Talk:Kosala (novel)

Rearranging

@Gog the Mild: Hi Gog. I hope, you are well and safe. I have been working on this article since long time. I want to expand it further, and make it GA. I am going to put a request for copy editing on GOCE. Before that, can you please help me in rearranging all the things. Ex. Which text should be kept in which section? Should we create new section for any particular things? No urgency. Thanks. --Gazal world (talk) 15:38, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Gazal world, I hope that you are keeping well. I am not an expert on literature articles, but so far as I can tell everything is in the correct place. It needs a copy edit, but to me it is ready for it. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:03, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild: Hi Gog, thanks for your comment. The article has been copy edited. I want to make it GA. Any suggestion? What should be done? Need I add more contents? --Gazal world (talk) 16:46, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

It looks good. A couple of things that I would tweak, but that's just personal preference. You have received a very good copy edit from FiveFaintFootprints, better than I could have done. It looks more than ready for GAN to me. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:48, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Gog the Mild and FiveFaintFootprints. Nominated for GA. --Gazal world (talk) 15:51, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk · contribs) 13:19, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

For replying to Reviewer comment, please use  Done,  Fixed,  Added,  Not done,  Doing..., or  Removed. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 14:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Lead

• Link Cocoon

• Done

• What's the point of linking (1963)

• Done (Unlinked)

• At the time of its publication, he was 25 → Why is this important in the lead?

• Done (Removed)

• interpretation → interpretations

• Done

• Remove {{italics title}}, the Infobox book template already makes the title italic.

• Done

• Remove unused parameters from the infobox.

• Done (I have left only the 'publisher' parameter blank. I will add publisher's name soon.

• country = India → unlink India

• Done

• Add the ISBN for the book.

• The books was published in 1963 (in India) So it does not have ISBN. English translation has a ISBN number, Should I add it ?

• Kosala is considered the first existentialist novel → Kosala is considered to be the first existentialist novel

• Done

• Add alt text for infobox image

• Done

• Add a short description

• Done

Prose

• Nemade's debut novel → no need to link debut

• Done

• who had learnt of Nemade's → had learned of Nemade's

• Done

• end up a cowherd → end up being a cowherd

• Done

• three-week period. → no source

• Done (Ref. no. 2; p. 184)

• and living in Bombay → no source

• Done. → living in his village. (It was a mistake)

• No need to bold the characters names.

• Done

• by his nickname → no need to wikilink nickname

• Done

Plot

• Pandurang is the son of well-to-do farmer → a well-to-do farmer

• Done

• he gives responsibility for management of → for the management of the

• Done

• now one among many unemployed → now one of many unemployed

• Done

• in the company of friends → whose friends?

• clarified → his friends

• his poorer friends → poor

• Done

Theme and techniques

• Over a six year period → Over a six-year period

• Done

• influenced by existential philosophy → already linked in the lead

• Done (removed link)

• Like other existential novels → same article (already linked)

• Done (removed link)

• exploring existentialist ideas such as an obsession with birth and death, dread, alienation, and absurdity → cite sources

• I have added citation at the end of each paragraph which verifies whole paragraph. Should I place citation repeatedly in a single paragraph supported by the same citation? If you suggest so, I will do. But I don't see any point in repeating the citation multiple times in a same paragraph when whole paragraph is supported by the same citation. --Gazal world (talk) 17:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

• It will be useful to the reader. The reader doesn't have to guess which source to look for. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 15:34, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

•  Done

• Pandurang is estranged from his father, and has been from childhood. → cite sources

• Done

• the patriarchal value system characteristic of traditional Indian life.→ cite sources

• Done

• found anything meaningful in his experience of village life. → cite sources

• Done

• style, reading like a series of diary entries. → cite sources

• Done
• I have hidden the whole part (two sentences) from the article. This is the only unsourced part in the article. It was added by article creator. --Gazal world (talk) 18:58, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

• serves as an instrument revealing his worldview. → cite sources

• See above (hidden)

• which ultimately uncover to them the absurdity and pathos of their condition → cite sources

• See above (hidden)

• including: autobiography, the diary, the novel, Indian folktales, folk narrative, and medieval hagiography. → cite sources

• Done

• the diary, the novel → no need to wikilink novel

• Done

Reception

• both for its portrayal of the professorial class, and for its description of the profane world → cite sources

• Done

• Marathi literature, because of its open-ended quality and its potential for varied interpretation → cite sources

• Done

• Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar, Vilas Sarang, Sukanya Aagase, Rekha Inamdar-Sane, and Vasudev Sawant → cite sources

• Done

Other

• For the table use {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}.

• Done

• November-December 1980 → November–December 1980

• Done

• experimental plays - art and culture → experimental plays – art and culture

• Done

• type=Ph.D → type=PhD

• Done

• Ref number 18 is not a reliable source (https://maharashtrakatha.blogspot.com/2019/07/kosala.html)

• I have used a blog as a reference to prepare a list of translation/translators. I have verified that these translations are available in respective languages. Due to lack of any citation regarding this elsewhere, I have used a blog as a reference. I think this translation table would not require any high quality reference either so please consider this reference as an exception. --Gazal world (talk) 17:18, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

• @Gazal world: Wikipedia is against using blogging sites. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 15:34, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• @CAPTAIN MEDUSA: I have removed the blog from the reference, and have added primary sources (the translated books itself) in reference. Still there are three translations left without reference. If you tell me, I will hide them from the table. All other queries have been resolved. --Gazal world (talk) 16:50, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

  Gazal world, Can you add the references for the Translations table. Then it should be good to go. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA^talk 12:27, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

• @CAPTAIN MEDUSA: Hello, I have added primary source (book itself) for remained three translations. I didn't find isbn/oclc for these three translations, but I will add soon. --Gazal world (talk) 12:59, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

• Ref number 1 (publication-place=Bombay) → location=Bombay

• Done

GA progress

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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