Talk:U. Sagayam

Politics?
I've removed a recent insertion about an attempt to induce Sagayam to run for Chief Minister. The insertion, sourced to an article in The Hindu and one in Economic Times, describes a rally with 1500+ participants. Per the ET article, Sagayam himself had not been approached by the organisers.

I've removed the insertion per WP:NOTNEWS. If this goes nowhere, we should leave it out. I'm preserving the sources cited here on the talk page so we'll have them availablle should this develop into something.

If re-inserted, this material should also be edited to adhere to NPOV, as the version I removed did not ("The younger generation is desperately waiting...") — Ammodramus (talk) 12:53, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Reverting recent changes
I've just reverted an edit by User:Japanmomo (diff). The edit introduced several problems, and since Japanmomo contests my reversion, I'll lay out my reasoning here rather than in the confines of an edit summary.

First, the edit changed a date; but the new date is not supported by the source cited, whereas the old one is. Japanmomo's version says that Sagayam was promoted to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 2001. The source cited is this article in Live Mint. In the seventh paragraph under the heading "Change of guard", we find "[Sagayam] was selected as an IAS officer and became subdivisional magistrate of Ootacamund (popularly called Ooty) in 1991." A string search for "2001" in that article turns up nothing. If Japanomo has found a source that says otherwise, s/he needs to cite it.

Second, Japanmomo introduced purported details of Sagayam's career history to the infobox. There are two problems. First, they're not supported by the source cited: this article in The Hindu. Japanmomo states, for instance, that Sagayam was in the State Civil Service from 1990 to 2001; but there's nothing in the article that supports this statement. The second problem is that unnecessary detail shouldn't be introduced to the infobox. Per MOS:INFOBOX, "[T]he purpose of an infobox [is] to summarize... key facts that appear in an article... The less information it contains, the more effectively it serves that purpose." The detailed timetable of Sagayam's civil-service career is not among the few details that casual readers need to take away from the article; it shouldn't be in the infobox.

Third, Japanmomo converted an existing citation to use the citation template. In WP:CITEVAR, under "To be avoided", we find "adding citation templates to an article that already uses a consistent system without templates". Moreover, s/he introduced a date in DMY format, unlike the YYYY-MM-DD format consistently used in the citations prior to his/her edit. Per MOS:DATEUNIFY, publication dates and access dates should follow a consistent format throughout the mass of citations; per MOS:DATEVAR, date formats in a well-developed article should not be changed without good reason.

If Japanmomo's got a reliable source that contradicts the Live Mint account of Sagayam's career trajectory, we should either change our article to match the source, or add a footnote to the effect that sources differ on this; which course we take would depend on the strength of Japanmomo's source. In any case, we'd need to add a citation to that source—in the format that the article already uses. Ammodramus (talk) 00:08, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Role Model For Many Youngsters
The only officer has served his duty as per government Norms — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.0.115.149 (talk) 10:21, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

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