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The link for Anti-Corruption links to a 1970's Hong-Kong film, it should link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/Political_corruption#Opposing_corruption — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.250.168.91 (talk) 14:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Big revert

I just made a big revert. There is a thread somewhere above concerning the unilateral change to citation style but, worse, I've just looked at the article for the first time in a couple of weeks & there seemed to be, for example, an introduction of completely unnecessary cites of the Encyclopaedia Britannica etc. I've left a note at User_talk:Joshua_Jonathan#IAC in the hope that we can rescue anything that is deserving. - Sitush (talk) 18:12, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

OK, IP. Please can you provide a single reliable source either from the earlier version or elsewhere that explicitly says that the "India Against Corruption" referred to by the media during 2011-2012 was usurped from the HRA organisation. No deductions, no adding of two sources to form a synthesis - just a straight reference. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 18:28, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

2 straight media sources which both covered "IAC" (generic) extensively from 2010. Firstpost.com today clearly says that we are the official IAC. This report refers to the usurption in Dec 2012 whereas in 2011 they wrote stuff like this . Their article is a straight report from the primary source , . The date is corrororated from this photo . The facts of IAC's disputes with "Team Anna" in Orissa immediately after 26 Nov. 2012 (2nd cutoff date) are here , , . This on 24.Oct.2012 was probably among the first mainstream articles on IAC-HRA (no mention of Anna here). What IAC also has is a large number of unimpeachable corespondence, RTI requests, official replies and statutory Appeals filed in name of IAC between 2008 and 2011 to Government bodies - mainly related to 2010 Commonwealth Games mischiefs which nobody in India has been able to dispute.2001:4DD0:FF00:8A8B:0:0:0:5747 (talk) 19:41, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

No - you are conflating: we need a source that says the HRA IAC were responsible for the 2011-2012 protest movement, which is what this article is about. The HRA IAC itself is seemingly not a notable organisation. We've covered all this ground before: unless you can directly connect the protest movement as being organised by the HRA body, nothing is going to change. Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of sources refer to the protest movement. - Sitush (talk) 19:49, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

On my talk page, Sitush says that my recent edit is "not a useful reinstatement" and that "The claims of a non-notable organisation carry no weight when compared to the thousands of media reports that say otherwise." As I understand it, the media sources use the name "IAC" or "India Against Corruption" to refer to both the HRA-related group (now claiming to be the sole legitimate user of that name) and to the group also known as "Team Anna" and to a wider movement with which both were to some extent associated. Please coirrect me if this is incorrect. If this is correct, then the views of the HRA-related organization, as part of the article subject, should be included (if they can be reliably ascertained, such as from that group's own publications) although they should not be given undue weight nor be allowed to have the final word nor be treated as the definitive statement of fsact on the issues. DES 19:58, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks DES - all we are asking for is balanced treament whereby we are not defamed for actions of others/imposters. @Sitush, you are again beating around the bush. IAC-HRA has never claimed that IAC-HRA organised the 2011-12 protests. IAC-HRA says that the 2 main protest movements Anna's LPB and Ramdev's "Return Black Money" had nothing to do with IAC except that both these illiterate fellows were misled into once signing a letter to the Prime Minister on a cheap laser printout "letterhead" with the words "India Against Corruption" in English on 01.Dec.2010 (This letter was never delivered to the PM). After that neither of them used this name for a very long time - ie. till August 2011 - see the photographs. Insofar as IAC-HRA's notability goes there are several mainstream news sources which say that the IAC movement is now with the HRA and it is doing notable anti-corruption things (like blocking UIDAI's HeadQuarters) and causing Radio Stations to apolgise etc. Why thousands of sources (incorrectly) refer to the protest movement as "IAC" was due to criminal fraud, forgery and impersonation by 3 of the signatories to that letter. 2001:4DD0:FF00:8A8B:0:0:0:5747 (talk) 20:26, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. - 2001:558:1400:10:F8EC:295:110E:1DB4 (talk) 20:33, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

