Talk:Shivapuri Baba

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Shivapuri Baba's claims of long life[edit]

This article claims that Shivapuri Baba lived to the age of 137. This contradicts the very well-sourced claim that the maximum age a person has lived to was in the 120s (Jeanne Calment). If this man was really born in 1826 and died in 1963, there should be sources to verify this claim. 00:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC) Aykazeb (talk) 00:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah he was not 137, there is no evidence for that. The information about Baba can only be traced to one source his biographer J. G. Bennett who claims to have met Baba. Bennett is entirely unreliable, after meeting Baba he claimed he started to hear "voices" that told him he was the incarnation of a 15th Sufi master [1]. Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:20, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unreliable sources[edit]

Nirmaljoshi is adding multiple unreliable sources to this article:

David Wolfe (raw food advocate) is not a reliable source
shivapuri-baba.com is self-published
Socio-economic Impact of Shivapuri National Park on Local Community: A Case Study of Budhanilkantha Area, this is a thesis

These are not reliable, please read WP:RS. There is a current discussion at WP:FTN Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:36, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This obscure book The Shivapuri Baba (otherwise known as Swami Govindananda Bharati): through different angles: being the teachings of the Baba is being cited as a source but no page number is being given. This source is not online and impossible to locate, the source may not even exist. What is the point in adding non-verified material like this? This is not good editing. Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:48, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

John G. Bennett's biography of Baba is online in full [2] Psychologist Guy (talk) 21:52, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]