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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)
- I've reinstated in modified form, losing the Hindutva bit. - Sitush (talk) 09:02, 27 July 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)
Discussion on edits to Team Anna article
Semi-exciting discussion started by a now-indef blocked account, but having little to do with article improvement. Drmies (talk) 02:48, 21 September 2014 (UTC) |
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Please state the case for why my sourced edits are being reverted in this rude manner. Lindashiers (talk) 07:58, 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)
@Lindashiers: Several people are watching this topic and your current approach cannot succeed. Johnuniq (talk) 10:53, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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The alleged copyvio
Copyvio claim is based on an obvious hoax. The edit in question dates from Nov. 2013. The supposed blog claimed to be the original text from 2011 is in its entirety only one paragraph. It's the only item of substance on a site set up in the last two months and the Wayback Machine's earliest archive for the blog is the same day as the user making the copyvio claim started editing WP (on 3 Sept 2014) DeCausa (talk) 21:28, 11 September 2014 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I'm still trying to work out how I blatantly copyvio'd here. The Duplication Detector reports this but I've never looked at that blog until this week and certainly wouldn't use it as a source, ever. I've just checked it against the Wayback machine, which has only one entry for it here. That entry happens to coincide with the date when Lindashiers (talk · contribs) began editing. Is it possible that the IAC meatfarm have faked the blog in an attempt to discredit me? I'm going to try some more research. - Sitush (talk) 17:09, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- It looks like I got it from this. It is fairly close paraphrasing, I admit, but I'll have to leave the judgment to others. - Sitush (talk) 17:14, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- The whois for the domain that the blog is hosted on seems to suggest that it was not registered until July this year - see here. Aside from the blog post referred to, it has pretty much zero content. I'm more and more convinced that I've been screwed over here. - Sitush (talk) 17:32, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- I followed a similar train of thought independently of Sitush, and I've come to the same conclusion. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 17:46, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- I began to look into this earlier (an attempt at a joe job) and got sidetracked. There was something fishy with Lindashiers' grabbing onto the supposed copyvio and not letting go. I expect we will see more of these kinds of things in the future. --NeilN 18:01, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- The whois for the domain that the blog is hosted on seems to suggest that it was not registered until July this year - see here. Aside from the blog post referred to, it has pretty much zero content. I'm more and more convinced that I've been screwed over here. - Sitush (talk) 17:32, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Hindu nationalism in the wider sense used in this book, complete with the state-temple-corporate complex, was on display in the recent anti-corruption campaigns that rocked the UPA government through much of 2011. A group calling itself "India Against Corruption", whose inner circle was made up largely of lawyers and middle-class professionals, managed to launch a nationwide movement demanding stricter legislation against corruption. IAC turned to two men to rally support for their cause - Baba Ramdev, a prominent tele-yogi and Ayurvedic healer with millions of admirers, especially among the lower-middle classes in small towns, and Anna Hazare, the Gandhian ex-army man turned social reformer, whose core support came from urban middle-classes and idealistic youth. Both men exemplify how smoothly and almost imperceptibly religion blends with politics and business in India these days.
