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Reviewer: Vami IV (talk · contribs) 20:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Opening statement

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In reviews I conduct, I may make small copyedits. These will only be limited to spelling and punctuation (removal of double spaces and such). I will only make substantive edits that change the flow and structure of the prose if I previously suggested and it is necessary. For replying to Reviewer comment, please use  Done,  Fixed, plus Added,  Not done,  Doing..., or minus Removed, followed by any comment you'd like to make. I will be crossing out my comments as they are redressed, and only mine. A detailed, section-by-section review will follow. —♠Vami_IV†♠ 20:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Disclaimer: I am in good standing with the nominee, Farang Rak Tham, and have previously reviewed some of his articles. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 20:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. Thanks, Vami, for all your efforts and sacrifice of time. I am glad my articles aren't boring you yet.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 14:18, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

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  • This section has that present-tense issue I pointed out in my review of Ānanda. See: Jīvaka is found, As he grows up, He turns out to be a promising student [...] starts his healing profession in Rājagṛha, and so on.
  • but the texts do not agree who this courtesan was, nor who the father was. Abbreviate.
  • Sort of. I had envisaged: Textual traditions agree that Jīvaka was born as a foundling of a courtesan, but not on the identities of his parents.
  • As he gets more into contact with the Buddha, he develops faith in Buddhism [...] This could be better abbreviated.
  • Try: As Jīvaka came into contact with the Buddha more, he became an important supporter of the religion and eventually founded the Jīvakarāma monastery.
 Done.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:12, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • building a monastery in the process. I would expand the link here from just "monastery" to "a monastery" for greater specificity with the link. As it is, it looks like it's just going to Monastery until you hover over it.
  • Jīvaka is depicted performing complicated medical procedures, including procedures It is a general rule of thumb to not use a word twice in the same sentence.
  • Specificity may also been a boon here, like how many operations here.
  • Was he known for ancient brain surgery? That's pretty cool regardless.
  • Jīvaka's legendary persona has had an important role in helping to proselytise and legitimise Buddhism, Shorten.

Sources

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  • The life of Jīvaka exists in several early Buddhist textual traditions, This sounds slightly erroneous. Of course it "exists", so I think "documented" would be a better word here. I think the sentence could be constructed better, too.

Accounts

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  • Furthermore, some versions of the story, the Sanskrit and Tibetan version and the Jīvaka Sūtras, I think everything in this sentence before "the Sanskrit" could be safely cut.
  • superior above, up unto Redundancies.
  • Jīvaka is recognised and named the "Medicine King" by the court up unto three times, whenever he performs a miraculous feat of medicine. Abbreviate.
 Done.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 20:57, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Try: In the Sanskrit and Tibetan version, Jīvaka is recognised and named the "Medicine King" by the court three times, each time after a medical miracle.
 Done.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:15, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The foundling

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  • (Pali: jīvati) [...] When the people respond that it is, he decides to raise him and names him "he who is alive", for having survived the ordeal. I think the Pali text would be better placed at the end of the selected sentence here.
  • a city Could you expand the link text here to include "a city" rather than just "city"?
You want me to name the city? Wouldn't that be redundant? I have changed the wikilink, if that is what you mean.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:20, 15 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you; Changing the link is what I was asking for. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 16:34, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see a time named for Jīvaka's birth. Could you add this? Really sticks out, especially with the mention of the Persian conquest in 515 BC later on.
I have added that he is a contemporary of the Buddha. That's really all the information that is available.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:10, 18 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Life as healer

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  • As the king was bleeding through his rectum, his female servants made fun of him, saying that he was bleeding "like us women". I fail to see the relevance of this passage to the article's subject. Recommending abbreviation or cutting this altogether.
minus Removed. Is the issue really relevance, or is there some other reason?--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 13:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I guess I could have better phrased this with a suggestion of "abbreviate", like condensing that to say "an anal fistula that caused the king great embarrassment", but it works now. I didn't think the king being mocked by servants with no other role in the account for bleeding out of his anus was important to Jīvaka. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 15:21, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't mind removing it, but I thought you disliked it because it has an air of misogynism. Could lead to an interesting debate.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:08, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

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There is an unused book with an sfn link, Sarah Shaw's Buddhist Meditation: An Anthology of Texts from the Pāli Canon. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 16:49, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

minus Removed.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 20:38, 16 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Images

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The images of the ivory carvings are uploaded by a user who has been infinitely blocked for copyright violation. While I don't think this makes the images out-of-copyright, it could, and I want to note that. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 20:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

True, but I uploaded the FoP copyright tag for the sculpture myself, and the picture was not uploaded elsewhere before, so the person seems to have taken the picture himself. At least, there is no evidence to the contrary.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:29, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

August, 2019

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Awaiting further comments, Vami_IV.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 07:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay: the internet in my residence has been shut off and I have no definite estimation for when it will be turned back on. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 16:22, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, good luck with it. I hope it is easily resolved.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 16:30, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA progress

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()
3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()
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