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Justification needed for Peacock tag
Please justify your tagging of the page K Bhogishayana as Peacock. Everything in it is sourced except for two minor details which will be shortly. It is all verified, and verified details on a highly notable Figure is not Peacock. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:57, 23 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Ldm1954 Off the top of my head:
 * This made a tremendous impression on the students, making the incident and the man legend among student circles for generations at the college
 * Feared and revered, the students nicknamed him “Boss." An intellectual himself, he still valued students who were athletes.
 * Considered a distinguished teacher, he had a strong social commitment beyond education to molding the lives and character of his students.
 * Bhogishayana grew the college into one of the best academic institutions in the region in his role as principal.
 * in addition to this, I have some grave doubts about the quality of sourcing in the article since most of the sources are publications by orgs which he had some involvement in, they are not neutral as required by Wikipedia guidelines. Sohom (talk) 15:08, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * All the relevant information is secondary sources, there are no primary sources. Note that there is no sourcing from his family, deliberately. Everything is in those sources, please check in detail. The only unverified information at presenst is his gold medal, for which the English Department at Mysore is searching, and the names of his daughters. The later might be removed as less relevant. Those were flagged, justifiably, by @LadyofShalott
 * Compared to most academics on Wikipedia he is far, far better and independently sourced. That is not a throw away comment, I have reviewed many particularly on AfC. Ldm1954 (talk) 16:16, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ldm1954 I disagree almost completely with what you said, most of the sourcing in the article is primary sources affiliated in some way with the deceased professor (for example is a source from the college the professor headed,   is a promotional link to the college website,  is affiliated with the same college,  is from a college where the subject was a principal,  is a source from an organization where he was a member), not to mention that the prose is borderline hagiographical.
 * Just saying Compared to most academics on Wikipedia he is far, far better and independently sourced is not a valid argument, per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.
 * Also just to make it clear, I am not saying the subject is not notable (since I personally have not analysed that aspect of the article). I am saying that the sources being used here are primary sources and the language of article has a hagiographical tone. Sohom (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but you are completely wrong. Sources 1-3,5,9,11,15,17,18 are unconditionally secondary. We can debate the others, but your "most" statement is very wrong. Calling everything vaguely linked as contaminated is not how sourcing and notability is done for academics. Ldm1954 (talk) 17:12, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ldm1954 I don't think we are talking about notability here, we are talking about sources, and academic or non-academic nobody has preferential treatment when it comes to whether or not a source is primary. Sohom (talk) 17:38, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1-3 are analyses of his brother-in-law's writings, secondary.
 * 5 is an article about the foundation where he is mentioned
 * 9 is about industrial action history
 * And so on. Not close to primary, please accept that. Ldm1954 (talk) 18:23, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 1-3 - do not cite any information regarding him, they are about tangentially related information, it does not matter if these are secondary
 * 4 Promotional link to college website
 * 5 History of a org where the person was a principal, this might be a primary source, might not, but arguably authoritative, though it would be much better if we could figure out what the name of the book was and who published it. (if it was published by the same org, that disqualifies it as a primary)
 * 6 Hagiographic message from the current principal of a college where the article subject was a principal, I would classify this as primary (or atleast not of the best quality)
 * 7 No idea what this is, I cannot verify via online means that this book exists, or what is being reffered to here
 * 8 Primary, listing of past luminaries by college where the person was the principal
 * 9 Broken link, unable to verify anything here, but hosted by the university where the article subject works at
 * 10 Again, no way to verify this even exists or what this is about
 * 11 Some kind of listing of the members of a org which the subject was a part of, primary sourcing
 * 12 Ditto as above
 * 13 Ditto as above, except as a obituary (I think)
 * 14 Award list, this is a good source :)
 * 15 The newsreader just lists them as being part of some committee, I guess this is secondary, but barely so
 * 16 Hagiographic message from college where the person was a principal, primary
 * 17 A link to a org, the the person was in ? Seems promotional
 * 18 A offline book, but atleast has a ISBN so I can verify it exists, no idea what it says though.
 * @Ldm1954 Hopefully the above conveyed why I called the sourcing dubious and primary. Again, I have just pointed out that the sourcing was primary oriented and asked you to improve them, I have not tagged the article with primary sources or taken the page to AFD for the same. The only specific thing that I did was tag the article prose as peacock because it reads extremely hagiographical (which is something others have brought up on the article talk page as well). I honestly do not understand your animosity in this case. Sohom (talk) 19:07, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I really do not understand why you are stretching this. For instance calling the professional website of a major college within a university a "promotional link" is inappropriate. Universities are not-for-profit organizations whose behavior and other details is monitored by state institutions, their peers and their governance. These are tighter controls. Are you staying that all University web sites and all the information they contain including library archives, PhD theses, policy papers etc are unreliable? I don't think you will find much support for this position.
