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@Joshua Jonathan: I am not current with topical and political issues there, so please take what follows in that context. @Vice regent: A quick read suggests the article has NPOV issues, strange claims, reliance of news sources accused for their one-sided POVs (Aljazeera is cited; Aljazeera's one-sided POV pushing is one of the reasons why Saudis/UAE/Egypt/Bahrain/etc broke up with Qatar, per some British sources). The article also relies on eccentric sources. The background section is weak, there are reasons why cow killing is frowned upon in the texts of Hindus/Jains/Buddhists. Not just cow, all life forms. It is strange to rely on a student's association president that "beef is cheap protein in India" (it isn't, beef costs more than $2 per lb bulk production price in a country where the poor live on less than $2 per day) or "25% of their country's population, not including their ~14% Muslims, are beef eaters"... all such exceptional claims need high quality RS, not gossipy student rep quotes and what is currently cited in the draft. If you look at the RS, such as FAO and USDA/FAS, cow+buffalo beef consumption per capita is very low in India. If just their Muslims eat as much meat per capita as Pakistanis or Turks do, that would account for 90%+ of their domestic beef consumption. I see Tyler Durden is discussing the draft with you on the draft's talk page. One suggestion: review the useful comments by admin Nyttend below, about the need for caution with news sources in wikipedia (cutting-pasting from the wall of text there).
Be careful with newspapers/etc as sources
Ian.thomson saw my comments elsewhere and asked me to chime in here. Journalists virtually never have scholarly training in history/anthropology/ethnography/etc. — they're generalists as far as this kind of thing goes, not knowing more than what's needed for background purposes, and as such we mustn't consider them reliable sources for such fields. Exceptions can exist, of course, and we can't discount a journalist merely because of his job (e.g. he could be an avocational anthropologist so dedicated to the field that he's a member of a learned society), but even then we should only trust his writings if they've gotten reviewed by other experts; the most scholarly journalist will have his newspaper writeups reviewed by nobody except the newspaper's editors, whom again we can trust to know a lot about news reporting but we can't trust to know much of anything about "olds" reporting. We can take newspaper reports as authoritative if we're writing a middle school report for our teachers, but encyclopedia writing demands better sources: whether they're written by professional academics, journalists with a lot of experience in scholarly work, or anyone else, they need to have gone through a scholarly review process. Of course, all this applies if there's no significant dispute; a faithful adherence to WP:NPOV will demand that we use the best sources from (or about) each position, and we can trust a journalist to report on the rise of a new popular movement that advocates a different perspective on such-and-such an idea, but journalists being primary sources in such situations, we shouldn't use them to interpret something about the different perspective. – Nyttend
Newspapers, tabloids and certain magazines are useful sources in some cases, but not RS for many cases. Always attribute primary sources when you quote them (you shouldn't interpret primary sources). Sorry and thanks SpacemanSpiff for letting us (ab)use your talk page for this non-admin discussion!, Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 13:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Well Sarah, the other editor, VR, invited me on my talk page. So I got involved, didn't put any serious effort though. I just wandered there for a couple of days and left, as VR stopped developing it. I thought to go back after he starts making changes again, if he aims to publish it.
Since you tagged me, I just want to humbly & politely note that there is a lot of inaccurate and faulty OR in what you said above. I don't think this is the appropriate place to discuss all of that point by point, so I won't elaborate. Also, regardless of your argument about "beef is cheap protein in India", it is not even there in that user-space article. I don't see anything written anywhere as such!
Above all, in any case, much of your discussion belongs to the article: Cattle slaughter in India. Not this one. This user space article: Cow vigilantism in India, is particularly intended to deal with the violence in the name of Cow-protection, carried out by the extremist-Hindutva mobs, who take law into their own hands. This is not an article that is meant to focus on the larger Cow-slaughter issue in India. Best, Tyler Durden(talk)16:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Supriyapejavar
...is not only constantly recreating his promotional non-notable draft, but is also a rather obvious sock of N R Pavan Kumar (talk·contribs) (hence my G5), who was originally blocked for the same promotion. Please consider just blocking the sock, they've recreated their thing at least four times with this account (three times in their user sandbox page, and once at Draft:Pawan Kumar N R (notice the w)).--Jasper Deng(talk)09:33, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
You were the last one to update the Smile Group. We have some more updates and wanted to know your coordinates for us to share updates Manishvij1 (talk) 05:57, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Dear SpacemanSpiff ,
I am new to wikipedia.
Please can you explain any inappropriate edits( that I received a message about )so I do not repeat the same mistake.
I try to always always cite reliable references when I edit.
Regards,
M Acharya. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acharya63 (talk • contribs) 10:39, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
@Cyphoidbomb: aren't my-free and decentnil two different spammers? the my-free chap is focused on South Indian actresses while decentnil is focused on Bollywood? —SpacemanSpiff14:47, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Hmm, I guess the MO was so similar that I assumed the two were connected. And here the my-free.website guy (who seems to be centered in Sri Lanka) added a blogspot ref. Maybe I was hypersensitive to the similarity. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:08, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Most of these have similar MOs, the COI articles are a huge mess too, I once deleted one title repeatedly created by two different sock farms -- assume it was a bid contract where they get paid if the article stuck or something like that. —SpacemanSpiff15:37, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
I'm not even sure what's going on there, but both of you are edit warring (and looks like over 3RR). I've suggested to you before that in such cases where you can't get agreement then to ask for opinions at WT:IN or 3O etc. At this point I'm not going to take any action, but if you report it at WP:AN3 then both of you are likely to be blocked. —SpacemanSpiff14:46, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
As I've said above and as EdJohnston says on your talk page, you need to discuss this on the talk page and get some uninvolved editors to take a look. I've also told you before to ask for help at WT:IN etc when in doubt or facing a conflict like this. Alternately check with editors like Arjayay or BilCat who don't have a dog in the fight but edit India location articles. —SpacemanSpiff16:09, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
It was already referred at [1] and also kept discussion. But the thing is the user himself wrote, he made wrong edits and reverting to earlier version, but reverted to the version which has less ref, than one I have given.--Vin09(talk)16:13, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
@Kautilya3: "Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Head Quarter" It's also a twitter handle of someone advocating an independent Kashmir - I can't see any identifying information there so not outing. And a YouTube channel. I'm guessing it's a one man band but I could be way out. Doug Wellertalk11:22, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello SpacemanSpiff, I just notice you just blocked user Rohitchauhan7023 as a sockpuppet of Rohitchauhanofficial but I found the article was first created by Irohitchauhan back in February 2016, and after that it was created under different titles by users listed below who are already blocked so is it possible to tag them and change the master? it will be helpful for the future cases.
I've blocked irohitchauhan as there's no point in leaving one of the accounts open for further use. I don't think Richarddev is the same -- most likely a business contact. I don't think a retagging is necessary at this point, but this may be of interest to Ivanvector who pinged me here reg a diff account which I now think is more likely connected here or to some others on the history of Khesari Lal Yadav. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff12:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
The reason I included Richardev here is because he removed the article for deletion notice from Rohit Chauhan the same day he was registered but I'm not sure if it was his first edit. GSS (talk|c|em) 13:25, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Iron Age India
Hi. Could you move Iron Age in India back to Iron Age India which was the original title of the page prior to this ruckus? I was unable to move it myself. The "in" is left over from "Iron Age in South Asia"; cf. Bronze Age India. FWIW, I nominated Iron Age India for CSD to facilitate the move and was declined as on my talk page. Thanks.--Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 10:46, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
