Talk:Salt Satyagraha

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This article lacks an NPOV treatment of the subject. In particular, in the background, it fails to mention that the idea of breaking the salt law as mooted by Gandhi was thought to be too weak to stir up the independence movement by Motilal Nehru and others in Congress as well as by the British government which did not anticipate the wide following that Dandi march got. --Just my 2 cents -- Hemanshu 20:11, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Those issues have been taken care of. ~ priyanath talk 04:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Is the Tax Resistance box really relevant to this subject? --wrighttj

No, it's been removed. ~ priyanath talk 04:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

why is there a huge gap just before the 'the march' chapter? am i the only one who can see this? there is no gap in the edit page so whats going on?

This page is nearly identical to http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/Dandi.html, and that page is much better cited. I suspect that this page was copied from that one without proper references and in possible violation of copyright. I think it should be looked into. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.171.61.142 (talk) 00:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, article has been rewritten, with many references and citations. ~ priyanath talk 04:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Successful good article nomination

I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of February 24, 2008, compares against the six good article criteria:

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3. Broad in coverage?: Pass, deals with all major issues
4. Neutral point of view?: Pass
5. Article stability? Pass, few edits outside those of recent improvements and no disruption
6. Images?: Appropriate use and rights

If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to Good article reassessment. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations.— - J Logan t: 13:03, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moving History of the Agitation Against Salt Tax

I've moved this section to the bottom of the article, since it's not directly relevant to Salt Satyagraha and the events surrounding Salt Satyagraha (unless we put the entire history of British rule, taxes, the making of salt, etc. into the article - which is already on the lengthy side). This is only a placeholder - when I have time in the next few days I'll break this section off into it's own article and have a link from this article to the new one.

Also, this is a GA, and close to FA quality article. The one link referencing this extremely overly long section does not qualify as a Reliable Source under WP:RS - another reason for having its own, non-reliably sourced article. And, this section is still arguably a copyright violation taken from here[1], which is why it was removed the first time. Removing copyright violations is not considered 'blanking', but is part of wikipedia policy. Making only slight edits to text taken from another website is not enough to avoid copyright violations. When the section is moved to its own article, that will still be an issue that needs to be resolved. ~ priyanath talk 18:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

The content has now been moved to the newly created article History of the British salt tax in India, with a link in this article to that page, in keeping with other subjects related to Salt Satyagraha. Further history of salt, salt taxes, agitation and protests against the salt tax should be put in that article. This article deals specifically with the Salt Satygraha of 1930 and the events surrounding that particular historic episode in India's Independence Movemement. The new article still has serious issues of potential copyright violation and lack of references, and needs some work. ~ priyanath talk 01:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)