There are two potential close paraphrasing problems in what I wrote:
- "a populist yogi with millions of supporters among the middle-classes of small-town India"
- "Hazare, too, brought a large support base with him, comprising mostly middle-class people from urban areas and idealistic youths"
Comments and advice, please. - Sitush (talk) 18:00, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- I don't see a problem with the first sentence. "middle-class people from urban areas and idealistic youths" could conceivably be considered too closely paraphrased but it's hard to rewrite without losing accuracy. "middle-class from the cities and younger Indians"? --NeilN 18:17, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hm. The idealism is the key to what went on, though: it drove the popular movement and, later, drove the Aam Aadmi Party. This was a new breed of socially-conscious, aspirational youth: India was basically experiencing what the US and Europe experienced in the 1960s, when the youths broke away from the hide-bound strictures of gerontocracy etc. - Sitush (talk) 18:27, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- "socially-conscious younger Indians"? --NeilN 18:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm really not seeing a paraphrasing problem. It looks distinct enough to me. (It's certainly not copyright infringement). Given that it looks likely that the linkage to the blog is just an IAC stitch up, I would suggest not wasting more time on this, unless one of our copyvio experts says otherwise. DeCausa (talk) 19:11, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- "socially-conscious younger Indians"? --NeilN 18:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Hm. The idealism is the key to what went on, though: it drove the popular movement and, later, drove the Aam Aadmi Party. This was a new breed of socially-conscious, aspirational youth: India was basically experiencing what the US and Europe experienced in the 1960s, when the youths broke away from the hide-bound strictures of gerontocracy etc. - Sitush (talk) 18:27, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Going back to that blog post, I notice it's presented as a quotation from Veeresh Malik. It concerns events from October 2010 to late February 2011 and beyond: "by late Feb 2011 P soon realised... demanded we replace him ... who also brought his large support base along with him ... and IAC now attracted ..." It seems to be written with the perspective of more than a few days or weeks, yet it's not only marked as copyright 2011 but also as posted on the blog on 06 April 2011, very soon after late February 2011.
- It's shown as having been taken from page 93 of something - perhaps a book or a journal - but no title or publisher is given. Several books by Veeresh Malik appear on Amazon with "Look Inside" enabled, but none have 2011 publication dates. Still, looking inside it's striking how different Malik's style is in them from the style of that extract in the blog.
- The blog appears on a domain that was registered in July 2014. It's the only entry; it's titled "IAC Chronicles Day 2" but there is no Day 1.
- The perspective is consistent with having been written at a distance of a couple of years. The succinct summary style is consistent, the use of the first person aside, with writing an Misplaced Pages entry. I believe the burden is on anyone accusing Sitush of copying to show that that this blog is a genuine extract from a work written by Veeresh Malik between late Febrary 2011 and 6 April 2011. NebY (talk) 19:41, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I wasn't even aware that the guy has written any books! I wouldn't likely have used them anyway (I don't like using primary sources and Malik is one, as a member of IAC) but I'll go check them now, if I get a better view than you. - Sitush (talk) 19:46, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- So, this one paragraph (day 2 only) blog is the only item of substance on a site set up in the last two months and the Wayback Machine's earliest archive for the blog is the same day as Lindashiers started editing WP. The alleged copyvio was posted here Nov 2013. Shouldn't we just close this as an obvious hoax? DeCausa (talk) 19:58, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, please. I can't do it, obviously. - Sitush (talk) 20:01, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Agreed. There isn't enough evidence of copyright violation and there are many reasons to see it as a hoax. NebY (talk) 20:05, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Here is a piece written by Malik and dated 6 April 2011 - but without the text in the blog and with a more personal style. NebY (talk) 20:53, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- It is completely irrelevant to the copyvio claim and we're not going to use the opinion of an involved activist, especially not one whose organisation has been deliberately attempting to influence this article for a year or so now. - Sitush (talk) 20:56, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Here is a piece written by Malik and dated 6 April 2011 - but without the text in the blog and with a more personal style. NebY (talk) 20:53, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- So, this one paragraph (day 2 only) blog is the only item of substance on a site set up in the last two months and the Wayback Machine's earliest archive for the blog is the same day as Lindashiers started editing WP. The alleged copyvio was posted here Nov 2013. Shouldn't we just close this as an obvious hoax? DeCausa (talk) 19:58, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I wasn't even aware that the guy has written any books! I wouldn't likely have used them anyway (I don't like using primary sources and Malik is one, as a member of IAC) but I'll go check them now, if I get a better view than you. - Sitush (talk) 19:46, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Copyright followup
