Talk:Ahmedabad

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	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 23, 2007.
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Contents 1 ....bad 2 Watch out 3 Great Religious Diversity? 4 CONGRATULATIONS!!! 5 Encyclopaedia Iranica link 6 Well done! 7 Ogg file for pronounciation of "Ahmedabad" in gujarati 8 This article need an unofficial FAR

[edit] ....bad

Why do the cities ed in "bad" like Islamabad, Ahmedabad. etc... Is it something to do with the language? I presume it means cityTourskin 05:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I cannot give you any source right now, but probably this suffix "-bad" comes from abad which in Urdu (and may be in Arabic) means a populated place. nagar is another suffix for many South Asian places. Nagar in Sanskrit means town. These are somewhat like "-ville" in many English speaking nations. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it translates as "City of Ahmed" (Sultan Ahmed Shah being the founder). As far as I know the suffix abad originates in Persian. Abecedare 09:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The suffix 'abad' comes from Persian not Arabic. It means 'abode' or dwelling place not exactly 'city'. Maquahuitl 13:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch out

Featured articles have been vandalized lately. User:Jarex 5:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great Religious Diversity?

As it is now, the article states that this city enjoys "great religious diversity." It seems to me that the majority of citizens are hindu. What constitutes great religious diversity? Diversity compared to what? 68.165.56.43 17:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• Why make comments which have no factual basis, have you ever been to Ahmedabad? What do you know about ahmedabad. To make any comments about any city without even having seen it once in person is nothing but a prejudiced remark made by the one sided reporting of a place made by some third person. Please visit ahmedabad first before making such comments. I have enough hindu, muslim, christian, sikh, jain, parsi and sindhi friends to know that such a diversity exists and i dont depend on some media reports but i know it first hand. And please if you do want to start a debate do not go and hide under the cloak of anonymity. lets have a free and fair debate about it under wiki policy.Kaushal mehta 08:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Come on guys, let's be civil about this.. Maybe he is asking a genuine question.. let's not get defensive. --Rev.bayes 22:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
• As far as wiki policy goes, when you say that you "dont depend on some media reports but i know it first hand", you are exactly describing what is called Original Research. Eleven even (talk) 04:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CONGRATULATIONS!!!

It's being a while since I logged into wikipedia. I was really surprised to see this page being a featured article. I am really really happy! It seems a nice start to the weekend.

CONGRATULATIONS (and Thanks) to all the contributers who made it to this level.

alren ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 22:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations to all the contributors and everyone who helped write this article. Proud day for an Amdavadi. I am sending this to all my friends. --Rev.bayes 23:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I just logged in for 2 minutes yesterday to look at the article on the main page. It looked awesome :) I have gone through all the edits made yesterday. Mostly vandalism, but not as bad as I had expected. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:29, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopaedia Iranica link

This link:

• Ahmadabad entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica

Was added by a Columbia University IP along with many other links to the site. I have moved it hear in keeping with our external links guidelines so unconnected editors can evaluate its appropriateness. Many of the websites entries are short and may not contain much more than the articles they have been added to. However, this might be a good source even if editors do not consider it an appropriate external link. -- SiobhanHansa 22:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Iranica is produced by Columbia University and is a scholarly source. It should not be removed from the articles as they are pertinent sources of reference.--Zereshk 12:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Well done!

Hello all who have worked on this article! Very well done. I was pleasantly surprised to see the level of research and hard work that has gone into this article. Shu vaat chhe!!--Mayalekhni 07:33, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ogg file for pronounciation of "Ahmedabad" in gujarati

Hi, Can anybody tell me how to upload the ogg file of pronounciation of "Ahmedabad" in gujarati? Thanks in advance.--Nirajrm Δ | [sign plz] 23:26, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article need an unofficial FAR

I think this article should be reviewed as this article may not meet some of the criteria of a FA. The main problems are 1a, 1b, 1c and 2b. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 07:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)