Q4: Why aren't there sections on science and technology, education, media, tourism etc?
A4: New sections require talk-page consensus. In archived discussions, it was decided to keep them out. Consider expanding their respective daughter articles, such as History of India, instead. See WP:WPC.
Q5: Why was my image or external link removed?
A5: To add or remove images and links, start a thread on this page first. See WP:FP?, WP:IMAGE, and WP:EL.
Q6: The map is wrong!
A6: The map shows the official (de jure) borders in undisputed territory and the de facto borders and all related claims where there's a dispute; it cannot exclusively present the official views of India, Pakistan, or China. See WP:NPOV.
Q7: India is a superpower!
A7: Consult the archives of this talk page for discussions of India's status as a superpower before adding any content that makes the suggestion. See WP:DUE.
Q8: Delhi is a state!
A8: To create an Indian state, the Parliament of India must pass a law to that effect—see Articles 2 through 4 of the Constitution of India, full text here. The Sixty-ninth Amendment, which was enacted in 1991, added Article 239AA to the constitution. It proclaimed the National Capital Territory of Delhi, gave it a legislative assembly, and accorded it special powers that most union territories lack. But Delhi was not made a state. Several crucial powers were retained by the central government, such as responsibility for law and order. Delhi also does not have a governor; instead, a lieutenant governor presides. Unlike Himachal Pradesh, which gained statehood in 1970, and Goa, which gained it in 1987, Delhi continues to be listed as a union territory by the First Schedule.
Q9: Add Hindi as the national language/hockey as the national sport!
A9: Hindi is the official language, not national language. There is no national language, but there are constitutionally recognized languages, commonly known as Schedule 8 languages. English also serves as a subsidiary official language until the universal use of Hindi is approved by the states and parliament.
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In the final statement in the history section, "India's sustained democratic freedoms are unique among the world's newer nations", we need to update it to include the rapid democratic backsliding and the rise of Hindu nationalism seen in recent years. Countless institutes and organizations, studies, and media sources cite this, and it is not a trivial matter to be ignored. I feel like it needs to be included in this article. A sentence or two should work. Some of the sources are Democracy Report 2024 by V-Dem Institute, Democracy in India by Chatham House[1], 'Electoral autocracy': The downgrading of India's democracy by BBC[2], Modi’s strongman rule raises questions about India’s ‘democratic decline’ as he seeks a third term by CNBC[3], The democratic backsliding of India, by The Hindu[4]EarthDude (talk) 16:49, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
EarthDude, Not how it works in a featured article, which is also one of the oldest. You have to propose a change, backed up by reliable sources, and then establish a consensus from the community here in the talk page. I understand your enthusiasm, but you can go through the talk page archives to understand the process. Ping me or any other senior editor for any help. Happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:03, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Those sources are brief ones looking at a very recent period of history. The current final paragraph is a summation of the last few decades. This covers a broad range of sometimes quite dramatic political events, which are not included here for reasons of concision. You may want to see how the content fits into History of India (1947–present). CMD (talk) 04:08, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Democratic backsliding is quite myth. Nothing has been seriously reported in last 4-5 years. The rise of Hindu nationalism is not democratic backsliding. Loveforwiki (talk) 07:35, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a Wikipedia, you don't get to add your personal biased political view points here. Democratic backsliding has always been there and has decreased ever since the rise of hindutva. So kindly stay away 103.170.231.236 (talk) 08:51, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@The Herald We can add the word only without adding wikilink.Adding this not here but on others can be inequality.I have seen that article and the section is very improved now.It can be added . Edasf (talk) 14:38, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: Not appropriate for an unsourced edit to be added directly into the lead, especially if it adds no additional information. CMD (talk) 16:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You have not provided a source here, and it is unclear which of the 190 citations on the linked page you are referring to. CMD (talk) 06:16, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia articles are not reliable sources. Please do not use edit template requests without providing sources or gaining consensus for your proposals. CMD (talk) 08:50, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If it is to be added, it really needs to go in the "Ancient India" section, not the lede, as modern-day India is not the same entity. As you can see from that paragraph, examples of early hominids were found in areas such as Pakistan. Black Kite (talk)11:15, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Edasf, IMO, the addition is just superfluous. If the general consensus says it needs to be added, then it should go as per Black Kite, not in the lede. The lede doesn't need to touch that part of history and it is more than perfect as it is now. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 08:30, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I just saw this. "Cradle of civilization," is an imprecise (and catch-all) term and best not be applied to this featured article, which has been vetted by the WP community for quality.