The spurious claims of copyright violation have been discussed multiple times in multiple forums and found to be lacking in basis and merely part of the continued attempts to disrupt this article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
As a copyright problems clerk, I have formally closed the 3 September listing as "No vio found, claim cannot be validated. Tag removed from article." I also noted there that at most there was very minor close paraphrasing from the book cited and that the blog originally alleged to be the source of the copyvio appears to be a hoax with no convincing evidence that it pre-dates the Misplaced Pages article. I fully concur with Writ Keeper, the administrator who removed the tag (I was about to do it myself). Interestingly, I googled another phrase from WP article and what should a find, but a blatant paste from the WP article (complete with the citation needed tags) added on 14 April 2014 to the official Facebook page of a group claiming to be India Against Corruption . Note that the source is entirely unattributed and is therefore a copyright violation. Misplaced Pages articles are released under a license that requires attribution. As you can see from the Google results, the article was also copied verbatim into at least two blogs dated December 2013, one month after the material appeared on Misplaced Pages. As for the current paragraph. I suggest some minor re-writes and perhaps putting some distinctively worded phrases (which might suffer loss of original meaning if too loosely paraphrased) inside quote marks. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 08:03, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Comment moved from Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems/2014 September 3
I am posting the comment below which was left at Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems/2014 September 3 by Name Defend IPA (talk · contribs) with this edit and will respond to it shortly. – Voceditenore (talk) 06:24, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
My principal, who is interested in this matter, politely requests to know from the Wikipeisa "community" and especially from the concerned Misplaced Pages user who uploaded the infringing content, if (a) he denies the existence of the below described email of 06.April.2011, (b) denies that the extract published on the "blog" is a true reproduction of the extract from the said email, (c) if the user has any permission to reproduce the content of the referred email. Name Defend IPA (talk) 04:35, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Response from Voceditenore, the copyright clerk who closed the listing at Copyright problems/2014 September 3:
1. By their own admission the purported blog post dated April 2011 from indiaagainstcorruption.net was actually added to that site on the day the copyright violation tag was placed on the article here (3 September 2014) .
2. The blog post claimed as the source of the copyvio was labeled not as an email but as an extract from a 2014 book which they claim quoted the email and is available only to IAC members.
3. The problematic passage in the Misplaced Pages article was added incrementally with two edits on 23 November 2013: 1 and 2.
4. The blog post purporting to be an email re-quoted in a 2014 book shows an equal if not even greater similarity to the material in the following book published in 2013 prior to the passage in the Misplaced Pages article:
- Nanda, Meera (2011). The God Market: How Globalization is Making India More Hindu. NYU Press. pp. xxii–xxiii. ISBN 9781583673096.
5. The paraphrasing in the Misplaced Pages article was from the 2013 book above which was properly cited as the source. There is no convincing evidence that it was paraphrased from anywhere else. Thus, any alleged copyright infringement is a matter between the group purporting to be the current IAC, Veeresh Malik (the alleged author of the 2014 book), and Meera Nanda (the confirmed author of the 2013 book).
6. While there was some overly close paraphrasing of one or two sentences from Nanda's 2013 book in the Misplaced Pages article, it does not rise to the level of a copyright violation.
7. Accusations that the editor who added the material to Misplaced Pages had somehow had access to a 2011 non-public email and used that instead of the published 2013 book are irrelevant to this copyright issue, unprovable, and in my view spurious.
– Voceditenore (talk) 07:38, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks Voceditenore, but given everything we know, I think we are done with this subject. Archiving.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 18:24, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Collapsing page bloat having absolutely nothing to do with article improvement. The latest disruptive editor has been blocked. Feel free to click "show" for a demonstration of the IAC sock/meatfarm's typical debating style. Bishonen | talk 12:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC). |
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Sarbajit Roy (National Convenor)I've moved the content from the redirected page here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duffycharles (talk • contribs) 09:44, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
For constructive editors
So since we have both ROY and Hazare very publicly claiming the IAC name, and Hazare equally publicly dropping his claim to the IAC name, somebody should come up with a very good explanation for why this article should not be redacted. Duffycharles (talk) 06:20, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
HOAXI am placing a {:hoax} tag, as I believe that this article was created as a deliberate WP:HOAX to embarrass Misplaced Pages by the main author of this article. Duffycharles (talk) 06:27, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
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For constructive editors dealing with disruptive editors on this subject matter
- (I've moved this single possibly useful section out of the hat and out of sequence. Bishonen | talk 12:33, 28 September 2014 (UTC).)
