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Change Short description: Country in Asia to Country in South Asia.
Reason: Current short description says 'Country in Asia'(changed to Country in South Asia), while other countries in Asia have more regional short description (example: China(Country in East Asia), Pakistan(Country in South Asia) Japan(Island country in East Asia), Bangladesh(Country in South Asia), Saudi Arabia(Country in the Middle East) and even countries in other smaller continents: Germany(Country in Central Europe), France(Country in Western Europe), United Kingdom(Country in Northwestern Europe) etc. ) Regards,
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Are the only sources for this coming from 2 Germans who lived in the 20th century Jamesman666 ( talk) 03:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
It is a very bad quality picture and the Parliament building too has changed. My suggestion is to refrain from adding non-Indian people in the India article, specially under its politics para. 122.187.117.179 ( talk) 11:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
The word "Bharat" must be added as the endonym in the lead sentence and the infobox WITHOUT changing the common name. Why is the hesitation? Makks2010 ( talk) 11:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Yea, we already have the ISO. I think what Makks2010 meant was they want Hindi: भारत, romanized: Bhārat or Hindi: भारत, romanized: India (or something similar) in the lede. The Herald (Benison) ( talk)
"romanized: Bhārat" is okay. Makks2010 ( talk) 12:42, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
The proposed statement for India is in line with another FA Bulgaria.
@ Makks2010:, what is meant by " text updated"? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 11:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - The caste system, which created a hierarchy of priests, warriors, and free peasants, but which excluded indigenous peoples by labelling their occupations impure, arose during this period.
Proposed statement - The caste system, which created a hierarchy of priests, warriors, traders and free peasants, but which excluded peoples involved in menial & disgraceful occupations, arose during this period.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
User:Makks2010 has created the Category:Countries of Voice of Global South in relation to the Modi-initiated virtual summit [4] and added it to every country that participated in the summit (according to a Indian governmental source), without 1) an article related to it, and 2) without mention of the summit of these articles. When I first reverted some of these additions, @Makks2010 has added some text to Sri Lanka to comply with WP:CATVER, but only using a non-neutral source by the Indian government [5], and now, they have created the main article (which makes my first objection temporarily moot; the article hasn't been vetted for WP:N and WP:V yet). But still, we obviously need independent sources which tells us that the participation in the summit is relevant for each country article.
Since this summit is an Indian initiative, I have chosen this talk page to get wider input about these mass edits. Austronesier ( talk) 17:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
PS: @Makks2010 is re-adding the category, disregarding WP:BRD, e.g. here: [6] [7]. – Austronesier ( talk) 17:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Here is my feedback on India wiki page. It is a badly a formatted article highlighting "not so positive" side of the country (most probably it is by intention of the editors) and hiding "almost every positive aspect". Hence it requires a major overhauling efforts.
examples -
1) Mention of "incorporation of untouchability" in the introduction itself is mis-representation of India. though the fact is that the untouchability is matter of past now (abolished 74 years ago), it must be included in the article but certainly not in the introduction as it does not represent the country any more.
2) Pre-history section is totally missing, where as it is available in many courtiers’ wiki pages.
3) History of 'North-eastern' part is purposefully not included in any section of the history.
4) Geography section did not even mention about any of India's islands.
5) Topography is a major topic that missing.
6) Wrong information given about number of state-level political parties mentioned. Number of listed political parties in the EC is around 2500.
7) List of top metropolis cities / largest urban areas is not written, whereas almost every other country's wiki page has it. (e.g. U.K.)
8) A separate section should be provided to the languages under demographics for one of the most linguistically diverse country of the world.
9) Architecture section more look like an advertisement of Taj Mahal, Though India has many more architectural wonders other than Taj. The section should be re-visited.
10) No mention of India's Transport infrastructure work done in last 10 year. A separate Transport section would be appreciated.
11) No mention of India’s scientific achievements, if they do not represent a country than I wonder what would. Science and technology section should be included.
12) No mention of world's largest media.
13) India's wide diversity should be included in the clothing section, rather than just highlighting saris and Shalwar.
14) World's second-largest education system cannot be summarized just in five sentences.
15) India's contribution in the WW-I & WW-II should also be mentioned under some appropriate section.
16) Healthcare should have been a separate section, considering that India has one of the largest Healthcare infra.
17) India is known for it's Philosophy & Culture. However Wiki page doesn't even consider it.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Makks2010 ( talk • contribs) 18:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes, it still follows an outdated guideline, but recent changes are updated and incorporated into the article after gaining consensus here in talk page regularly. So, it's not that bad or it's not like we use the outdated style. You may check the article milestones in the talk page header to see the reviews that are done time to time. The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 10:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 5 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Nikhil Kashyap 1.
