Talk:Auroville

message: 'Auroville complained to the BBC that the report was biased, untrue and contravened BBC editorial guidelines. The BBC Editorial Complaints Unit did not uphold any of the complaints. Police officers of the Tamil Nadu government visited Auroville and surrounding area to check the truth of BBC allegations and found it false'
How can this part take place in it without any references?
Is this what You call neutral point of view?
Victorcsiky (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV?!

message: I find it suprizing to read that he city was named after the French name "Aurore". I would think it was mainly referring to Sri Aurobindo, the reference to "city of Dawn" being some convenient side-effect. I coudn't find any evidence of this, even on Auroville official web site. Does anywone know for sure, is there any written source? Patch051 (talk) 12:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Auroville name 

message: Aren't the structures in this city very similar to the ones in Anarchosyndicalism? helohe (talk) 09:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anarchist structures 

message: I'm sorry, but could someone explain how the Quit Note system works?  The article seems to claim that Auroville is "achieving world peace, international understanding, and the unity of mankind" through asking foreigners to leave..?--TurabianNights 18:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quit Notes 

message: I have corrected the Population and Society section which mis-dentified the number of journals available in Auroville and also misrepresented the policy of the Outreach Group. However now that the information is correct it no longer seems relevant to the section. Rather than delete it which might cause someone to revert to the incorrect information, I will move it to a new section.Earlgray 05:10, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections 

message: Heres a suggestion for getting a more neutral POV. There are many emotionally charged words and sentences scattered throughout the article in seemingly random fashion, not relevant to the topic, many not relevant to the adjoining sentences. Someone(s) obviously wants this information public because it keeps being re-pasted. Perhaps that stuff could be tagged somehow - bolded or italicized. Once that's done it should be obvious what is a candidate for future moving to a Grievances section. Earlgray 16:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that it's even relevant to the article, but a recent check revealed that the board is more diverse than this recurring statement affirms: "Auroville's internal authority, Auroville Council, consists exclusively of Tamil members of Auroville." I have removed it again. Earlgray 18:10, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why don't you email to avcouncil@auroville.org.in and ask what the current membership of the AV Council is, and then email each member and ask him if he is indeed a member of the AV Council? 
(As far as I know, all non-Indian members of the Council resigned a few months ago after a racial conflict inside the Council. )Tamilll 03:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Even more than all this, however, I'd like to stress the importance of verifiability.  In theory, Wikipedia is not concerned with "the truth" - it is concerned with what can be confirmed with citations.  This is currently a problem with both "sides" on this article, and one I hope we will all be able to resolve with solid research.  I still strongly believe that if there is legitimate criticism of the community, it belongs on this page.  Wikipedia is not about unity - it is about being informed.  However, the criticisms do need to be verifiable, and really DO need to be discussed on the talk page, just like I'd like to see everything else discussed here.--TurabianNights 06:19, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grievances 

message: Hello all,
I am delighted that so many people have taken interest in the Auroville page!  However, I would like to suggest that instead of warring with reverts, we discuss changes to the page here before we make them.  People seem to have a lot of different opinions about what is or is not true about Auroville; it's great to have debate, but I'd like to remind everyone that it is better to have it here on the talk page than on the subject page itself.  That's what talk pages are for.  In addition, I think we should all take care to remember that Wikipedia is most concerned with what is  verifiable.  This means we should ideally have sources for all statements made on the page.  Please also keep in mind that Wikipedia does not allow original research.  This means all sources cited must be reliable, authoritative published sources.  I realize this might be something of a bother if there are concerns about free speech and the only published sources are produced by Auroville itself, but I would prefer we discussed these difficulties here before participating in needless edit wars.  Agreed?--TurabianNights 04:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi TurabianNights. A random sample of 50 "white" people living in Auroville has turned up no one who works in the Indian film industry. There are also many "white" people who work in reforestation, many who work in the healing arts, maintenance, manufacturing, yoga instruction, administration, fundraising, education, village interaction, publishing, youth support, Tamil cultural support, medical services, music, dance, literature, performance, academics, physical education, security, and probably as many different activities as there are people. If (as it seems) we simply must include the rather lame statement in the Economy section, that "many white people work in the Indian film industry"  let's  include a broader cross section. (And let's hope the film people don't have to commute to Mumbai) Earlgray 05:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a published source for all this info?  (And seriously, what a commute!)--TurabianNights 06:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes-There are several. I should be able to reference them by tomorrow. Earlgray 06:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi Earlgray. You write that "A random sample of 50 "white" people living in Auroville has turned up no one who works in the Indian film industry". Kindly note that it was specifically stated that it is only the low-income white Aurovilians who illegally (without a work permit) act in films made in Madras and Hyderabad. Please understand that this article is supposed to reflect the facts whether they comply with the current Indian laws or not. Venkat av 04:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Venkat. I don't yet understand what this information reveals about Auroville that requires inclusion in a general article about the community. Of course it may occur, but it doesn't seem to be very widespread and it's certainly not AV policy. There are probably people who litter, too, but we don't need to mention that. I prefer to document the many more important and progressive things people are doing there which are in line with the Auroville mission and with the aims of most of its residents. [As for the "white" people thing, not everyone understands that non-Indian foreigners is meant by that, and I think tht distinction should be very clear.]Earlgray 06:03, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text:  Also, I suppose I should clarify: are there any NPOV published sources for this info?  I see today that you've added an Auroville-published reference, which is fine, but may not exactly be NPOV where matters of censorship are concerned, which seems to be a recurring issue.--TurabianNights 04:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