 * You are also stretching some other things. For instance stating "others" when it was one person for an early draft; calling a Marati language newspaper that has been around for 90 years and has a Wikipedia page unreliable is inappropriate; Rotary international is hardly an unreliable source.
 * To err is human, to retract is divine. Ldm1954 (talk) 01:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ldm1954 The professional website of a college is promotional regardless of what it's profit status is, especially if no specific resource is linked to. Also in the context of Indian institutions which recieve little to no oversight from governance and related state institutions (leave alone peers) profit status realllly doesn't matter much.
 * Regarding your second point, these documents need to be judged on their individual merits. PhD theses are inherently unreliable unless published in a well known peer-reviewed Scopus indexed journal, policy papers pertaining to the university are primary sourcing and archives again must be evaluated on their individual merits (such as the independence of the authors and publishers). If the book is a book about the university, written by somebody affiliated to the university, it is primary sourcing and should be avoided.
 * Regarding the rest, "others" does refer to the one other person, I still think the article is hagiographical/peacock and I am yet to see any evidence on the contrary.
 * I am not saying the Marathi newspaper is unreliable, but you have not linked any proof that the article that you cite exists (ISSN/ISBN, newspaper clipping etc) and I said I could not verify anything about it due to this.
 * Wrt to Rotary International, I do not see what makes it non-primary especially when most of the content cited seems to be listing of user-supplied data. Sohom (talk) 08:34, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Dear @Sohom Datta,
 * I think it is important to clarify a few points, a key one being about university reports and theses. For a PhD thesis the review process is generally more rigorous than for Scopus journals, since too often journal reviewing is passed off to PhD students. For all major Universities the whole thesis is reviewed by a panel of 3-5 experienced faculty, who may require extensive rewriting. Depending upon the university the thesis advisor may or may not be a member of the committee, for instance in Cambridge, UK they are not. Sometimes there is an external advisor from another country, for instance Indian universities sending the thesis for written comments to someone in the US or UK. In addition, to my knowledge there is always a requirement that several papers have been published, if they have not the thesis cannot be submitted in the first place.
 * PhD students from India often take postdoc positions outside the country, and the level is typically competitive with Europe and US/Canada. Similarly the level of many undergraduate degrees is comparable. If any university starts publishing nonsense, or awarding "soft" degrees it drops down the rankings and will stop being respected by it's peers and it's alumni will find it harder to get the top jobs. There can also be legal issues, although these are less common and may not (yet) be important in India. Ldm1954 (talk) 09:07, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Ldm1954 I disagree with this, I am aware of how PhD, Masters and undergraduate thesis reviews are done in India and I have grave doubts on the reliability of the same. I would put more weight on the papers published during the PhD process, especially those with 5+ citations in any peer-reviewed non-predatory journal than a PhD thesis (unless the thesis is a amalgamation of the previous papers, in which case I would still prefer to cite the underlying peer reviewed paper).
 * PhD students from India often take postdoc positions outside the country, and the level is typically competitive with Europe and US/Canada. Similarly the level of many undergraduate degrees is comparable. I agree since I'm in a similar position IRL :) However, the second statement does not really track due to the existence of prolific degree mills and insufficient scrutiny of academic malpractises (such as plagarism) in the country. Sohom (talk) 09:20, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I do not count undergrad or masters theses, few do. Since I have been external examiner I do not agree with your statements about the level at major universities in India, and Shivaji University with an A++ rating is not a degree mill.
 * It depends upon discipline, but I would not count 5 citations as meaningful. I also know of several theses which are better cited than papers, going back to Maxwell but still others to this day. Often theses contain information and details omitted from "then a miracle occurs" papers.
 * Describing material from an Indian state university as unreliable is stretching things a bit. Ldm1954 (talk) 09:41, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Since I have been external examiner I do not agree with your statements about the level at major universities in India I disagree but I will take your words at face value :)
 * It depends upon discipline, but I would not count 5 citations as meaningful. I also know of several theses which are better cited than papers, going back to Maxwell but still others to this day. Often theses contain information and details omitted from "then a miracle occurs" papers. Exactly my point here, which university publishes it is irrelevant. Unless it has been peer reviewed and cited by others, a PhD thesis (or for that matter a research paper) is nothing more than a slightly more rigorous blog post describing something that the researcher has theorized, observed or proposed (figuratively speaking) and would be unreliable. The citations are what lends the paper it's legitimacy.
 * Describing material from an Indian state university as unreliable is stretching things a bit. I don't think it is imo, based on what I said above. The fact that is coming from a Indian state university amounts to nothing compared to other factors such as what level of peer-review the work (the most readily availiable metric of which is citation count) has been subjected to, the affiliations of the author and the independence of the publisher of the work. Sohom (talk) 10:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't understand, you are insisting that PhD theses are not peer reviewed? They are. Also citation count has never been a metric of merit, only popularity.
 * I think you are really stretching to retain a somewhat weak position. While we all do that sometimes, we should not. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:40, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

This conversation should be held on the article talk page. Lady of  Shalott  12:50, 24 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Moved :) Sohom (talk) 13:46, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Regarding Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Jalpaiguri deletion discussion.
Hi,@Sohom Datta I want to know that Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas(JNVs) are considered as not notable according to WP:ORG then, Here How So many JNVs Pages are created. I would like to inform you that please see the matter. I have viewed all this jnvs article and found that nothing meets WP:ORG. The following I think should be notable JNV Jalpaiguri's Official Website and this. If anything is wrong here please guide me. Thank You in anticipation.  Rasel Hasan🇮🇳 ( talk ) ( contribs ) 14:02, 27 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Mr. Rasel Hasan The short answer is that our notability guidelines have changed over the years, and many pages that were previously created now are no longer eligible under the current notability guidelines. I will take a look at the articles and see if they pass the notability guidelines and if they don't, nominate them for deletion. Sohom (talk) 21:50, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Sohom, I have attempted to create my first page, Kadak Singh. It is one of the more important movies this year with multiple national award winners coming together. Request you to review/ help. Thank you Filmyworldwiki (talk) 04:50, 1 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I will take a look if and when I get time. That being said, Films in general are not my expertise and I'd prefer not to do a full review. Sohom (talk) 13:44, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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 * Films are my area of expertise. Filmy World (talk) 17:41, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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 * @Clovermoss Sure, I've answered the questions :) Lmk if you need me to answer any further question (also a really interesting read since it seems like I'm the youngest (in wikiyears) on the page). Sohom (talk) 11:24, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Soham. You had very kindly reviewed this Afc article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Vinod_Tewary in September and given your valuable comments. Based on your comments I have added 3 non-primary references for the research work, and 2 new references for the awards. For the other awards, the article cites Vinod Tewary's main NIST page. NIST is a reputed, authentic, US govt source, and these awards are old. This is the best citation I could find for them.

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 * I can't verify a few of the sources, I'll leave it to some one else to take a look for now. Sohom (talk) 12:01, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
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 * That's a interesting bug, I'll try to reproduce it locally, I wonder if this is a PageTriage issue or PTUL issue :) Sohom (talk) 05:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hola señor mentor,me decis como pongo una foto a un articulo q no tiene,please --Epoca Romantica (talk) 17:49, 5 February 2024 (UTC)


 * @Epoca Romantica I don't speak Spanish, however, based on Google Translate, you seem to be asking how to add images to articles. Generally speaking, you can use the following syntax  to add a link. However on Bo (Lost Girl) you can use.
 * Looking at your edit history, it seems like you did try to do this, however, the file needs to exist on on Wikipedia for this to work. You can take a look at the file upload wizard to see how to upload the file on Wikipedia :) (fair warning though, you need to make sure the file is eithier freely licensed or is usable under fair use) Sohom (talk) 18:42, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * Thank you, I generally tend not to comment on IPA issues, due to it's reputation as a bit of mess at times. I'm not really aware of Celina Jaitly in the context of achievements in acting since I'm generally not avidly into movies. I'm somewhat familiar with her work surrounding Section 377 however, and it's heartening that people are still fighting that peice of legislation. Sohom (talk) 16:05, 8 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I can say the same myself regarding Celina Jaitly – I don't know much about her acting career, as I'm generally not familiar with Indian cinema (despite being a great fan of movies overall). I mostly know about her through her LGBT-related activism (including her public discussion with Ramdev in 2009 or so), and I really appreciate her because of that work. I think she's sending a different image of India to the world – quite the opposite from the image people were used to in the past, which was mostly socially conservative ("traditional") on so many levels, including gender roles and sexual identity. —  Sundostund  mppria  (talk / contribs) 19:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

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The article History sniffing you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:History sniffing and Talk:History sniffing/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 17:44, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Delulu
RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2914 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:23, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you @Gerda Arendt, means a lot :) Sohom (talk) 01:52, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

LTA?
Do you happen to know the LTA targeting redirects like Mehr (Clan) and Babariya? I see you reverted one of their edits in the past per WP:DENY, and this would help with reporting the disruption to admins in the future. Jalen Folf  (talk)  07:15, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * It's mostly Sockpuppet_investigations/Thakor_Sumant_Sinhji_Jhala or someone who is trying to impersonate their behaviour. Sohom (talk) 21:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Question from Amangautamartist (16:09, 26 February 2024)
Dear Ma'am Im a independent music artist. How can I write my biography and about my Career. --Amangautamartist (talk) 16:09, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Writing about yourself is generally discouraged on Wikipedia, if you want to talk about your life experiences, maybe a blog (maybe Medium or Twitter) might be better ? Sohom (talk) 17:29, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 March newsletter
The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:


 * , who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
 * , who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
 * , who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
 * , who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
 * , who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
 * , who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to, who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 March 2024
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Your GA nomination of Site isolation
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Site isolation you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of RoySmith -- RoySmith (talk) 17:21, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Merge of Alakh Pandey to Physics Wallah
Hi Sohom. When completing a merge, please remember to make proper attributions in the page history, tag the merged page with R from merge, and add merged from and merged to templates on the proper talk pages. User:SD0001/easy-merge is a helpful tool that automates the redirect and templating. Best, voorts (talk/contributions) 22:31, 4 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @Voorts Will keep that in mind. Sorry for messing up the merge of Physics Wallah. :( I've added the script to my common.js. Sohom (talk) 22:56, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Site isolation
The article Site isolation you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Site isolation and Talk:Site isolation/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of RoySmith -- RoySmith (talk) 18:23, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Site isolation
The article Site isolation you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Site isolation for comments about the article, and Talk:Site isolation/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of RoySmith -- RoySmith (talk) 12:01, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of History sniffing
The article History sniffing you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:History sniffing for comments about the article, and Talk:History sniffing/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of PCN02WPS -- PCN02WPS (talk) 12:16, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from BM3Smith on What is an article? (08:49, 9 March 2024)
Hello, I'm trying to find out if there is any video that exists of the sinking of the USS Peoria during RIMPAC 2004. It would mean a lot to me as I served aboard her. --BM3Smith (talk) 08:49, 9 March 2024 (UTC)


 * @BM3Smith I don't see any on Wikmedia platforms unfortunately :( Sohom (talk) 17:15, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mifu1915 on Draft:Mouna Boustros (16:17, 10 March 2024)
How do I save this page without publishing it? I need to get more information and return to it. --Mifu1915 (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2024 (UTC)


 * I owuld suggest saving the information in a file on your computer and returning to it, once you have more info. Wikipedia has no mechanism of saving without publishing. Sohom (talk) 16:40, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Hindu Mela
—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 12 March 2024 (UTC)