— Assignment last updated by Nikhil Kashyap 1 ( talk) 22:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin. Their collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity, but also marked by the declining status of women.
I really would like to get this statement reviewed, which makes no sense. General understanding is stature of women in Indian society went south with Islamic invasion. The reference given with the sentence is actually not open to read for all. Makks2010 ( talk) 11:40, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - Despite economic growth during recent decades, India continues to face socio-economic challenges. In 2006, India contained the largest number of people living below the World Bank's international poverty line of US$1.25 per day
Reference given - https://web.archive.org/web/20120514143037/https://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/DPR_FullReport.pdf
Proposed changes -
1) Even the world bank has raised the poverty line from US$1.25 per day to US2.15 per day back in 2017. Hence data mentioned in the article is way too old. Refer to this https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/IND
2) Also editor must consider this before updating - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/indias-poverty-rate-declined-to-4-5-5-in-2022-23-sbi-research/articleshow/108029519.cms?from=mdr Makks2010 ( talk) 12:06, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Black Kite (talk) 08:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
please include Autonomous administrative divisions of India link under Administrative divisions section. There are 29 such areas, which should be given some visibility.
Present link :
Proposed change :
Makks2010 ( talk) 13:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
maratha empire is acknowledged by western, british historians (no 1 point) that means it did existed. it also had an area about 2.5m sq km which means it was bigger that 1 m sq km hence a big enough empire to be added in (top) section. it crushed mughal empire by force (but you dont have to write that as it would be equal to indians defeating turks pbuh swt which is not possible so you just write something like "mughal empire was gradually followed by marathas however we dont yet know about how mughals declines"). then add a line stating that three anglo maratha wars resulted in british rule (istead of saying "Gradually expanding rule of the British East India Company followed" like if mughals were the greatest before british Uvrajgupt ( talk) 14:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Haani40 ( talk) 19:03, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
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ADD to initial description after
"During the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%."
Over 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector which generates about half of India's GDP. Despite the growth in GDP, real wages of workers have largely stagnated in the organized manufacturing industry since the 1980s. [1] Vuquiz ( talk) 13:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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In the short description it states the following:
"During the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%."
I suggest adding some more context in a new sentence after this one, giving more context to the suggested rise in nominal per capita income. While this number may very possible be true, this lacks some important context for readers.
For one, about 90% of India's workforce works in the informal sector of the economy (which contributes about 50% to India's GDP). [8] https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-labor-market-in-india-since-the-1990s/long [9] https://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/report_vol_4_final.pdf (in the foreword, page 5) Since this is, by its very nature, not monitored by the government, its about impossible to give an accurate depiction of average incomes in the country as most workers would not be taken into consideration for this statistic. Secondly, the per capita income statistic is reductive in itself. It doesn't give the reader an idea on how these incomes are distributed, by the nature of how averages are calculated.
Hence, I suggest adding the information that about 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal economy.
Furthermore, it might be useful to give an example of the development of incomes of an actually formal sector of the economy where accurate data exists. I suggest referencing the findings of a paper by the IZA World of Labor journal. They analyzed the development of real wages of workers in the organized manufacturing sector. Their findings were that wages have stagnated over the last several decades. [10] https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-labor-market-in-india-since-the-1990s/long#izawol.425-figure-000012
Otherwise, it might be useful getting rid of the nominal per capita income number in the short description in general. It's a very reductive term that lacks crucial context (inflation, distribution of said incomes etc.).
Put together into a coherent text, the addition to the short description may look like this:
Over 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector which generates about half of India's GDP. Despite the growth in GDP, real wages of workers have largely stagnated in the organized manufacturing industry since the 1980s.
Please let me know what you think. Vuquiz ( talk) 20:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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India's Nominal GDP is 4.11 Trillion Dollars according to IMF forecast for 2024 you can check the official website please change it 49.205.121.76 ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
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In the infobox, please update the 'Gini' parameter
− | + | 32.8 |
the 'Gini_year' parameter
− | + | 2021 |
and the 'Gini_change' parameter
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as reflected by the currently used source ('Gini_ref') [1]
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Change Short description: Country in Asia to Country in South Asia.
