Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian politics/Archive 2

Workgroup-level quality statistics
Please read. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 08:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed change to party leadership categories
There's a discussion about Category:Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and Category:Indian National Congress leaders that started 16th October at --Mereda 14:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
You have a wonderful, well-organized project. I'm the coordinator of the medicine project. Could I steal your Collaboration opportunities and the Collaboration Dashboard. Magic ideas. :) NCurse work 20:58, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, I think there is no need to ask for it. All the texts are provided under GFDL license. Anyways the ultimate aim of the WikiProject is to improve the encyclopedia content. If it is good for that project it would be a little help to the medicine project from my side :) Shyam  ( T / C ) 21:23, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:38, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Integral humanism
The talk page of Integral humanism mentions the (stub) article to be maintained by this project. It appears to me that it could well be a self-promoting article (promoting linked and seemingly dubious sites), hardly more than a hoax, that should be deleted. Else it needs some reliable sources that prove the title to be genuinely notable. Before putting it up for deletion, I suggest members of this Indian politics project to have a look and if it is worth keeping, make a few essential improvements. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 15 Jan2007 08:46 (UTC)


 * Yes, I do agree with you. I will work out on those politician pages as time permits. So please do not nominate them for deletion. Shyam  ( T / C ) 18:40, 15 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Its notable in Hindu circles and in conservative hindu parties like the BJP. Its not well-known but hardly a hoax. Deendayal Upadhyaya is quite an important figure in Hindu politics. Baka man  02:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Expert review: MCA 21 Project
As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether MCA 21 Project is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 13:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Comments requested at RfC for Sonia Gandhi page
Hi, I would request memebers of the POI wikiproject to give their opinion over the content of the Sonia Gandhi page at this RfC. I hope this is an appropropriate place for making such a request. Many thanks. ReluctantPhilosopher (talk) 16:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot
TinucherianBot can automatically tag articles with WP India Banner as to the talk page of articles without the project banner. It can also add the workgroup paramaters like "|kerala=yes|kerala-importance=" etc ,if needed. The currently supported workgroups are Kerala,  Maharashtra,  Andhra pradesh, Tamil Nadu,  Gujarat, Bengal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka , Punjab,cities,  Cinema, Literature, Protected Areas of India, History, Politics, states, Geography,Maps,Districts and Tamil.

If you need so, you need to provide me with the Categories to run the Bot. Due to some technical issues, the Bot will not run recursively to sub-categories. The requester should kindly verify that  there are NO non-related articles in the category. You may request for the bot run on my talk page... Thanks --  TinuCherian  (Wanna Talk?) - 06:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * can you run the bot on the LS constituency pages? or maybe, wait till the last 3 are done. Lihaas (talk) 22:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Watchlists
To help this workgroup patrol existing articles for vandalism/recent changes, Ganeshbot has created the WikiProject Indian politics/Articles page. This page will be updated on a regular basis. Please do remind me if I forget. :) It contains articles that were tagged with the India banner and fall under the scope of this workgroup. Please let me know in case of any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 11:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup listings
User:WolterBot has created a WikiProject Indian politics/Cleanup listing page; it contains the articles that fall under the scope this workgroup and have cleanup tags on them. See this page for more information on this works. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 04:04, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Indian politics
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Operation bluestar bias debate
Hi, I and one of my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of bias in Operation Blue Star article, the summary of dispute can be found at, please let us know your views so that 'alleged' bias may be looked into and a consensual solution may be found. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 05:55, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Request for neutral opinion
Hi, I and my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of removing/toning down few lines on 'Allegations of Human Rights violation against the Indian Army' under 'criticism of the operation' section in Operation Blue Star article, concerns include WP:NPOV, WP:SOAP & WP:V, the summary of dispute can be found at. I would request all interested editors to kindly go through the article and please let us know your views/opinion at the talk page of the article so that npov, balance and undue weight concerns may be looked into and a consensual solution may be found. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 06:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Shripat Amrit Dange
This article is one of the selected ones for collaborations of the month. Let us work together to improve this article.--GDibyendu (talk) 16:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Lok Sabha
This article is one of the selected ones for collaborations of the month. Let us work together to improve this article.--GDibyendu (talk) 11:18, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

