Talk:List of Maratha people

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Consider including the following personalities :

Brigadier Chitaranjan Sawant
S D Gaonkar, former chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council
Anubha Bhonsle, CNN-IBN journalist and TV Personality
Gaurav Sawant, noted war journalist, Headlines today journalist

Please create pages for them and find reliable sources to Identify their caste. Thanks-Acharya63 (talk) 03:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

This page needs major cleanup

1.Most names are unsourced. 2.Some names are obviously from the Maratha community (Shivaji, Sharad Pawar, etc. ) but many last names like Desai, Sawant, and even Patil are common with other communities(Patil is also found in Deshasthas - very rare though - and in Lingayats). 3. Many persons are living and unless they self-identify, it is a violation on wikipedia policy. Acharya63 (talk) 03:04, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I cleaned up a few names that are common to other castes and people just added them based on last names they were familiar with. But I think at least 70% of the names on this page are not sourced or violate wikipedia policy of self-identifying. Needs major work...Acharya63 (talk) 08:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I will do more cleanup after two weeks unless someone else has the time to do it prior to that-Acharya63 (talk) 09:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

probably needs a new title

Instead of "List of Maratha people" it should probably be called "List of people from the Maratha caste" because sometimes the word Maratha is used to denote Marathi speaking people. -Acharya63 (talk) 03:31, 7 December 2017 (UTC)