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== Culture section restore ==
== Culture section restore ==

Revision as of 14:53, 17 June 2017

Featured articleIndia is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Culture section restore

I want to restore (mostly partially) the section back to how it was in 2011 post-FAR. Compare the two: Now and Then

Rationales include there have been some additions to it which weren't discussed and checked since then, we can't vouch for their sourcing etc; giving more weight (in the form of subsections) for relatively lesser aspects like Clothing, Cuisine etc (which are prone to good-faith additions) lowers our agreed-on level of detail for summarising, thereby possibly implying other frequently rejected sections (Defense, Tourism etc) can be put as well; and finally, MOS, it simply doesn't reflect a good structure to have so many (eight, most of them stubby) subsections under one main, unless there's a good reason for it.

I recall there were improvements to it as well since then and I'll try to preserve those while trying to restore. I'm mostly concerned about the structure and bare new additions. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 08:47, 1 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Single paragraph sections are not in line with MOS, and indicate a lack of summarystyle. CMD (talk) 14:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed as well. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:01, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

List of metropolises

In an edit in September 2016, a list of metropolises was added to the first paragraph of the lead, without any discussion on the talk page. Some FAs such as Germany and Canada do have a list of largest metropolises. But they are countries in which more than 75% of the population is urban. In India, it is 30%. It doesn't make much sense to give such privileged mention to the urban 30%, when the 70% rural population garners none at all anywhere in the lead. Besides, a list of metropolises seems incongruous immediately after a of India's neighbors in the Indian ocean. I have temporarily removed that sentence, but I'd like to hear from others. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:58, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This was something I was about to raise as well. There's more, in the Demo section, someone also changed mentioning of cities to urban agglomerations: According to the 2011 census, there are 53 million-plus urban agglomerations in India; among them Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad, in decreasing order by population. As such, that's a really lesser understood term than just cities which is used throughout the article. Besides just restoring it, what do we do of the "list-like" nature of this statement in general? What's the best way to present this other than impose an arbitrary but reasonable limit of a mention of just five cities? Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:47, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Treating it by magnitude could work. eg: ...there are 53 cities with over a million people in India, with Mumbai and Delhi supporting over 10 million each. I feel this conveys the impact better than a simple list of cities >1 million. I wouldn't put anything in the lead at the moment as it reflects the bodies lack of space given to demographics. However, if the body is changed, the lead could follow. CMD (talk) 08:11, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Very well spoken, CMD. As it stands, the three-paragraph Demographics Section has just one sentence about urban conglomerations. It is not lead-worthy yet. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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See User talk:Cyberpower678#IABot_possible_issue. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 01:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Done 3 false positives reported but otherwise changes fine. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 09:45, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

National Bird- Peacock not Peafowl

Indian national bird is Peacock, not Peafowl. Peafowl would imply that both Peacock as well as Peahen are collectively national birds, which is not the fact. In Indian languages it's the Mayur that's the national bird, not the female Mayuri.

Only the male bird due to its iridescence and tail canopy. Also, the Govt of India website that has been cited has a broken link. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.177.1.217 (talk) 03:47, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed "peafowl" to "peacock", the resulting links (one in a caption of a randomized photo) are now redirected to "Indian peafowl", which is perhaps the cause of the confusion. I didn't do anything to improve the referencing, which is a bit of a mess. The good Indian portal link is used by one reference, the dead sfn link cited at the symbols table by another. The two might be combined, or an archived snapshot of the dead link obtained (I'm not entirely sure it's not dead because it wasn't set up properly). Dhtwiki (talk) 09:28, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This has already been discussed in Talk:India/Archive_38#Indian_peafowl. If you want to change anything, please establish new consensus here in light of the arguments advanced in that archive thread, which are fairly comprehensive. @Dhtwiki: It is not a good idea to change anything on this FA (per WP:OWN#Featured_articles, until new consensus has been established. I will therefore be reverting "peacock" back to "peafowl." Again please read the archive carefully. Best regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 12:36, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request to add "Bharat Janrajya" phrase in the InfoBox of the article in different Indian languages

I would like to request to add the "Bharat Janrajya" string/phrase present in the InfoBox (i.e the |native_name = ... part ) of the article in different Indian languages, or at least the most major ones like Hindi, Bengali. The English transliteration of the phrase does not exactly represent the different languages of India and adding the languages would allow homogeneity with the articles of other nations, which have similar phrases present in English, in the native language, as well as the English transliteration. Daujerrine (talk) 14:34, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done (edit conflict) See Talk:India/FAQ and search the archives. Also side note: adding any native lang script in the lead or infobox has always been actively opposed and consensus is to avoid them. Despite that, numerous proposals which always nearly have the same end result keep happening. Ugog Nizdast (talk) 16:43, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Inclusion of a new section.

There is no mention of India's stride in the field of science and technology.There should be a seperate head where India's achievement in the field of science and technology is highlighted. Proud Indian 4 (talk) 12:40, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2017

Madhav Subramaniyam (talk) 22:42, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's unclear what changes you want to make. ProgrammingGeek talktome 22:48, 6 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Semi-protected edit request on 13 June 2017

The Indian Flag present in the below URL(that is the page on which i'm requesting to edit)isn't proper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

It should be like the picture available in one of the other wikipedia URL given below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India

Kindly Process the same as soon as possible. 203.143.188.11 (talk) 07:14, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done Both articles contain the same flag image. --regentspark (comment) 14:17, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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