FAR notice for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
nominated Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.Cirt (talk) 06:34, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 03:26, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of P. V. Narasimha Rao
I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. As it fails many aspects of the GA criteria I have de-listed it. When the issues have been fixed, it can be renominated at WP:GAN. If you disagree with the reassessment you may ask for a community reassessment at WP:GAR. You can see the concerns at Talk:P. V. Narasimha Rao/GA1. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:47, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

FAR
nominated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.  YellowMonkey  ( vote in the Southern Stars and White Ferns supermodel photo poll )  01:45, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

Your Project's list can be found at WikiProject Indian politics/Unreferenced BLPs. As of May 17 you have approximately 37 articles to be referenced, a 5.1% reduction from last week. The list of all other WikiProject UBLPs can be found at WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/WikiProjects.

Your assistance in reviewing and referencing these articles is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions, please don't hestitate to ask either at WT:URBLP or at my talk page. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 17:20, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Indian politics articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Getting Mafia Raj to GA status
I was reading up on the Mafia Raj article, and I must say the article is certainly well-written. The prose is good, everything is referenced; I do feel it is worthy of GA status. Perhaps this WikiProject can do something about this? Of course, it will be a good idea to add some context sections, such as 'Background' and 'History' to make the article even more comprehensive and all-rounded. FA shouldn't be too far off either. Just some comments for an outsider. Cheers, A NG C HENRUI Talk♨ 12:40, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kamraj Desiya Congress


The article Kamraj Desiya Congress has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references finds only a single very minor published (gBooks) reference to the subject, fails WP:V and WP:N

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Shiromani Akali Dal (Panthic) / Shiromani Akali Dal (Panthik)
Can an expert check if these are the same political splinter group please ? Thanks - TB (talk) 23:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Edit-warring at Ram Rahim Singh
I'm not an expert on the subject, but there has been a lot of reverting going on at this article for the last few weeks. If anyone with knowledge of the topic would care to look over the article and comment on the talk page, I would appreciate it. —Torchiest talkedits 01:52, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Punjab Politics
Is this group still active? I'm interested in helping out with any articles related to Punjab Politics, I have good knowledge on the matter. Gsingh (talk) 22:47, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Indian politics will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Indian politics. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:00, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Name of the Article Basic Structure
Name of this Article should not be just Basic Structure, as just the words basic structure are not in any way related to the Basic Structure Doctrine followed in respect to constitution of India. --Alok Bansal (talk) 07:16, 6 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Article is moved to a new name, "Basic structure doctrine (Constitution of India)", as per the discussion in the Noticeboard for India related topics. Alok Bansal (talk) 21:32, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Tag and Assess 2012
The Tag & Assess Drive 2012 has been devised for pending backlog in WP India to achieve
 * Quality assessments for unassessed WP India articles.
 * Adding importance missed during previous assessment.
 * Bringing more articles into the scope of the project and subject them to assessment.

So far 8706 assessments (including quality and importance) have been performed in a span of 10 days. The drive is still open and we encourage participants from WP Indian Politics to enroll themselves. WP Indian politics is one of the daughter projects having huge assessement backlog. The participation would be very much appreciated - thanks in advance. and.

RFC on Nautrality at Narendra Modi
Asking about whether the article on the prominent and controversial Indian Hindu nationalist politican Narendra is currently neutral.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:43, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Himanta Biswa Sarma and Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Himanta Biswa Sarma
The first article above has no independent sources. The second has sources, but is not the main article, and will soon be deleted as an abandoned Afc draft. These two articles really should be merged. Is there someone at this Wikiproject who knows how to do this and would be interested in working on it? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 23:14, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Anne, I can help with this, but not sure, how to merge histories. undefined — Bill william compton  Talk   02:28, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Bill. I'm not sure either.  There's WP:Merge, but it talks about two existing articles rather than one article and one draft.  I have left a message at Help desk; maybe we can get some advice.  I'm sure that this situation has come up before.  &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 03:24, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Name of Kerala Legislature
Is there a compelling reason why the page for the Kerala Legislative Assembly should be at Kerala Legislature rather than an official name? Hack (talk) 14:14, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

List of political parties in India and List of recognised political parties in India
Hi there.

Someone may want to have a look at List of political parties in India and List of recognised political parties in India.

