Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Presidents of India/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was not promoted by User:Rambo's Revenge 14:19, 11 January 2009.

List of Presidents of India
User:La Pianista and I have been working on this article in early December last year, but the nomination was delayed because of the holidays. Anyway, I believe it meets the criteria now and is ready for nomination.  C h a m a l  talk 09:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I happily co-nom (though a bit late). :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C) 16:13, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd like to withdraw this nom, since neither of us have the necessary time right now to improve the article. I have discussed this with La Pianista, and we agreed that the best thing to do would be to withdraw the nom. Thanks for the suggestions from everyone, we will work on them when we can. Or at least, someone else will.  C h a m a l  talk 14:03, 11 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Images: Most of the images are under fair use rational and one nominated for deletion. Also, the ones with fair use rational do not seem to be in good shape. Various columns of fair use rational are not correctly filled up. Textual content seems to be good with thorough research done. -- GP Pande  12:43, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Changed Patil image. The fair use of other images is invalid. There are images of even the deceased Presidents available, some even on Flickr. OTRS system can be used. -- Redtigerxyz Talk 14:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll see if I can find some.  C h a m a l  talk 14:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Support Well-referenced and informative. Reywas92 Talk  21:43, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Oppose
 * Copyedit
 * 1) he/she --> The president. (gender neutral without slash)
 * 2) *done
 * 3) The post of President is known as Rashtrapati --> That would be in Hindi, not English
 * 4) *done
 * 5) The President is elected by an electoral college of members of the parliament houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Members of the Vidhan Sabha, the state legislative assemblies, are also involved in the election of the President. -- Choppy sentences. Needs to be combined as all three departments vote.
 * 6) *done
 * 7) being representatives of the Indian National Congress. Presidents do not represent their parties
 * 8) *done
 * 9) who died before his term of office was ended.  --> Simplify: who died in office
 * 10) *done
 * 11) Suggest you get it copyedited from a third person


 * Context
 * 1) Prasad was the first President of independent India. --> India was independent in 1947. Somewhere you need to mention that the post of President came about in 1950 after India became a republic
 * 2) *done
 * 3) Mention what act of the constitution sets the term of the president
 * 4) *done
 * 5) Who appoints an acting president. Convert the text to active voice
 * 6) *I added this in the article as vice president assuming office. Was it something else you meant?
 * 7) He is a recipient of the Bharat Ratna -->  change tense
 * 8) *done
 * 9) A timeline is needed. See List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
 * 10) *done
 * 11) use a separate background colour for acting presidents
 * 12) *done
 * 13) Any reason why there were two acting presidents in succession?
 * 14) *done


 * Manual of style
 * 1) President of India in the lead needs to be bold
 * 2) *done
 * 3) In the references, .html and .asp are not needed. It only applies to PDF, DOC and so on
 * 4) *done
 * 5) Golden Army of Angels --> wikify  not done It seems that Wikipedia doesn't have any information about this order. Should this be removed from the article?
 * 6) *done
 * 7) Defense --> Use Indian English spellings
 * 8) *done
 * 9) Use past tense for former presidents
 * 10) *done

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  08:03, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Copyrights
 * 1) Images have suspect licences. Indian government images are NOT in Public Domain


 * Thanks for your comments. I have completed some, working on the others. Will try to find free images, if there aren't any, accurate fair use rationales will be provided.  C h a m a l  talk 09:57, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Golden Army of Angels --> red links are perfectly fine. It would encourage someone to create an article. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * Lead section says: "Following Hussain's death, two acting presidents held office until the new president, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, was elected." - Next president was V V Giri himself who completed a five-year term.
 * done
 * In this context, it should be mentioned with ref that (something like this) if Vice-President is not available, Chief Justice of Supreme Court becomes acting President, as guided in Indian Constitution.
 * done (I did not find this in the constitution. Article 70 mentions that parliament may decide in exceptional conditions. I have added this  C h a m a l  talk 01:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC))
 * The two presidents who died in office, some info on how they died who would be good (in the last column of the table). - Not needed, they seems to have died natural deaths.--GDibyendu (talk) 09:33, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * N S Reddy row of the table says he was 9th President in last column, 6th in 1st column.
 * done
 * R Venkataraman row: he was jailed for participating in India's independence movement.
 * done
 * K R Narayanan row: he was chancellor of several universities. -> 'Vice-Chancellor' (of JNU). Wikipage on him does not give info on which other universities he was VC of.
 * done (He was a chancellor of several universities, as the ref shows. Have added VC info as well  C h a m a l  talk 01:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC))
 * The reason I pointing it out is that Vice-President, President and Governors of different states become Chancellor of universities by their position. For example, Chancellor of Delhi University is always Vice-President of India. Anyway, current info is referenced. BTW, 'chancellor in universities' should be 'chancellor of universities'.--GDibyendu (talk) 09:33, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

--GDibyendu (talk) 16:38, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Comments from
 * "The President also holds the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of India."-->The President is the Commander-in-chief of the armed forces of India.
 * done
 * "Although the president is vested such powers by the constitution of India, it"—"it"-->the position.
 * done
 * "that literally means "lord of the realm". " "literally" is implied unless suggested otherwise.
 * done
 * "There have been twelve Presidents of India"—"twelve"-->12.
 * done
 * "since the introduction of the post following"—"following"-->after.
 * done
 * "She was also the first woman to serve as President of India." "was"-->is.
 * done
 * What do the colors indicate in the table? A key is needed. done
 * Could you organize this a little better, a la List of Governors of Alabama? Dabomb87 (talk) 21:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * done
 * All items in sortable columns should be linked.
 * done
 * Please resolve the image issues; for fair use images, strive for minimal usage. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe Chamal is currently working on the last one. I've attempted to fix the other ones. &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C) 21:26, 4 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Items colored light brown to indicate acting president needs a symbol, such as * # ‡ † Dabomb87 (talk) 02:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * done