And I believe that @Bishonen: has indicated a willingness to apply the ANI result. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 9/27/14
Disruptive editor blocked
On second thoughts, User:Duffycharles, and glancing through your other contributions on this page, I'll block you for personal attacks and battleground editing for a few days to be going on with, because people may want to use this page for actual discussion, and your bloat and disruption is very distracting. For any further sanctions, stand by for the next "rigged CheckUser result". Incidentally, you didn't make more than four edits between 20 July 2008 and 24 September 2014 (or, shock and horror, did you?), so how do you come to have any notion of our checkuser results wrt IAC socks? Answer on your page, if you wish, because you can't post here; you've been blocked. Bishonen | talk 11:19, 28 September 2014 (UTC).
- Bishonen, given Duffycharles's clear legal threat in response to your 72-hour block, I suspect the block may become somewhat longer very quickly. Voceditenore (talk) 11:56, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- Have reblocked indefinitely per WP:NLT -- Euryalus (talk) 12:04, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- And now checkuser has established that User:Lindashiers who brought the hoax copyvio claim is a sock of User:Duffycharles. DeCausa (talk) 07:44, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks to User:Bishonen for creating Misplaced Pages:Long-term_abuse/India_Against_Corruption_sock-meatfarm. Could/should there be a link to it toward the top of the page to keep it from being archived with discussion, as a general reference point for editors who come in with no prior awareness of the sockfarm? Ian.thomson (talk) 20:00, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, thanks Bish. I've added a note at the top. --NeilN 20:08, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Concerns
These are reviews of the current version of the article, and not of "what should be", "what could be" etc.- Infobox data: In the infobox, Arvind Kejriwal has been mentioned as a "key people". Should we mention in bracket that he is a former member (this is based on what we have in the article now).
- Notable members: There is a list of "Notable members" in the article. It is unclear (in the article) whether they had a "formal membership/registration procedure". Is "Members" the right word here? Or something like "participants", "activist" "workers" may be used?
The popular movement is distinct from a pressure group campaigning for Right to Information that bears the same name.
— it is in our lead. I am facing difficulties to find where it has been discussed in details in articles body, hence, it might be "unsourced" claim.
What is meant by "Pressure group" here?Those involved with the IAC core committee eventually diverged to form the
— unclear. Article mentions, some people stayed even after the split.
Tito☸Dutta 22:54, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
- Tito, my suggestions re the points you raised would be the following:
- 1. Remove the infobox completely. Infoboxes are not obligatory and should not be used where they create confusion or over-simplify. Trying to force what appears to be a loose coalition of activists with no organization or formal governance apart from a "core Committee" into a formal organization like Greenpeace or UNICEF (for which {{Infobox organization}} was intended) is counter-productive.
- 2. Remove the list of "notable members". It adds nothing, and is simply a source of arguments and unreferenced drive-by additions. Where there are reliable sources linking a person to the movement's activities in a significant way, those people should be covered as prose within the article itself.
- 3. Remove
The popular movement is distinct from a pressure group campaigning for Right to Information that bears the same name.
from the lede. Given the paucity of reliable sources available concerning its present activities (if any) and the apparent contradiction with the quote from the Hindustan Times at the end of the "Divergence" section. - 4. Change the sentence in the lede:
Those involved with the IAC core committee eventually diverged to form the Aam Aadmi Party and Jantantra Morcha.
to something like:- Divisions amongst key members of the IAC's core committee eventually led to a split within the movement. Arvind Kejriwal left to form the Aam Aadmi Party, while Anna Hazare left to form a replacement campaigning group, Jantantra Morcha.
