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Talk:Parliament of India#Houses of Parliament

Hi. I've added a response to correct something you wrote on the talk page for the "Parliament of India" article. I'm letting you know here as a courtesy, in case you do not have that page on your "watchlist". Regards, Andrew Gwilliam (talk) 00:33, 18 June 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks Andrew. Mittgaurav (talk) 18:41, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Macaulay

I've revised your edit at Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay. To call it racist, as you did in the edit summary, is to impose modern mores on a historical statement and that is not good writing. What he said was not racist in its time, however much some people today might cringe. - Sitush (talk) 20:50, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for input.. Could you provide me with any documented reasons on why 'to impose modern mores on historical statements' is not good? Mittgaurav (talk) 20:53, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

just checked, you removed it altogether.. that I think is better anyways.. but to get a perspective on editing would be nice anyways..Mittgaurav (talk) 20:56, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When I was studying history at university, it was all about assimilating facts, assessing their worth, interpreting and explaining a theme. One had to simultaneously live "in the time" and apply modern thought-processes. Calling someone a racist, for example, when the very concept of racism was unknown would demand some careful wording. Fortunately, this is an encyclopedia and we are not suppose to interpret etc: that is the job of our secondary sources. It is for this reason that an awful lot of adjectives, such as "famously" and "infamously", are not merely subjective and sweeping but also usually redundant within the scope of the Wikipedia project. If a secondary source of merit uses such an adjective then that source could be quoted (it is the opinion of Professor X that ...") but otherwise just don't use the emotive words in the first place.

Does this make any more sense? - Sitush (talk) 21:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't use adjectives unless quoting meritorious source.. got it.. thanks! Mittgaurav (talk) 21:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I'm not saying that you should never use adjectives but certainly ones of this nature should be avoided because they are judgemental, As should phrases such as "breathed his last" when you mean "he died". WP:WORDS gives some guidance. - Sitush (talk) 21:20, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

great.. will go through.. just figured out how I was wrong..

Suits episode summary

Thanks -- that makes more sense than what I had. Forstman referred to Sidwell being Mike's friend and I thought he was referring to Harvey. (I am 117.62.219.28 as well.) 128.119.247.147 (talk) 15:41, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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