--Badshah165 (talk) 04:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tibbetibaba 

message: This is a list of people from a specific geographic region -- the Indian state of West Bengal. It is therefore quite incorrect to include people here who were not born in the geographic area under the region. I would request editors to refrain from including people from East Bengal in this list. There is a separate list List of Bengalis what covers all Bengali people. --Bagh71 (talk) 19:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I request the anon IP from Tamil Nadu to refrain from adding people from East Bengal in this list. There is a separate list List of Bengalis for people of BEngali origin. *This list* is for people born in a very precisely defined geographic region -- the current area under West Bengal. Naturally, people from East Bengal are not appropriate for this list, no matter how famous they are. --Bagh71 (talk) 19:29, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article focus 

message: names of great teachers may be added in this list  
Arunsnanda (talk) 05:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  names of great teachers  

message: there are many famous magicians in west bengal who have enriched the sphere of performing art and highlited the fame of India in the court of the world. their names may be added here.
Arunsnanda (talk) 05:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of magicians  

message: Last time I visited this page, there were dozens of barely notable personalities (eg. some present day doctors), turning this page into an ad campaign. Thanks for the trim. We have to keep trimming these frivolous additions. Sarindam7 09:53, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks 

message: I have begun the first step of cleaning up this list. I removed all of the non-notable people--that is, the people without Wikipedia articles. Lists of this type are generally considered to be a navigational aid, and thus should only have people with their own articles. However, if people disagree, it can be possible to have people without articles, but only if 1) we can find sources that unambiguously state they are/were from West Bengal and 2) that they are important enough that the could be included in the West Bengal article in prose. If we do not have such sources, they cannot be on this list.
The next step is a significant reorganization. It doesn't make sense to have, for example, a separate linguistics section from the science section. Additionally, we can't have sections entitled "Founding Fathers"; it's both sexist and a value judgment, and as such, violates WP:NPOV. We need to disperse everyone in what I now called "women's rights" into other categories; for example, if the woman is famous as a physician, she should be in the physician category. Gender segregation is so last century. 
The last step is that we do need to go into each linked article and make sure the person is explicitly listed as being West Bengali, and there needs to be a source to verify that. That's a big pain in the you know what, so I don't know if I'll ever get that far. Qwyrxian (talk) 14:46, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup