Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
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Self-nomination. This is about a Bengali poet. Please feel free to be incisive in your constructive objections and criticisms. It is a large article (~ 70 kb), but is much smaller if one ignores/deletes all the referencing. Saravask 09:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * For quotations we do have some templates that you can use in place of the tables if you'd like - see Category:Quotation_templates. They look decent enough as is though. Just another star in the night T 10:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Here are my observations.
 * The size of bangla font is too small. Can it be increased?
 * I am yet to see the gray-box usage of quotations in Featured Articles. Confirm it from WP:MOS and make changes, if necessary.
 * Saffron and History of saffron are both featured and use them. Saravask 20:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * A link to Charles Hardinge can be added in the Photograph summary in the lead paragraph.
 * Rest looks fine. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 10:44, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * About the font: You would need to get another Bangla font and set your browser to recognise the font as the default for Bangla. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't knew that the problem was with my browser. I saw similar problem with the user bn-1 template that appears on my userpage and edited in order to make it look big enough. If its Ok with normal browser, I have no objections. Good cleanup since I last viewed it. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Object: fairuse images need fair use rationale (eg dancing girl). poetry section layout is ugly: too many images and boxes stacked on top of, and next to, each other. can it be tidied? maybe those grey quote boxes should just be replaced by normal indented text to help address this issue?
 * and 2 new issues in Politics section: there is a HUGE blank space before the pgraph starting "Tagore also lashed out against the orthodox ...", and there is a couple of stacked images there, please spread them out. Zzzzz 12:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Layout has been fixed. Saravask 00:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * All those non-PD images already had fair use rationale. Take another look at the image pages. Saravask 20:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Object -- 1. The article could be summarised further. I've ignored the referencing, but there's too much detail here which can easily be moved to daughter articles. 2. Avoid so many quotations. 3) " Dancing Girl" and "The Hero" images overlap with the following section heading. Please left-align. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  13:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * What sections need shortening? I'll be shortening the "Santiniketan", "Short stories", and "Politics" sections. Let me know if others need to be condensed. Saravask 20:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll wait till you finish the summary. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  05:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Grey boxes, most quotations deleted. All images right-aligned. Saravask 22:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Once summarising is done, please let me know on my talk. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  15:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Two sections under "Works" need to be gutted-out and re-written before they can be summarized; I'm in the middle of doing this, so it will take another day or two before the summarization is done. Saravask 22:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support -- much neater now. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  16:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

--Blacksun 04:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong support Conditional Support : Really good article. However, you have my support only if you can address these issues:
 * 1) Shantiniketan section is really confusing. It seems like you have so much information in there that has nothing to do with "Shantiniketan" or his life there.  For example, what is the utility of how much money he was making in this section?  Then you go on to talk about his travels to USA in this section.  It seems like a lot of information in this section can either be thrown out or merged with some other section. I recommend creating a section called "International travels" and merging all his travels in that.
 * 2) Your lead in for the last years section is weak.  The entire first paragraph about his views on differences amongst humans has nothing to do with his last years the way it is worded.  Maybe you are trying to say that "in the last years of his life he viewed human differences as shallow"?  No idea.  The second paragraph has a lead that should be for the first paragraph of that section
 * 3) Is their a reason why their is a section "England and Selidah".  I could not really see any connection between the two things and am wondering why do you have a section named that.
 * Support. All the online citations/refs check out. A random fact-check revealed no errors. This is an example of an article going above and beyond what the feature article criteria demands. --maclean 25 06:07, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Excellent work.--Dwaipayanc 05:15, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. This article looks great after the extensive copyediting by Saravask over the last few months. --Ragib 17:59, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support my heartiest congratulations to Saravask and others for their great work. Rama&#39;s Arrow 18:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Most of the issues detailed by me previously have been addressed. The article is now overall good but with some issues, though not critical. I would be happy to see them addressed. First, the "Early Life" section shows his signature, but does not tell in what year it was taken. People's signature change quite susbtantially throughout their life, hence it is important to tell the period it corresponds to. Of course its under "Early Life", but still a bit more detail would help. Another minor thing is that the name of the image concerned is just "Signature.gif", which could have been more informative and less general (no need to act on this). Also, the second paragraph of same section has too many mdashs which seem to break the flow quite frequently. At some places I believe, a comma would be more suitable. The "Shantiniketan" section mentions "Institute for Rural Reconstruction" and says that it was renamed "Shantiniketan". It looks like there won't be more to it than the Shantiniketan article itself. Either create a redirect, or remove the link. Also, I believe the article no longer includes Chinese Text. It used to be in the caption of "Tagore-THU.jpg" the last I remember, but it looks fixed now and there aren't any more mentions of it. So the Chinese Text Rendering Support template can be done with. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 05:44, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for my sluggish response. I don't know when the sig was written; I've requested Dwaipayanc (the uploader) to clarify this. Also, the "Institute for Rural Reconstruction" was renamed "Shriniketan" ("Abode of Plenty"), not "Santiniketan" ("Abode of Peace"). Saravask 18:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

please give details about his death also —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.94.240.119 (talk) 16:52, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong Support. Well-written, comprehensive and informative article with good use of references and images. Green Giant 02:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. This is a good article on the single most important personality in the whole of Bengali culture, though I find this is not emphasised in the article. Loom91 13:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Support. Specially because this is a very hard topic to grapple. I agree with the point made by Loom91, but it's a minor issue.--ppm 23:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)