Moreover, in my way of thinking, if it had to be applied to an ancient culture, it would be that of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. For that is where Homo sapiens—who had originated in Africa and had survived for tens of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers—became a farming, and later irritatingirrigating, people and gave rise to complex societies. We refer to this in the lead and reference Mehrgarh, where a neolithic culture had first arisen in South Asia, and in turn, gave rise to the Indus Valley Civilisation, the region's first urban culture. Fowler&fowler«Talk»20:41, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I support adding the Cradle of civilisation sentences in the lead. Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and IVC are three oldest ever. Even in China page lead, it's been added meanwhile China came after IVC. Loveforwiki (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Edasf: I'm going to remove your, good faith, addition to the article because I don't really see consensus for its inclusion above. Also, do note that this article is about the modern entity named "India". Any "cradle of civilization" reference will refer to the pre-partition entity and not the current one. A chunk (perhaps the predominant chunk) of this cradle part is now in Pakistan. At best, the cradle of civilization reference belongs in the History of India article which covers the history of India prior to partition. RegentsPark (comment) 14:26, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't agree here, cradle part also comes in India in the region of Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Rajasthan. We can't ignore it. We can write the sentences the way it suit it's current geographic. Like we can write in the way.." India is among the cradle of civilisations with some region lies in Pakistan" like that we can write. Loveforwiki (talk) 16:11, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Although the Hindu caste system is in some ways similar to apartheid, and I've casually compared the two myself in talk page discussions, the consensus of scholarly opinion in both Indian historiography and sociology has been not to consider either system to be a form of the other. Note also that the caste system does not only discriminate against the Dalits, though they have certainly borne the brunt of itse oppression. Fowler&fowler«Talk»20:59, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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I think in the Government section the image of RB is no longer in use on its main article itself and we should use the image on its main article here as well. Edasf (talk) 08:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Above here is the current orthographic map of India used in the infobox. It uses very oversimplified borders and has extreme levels of errors and inaccuracies. For example, it merges Syria, Lebanon, and Israel, into a single country, it merges Jordan and Palestine into a single country, it gives the landlocked country of Moldova access to the Black Sea, basically erased East Timor, among many, many more. I believe it is not upto Wikipedia's standards of quality.
I propose that we change this map to an edited version of the following:
Thats because I'm just tryna gauge consensus here. I wanna see if people actually wanna change it and then I'll probably make the edited version with India's actual current borders, with dark green in all Indian territories and light green in territories India claims EarthDude (talk) 17:40, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
EarthDude, good initiative, but consensus doesn't work like that. You have to provide proper edited version you believe is the most appropriate one and then acquire a consensus for that one. This is one of the oldest featured article and the scrutiny is extra hard. I don't think any editor will agree to such a proposed change which is a crystal ball. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 02:50, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think consensus would be needed to update the map to fix things like missing borders, but the svg globes seem hard to make, or most would have been fixed by this point. CMD (talk) 04:15, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, i know. I wanna see if there's any consensus for change, and then I'll make the edited version of the map, using the second image, because it is quite high quality EarthDude (talk) 17:42, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I wonder why it's not mentioned in lead that india is second largest active military personnels and it's part of G20, BRICs, Quad, east asia summit etc like it's mentioned in othet countries page. Why not here ?? Loveforwiki (talk) 03:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Theoretically this lead is better than most others, and they should be adapted to fit this one. I do have my issues with the current lead, mostly the coverage of history crowding out the coverage of the current country, but changes to the lead should be considered within the context of this article and ideally backed up by sources, rather than copying other articles. CMD (talk) 04:14, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't copied anything. It's just sentences that tells which of grouping India is part of.
Although the way the last paragraph of lead is written, like everything is compared to 1951 to current years. I also doesn't approve it. Obviously everything was devastated in 1951 because it got independence in 1947. Loveforwiki (talk) 04:23, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I thought you wanted to copy the format of the other country pages? If not, where do the content ideas come from? CMD (talk) 05:07, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't requir this deep and complicated debate just to add simple participation of India in these summits. Mostly 95% countries lead pages have these information, Dont know what so special about India that mentioned here. Ok if it's added or not. I support to add these. Loveforwiki (talk) 07:33, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is the problem with random statistics in the lead....There is a debate if we where here before the Youngest Toba eruption as outlined at Clarkson, Chris; Harris, Clair; Li, Bo; Neudorf, Christina M.; Roberts, Richard G.; Lane, Christine; Norman, Kasih; Pal, Jagannath; Jones, Sacha; Shipton, Ceri; Koshy, Jinu; Gupta, M. C.; Mishra, D. P.; Dubey, A. K.; Boivin, Nicole; Petraglia, Michael (2020-02-25). "Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago". Nature Communications. 11 (1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14668-4. ISSN2041-1723...... The debate should be removed from the lead and explained in the article in detail...... As the number 55 seems to be a synthesis of sources with an average guess compiled by Wikipedia editors.Moxy🍁 01:24, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I personally is doubtful that it will be added back. Even if I provide hundreds of reliable sources, it may still be removed by those particular editors with their weird India-loving fetish. Cyanmax (talk) 05:28, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Epidemic and pandemic diseases have long been a major factor, including COVID-19 and cholera.[1]
India has consistently been ranked as one of the most polluted countries in the world. Of the 100 most polluted cities in the world, 83 are in India.[2][3]
^David Arnold, Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19 (Oxford University Press, 2022) online review
It is the middle of the night here. Not sure why I woke up. Perhaps I'm worried about our election tomorrow. Not sure why I clicked on the bell up top, which I do three times a year. It is perennially full.
