Talk:Vasant Shinde

Notability?

@Jooshua Jonathan: Can you cite at least 3 WP:RS which would established WP:GNG for this subject? I don't think a page is warranted for a person only because they have presented some controversial or misleading ideas. Ratnahastin (talk) 05:34, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

What makes you think he is not notable? Not enough press coverage? Or bothered about the opposite, too much press coverage? Being the main author on the Rakhigarhi-DNA alone makes him notable, given the anticipation surrounding this research; see Google news. His excavations of Rakhigarhi also resulted in numerous other publications and citations; see Google scholar. And here are some books which refer to him and/or describe his work:

• Ashish Avikunthak, Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India, p.50
• Premendra Priyadarshi, Origin and Spread of Domestication and Farming
• Charles Allen (2023), Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth
• Philip Anthony Norrie, An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History: The Plague of Sumer

Regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 06:49, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

These sources don't provide enough coverage for Vasant Shinde. They only discuss his views about this particular research which is indeed notable but not this particular person. Ratnahastin (talk) 02:42, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

He has his own publications; his archaeological work, from various periods, is discussed by others, in books, journals and news outlets; most notably, he is at the center of the debate on the origins of Vedic culture, receiving extensive media coverage on his 2019 publication, and, indeed, his dubious public rejection of his own conclusions, which has also been noted by Avikunthak in his 2022 Cambridge University publication; and he received media attention in 2022 whn he advised on a project to map India's Genetic history. So, significant coverage in reliable sources; definitely notable. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 03:29, 5 May 2024 (UTC)