Reason: Current short description says 'Country in Asia'(changed to Country in South Asia), while other countries in Asia have more regional short description (example: China(Country in East Asia), Pakistan(Country in South Asia) Japan(Island country in East Asia), Bangladesh(Country in South Asia), Saudi Arabia(Country in the Middle East) and even countries in other smaller continents: Germany(Country in Central Europe), France(Country in Western Europe), United Kingdom(Country in Northwestern Europe) etc. ) Regards,
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Are the only sources for this coming from 2 Germans who lived in the 20th century Jamesman666 ( talk) 03:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
It is a very bad quality picture and the Parliament building too has changed. My suggestion is to refrain from adding non-Indian people in the India article, specially under its politics para. 122.187.117.179 ( talk) 11:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
The word "Bharat" must be added as the endonym in the lead sentence and the infobox WITHOUT changing the common name. Why is the hesitation? Makks2010 ( talk) 11:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Yea, we already have the ISO. I think what Makks2010 meant was they want Hindi: भारत, romanized: Bhārat or Hindi: भारत, romanized: India (or something similar) in the lede. The Herald (Benison) ( talk)
"romanized: Bhārat" is okay. Makks2010 ( talk) 12:42, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
The proposed statement for India is in line with another FA Bulgaria.
@ Makks2010:, what is meant by " text updated"? -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 11:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - The caste system, which created a hierarchy of priests, warriors, and free peasants, but which excluded indigenous peoples by labelling their occupations impure, arose during this period.
Proposed statement - The caste system, which created a hierarchy of priests, warriors, traders and free peasants, but which excluded peoples involved in menial & disgraceful occupations, arose during this period.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
User:Makks2010 has created the Category:Countries of Voice of Global South in relation to the Modi-initiated virtual summit [4] and added it to every country that participated in the summit (according to a Indian governmental source), without 1) an article related to it, and 2) without mention of the summit of these articles. When I first reverted some of these additions, @Makks2010 has added some text to Sri Lanka to comply with WP:CATVER, but only using a non-neutral source by the Indian government [5], and now, they have created the main article (which makes my first objection temporarily moot; the article hasn't been vetted for WP:N and WP:V yet). But still, we obviously need independent sources which tells us that the participation in the summit is relevant for each country article.
Since this summit is an Indian initiative, I have chosen this talk page to get wider input about these mass edits. Austronesier ( talk) 17:53, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
PS: @Makks2010 is re-adding the category, disregarding WP:BRD, e.g. here: [6] [7]. – Austronesier ( talk) 17:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Here is my feedback on India wiki page. It is a badly a formatted article highlighting "not so positive" side of the country (most probably it is by intention of the editors) and hiding "almost every positive aspect". Hence it requires a major overhauling efforts.
examples -
1) Mention of "incorporation of untouchability" in the introduction itself is mis-representation of India. though the fact is that the untouchability is matter of past now (abolished 74 years ago), it must be included in the article but certainly not in the introduction as it does not represent the country any more.
2) Pre-history section is totally missing, where as it is available in many courtiers’ wiki pages.
3) History of 'North-eastern' part is purposefully not included in any section of the history.
4) Geography section did not even mention about any of India's islands.
5) Topography is a major topic that missing.
6) Wrong information given about number of state-level political parties mentioned. Number of listed political parties in the EC is around 2500.
7) List of top metropolis cities / largest urban areas is not written, whereas almost every other country's wiki page has it. (e.g. U.K.)
8) A separate section should be provided to the languages under demographics for one of the most linguistically diverse country of the world.
9) Architecture section more look like an advertisement of Taj Mahal, Though India has many more architectural wonders other than Taj. The section should be re-visited.
10) No mention of India's Transport infrastructure work done in last 10 year. A separate Transport section would be appreciated.
11) No mention of India’s scientific achievements, if they do not represent a country than I wonder what would. Science and technology section should be included.
12) No mention of world's largest media.
13) India's wide diversity should be included in the clothing section, rather than just highlighting saris and Shalwar.
14) World's second-largest education system cannot be summarized just in five sentences.
15) India's contribution in the WW-I & WW-II should also be mentioned under some appropriate section.
16) Healthcare should have been a separate section, considering that India has one of the largest Healthcare infra.
17) India is known for it's Philosophy & Culture. However Wiki page doesn't even consider it.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Makks2010 ( talk • contribs) 18:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Yes, it still follows an outdated guideline, but recent changes are updated and incorporated into the article after gaining consensus here in talk page regularly. So, it's not that bad or it's not like we use the outdated style. You may check the article milestones in the talk page header to see the reviews that are done time to time. The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 10:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 5 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Nikhil Kashyap 1.
