Talk:S. R. Ranganathan

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1. how many person get padam shri in library science

2. which university start M.Phil. first in library science — Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.16.199.246 (talk) 08:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

caste
I am not Indian, but I wonder... Is it considered rude to state his caste origin? I am curious, but perhaps I shouldn't be. Rlitwin 21:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It depends. In British times, it was common amongst biographists of the period to mention a person's caste in the introduction. Though, segregation of people by caste isn't right, I don't think it is something wrong either. Mentioning a person's caste might probably make us aware of the atmosphere in which he spent his childhood. You see the language, dress and some traditions and customs differ from caste to caste.- Ravichandar My coffee shop  03:02, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

display of Tamil
Shows up as (Tamil: சியலி ராமாமிருத ரங்கநாதன் on my screen. Can this be fixed? Jodi.a.schneider 00:38, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

orphan text
Does this phrase belong elsewhere in the article?

Basavaraju Amrita School of engineering Bangalore —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.241.37.140 (talk) 02:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Sdsouza 19:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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classic thinker of library science
I am a newbie. I notice the sentence "He is considered to be the father of library science in India" in the beginning of this bio of S. R. Ranganathan. I think Ranganathan is recognized as the classic thinker of library science around the world. Library Journal had an article which suggests that the American Library Association's charter is very much based on Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. This year's ALA has at least one session on applying Ranganathan's Five Laws to Web 2.0.

So, do I just change that sentence to "He has had world-wide influence among librarians and is considered by many to be the father of library science." ???

Gregory Dove (talk) 11:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That would be an improvement on the over-restrictive "in India", so feel free to change it. However, Wikipedia articles are supposed to avoid referring to opinions without attributing them to cited sources (see "avoid weasel words"), and both the current version and your proposed replacement fail to specify who holds the opinion being mentioned. The article would be greatly improved if it described specific ways Ranganathan has influenced librarianship internationally, as in the examples you give. A "Legacy" section could be created for this. EALacey (talk) 19:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

"Moderate background"
"came from a moderate background"

What does this phrase mean? "middle-class background"? A reference to his caste? I don't understand this sentence. AdamBradley (talk) 19:30, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Sources Added Where Needed
I added several sources to those sections that were deficient. Can someone check these so we can remove the banner?Petercannon usf (talk) 22:31, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

NPOV Dispute
The article reeks of weasel words and overstatements of his accomplishments.

FTA:

"His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws ... and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system, the colon classification."

It looks like Universal Decimal Classification was invented around the time SRR was born. Attributing the invention of an analytico-synthetic classification to Ranganathan is not accurate.

"He also devised the Acknowledgment of Duplication..." I'm positive that SRR wasn't the first person to realize that two books could be given two different Dewey classifications.

"To a mind such as Ranganathan's, a structured, step-by-step system acknowledging each facet of the topic of the work was immensely preferable to the anarchy..." implying that Ranganathan had a superior mind to any librarians that came before him.

Where this article states biographical facts on Ranganathan, multiple sources are used and they seem accurate. However, where this article states inventions or accomplishments of Ranganathan, only one source is ever used (Srivastava, A.P. (1977). Ranganathan: A pattern maker.)

As I thought, it looks like the first major contribution was originally a college book report; the contribution summary reads, "expanded article, adapted from recent research paper". User:Sethant's contribution has been inaccurate and biased since 2004. It looks like the "research paper" was written to show how amazing Ranganathan was, rather than an objective summary of his accomplishments.

I'm sure Ranganathan was a great man. But he should be credited with bringing some of these concepts to India, not for inventing these concepts on his own. This bizarre article describes Ranganathan as some sort of librarian messiah.

Unfortunately, I disagree with your characterizations which seem a bit overboard (i.e., "bizarre article" and "librarian messiah"). However, some of your points have merit and will be addressed.Petercannon usf (talk) 19:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)


 * tomorrow is SRR's birthday. I tried to tone down some of the language to make this article more NPOV and checked the citations. I think it's okay for removing the dispute tag so I've taken it down but please let me know if you do not agree and we can work on specifics. Jessamyn (talk) 00:37, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

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birth dates
This article had three differing birth dates. I used one source which states his birthdate as 12 of August and updated them all to match but this deadlink may have had differing information so I am including it here. Jessamyn (talk) 14:45, 31 July 2018 (UTC)