Talk:George Reddy

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"just one opinion" - yes, or it could be all of them. Saying "what one commentator" implies oters didn't, which we don't know. Hence my wording. If you have anything to say, please let me know. I'd rather you did it here instead of your customary editwarring. Hornplease 20:22, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

pot, kettle, black you know the drill. Out defaming Hindu groups again I see. How does thug entail anything NPOV? Its a totally loaded word along the lines of extremist and others, see WP:WTA.Bakaman 20:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Please let me know what your precise response is to the point I have raised, as your opinion on other matters is irrelevant. Since WTA discusses words we avoid, not our sources, and certainly not the only reliable source we've found,I presume your objection is now answered? Hornplease 21:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC) Hornplease 21:05, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I noticed you havent stopped edit warring. Just as you have accused me of edit-warring, you too are being accused of it. Thug is a loaded word, hardly neutral in any manner. As always I suppose policies such as WP:NPOV and WP:LIBEL are suddenly non-applicable when the subject is a Hindu nationalist group?Bakaman 00:42, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Don't be silly, I changed it since you hadnt responded.

NPOV requires us to represent a spectrum of informed views. You are yet to find a source that indicates that Reddy's killers were not, in fact, thuggish in nature. I am not certain what your objection is under NPOV. In any case, removing the words would require us to not quote the article, which seems to be counter-productive. As I said:find another source, or NPOV is irrelevant. Hornplease 05:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I think NPOV is perfectly relevant in this case. You do not decide article content, under WP:OWN nor is discussion something you set the agenda for. Merely noting he was killed by sympathizers of the Jana Sangh would be neutral and factual.Bakaman 00:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

He was also, apparently, killed by thugs. Both things are true, and appear to be relevant to his manner of death. NPOV is irrelevant till you demonstrate that there exists alternative major point of view.Hornplease 00:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

A thug is a member of a defunct Indian cult called the thuggee. I really dont see the problem with the wording, when it says he was murdered by Jan Sangh sympathizers. That gets the point across, is neutral and is factual.Bakaman 01:04, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Bias and stylistic issues across the board.

From the section titled "George Mindset and Revolution (60's to 70's)" to the end of the page, the entry is rife with style-related problems, specifically violating the guidelines present here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_peacock_terms#Puffery and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_peacock_terms#Contentious_labels .
For example, here are a couple of lines describing this person:

He was creative, energetic and bold in his thinking. Walking was his preferred mode of transportation. His choice of shoe ware was the
Hawaiin slipper. He did not smoke or drink. He loved physical workout and refused to be cowed by any one or by many. He had a heart of 
gold but refused to pander to common refuge.

Again, in a section about his death:

Study circle discussions molded the young and impressionable, the restless and concerned intelligentsia into thinking on a deeper levels
the causes for the social evils. George had answers that were different and seemed to be more profound. Dialectical and Historical 
materialism as well as readings on Marx’s Das Kapital, philosophical underpinnings of Hegel, Political writings of Lenin, Trotsky and 
Stalin shed a new light on the topics. He put the learning into practice by organizing the group to fight the reactionary elements 
represented by the Landlord elements, politically backed by the emerging Jan Sangh party and its student wings the ABVP. He stood in 
the front at all times leading the charge until he died that day on April 14, 1972.

Sourcing and my recent revert

I reverted again here for a variety of reasons, including WP:MOSFLAG. The main reason is simply because the claim that the removed information was unsourced appears not to be true. There is, for example, a citation to The Hindu. - Sitush (talk) 11:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

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Major politically biased edits

There has been major politically biased edits in the article in last few hour. Pl do watch Ranjith Kannankattil (talk) 15:20, 24 January 2020 (UTC)