Talk:Katoch

message: Substituted at 20:59, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: All sorts of wild claims appear in caste-related articles. One source we use is a news story about a seminar that may well fall into that bracket. What actually is the Neri Research Centre, who organised the seminar? - Sitush (talk) 16:37, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *I said caste-related, which obviously includes clans. British Raj sources are not reliable and will be removed. I still don't know what the credentials of the Neri Research Centre might be and I am struggling to find out because it is quite a common organisational acronym. It certainly doesn't seem to have a high profile. - Sitush (talk) 21:55, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

text: *The Wonderland Himachal Pradesh An Encyclopedia is a new source to me. Never heard of the author or the publisher, which rings alarm bells, especially given how much plagiarism of Raj sources goes on. Anyone else know anything about those involved with the book? - Sitush (talk) 22:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

text: *H. G. Publications do both in-house publishing and self-publishing. I'm not sure which category applies to the book in question. - Sitush (talk) 22:07, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am not sure what the difference is, but the author owns the publishing company . -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:14, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  In that case, we can't use the book as a source here or in any other article. - Sitush (talk) 11:24, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

text: *There appear to be quite a few academic-type books that mention the Katoch, eg: by Indus Publishing and this from Duke University Press. That's the sort of thing we need, really. - Sitush (talk) 22:10, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wild claims? 

message: The following quote from a book published by Indus publishing called Forts and Palaces of Western Himalayas provides roots to the clan name Katoch. Certainly different from the one that I read about, but nevertheless from a reliable publisher (Pg 20):
"The Kangra fort is situated at a peculiar strategical situation overlooking deep furrows leading to wide spanned stream. The fort, now in ruins, once commanded respect among the hill chieftains... It was popularly known as Nagarkot or Kot Kangra. Kot denotes a fort and Nagar denotes a town, so collectively it meant the fort of the town. The clan who ruled Kot Kangra was named Katoch after Kot. In fact, this fort was so peculiar in its situation and formidable features that it became a unique structure among the prevailing forts. So the clan ruing this fort was known as Katoch."
"... and in vernacular they were called Kot'ch that is why they became popular as Katoch."
Digvijaykatoch (talk) 14:17, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progress on Etymology 

message: I have also requested expert help from a highly regarded expert and experienced wikipedia contributor, reviewer, and admin, who is a member of both the WikiProject India and WikiProject Punjab projects. He is also an expert on military history, which is something I don't have much depth in as a subject.
Digvijaykatoch (talk) 06:23, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Have Requested Expert Help 

message: WP:INDICSCRIPT does not apply to the body text of an article but one of the reasons for it existing is because of people fiddling around with scripts without much regard to sourcing etc, and sometimes resulting in outright vandalism. Without intending to say that this edit is anything other than made in good faith, do we really need the script at that point in the body anyway, regardless of which spelling is used? - Sitush (talk) 01:22, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Script