List of political parties in India currently shows a subset of List of recognised political parties in India, when you'd expect it to be the other way around. A lot of the content of List of political parties in India has been cut out. At one time it was basically the same as List of recognised political parties in India but with an additional list, of all the unrecognised parties. The national parties were removed at some point and the unrecognised parties were removed with this edit.

I can kinda see why the list of unrecognsed parties was removed. It looks rather long and pointless... but if we are not going to have it then what is the point in two separate articles?

Perhaps the best solution for unrecognised parties is to list only notable ones, i.e. those with there own article.

Anyone got an opinion on this?

Yaris678 (talk) 12:34, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject Indian Politics at Wikimania 2014
Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014 For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to: Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 15:33, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Viceroy's Executive Council
Dear Sir or Madam

Could you give me some information regarding memebers of the council from 8 August 1940.

I have the Viceroy and C-in-C of India but I want to know who was in the council, what portfolios they had and the dates they where in the job.

I would be greatful if I had the info. Mr Hall of England (talk) 18:37, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Indian politics articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 00:11, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Expert help needed: POI & OCI
Could some knowledgeable person take a look at the following articles: Persons of Indian Origin Card, Indian nationality law and Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin - and update these articles in light of the changes following the Person of Indian Origin Card (PIO Card) Amendment Scheme, 2014, and the merger of the Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and the Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) categories (see:, , ). There also still seems to be a lot of outdated information on the web regarding this topic - including on many official Government of India websites. Any information or sources prior to January 2015 may now be outdated. Chris Fynn (talk) 19:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Today's changes to Indira Gandhi
An IP is making changes to this article. I don't know enough about the subject to counter any bias (whether already in the article or being added) but I suspect that these changes are not being adequately sourced, if sourced at all. Knowledgable eyes would be appreciated. Britmax (talk) 07:55, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
Many participants here create a lot of content, may have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:


 * Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

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Request to review
Kindly review the following articles and suggest improvements: Sincerely yours, Maaley (talk) 18:26, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Lal Sena
 * Indian People's Front

All India Students Federation
A Wikipedian has been deleting nearly all the content of All India Students Federation, the article lacks reliable sources but makes claims regarding notability. Paul foord (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

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The discussion about this can be found here.

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Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  10:58, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
I've currently opened a peer review for Indian National Congress. I think the article meets the GA criteria and I'm thinking about nominating it as a GA candidate. It would be helpful if other editors could comment on the article and/or offer suggestions, etc. Thanks.Akhiljaxxn (talk) 07:25, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed change to election/referendum naming format
I've started an RfC on changing the election/referendum naming format to move the year to the front (so e.g. French presidential election, 2017 becomes 2017 French presidential election). All comments welcome here. Cheers, Number   5  7  20:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * This RfC has been reopened for further comment, including on using a bot to move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:16, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Edit war in Communist Party of India
Look: is the most active user in the history of but we can’t see any contribution by said user to the talk page. Moreover, the user seemingly does nothing but reverts others’ edits and also was observed to submit a questionable report against an opposing user as a vandal. request an intervention by people who could understand what is going on with the article at first, and with the user also. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 15:14, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
 * The person i have been reverting recently have been carrying out the same edits over and over again without explanation and in spite of being given warnings, and i reported this user less than an hour ago for his behaviour. If you are going to come with accusations you better have oversight of the whole picture first! One of my main tasks is to counter disruptive editing and vandalism, which is excactly what i have been doing in this case! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 15:18, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of OpIndia and Swarajya
There is a discussion about the reliability of OpIndia and Swarajya on the reliable sources noticeboard. The discussion refers to citations of OpIndia in 23 articles, including List of riots in India and Shaheen Bagh protests, and citations of Swarajya in 305 articles, including Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and Malala Yousafzai. If you are interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   02:49, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of Newslaundry
There is a discussion about the reliability of Newslaundry on the reliable sources noticeboard. The discussion focuses on the use of Newslaundry on the OpIndia article. If you are interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   15:09, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on Indian government response to North East Delhi riots article
There is a noticeboard discussion on the Indian government's response to the content of the North East Delhi riots article. If you are interested, please participate at. —  Newslinger  talk   04:06, 10 March 2020 (UTC)