??? Who is this IP. Is this DES ? If so, you've captured the essence of it very well. 2001:4DD0:FF00:8A8B:0:0:0:5747 (talk) 20:38, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

All of my edits to this page are signed with my user name. All hte various IP editors seem as if they are editing from the same PoV. Note that it is not allowed for one person to attempt to seem to be multiple people to increase the apparent support behind a position, or to influence a discussion. See WP:SOCK. I am not doing that here (or anywhere) and I hope that no one else is either. DES 20:47, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

That "Agreed" was not done by us. We see that a similar IP has been blocked for "Duck Attack" edits. 2001:4DD0:FF00:8A8B:0:0:0:5747 (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

No, it is not correct unless you take the word of the HRA body, which we cannot do because no independent sources verify it. The situation is actually akin to one that would require a disambiguation but we can't do that either ... because thus far the HRA body has not even been able to show that it is notable. What is happening here is an attempt at mob rule by people who won't even create accounts and claim to be affiliated with what amounts to an underground organisation. - Sitush (talk) 21:50, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

IAC has not opened a Misplaced Pages Account for this dispute as there may be legal terms and conditions or other clauses of adhesion associated with such accounts which diminish IAC's legal rights. As this now essentially seems to be a face-off between IAC and User:Sitush who had again reverted to his previous version while attempts of other editors to reach consensus was underway, IAC requests that some editor shall open a Mediation request file for this article (IAC cannot do so without opening an account). The grounds for which are '(a) 'whether the apellations "Team Anna" and "India Against Corruption" refer to the same entity or not', and (b) whether libellous, defamatory and other wise disparaging statements emanating from misuse of the India Against Corruption's title(s) by third parties should be associated with the actual India Against Corruption movement in Misplaced Pages's article(s)'. As a courtesy to IAC, we expect "Misplaced Pages" to stub or severely trim this article to remove the disputed content previously indicated by us on this talk page while the dispute is ongoing. As conclusive evidence that "Team Anna" and "India Against Corruption" are not one and the same body, IAC cites which is the official Parliament Report on Lokpal Bill. It is replete with references to Anna, Anna Hazare, Team Anna, Anna's team etc, and names Anna, Prashant Bhushan, Kiran Bedi., Arvind Kejriwal etc as witnesses before it, but there is not even a single reference to "India Against Corruption" in this report, (because IAC had formally complained about misuse of its name for Lokpal Bill campaign to the Rajya Sabha Chairman/Speaker, saying that IAC opposed Lokpal Bill on principle) 2001:4DD0:FF00:8A8B:0:0:0:5747 (talk) 06:53, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

actually what this appears to be is a stand off between Sitush supporting Misplaced Pages policies and a swarm of meatpuppet proponants of a group attempting to hijack wikipedia with legal threats, personal attacks and incessant WP:IDIDNOTHEARTHAT disruptive behavior. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:10, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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Meatpuppetry with the usual legalese element - all of this has been discussed before and has been pointed out to the contributor. - Sitush (talk) 01:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)}}

No meatpuppetry. Many Admins have said that the members of the "role account" HRA1924 should instead edit in their personal capacities. TheWikiIndian (talk) 03:01, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

No, what you have seen is administrators demanding that supporters of an organization follow Misplaced Pages policies regarding sharing of accounts AND a swarm of " new user who engages in the same behavior as another user in the same context, and who appears to be editing Misplaced Pages solely for that purpose, may be subject to the remedies applied to the user whose behavior they are joining. Sanctions have been applied to editors of longer standing who have not, in the opinion of Misplaced Pages's administrative bodies, consistently exercised independent judgement.", ie meat puppets. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 12:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Requires cleanup

