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Reviewer: CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk · contribs) 13:19, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

For replying to Reviewer comment, please use  Done,  Fixed,  Added,  Not done,  Doing..., or  Removed. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA ^talk 14:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

Lead

• Link Cocoon

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• What's the point of linking (1963)

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• At the time of its publication, he was 25 → Why is this important in the lead?

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• interpretation → interpretations

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• Remove {{italics title}}, the Infobox book template already makes the title italic.

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• Remove unused parameters from the infobox.

• Done (I have left only the 'publisher' parameter blank. I will add publisher's name soon.

• country = India → unlink India

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• Add the ISBN for the book.

• The books was published in 1963 (in India) So it does not have ISBN. English translation has a ISBN number, Should I add it ?

• Kosala is considered the first existentialist novel → Kosala is considered to be the first existentialist novel

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• Add alt text for infobox image

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• Add a short description

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Prose

• Nemade's debut novel → no need to link debut

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• who had learnt of Nemade's → had learned of Nemade's

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• end up a cowherd → end up being a cowherd

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• three-week period. → no source

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• and living in Bombay → no source

• Done. → living in his village. (It was a mistake)

• No need to bold the characters names.

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• by his nickname → no need to wikilink nickname

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Plot

• Pandurang is the son of well-to-do farmer → a well-to-do farmer

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• he gives responsibility for management of → for the management of the

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• now one among many unemployed → now one of many unemployed

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• in the company of friends → whose friends?

• clarified → his friends

• his poorer friends → poor

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Theme and techniques

• Over a six year period → Over a six-year period

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• influenced by existential philosophy → already linked in the lead

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• Like other existential novels → same article (already linked)

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• exploring existentialist ideas such as an obsession with birth and death, dread, alienation, and absurdity → cite sources

• I have added citation at the end of each paragraph which verifies whole paragraph. Should I place citation repeatedly in a single paragraph supported by the same citation? If you suggest so, I will do. But I don't see any point in repeating the citation multiple times in a same paragraph when whole paragraph is supported by the same citation. -- Gazal world ( talk) 17:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• It will be useful to the reader. The reader doesn't have to guess which source to look for. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA ^talk 15:34, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

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• Pandurang is estranged from his father, and has been from childhood. → cite sources

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• the patriarchal value system characteristic of traditional Indian life.→ cite sources

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• found anything meaningful in his experience of village life. → cite sources

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• style, reading like a series of diary entries. → cite sources

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• I have hidden the whole part (two sentences) from the article. This is the only unsourced part in the article. It was added by article creator. -- Gazal world ( talk) 18:58, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• serves as an instrument revealing his worldview. → cite sources

• See above (hidden)

• which ultimately uncover to them the absurdity and pathos of their condition → cite sources

• See above (hidden)

• including: autobiography, the diary, the novel, Indian folktales, folk narrative, and medieval hagiography. → cite sources

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• the diary, the novel → no need to wikilink novel

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Reception

• both for its portrayal of the professorial class, and for its description of the profane world → cite sources

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• Marathi literature, because of its open-ended quality and its potential for varied interpretation → cite sources

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• Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar, Vilas Sarang, Sukanya Aagase, Rekha Inamdar-Sane, and Vasudev Sawant → cite sources

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Other

• For the table use {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}.

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• November-December 1980 → November–December 1980

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• experimental plays - art and culture → experimental plays – art and culture

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• type=Ph.D → type=PhD

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• Ref number 18 is not a reliable source ( https://maharashtrakatha.blogspot.com/2019/07/kosala.html)

• I have used a blog as a reference to prepare a list of translation/translators. I have verified that these translations are available in respective languages. Due to lack of any citation regarding this elsewhere, I have used a blog as a reference. I think this translation table would not require any high quality reference either so please consider this reference as an exception. -- Gazal world ( talk) 17:18, 14 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• @ Gazal world: Wikipedia is against using blogging sites. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA ^talk 15:34, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• @ CAPTAIN MEDUSA: I have removed the blog from the reference, and have added primary sources (the translated books itself) in reference. Still there are three translations left without reference. If you tell me, I will hide them from the table. All other queries have been resolved. -- Gazal world ( talk) 16:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

  Gazal world, Can you add the references for the Translations table. Then it should be good to go. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA ^talk 12:27, 16 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• @ CAPTAIN MEDUSA: Hello, I have added primary source (book itself) for remained three translations. I didn't find isbn/oclc for these three translations, but I will add soon. -- Gazal world ( talk) 12:59, 16 April 2020 (UTC) reply

• Ref number 1 (publication-place=Bombay) → location=Bombay

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GA progress

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