- In that respect, I'd also change the heading
Divergence
toSplit
. - Voceditenore (talk) 06:26, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for replying. #1, #2, I agree. good suggestions. #3 If that line is removed, the article becomes only on the movement, the IAC editors are trying to change the article about "an organization" (founded in 2007), I have not studied it still, that needs to be mentioned in the article, at least in a hatnote. #4 -- okay. Thank you once again. --Tito☸Dutta 06:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- Long-term solution Tito, so far, there are zero reliable, independent, secondary sources to support the claim that it was founded in 2007. Ditto their other claims. Note that even the Hindustan Times refers to their "owning" the IAC as of September 2013 simply as a claim. So no, that doesn't belong in the article until/unless such sources can be found. Your statement
If that line is removed, the article becomes only on the movement
is absolutely key here and leads to my suggestion for more long-term solution. My suggestions above are simply an interim solution. This article plus 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement and 2012 Indian anti-corruption movement are all unfortunate consequences of recentism and various groups of activists seeing Misplaced Pages as yet another arm of social media to promote their cause. In the long term all three articles should be merged (with considerable pruning of all three) into 2011 – 2012 Indian anti-corruption movement. Note that there is already a long-standing proposal to merge the 2011 and 2012 Indian anti-corruption movement articles. This article could be a subsection of that merged article. Such a major restructuring would take a lot of work. Perhaps a task force of WikiProject India could take it on. It needs experienced editors thoroughly familiar with the appropriate Indian sources and an ability to write coherent and concise prose. Voceditenore (talk) 07:26, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- That is a wonderful post. It shows both your expertise and your knowledge about this subject and Misplaced Pages guidelines and policies. I was not following their replies and discussions so far.
Correctly or incorrectly, by "India Against Corruption", news papers, medias etc. mean the movement that gained momentum in India in 2011-12.
Now, they may have an organization with same name and it might be a brand name/generic name type of error as well. But, it needs to be verified.
About merging, I feel, this IAC should be the main article, but, that can/should be discussed in details later. --Tito☸Dutta 08:15, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- I agree with Voceditenore's suggestion that we have a single article focused on the larger story of the 2011-2012 movement, which would include the involvement of IAC as well as that of other groupings and the part played by some individuals even as those groupings changed. Merging those descriptions into an article about IAC would produce a much more awkward result, subsuming other narratives into the story of the IAC, viewing events from a single perspective and even omitting material as irrelevant to the subject of IAC. NebY (talk) 09:23, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- This merger has been my proposal for a very long time and I've been working on all three articles to achieve that end. That has involved, and likely will still involve, removing a lot of copyvio as well as the usual fluff. If the IAC pressure group want an article about themselves then, as said umpteen times in the past, they'll have to demonstrate notability. - Sitush (talk) 12:49, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- That is a wonderful post. It shows both your expertise and your knowledge about this subject and Misplaced Pages guidelines and policies. I was not following their replies and discussions so far.
- Long-term solution Tito, so far, there are zero reliable, independent, secondary sources to support the claim that it was founded in 2007. Ditto their other claims. Note that even the Hindustan Times refers to their "owning" the IAC as of September 2013 simply as a claim. So no, that doesn't belong in the article until/unless such sources can be found. Your statement
- Agree with Voceditenore Remove
The popular movement is distinct from a pressure group campaigning for Right to Information that bears the same name.
Further it is only there claim that the Hindustan Times of 3 September 2013 PublishedThe group, which now runs — and claims to own — the IAC, mostly comprises Right to Information (RTI) activists.
