Talk:Maharishi Vidya Mandir Schools

Edits
Made some simple edits and cleaned up the text. --BwB (talk) 16:19, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Growth and sources
In the past week th length of this article has roughly quadrupled. Yet in the entire article I see only a few independent sources. Most of it just seems to be highlights from the school's own websites. If there is no independent notice of a campus, then let's just include its existence in a list of campuses rather than going into non-notable details. Unless more external sources can be found I'll cut this down considerably.  Will Beback   talk    21:48, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I recently added several new, secondary sources which now comprise the majority of the sources and content. As for the 'non-notable details' please keep in mind that this is a school system in a developing country and that this is a developing article. Give it some time. Wiki wasn't built in a day.-- — Kbob • Talk  • 22:11, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * No, but Wikipedia should be built on secondary sources.   Will Beback    talk    22:25, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are very correct. Secondary sources are the backbone of Wiki. I just took a careful look at the citations. At present there are 23 citations and only 11 of them are from secondary sources. With this is mind I will withdraw some of the primary sourced content and place it here for storage. This will help the situation. But I also request your patience as I locate more sources over time. This is something I am actively doing through Google news alerts. -- — Kbob • Talk  • 23:08, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Going through the article just now I noticed that many of the primary source citations that were placed in the article upon its inception have since been supported by secondary sources. So I went the through the article and removed all the primary sources that were supported by secondary sources. I also reduced the number of subsections in the Campus section of the article. At the present moment, there are about 30 sentences in the article with 20 citations. Out of the 20 citations only five are primary sources. So I think the article now conforms with Wiki guidelines. Thanks for bringing this situation to my attention.-- — Kbob • Talk  • 23:38, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Attack
This occurred at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Bhilai.  Will Beback   talk    21:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Raipur, March 18: Several parents of a private school in Chhattisgarh beat up a 50-year-old principal Thursday, after girls complained to their families that he was seeking sexual favours from them, in return for higher marks in exams.
 * Just a note to indicate that some time ago I added a summary of the above sourced text.-- — Keithbob • Talk  • 19:05, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Parked Sources
Here is another unrelated news report. Both of these news items could be given a mention in the article.-- — Kbob • Talk  • 16:53, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Another source-- — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 16:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Another potential source --<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans -serif"> — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 18:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Teacher wins national award. TimidGuy (talk) 10:27, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks Timid. I had added some text based on this source. --BwB (talk) 13:29, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

http://www.assamtimes.org/knowledge-development/4477.html Possible source--<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans -serif"> — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> •  Talk  • 16:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That source refers to the "Maharishi National Cultural Celebration" and the invitees were mainly MVM students, from what I can tell. That one MVM school got more awards than other MVM schools at an MVM school system pageant doesn't seem particularly noteworthy for an encyclopedia.   Will Beback    talk    21:31, 27 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Interesting. The Assam Times runs many articles about the events at the local MVM school. It turns out the reporter who writes all of them, Mowsam Hazarika, has a son attending that school.   Will Beback    talk    21:37, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Another potential source http://www.assamtimes.org/knowledge-development/4510.html --<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans -serif"> — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 15:17, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, no honor that the Hazaika clan earns goes unreported.   Will Beback    talk    22:44, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/VGN-Developers-launches-Brixton/5006700391 --<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans -serif"> — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 18:34, 7 December 2010 (UTC)


 * More potential sources:


 * http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/kids/article950245.ece
 * http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=dec2610/city06
 * http://www.zeenews.com/news675559.html--<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS,sans -serif"> — <b style= "color:#090;">Keithbob</b> • Talk  • 21:36, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

No of States?
Article says 16 states but came across this article from New Zealand that says it is 17. Here is a link. http://www.indianweekender.co.nz/Pages/ArticleDetails/32/2280/Courses/Education-pioneers-of-India Oxford73 (talk) 08:34, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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