Off the top of my head: So someone finds David Arnold's latest book and they've created a blurb from it and think it is good to include here. What other books have they read on health and disease in
India have they read? Have they read David Arnold's other books? Say Science and Medicine in Colonial India? Or, Burning the Dead? They have likely not if they have managed to reduce a sensitive and sympathetic historian's work to such a blurb? Do they know anything about Vibrio cholerae? Do they know it is endemic to a species of shrimp in the estuary of the Meghna river in Bangladesh? Only during major religious festivals such as Kumbh in Allahabad had the bacterium traveled upstream and create, for example, the world's first cholera pandemic. The other cholera pandemics were world-wide.
Speaking of Kumbh, do they know that it was a small religious gathering historically, which during the British Raj years was transformed into a major India-wide religious gathering. They might want to read Kama Maclean's book Pilgrimage and Power. Have they read Tim Dyson's A Population History of India, which has a much material devoted not just to cholera, but also to India's more lethal historical killer, malaria. There is material on the plague in the late 19th century, and on the many famines. See Timeline of major famines in India during British rule. This is a complicated subject not reducible to simple formulations. I'm not averse, obviously, to something being added, but it will require much more discussion and will take time. I have to go back to bed. Fowler&fowler«Talk»08:15, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
People are better off reading a broad scale history book, such as Burton Stein and David Arnold's History of India, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (originally OUP), which is the sort of book we cite from in this article. Perhaps look in it for disease in India. Covid-19 is a separate story. India had the largest excess mortality of any country, some 47 million, which the Indian government has not accepted. Some say that the decennial (10-yearly) census has bee postponed because it might show a minor population crash.
India being literally the most polluted country in the world IS common knowledge, and yes, u are sabotaging this info due to your weird fetish. Cyanmax (talk) 08:32, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please note that I had added, "Among the socio-economic challenges India faces are gender inequality, child malnutrition, and rising levels of air pollution." in the revised lead prepared for Gandhi 150th WP:TFA in October 2019. It can be used to create three or four sentences with more details. Covid-19 was more global. Now I really do have to go back to bed. Fowler&fowler«Talk»08:54, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(In the morning) So, as you might have noticed, the sentence: Among socio-economic challenges India faces are gender inequality, child malnutrition, and rising levels of air pollution is already in the lead of the article. I think the India#Socio_economic_challenges would be the appropriate section to add expanded versions of that sentence. And obviously it would require better sources than Hindustan Times, a daily newspaper of infirm reliability. "Disease," is more problematic for a mention, especially in a section in which the picture shows health workers on Polio inoculation rounds (before polio was eradicated in India); in other words the picture itself mentions disease. If by "disease" we are attempting to make the case that the antigenic insult in India is greater than other tropical countries, that would be more controversial. But we could list the major types of afflictions: Dengue fever, typhoid, tuberculosis and some others. Cholera is no longer an issue, thanks in great part to the oral hydration supplement now availabe world-wide. Two American doctors, Nalin and Cash (who died just last week) were instrumental in its impementation. Anyway, why don't I write something up and propose it here in a couple of days? Fowler&fowler«Talk»13:45, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Antigenic insult == An antigenic insult is a threat to health and survival that occurs when the body encounters antigens and pathogens. Antigens are foreign materials, such as pathogens that trigger an immune response in the body. The body has evolved to defend itself against antigenic insults with the immune system, which includes the innate immune system and the adaptive immune system Fowler&fowler«Talk»13:50, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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"Change 'India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia.' to 'India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in Indian subcontinent, in Asia'" [1][2]Hihelloplanet (talk) 09:21, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done for now: The structure of the replacement sentence you're proposing seems unnecessarily long and a bit hard to read: "is a country in [the] Indian subcontinent, in Asia". Maybe a different structure would be a better replacement. Nythar (💬-🍀) 09:54, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Its seemingly redundant because letters I-n-d-i-a are being repeated twice in the same sentence but "India" and "Indian subcontinent" are two different entities.
The sentence, "India, officially the Republic of India, is a country on the Indian subcontinent in Asia" is well descriptive of the geography and factually accurate.
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Not done: Not appropriate for an unsourced edit to be added directly into the lead, especially if it adds no additional information. CMD (talk) 16:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. --Ratekreel (talk) 19:18, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
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