This should be removed.Further whether Veeresh Malik is notable puts that He is a Co-convenor and co-founder of the India Against Corruption anti-corruption movement.Now cannot find a source outside there own website.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:59, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- Agree with Voceditenore Remove
- The IAC organisation exists and there are more sources that could be used to verify this. None that I've ever seen actually confer notability sufficient to justify a separate article but they do verify. - Sitush (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- Eg: page 130 of this, an official paper of the Rajya Sabha. - Sitush (talk) 20:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- The IAC organisation exists and there are more sources that could be used to verify this. None that I've ever seen actually confer notability sufficient to justify a separate article but they do verify. - Sitush (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- IAC organization will fail notability for now did search but did not find anything notable that will pass notability .Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 20:36, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
- Which is why we have consistently prevented this article from being hijacked by that organisation. That is not the same as saying that the thing should not be mentioned in order to avoid confusion. What I'd really like to pin down is whether they are in fact a registered NGO. - Sitush (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Per this discussion so far, I have provisionally changed the lede along the lines suggested. I have also removed "along with Team Anna" from the lede. It was problematic for a number of reasons, but primarily because it implies that IAC=Team Anna, which is not strictly true, at least according to the sources. I have also renamed the "Divergence Section" to "Internal split" and made a more precise redirect from Team Anna. I have also made some slight tweaks to the "Internal split" section to bring it more into line with what the sources actually said. For ease of comparison and discussion, see this diff showing the changes I made. Voceditenore (talk) 09:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Update: #1, #2 mentioned above Done. --Tito☸Dutta 05:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Specific concerns
- populist in the lede and elsewhere. This word is misused, often as a perjorative for demagoguery . It should be replaced by the organization's own description "people's movement".
- The 2 suggested links for "Further reading"
- Hensman, Rohini (September 2011). "Converging agendas: Team Anna and the Indian Right"
- Megwanshi, Bhanwar (5 September 2011). "India: The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement" - ought to be deleted immediately, as they do not relate to "India Against Corruption" but Anna Hazare's JLPB campaign/s and Hazare's earlier campaigns.
- The lede's Divisions amongst key members of the IAC's core committee eventually led to a split within the movement is incorrect. (A) There's no hard evidence that there was ever a "split" within the movement, or (B) That the IAC's core committee ever disagreed. I believe the true position is what the IAC has disclosed on its official website/s, viz. that Mr. Arvind Kejriwal's NGO Public Cause Research Foundation was hired in 2010 by IAC's "Core Committee" to launch a new campaign exclusively against CWG-2010 scams in IAC's name, and that this campaign was soon terminated by IAC Core Committee on 9/Dec/2010 when this new activity of PCRF got enlarged and infiltrated by right wing persons affiliated to the communal Jana Sangh's successor party the BJP. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 05:56, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- Per 1 and 2, I have removed the descriptor "populist" altogether, primarily because "populist" is an inaccurate label which ≠ "people's", but also because it is unnecessary. I have removed the "Further Reading" section with Team Anna and the Indian Right and India: The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement because although they specifically mention the IAC, they are opinion pieces from a particular political standpoint, not relevant for improving or referencing the article. However, they do contain references to potentially reliable sources, hence I'm linking them here on the talk page. As for 3, your assertions are not supported by the reliable sources, all of which call it a split, splinter, within the movement, amongst the leaders of its core committee etc. The official website of the group now claiming to own the IAC brand is not a reliable source for the assertions you want to replace them with, and in fact, is an even worse "opinion piece" than the other two I removed. Its "History" section is an incoherent rant. It's fine to put that construction on events for your members on your website. It is not a reliable source for this article. Voceditenore (talk) 07:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- For #3 I am referring to a specific paragraph No. 3 here. The referred details of the substantial payment/s from IAC to PCRF are contained in the audited balance sheet/s