Sources Dabomb87 (talk) 20:24, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I notice that you use Encyclopædia Britannica as a source. Generally, we should not be using other tertiary sources to source Wikipedia, a tertiary source in itself.
 * done
 * Newspaper publications should be in italics, change "publisher" to work, see this sample edit. Done, if I understand correctly. &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C) 21:35, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You italicized everything here, I only meant the newspapers and magazines. Dabomb87 (talk) 21:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry. Hopefully fixed now. :) &mdash;  La Pianista  (T•C) 21:52, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No leading 0s in dates, see this sample edit.
 * done

Oppose from Kensplanet
 * What makes REF18 (http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-indians/presidents/neelam-sanjiva-reddy.php) reliable?
 * done Nothing. There were a few references like that, but I must have missed this one when I replaced the others. I've put a better ref in place now.
 * Can you find some better References for A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Ramaswamy Venkataraman. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/625441/Ramaswamy-Venkataraman and http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/861164/A-P-J-Abdul-Kalam are not good sources. The Presidents of India are well documented. Please consider some better sources. Check Google Books.
 * done New refs added.
 * Unless copyright status of all the Images are cleared, I oppose. Kensplanet TC 07:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll work on the images ASAP, probably during the weekend when I get more time, or earlier if I can manage.  C h a m a l  talk 13:28, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Do ping me on my Talk once Image issues have been resolved. I'll surely reconsider my decision. Kensplanet TC 06:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The Lead looks very dry without an Image. Consider adding an Image like the President's residence or something. Kensplanet TC 06:46, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Image comments
 * President #2 is not a free image (see )
 * Same with President #3.
 * Was this image really taken by that user? It seems rather old for that...
 * (you cropped your President #31/3and #4 image from that)
 * See if you can find President #6's image on Google Images...if you can't, than the description might be right.
 * Need a non-free use rationale for President #7.
 * Also need a NFRR for Prez #10.
 * Hope that this helps you guys get it to FL. :) Cheers! — Ed   17  (Talk /  Contribs)  21:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I will work on the images during the weekend. I have very limited time now, and will try to clear up the other issues until then.  C h a m a l  talk 12:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Comment by Sarvagnya
 * indiafacts.headlinesindia.com does not seem to meet WP:RS standards.
 * done Replaced with the constitution.
 * B D Jatti was not CM of Jamkhandi. Jamkhandi was his constituency.  He was CM of 'Mysore' where "Mysore" should be linked to Karnataka.
 * done
 * The colour coding to denote party affiliations is alright, but correct me if I'm wrong.. I feel it should be clarified that the Office of the President is not associated with a given party, regardless of the incumbent's prior affiliations.
 * done This is already mentioned just above the table.  C h a m a l  talk 02:41, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Sarvagnya 22:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  15:19, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Review 2
 * 1) Six of these were representatives of the Indian National Congress. The Janata Party has produced one president, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy.  I'm not happy with this statement. I would suggest a rewrite on these lines "...were active party members of..."
 * 2) *done
 * 3) It would be a worth note to mention that candidates affiliated to the ruling political party at the centre are likely to become President.
 * Prose and redundancies:
 * 1) is largely a ceremonial role
 * 2) *done
 * 3) exercised by the Cabinet Ministers and Prime Minister. --> convert to active voice
 * 4) since the introduction of the post. The post was established in 1950  --> check the flow. Include 1950 in the first sentence.
 * 5) *done
 * 6) when he resigned --> confusing wording. Mention the name of the person in the sentence for clarity
 * 7) *done
 * 8) via -- colloquial
 * 9) *done
 * 10) indicate the following. A colon is needed to indicate an incomplete sentence
 * 11) *done
 * 12) You can also mention that since 1977, all presidents have assumed office on 25 July.
 * 13) was also a chancellor
 * 14) Early on,  Venkataraman
 * 15) British due to his involvement --> "for his"
 * 16) *done
 * 17) India’s Provisional Parliament --> This is something new for me. Link?
 * 18) *Ref is already there at end of sentence.
 * 19) first Sikh to become President of India. --> Trivia not needed. We do not have a similar entry for first the Muslim and Christian to be President
 * 20) *done
 * 21) ...State of Mysore... Link to State of Mysore instead of Karnataka
 * 22) *done
 * 23) Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed served as a Minister --> What portfolio?
 * 24) remains the only person --> is the only person
 * 25) *done
 * 26) Bharat Ratna award --> Bharat Ratna
 * 27) *done
 * 28) 'in order to ''
 * 29) *done
 * 30) Would like to see a cite for "lord of the realm"
 * 31) You need not sort the portrait and notes column. Also check and see if the dates sort correctly. You might need to use a sort key
 * 32) You can also add an "age at assuming office" column
 * 33) You can also add a "% of support" column if the data is available.
 * 34) *For the age and support percentage, I'm not sure if there will be information for all presidents. Finding important details about them on reliable sources was surprisingly hard (I'd have thought that Indian presidents would be covered deeply in media), and I don't think there will be many good sources for this info. I'll see if I can find any.  C h a m a l  talk 12:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually I references are pretty much available http://presidentofindia.nic.in has the birthdays of the most presidents, and % victory is available here: http://pib.nic.in/archieve/pelection2007.pdf (You might have to scavenge for the 1997, 2002 & 2007 results though). Limit searching to the .gov.in and .nic.in domains on Google. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:07, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedily closed per nominator withdrawal. Rambo's Revenge <b style="color:#FFA500;">(talk)</b>  14:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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