User talk:Delhite

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I am a Delhi resident and a student of science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.I am researching on the Indian physicists of ancient times.My special interest is Aryabhatta and Varahmihir.

[edit] John Funder

Hi ... please don't make your edit summary sound like I was endorsing the content that you added. When you readded that passage, you cited the same three unusable sources, along with the book. Do you have access to this book? Is the passage in the book short enough that you could scan or type the relevant passage into an email for me to review? (Don't paste any copyrighted text into Wikipedia, but you can click the "E-mail this user" link on my page to send it to me.) Googling the name of the book along with "John Funder" returns zero hits ... so I'd kinda like to take a look at the one source for this. --BigDT 01:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I took a look at the passage. Much of what was in that paragraph cannot be cited from this passage. For example, that book does not mention the assertion that he was later denied a promotion and it doesn't say that they falsified a report - it says that they added to it without approval from their committee. It doesn't say that the judge called them racists (a vituperative term) - it says that the motivation was probably racism (much more mellow language). Also, it doesn't give the colleague's name. The other three sources absolutely, 100%, cannot be used - they are not reliable sources and under WP:BLP, poorly sourced information about a living person cannot be included. This book is probably ok, but the article shouldn't include any information not in the book and it should be in neutral language and not make claims or conclusions that the book doesn't make. The reason I originally got involved was because of a request to protect the page at WP:RFP so that a discussion could take place. Maybe that would be a good idea so that the discussion can take place on the talk page and an acceptable version of the paragraph could be crafted. --BigDT 13:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)