of the PCRF which can be accessed at PCRF Official website. As these are internal matters between IAC and PCRF, they are hardly likely to be of general interest or published in 2nd.ary sources for such routine matters where the respective parties were admittedly well known to each other. At the same time there is no absolutely no evidence to show that any of the IAC's Core Committee members ever split from IAC, if you differ perhaps you could list their names. A neutral encyclopedic statement would be that Arvind Kejriwal's "team" left the IAC campaign to pursue politics. In fact PCRF is now merged within Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party as per . I have no comment on the "History" section of IAC's website because I observe that IAC has a distinguished editorial board to whom your opinions are better directed. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 08:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Links
Here are some links:-
- http://www.moneylife.in/article/are-activists-barking-at-the-wrong-tree-on-political-parties-being-under-rti/33706.html
- http://www.moneylife.in/article/rti-exposes-dangers-of-aadhaar/36838.html
- http://www.moneylife.in/article/consumer-interests-hurt-as-ambitious-aadhaar-linked-e-kyc-burdens-the-consumers/34649.html
- http://www.moneylife.in/article/uidai-land-allotment-scam-dda-accepts-iac-prayer-to-scrap-the-deal/34513.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130927113504/http://epaper.mailtoday.in/2292013/epaperimages/2292013/2292013-md-hr-2/135211578.jpg
- http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/annual_report/2013/PPG.pdf
- http://www.firstpost.com/topics/india-against-corruption-61986.html
- http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Anti-corruption-body-abandons-Janlokpal/Article1-1116543.aspx
- http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/bjp-is-the-only-party-that-thinks-of-national-interest-says-vk-singh/article5739915.ece
- http://indiaagainstcorruption.org.in (Official website - as confirmed by Link 7)
- http://www.radioandmusic.com/content/editorial/news/radio-one-fm-mumbai-issues-apology
- http://www.indianewsco.com/news/iac-national-convenor-sarbajit-roy-dares-aaps-arvind-kejriwal-8691704
- http://www.iacmumbai.info/2014/03/08/iac-condemns-aap-sale-of-iac-members-mobile-numbers
- http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-03-14/news/48222133_1_aap-database-ankit-lal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk • contribs) 04:18, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- http://www.iacmumbai.info/2012/10/30/iac-mumbai-to-expose-team-anna-scamsters
- http://daily.bhaskar.com/news/NAT-TOP-all-about-the-money-did-india-against-corruption-swindle-donations-worth-crores-3836697-NOR.html
- http://www.iamiac.com (An IAC volunteers group after "split")
- http://www.iacmumbai.info/2011/12/25/timely-rap-for-team-anna (interesting news item based on email by Sarbajit Roy, which was reproduced verbatim by Mail Today Bureau at http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/lokpal-mmrda-ground-issue-bombay-high-court-slams-team-anna/1/165818.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk • contribs) 04:36, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 02:45, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- I have not checked all these sources, but, #7 FirstPost mentions IAC as an organization. --Tito☸Dutta 03:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Yes Tito, 'IAC' is a juristic person under Indian law. The IAC name was additionally re-registered on 08/Oct/2007 for international use under US Govt laws and there is authentic evidence accessible on-line for this exact name's usage - from 26 August 2008 - under the US Govt. registration. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 03:56, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Ya, I got that point. Thanks. I participated in a similar conflict a year ago (lack of reliable source etc.) Let's see what others think or suggest. --Tito☸Dutta 04:46, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Is it ethical for a "retired " conflicted editor like User:Sitush who has off-wiki issues, and who abruptly terminated the mediation on the same conflict last year (from where I got many of these links) to edit on this topic ? Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 05:20, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Sotyam Eba Joyate, it is entirely ethical for Sitush to participate here whatever banner he has on his talk page. He has been editing this article since May 2011 to remove attempts at using Misplaced Pages as part of the then-IAC's social media campaign and long before the disruption and long-term abuse by the "current" IAC began. We are discussing here the best way to take this article forward. Please refrain from personalised remarks and especially from commentary on off-wiki issues, and keep to the topic. Voceditenore (talk) 06:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Voceditenore, thanks for your views. However, seeing that there is a pending discussion on WP:AN concerning the off-wiki incidents and its larger implications, and that this editor's disruptive participation for this article eg. is clearly distinguishable from cases like Katsanevas , , I believe my concerns need consensus from Misplaced Pages's wider community or action/s of the WMF. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 05:47, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