— Assignment last updated by Nikhil Kashyap 1 ( talk) 22:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin. Their collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity, but also marked by the declining status of women.
I really would like to get this statement reviewed, which makes no sense. General understanding is stature of women in Indian society went south with Islamic invasion. The reference given with the sentence is actually not open to read for all. Makks2010 ( talk) 11:40, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Controversial statement - Despite economic growth during recent decades, India continues to face socio-economic challenges. In 2006, India contained the largest number of people living below the World Bank's international poverty line of US$1.25 per day
Reference given - https://web.archive.org/web/20120514143037/https://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/DPR_FullReport.pdf
Proposed changes -
1) Even the world bank has raised the poverty line from US$1.25 per day to US2.15 per day back in 2017. Hence data mentioned in the article is way too old. Refer to this https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/IND
2) Also editor must consider this before updating - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/indias-poverty-rate-declined-to-4-5-5-in-2022-23-sbi-research/articleshow/108029519.cms?from=mdr Makks2010 ( talk) 12:06, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Black Kite (talk) 08:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
please include Autonomous administrative divisions of India link under Administrative divisions section. There are 29 such areas, which should be given some visibility.
Present link :
Proposed change :
Makks2010 ( talk) 13:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
maratha empire is acknowledged by western, british historians (no 1 point) that means it did existed. it also had an area about 2.5m sq km which means it was bigger that 1 m sq km hence a big enough empire to be added in (top) section. it crushed mughal empire by force (but you dont have to write that as it would be equal to indians defeating turks pbuh swt which is not possible so you just write something like "mughal empire was gradually followed by marathas however we dont yet know about how mughals declines"). then add a line stating that three anglo maratha wars resulted in british rule (istead of saying "Gradually expanding rule of the British East India Company followed" like if mughals were the greatest before british Uvrajgupt ( talk) 14:47, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
- Haani40 ( talk) 19:03, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
{{
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: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (
link) can be used to show that the EIC seized control of India from the Marathas?-
Haani40 (
talk) 20:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
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ADD to initial description after
"During the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%."
Over 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector which generates about half of India's GDP. Despite the growth in GDP, real wages of workers have largely stagnated in the organized manufacturing industry since the 1980s. [1] Vuquiz ( talk) 13:42, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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In the short description it states the following:
"During the same time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%."
I suggest adding some more context in a new sentence after this one, giving more context to the suggested rise in nominal per capita income. While this number may very possible be true, this lacks some important context for readers.
For one, about 90% of India's workforce works in the informal sector of the economy (which contributes about 50% to India's GDP). [8] https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-labor-market-in-india-since-the-1990s/long [9] https://labour.gov.in/sites/default/files/report_vol_4_final.pdf (in the foreword, page 5) Since this is, by its very nature, not monitored by the government, its about impossible to give an accurate depiction of average incomes in the country as most workers would not be taken into consideration for this statistic. Secondly, the per capita income statistic is reductive in itself. It doesn't give the reader an idea on how these incomes are distributed, by the nature of how averages are calculated.
Hence, I suggest adding the information that about 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal economy.
Furthermore, it might be useful to give an example of the development of incomes of an actually formal sector of the economy where accurate data exists. I suggest referencing the findings of a paper by the IZA World of Labor journal. They analyzed the development of real wages of workers in the organized manufacturing sector. Their findings were that wages have stagnated over the last several decades. [10] https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-labor-market-in-india-since-the-1990s/long#izawol.425-figure-000012
Otherwise, it might be useful getting rid of the nominal per capita income number in the short description in general. It's a very reductive term that lacks crucial context (inflation, distribution of said incomes etc.).
Put together into a coherent text, the addition to the short description may look like this:
Over 90% of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector which generates about half of India's GDP. Despite the growth in GDP, real wages of workers have largely stagnated in the organized manufacturing industry since the 1980s.
Please let me know what you think. Vuquiz ( talk) 20:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
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India's Nominal GDP is 4.11 Trillion Dollars according to IMF forecast for 2024 you can check the official website please change it 49.205.121.76 ( talk) 17:36, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
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☎️ 17:53, 13 April 2024 (UTC)(nominal) Per capita income is 136 not 139 Anon-ymousTrecen ( talk) 04:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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Corneleaus the third ( talk) 06:13, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
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In the infobox, please update the 'Gini' parameter
− | + | 32.8 |
the 'Gini_year' parameter
− | + | 2021 |
and the 'Gini_change' parameter
− | + | decrease |
as reflected by the currently used source ('Gini_ref') [1]