text:  I'm looking however I think we should be as concerned with sources by those alleging censorship. I notice they have cited nothing besides opinion and anecdote. The fact that there are numerous Journals and Newsletters as well as web pages on the Auroville website] speaks to point that censorship might not be the issue it is alleged to be.Earlgray 07:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greetings, all new editors! 

message: I created this area in hopes of solving the free speech and other issues.
My main concern, as I've intimated in the past, is that if there really are problems with censorship at Auroville, we'd need to find a source on that that doesn't come from Auroville's press.  I don't know first-hand one way or the other, though of course that would violate the no original research policy.  :/  --TurabianNights 07:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The individuals alleging censorship are not citing sources other than their own "original research" in the form of anecdotal evidence. Perhaps the soapbox will allow more than one POV to express without compromising the neutrality and sense of the article.Earlgray 07:25, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Free Speech Soapbox

message: In the article it says "from democracies and socialist societies". That's a bit american, to oppose democracy with socialism is somewhat uneducated. 83.70.247.123 05:04, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Democracy 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Added Matrimandir photo from here.Thought it would serve the purpose of elaborating the matrimandir section in auroville. Ankithreya (talk) 07:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Matrimandir photo addition

message: Over the past few months, anonymous and newly created accounts have been replacing the sourced text of the article with an unsourced, propaganda-like version.  This should stop -- please review WP:RS and WP:NPOV.  Fireplace (talk) 15:33, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anon editor reverts 

message: Please use this link 
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDiskussion%3AAuroville%23Erfahrungen_mit_Auroville&hl=de&ie=UTF8&sl=de&tl=en  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.116.123.128 (talk) 19:42, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: German experience 

message: Perhaps a little sumthing about the new buildings as the Health Spark (Spa-Park), and the Integrated Health Centre by the Auroville Design Studio (see
http://www.auroville.org/thecity/architecture/two_at_once.htm) can be written. Also include info on Senior Indian architects, Sen Kapadia, Chamanlal Gupta, and B.V. Doshi, who have led the sustainable and thinking-out-of-the-box movement in India (see article)
Thanks
81.245.182.116 (talk) 18:59, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Auroville master plan

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: *Why European only?
*Why so much place? Xx236 (talk) 11:42, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The "European Media on Auroville" section is an obvious piece of original research (what the French call travail inédit) by a Wikipedian who has set about reporting on, or rather reviewing, the content of a number of press articles. These reviews do not belong with the Encyclopedia, they should be removed from the article. However, some of the information about Auroville contained in the various press outlets mentioned should go towards expanding sections 1 to 11 & 13. --Elnon (talk) 22:42, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Media on Auroville 

message: The quotation in the lede paragraph is clearly a poor word-for-word translation of something originally said or written in French. This passage needs to be re-written in native English. Laodah 03:50, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad translation 

message: The language box in the infobox is broken, and I can't find a way to fix it . Could someone work on that? Thanks! BhamBoi (talk) 20:31, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only is the language box formatting broken, there is a parameter in the infobox data that seems to have more properly formed information, but it doesn't show up on the page. BhamBoi (talk) 20:38, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language Box Broken 

message: I want to talk someone?
202.51.69.3 (talk) 03:49, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How can I reach their ? 

message: Hello Wikipedians,
Citation needs to get added in the Economy section in the paragraph last sentence beside the word " for its citizens".
Here is the citation links to get added as citation in the sentence "Instead of paper and coin currency, residents are given account numbers to connect to their central account. Visitors are requested to get a temporary account and an Aurocard, a special debit card for its citizens."
Link : alchetron.com/auroville
Link: https://www.tripoto.com/auroville/trips/auroville-t-n-pudducherry-62cb19d4c4ff7
Please take out some time to check and consider my suggested links from above two related to addition of citation.  Prudent CAS (talk) 12:18, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition Of Citation