- Sotyam Eba Joyate, it is entirely ethical for Sitush to participate here whatever banner he has on his talk page. He has been editing this article since May 2011 to remove attempts at using Misplaced Pages as part of the then-IAC's social media campaign and long before the disruption and long-term abuse by the "current" IAC began. We are discussing here the best way to take this article forward. Please refrain from personalised remarks and especially from commentary on off-wiki issues, and keep to the topic. Voceditenore (talk) 06:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Sotyam Eba Joyate, Sitush has made no disruptive comments in this current discussion, nor ever on this page, despite numerous baseless attacks and legal threats by your colleagues. I repeat, your comments are irrelevant to the current discussion on improving this article and disruptive. Your linking to defamation lawsuits involving other editors is likewise off-topic, disruptive, and getting very close to implying legal threats. If you have broader concerns about a user, take them to either the Administrators' Noticeboard or the Administrators' Incident Noticeboard. Voceditenore (talk) 06:20, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Nuances
- http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/annual_report/2011/PPG.pdf (makes it clear that so-called "Team Anna" were appearing for Lokpal Bill in their private capacities, and not as "India Against Corruption". In fact the Committee's final report does not mention IAC anywhere, and only speaks of "Team Anna", "Mr. Hazare's team" etc.)
- The Hindustan Times report is "nuanced". For instance while saying in the first sentence that Anna Hazare made IAC's name a household name, the reporter does not say that the public agitation which Hazare led for Jan Lokpal Bill was "India Against Corruption" {paraphrased: "Anna Hazare led a public agitation for Jan Lokpal Bill which made India Against Corruption a household name" does not establish that Hazare's agitation was named IAC}. It then goes to speak of "claimants" for the IAC campaign after both Hazare and Kejriwal split from the IAC. The article then states that (after their split from IAC) Kejriwal formed AAP and Hazare formed Jan Tantra Manch and Kiran Bedi split from Hazare. The controversial phrase "The group, which now runs — and claims to own — the IAC, mostly comprises Right to Information (RTI) activists. The group had taken over the IAC immediately after the split ..." has to be read in the report's previous context of "claimants " for the IAC campaign. That is to say this report is stating that the IAC group took over the IAC campaign and claimed the 'campaign" to announce that Lokpal bill issue is abandoned by the IAC. It is noteworthy that there is no denial from AAP's Manish Sisodia or Hazare that the IAC they split from is the "anti-corruption body" / group which has Roy as National Convenor. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 05:15, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Re: Usage of Anna's name in this article and/or in connection with "India Against Corruption". The agreement between "Anna" and IAC of January 2013 is accessible on a google-drive link in public domain. Its pretty clear that Anna, who is not very literate in English, co-signed 2 documents released on 14.Nov.2010 and 01.Dec.2010 in New Delhi with IAC's name under the assurances of his hosts in New Delhi, and he has thereafter never used the name "India Against Corruption", and that the Marathi language newspapers he reads never used the name "India Against Corruption" for his own agitation or else he would have himself objected to such misuse of IAC's name. It is also pretty clearly agreed that Anna personally never made money from usage of IAC's name. Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 05:50, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- For instance on Nov. 10-11 2012, "Avantika Ghosh" reports "Anna claims IAC brand" name (http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/anna-s-new-team-wants-an-old-name-says-we-are-india-against-corruption/1029940/) but after the above mentioned "agreement", Ghosh immediately reports on 18 Jan 2013 "Anna drops IAC brand name" (http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/anna-drops-iac-brand-name-to-close-delhi-office/1061067/0) and snarkily says "It is curious that having wrested the name from Kejriwal, the new Team Anna is all set to drop the brand altogether." Sotyam Eba Joyate (talk) 06:05, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Er, folks? - Sitush (talk) 08:23, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Blocked by an admin. Might I suggest any further posts by sock/meat puppets simply be reverted and the sock told to request an unblock from the original account? That way, the community can place conditions on the potential unblock (e.g., no attacks on Sitush). --NeilN 14:28, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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