Talk:Dancing Girl (prehistoric sculpture)

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Location?

Are you sure that the statue is currently in National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan and not in National Museum, New Delhi, India? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ck.mitra (talk • contribs) 09:43, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, it's in the National Museum, Delhi - fixed now in the article. First Light (talk) 07:05, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it was earlier in India but now in Pakistan Thank you very much Ggrroopp (talk) 07:55, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, always in Delhi since soon after discovery! Johnbod (talk) 17:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Harappan civil2 Ggrroopp (talk) 07:55, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Parvati

Doug Weller Our concern should not be about whether it is true or false. Our concern should be to present the theories. Audience is there to decide whether it is true or false. Talking about being discussed in peer reviewed journals, it is quite a new and interesting theory, so it will obviously take time to be discussed in new journals. LearnIndology (talk) 16:05, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's a primary source and our articles are meant to rely mainly on secondary sources - WP:PSTS, something new users usually don't know. The media is never a good source for archaeology. And the author doesn't seem to be a reliable source. Also it's not a new idea, it was published almost 4 years ago, plenty of time for reliable sources to discuss it. And of course it's fringe. Doug Weller talk 16:26, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're mistaken, LearnIndology. Our concern is to go by reliable secondary sources. Not to present fringe theories for the reader to choose from. Please note my renewed warning for tendentious editing on your talkpage. Bishonen | tålk 16:39, 17 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Here's another paper covering the Parvati theory[1] and I quote

a Vedic scholar from the Benares Hindu University published a paper that claimed that she is a figure of the goddess Parvati, in an efort to prove that the ancient Indus Valley civilisations of Mohenjodaro were Hindu.

And we are not supposed to pass our own judgements on Wikipedia. We should stick to what sources are saying. LearnIndology (talk) 18:36, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And we need to follow our policy on using sources, both at WP:VERIFY and the guideline WP:RS, and at WP:NPOV. You've got only 150 edits, isn't it possible that you don't yet have a good grasp of these? Your link is a brief critical mention without naming the author or paper, just stating that it's an example of the Saffronisation of Indian politics. Would you be happy just to use that alone? I doubt it. Doug Weller talk 18:50, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Both sources follow WP:RS, WP:VERIFY and WP:NPOV. What else do we need? LearnIndology (talk) 21:08, 17 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@LearnIndology: a single page paper that has passing mention about the recent phenomenon of saffronisation is not worthy enough to be cited as a source ChandlerMinh (talk) 11:45, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

kind of bronze?

what kind of bronze res. alloy is it please? arsenic, tin, percentage? --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 16:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't know a source, & perhaps it has never been analysed. Nothing on this piece, but there is a lot on the varied types of wider IVC alloys , p. 251 on here. Johnbod (talk) 18:13, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]