The Anna Hazare and Ramdev movements were popular movements that drew on common resentment against the ruling classes. It was a movement that saw a lot of middle class youth participating. This article looks like it is referencing from a single source and is giving undue weight to Hindutva which was not really an issue in these protests at all. It needs to be substantially rewritten.Puck42 (talk) 04:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Yeah that is probably true. Fowler&fowler «Talk» 13:03, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

No, it isn't. I'm not at all happy with this removal. I would have been happy to see the tags removed, since the stuff is in the body, but the real problem here has been POV-pushing and legal threats. FWIW, the elections - which were irrelevant to this anyway - are now over. We can drop the Hindutva bit from the lead if necessary but I see nothing wrong with the remainder. Please can someone explain. - Sitush (talk) 18:29, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

I've reinstated in modified form, losing the Hindutva bit. - Sitush (talk) 09:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Nice work. bobrayner (talk) 15:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Discussion on edits to Team Anna article

Please state the case for why my sourced edits are being reverted in this rude manner. Lindashiers (talk) 07:58, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I've just made a big revert because it looks to me as if someone is yet again trying to turn this into an article about the relatively unknown India Against Corruption pressure group rather than the much more widely known India Against Corruption popular movement. I'm not saying that all of the changes lacked merit but unpicking the good from the bad in these circumstances is difficult. So, I suggest we discuss them bit by bit here first.

As a start to that, this edit rings alarm bells. Yes, there clearly were some elements of copyright violation in the old version. Those could have been fixed very simply by rephrasing but instead the entire thing was removed in favour of some very poorly phrased detailed info about alleged internal rows involving an organisation - Jagruk Nagrik Manch - that may or may not be connected and may or may not be relevant. We don't usually include trivial information and that is what this mostly looks like. I'd appreciate an explanation of why this was in fact significant. - Sitush (talk) 08:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Before I respond to you, fully, as I shall, please provide a reliable source for this statement you inserted "The popular movement is distinct from a pressure group campaigning for Right to Information that bears the same name.". Lindashiers (talk) 08:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Furthermore, after that "alarm bells" edit (which was to fix your copy-vios), the entire Meera Nanda text/cite was added back after loosely paraphrasing it. The Guha text will also be added back once we both can confirm that it still exists and corresponds to the content you added. Lindashiers (talk) 08:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

The "popular movement" thing has been discussed widely, including at WP:DRN, WP:ANI, via WP:OTRS and the WMF, on this very talk page and on numerous other talk pages. Sometimes we have to use a bit of common sense. If the pressure group were notable then it would have its own article and we could avoid the qualification by using a dabhat; alas, there is no such article yet, the notability is moot and so we cannot do that.

Please prove that those were my copyvios or desist from making such claims. This article has gone back and forth an awful lot and while there is a remote possibility that I did in fact breach copyright, the chances of it being me are extremely slim. I'm pretty experienced and I am subject to a phenomenal amount of scrutiny here. I took some screenshots of the Guha book a few hours ago - I can email them to you if you want. - Sitush (talk) 08:41, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Your proof . Can you confirm if the Guha book on Googlebooks is a scan of the Indian sub-continent edition or is Penguin's Viking ebook since they both have the same e-ISBN. I see a substantial number of sources on the notability of the RTI activists group. Its a pity you can't come up with a credible source to establish that they are a "pressure group" ... Lindashiers (talk) 09:07, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

You are continuing to be rude and aggressive. I'm not dealing with you until you calm down, sorry. - Sitush (talk) 09:14, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Oh, except to say that I accept the diff. No idea why that happened but clearly I cocked-up then. It doesn't make me a serial copyright violator. - Sitush (talk) 09:17, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@Sitush, Time-Out. If you are prepared to fairly reevaluate your POV on this article; I, as an expert, shall disentangle (with sources) the various strands of the Anna/IAC 2010-2012 phenomenon so that 2 "good articles" can emerge - a) Team Anna b) India Against Corruption. Lindashiers (talk) 09:19, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

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