Talk:Ravi Shankar (poet)

message: The subject's criminal convictions, imprisonment and employment case is a matter of public record and was thoroughly covered in local and state media. Furthermore, the case precipitated legislation and discussion at the state-wide level by the Connecticut State Senate and the Connecticut Board of Regents. Attempts to erase this section and its multiple links to reliable, published sources in local and state media may be an attempt at editing by the subject of the article. YeAntientistWeepingBeech (talk) 03:55, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible attempt by subject to remove negative claims 

message: Fellow editors, I have redacted a section per WP:BLP, WP:BLPCRIME & WP:BLPPRIMARY. The article subject is not reasonably a WP:PUBLICFIGURE, and we are required to follow our policies w.r.t information on living persons.  I note from the article history that a number of removals & inclusions of this or similar information have previously occured; but there does not appear to have been a consensus reaching discussion on this Talk page. Per WP:BLPREQUESTRESTORE, please obtain consensus before adding the information again. - Ryk72 'c.s.n.s.' 04:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note persistent violations of Wiki policy on BLP and deletion of primary sourced material. This account has been flagged and reported to WikiFoundation. We must get the article right. Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source. Contentious material about living persons (or, in some cases, recently deceased) that is unsourced or poorly sourced—whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable—should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion.[1] Users who persistently or egregiously violate this policy may be blocked from editing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Literarybiographer (talk • contribs) 04:52, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLP redaction 

message: As there appears to be something of an edit war here. I've reported this on the dispute resolution notice-board. Which you can find here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Talk:Ravi_Shankar_.28poet.29
If you would like to summarise your point-of-view then you can do so there. J349 [Talk!] 12:26, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute resolution 

message: trying to add recently announced award that "Autobiography of a Goddess" won the 2016/2017 Muse India Translation Award| also directed here by NinjaRobotPirate to remove untrue defamatory information as per BLP guidelines. The mention of "theft of school funds" here is false and should be removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nutmegan (talk • contribs) 01:14, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The first part needs reliable sources. The second part has been removed. JTP (talk • contribs) 01:45, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: Due to repeated removal of sourced content and addition of promotional content by IPs I have semi-protected this article for three months. Please gain consensus for any changes on the talk page before making edit requests. Thryduulf (talk) 09:32, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  semi-protection 

message: Consensus was reached long ago and this page needs to be reverted to the version created by Cameron11598, which is in line with Wikipedia's BLP rules. The rest of the stuff is not justified by criminal records and the continual mention of "theft of school funds" is simply false. Please revert back to the Cameron11598's version. 
129.78.56.194 (talk) 06:34, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. You say "consensus was reached long ago" - a quick skim of the talk page shows no such thing. The information to which you object appears well-sourced and covered in several publications. NiciVampireHeart 09:55, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 August 2018 

message: An edit war in going to add the following section to the article. But they are not providing any secondary sources and the content is also very promotional. Lets see what others say about this addition. -Editor General of Wiki (talk) 03:39, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section about Drunken Boat  

message: One of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, was founded in 1999 by Ravi Shankar and Michael Mills, and has published the work of over 1,000 writers and artists from around the world.
On his collaboration with Alvin Pang from Singapore and his contribution for the success of Drunken Boat in Singapore Ravi Shankar was speaking in his interview for The Rumpus
Drunken Boat is one of the first literary magazines to be published in digital format. And while a lot of poetry is published that way now, poets can move print runs up to the thousands in Singapore. Alvin Pang was really helpful, because when Drunken Boat began such a vast undertaking and decided to publish poetry from Central Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia, we of course couldn’t be experts in all of those regions. We had to find translators, arts organizations, and people who could help us know what was happening in the world of contemporary poetry in their particular countries. Alvin Pang was that person from Singapore. We became friends and I invited him to curate a folio for Drunken Boat on contemporary Singaporean literature.
* Subsequent to your opening this discussion, another IP (can't really be sure that it is the same operator) added a single sentence about Shankar's founding of Drunken Boat, with a different source, to the lead.  I didn't feel it belonged in the lead so have moved it to its appropriate place chronologically under Career.  To my mind, there is nothing much more to say about this aspect of Shankar's career or about the journal (which is not the subject of this article).  Perhaps the citation from the second paragraph above, without the extensive quote, could be added to the one-sentence mention of the journal now in the article; the rest of that paragraph (talking about where he was talking) is unneeded. General Ization Talk   03:48, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drunken Boat 

message: Add to career section:
He received the University-level Trustees Research Award as a faculty member at CSUS in 2009. In the same year, he also received fellowship award from The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism (CCT) and Summer Literary Seminars fellowship to Kenya. 
Add to Literary career section: 
His literary works appeared in Paris Review, Fulcrum, McSweeney's, the AWP Writer's Chronicle, and Scribner's Best American Erotic Poems.  He was the winner of 2011 National Poetry Review Prize for his poem "Deepening Groove" and was the finalist at 2005 Connecticut Book Awards for "Instrumentality." In 2014 he won Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner.
RubCube (talk) 09:52, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: as some of the info already exist in the article. - Editor General of Wiki (talk) 03:13, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 September 2018 

message: He was a guest speaker at Jaipur Literature Festival in 2015. 136.24.81.148 (talk) 05:47, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Also why is this worth mentioning in the article? —KuyaBriBriTalk 14:01, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 October 2018 

message: He was a guest speaker at Jaipur Literature Festival in 2015. He was also indicted in a rape case in Delhi. RubCube (talk) 18:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The rape case is not about the poet Ravi, but another person of same name. - Editor General of Wiki (talk) 16:45, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 October 2018 

message: The Controveries section states "[h]e was later arrested and found innocent in a few public cases" (emphasis added), however the cited articles don't seem to contain any mention of this; in fact, the linked Hartford Courant oped by the subject states the opposite: "In June, I pleaded guilty under the Alford doctrine to operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and interfering with an officer."  The other two articles cited by the sentence also mention convictions, but don't appear to have any mention of not guilty findings, dismissals, etc.  (Further, I don't believe it is possible the US justice system to be 'found innocent', only not guilty.)
As such I will replace the 'found innocent' phrase with 'convicted' in this section, and add another reference that clearly states he was convicted of the DUI charge.
--Ack210 (talk) 19:30, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Arrested and found innocent"?