Talk:Yashpal

Recent material
Where is all the recent material from? It has no sources, and much of the writing is that of an essay, not an encyclopedia. I didn't immediately find anything, but copyright violation is a possibility. - Taxman Talk 05:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed
I fixed the language of the article. Got some more content from a web source and added images. -- Swapnilnarendra (talk) 18:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Was completely non-neutral and poorly cited. EvergreenFir (talk) 20:07, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Help needed
Yashpal is clearly a very significant writer but I'm afraid that I'm not good when it comes to statements about literary achievements/criticism etc & I fear that things will turn into a series of quotations if I'm left to my own devices. I've left a note at the Literature project in the hope that someone can assist with this aspect of the article. - Sitush (talk) 14:15, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Update: there may be something of use in the Elam & Moffet source that I have just added. Certainly seems to be but I am no better now as dealing with literary achievements/criticism than I was four years ago, sorry. - Sitush (talk) 16:26, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Interwiki links
I have twice removed an interwiki link to hi-Wikipedia. The project has very different standards to ours and the article there is appalling; the redlink in this article is sufficient to alert people to the potential need for an article on en-WP. - Sitush (talk) 07:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Is this practice, which I have only very rarely seen before, going to become an attempt to end-run around objections to Wikidata integration? Eg: create the interwiki article link now and then, in a few months, someone says "hey, we have load of these so why not run a bot to configure the connection through Wikidata"?

Whatever the case may be, the solution is to create the article here, not send someone elsewhere. If the sources are good at the Hindi article then they can be re-used here (they are not, though). - Sitush (talk) 07:59, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Is this practice, which I have only very rarely seen before, going to become an attempt to end-run around objections to Wikidata integration?: Template:Interlanguage link is used on 47,000 pages. It has existed since 2013, long before Wikidata was around. Per the documentation for the template, the redlink plus other-WP-link "functionality is intentional, temporarily providing links to the non-English Wikipedia article(s) until the anticipated English Wikipedia article is created." Once the en.WP article is created, the link to the non-English WP article is hidden. In this case, the hi.WP target has some puffery, and it is not sourced to en.WP standards, but it gives a basic sense of who the person is instead of letting the person be a complete mystery. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:00, 15 October 2018 (UTC)


 * I can fix the mystery without an ILL. I didn't say that the template was new - I was querying whether it could be used to do an end-run. I'm not happy with it in this article. In fact, I'd probably not be happy with any ILL to an Indian fellow-project because the standards are shocking. The English WP is often bad but ... - Sitush (talk) 16:10, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree with Sitush. Let's not send English-readers to non-English Wikis. It is better to keep a redlink. --Titodutta (talk) 17:24, 17 October 2018 (UTC)