Talk:Shabeg Singh

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[edit] VfD

On April 9, this article was nominated for deletion. The discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shabeg Singh. The result was keep. —Xezbeth 13:26, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edited for content

I removed a few sentences saying that Singh's motivation for dying in battle was his poor treatment by his former employers, the army he was then fighting. Seems like unsubstantiated guesswork to me. On an unrelated note, is anyone organizing a WikiProject to get real, complete bios of real, important Sikhs, or is the current situation (many out-of-context illiterate POV copyvio microstubs) likely to continue for the foreseeable future? I'm not volunteering. I'm not interested in the means, just the ends. --Quuxplusone 00:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite?

Stumbled across this article, and IMO it needs wikifying and perhaps a rewrite; the tone strikes me as a bit too reverential, much like the bio listed under external links. Since I don't know a thing about the subject, however, the best I can do is heap the responsibility upon someone who does. --Impaciente 03:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Did some wikifying, but left the core of the article basically untouched because I too know basically nothing about the subject. Still needs more wikifying in the later sections and a lot of work by someone knowledgable --Bradkittenbrink 04:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I also added an npov tag since the whole text appears to be essentially a paste of that propaganda piece of a biography in the external links section --Bradkittenbrink 04:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

I have removed the bulk of the articel as a straight copyvio, as mentioned above. Rich Farmbrough 12:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SikhiWiki

There is an extensive article on Shabeg Singh in SikhiWiki (which is largely a Wikipedia clone with the articles on Sikhs rewritten so that they appear to be heroes) here. There is no question that this is not in general a reliable source, but there are some interesting biographical details that are probably correct. Anyone any objections to me using them? DJ Clayworth (talk) 14:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)