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Overall: Prose was expanded from 1114 characters to 8642 characters, more than the 5x required at ~7.76x. The only thing
Earwig matches is a name and a quote used in the article. Hook is interesting and good to go. -
Aoidh (
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04:54, 28 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Many thanks for this review
Aoidh. Please can you confirm that the picture is reviewed as well? I would like to go in with the picture as a part of the hook even if it means waiting for a few days. Thanks again.
Ktin (
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06:01, 28 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Ktin: I am so sorry I was looking at this template page via the editor and didn't even notice there was an image attached. I know the image has a PD-India tag on it, but if the image is from 1996 then it's not 60 years old, so I'm not sure how the PD-India tag is valid? I do see it has an unreviewed GODL license on it, but I don't know if that needs to be reviewed to be "properly licensed" per
WP:DYKIMG. Let me find out before I comment further, because I honestly do not know the answer at this time. Maybe I'm missing something though, could you explain how the PD-India tag is valid? @
Maile66 and
Casliber: could you please advise? I think this is the first image I've reviewed and I don't know the correct way to handle this one. -
Aoidh (
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06:19, 28 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Theleekycauldron: Sorry for being overly cautious here, but is that tag "has not yet been reviewed by an administrator or reviewer to confirm that the above license is valid" attached to the GODL license in the Commons file an issue? If not it seems good to go, but I didn't know if the unreviewed status (which I've never seen before) prevents it from being considered "properly licensed" per
WP:DYKIMG. -
Aoidh (
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17:42, 31 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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I enjoyed reading this. A fair number of copy changes to address, as well as some work with the references. If you have Thakkar 2021 and can cite page numbers, please do so. 7-day hold to
Ktin.
Sammi Brie (she/her •
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05:53, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Copy changes
Is "Azad" or "Azaad" more common in sources? The lead and infobox differ, and those are the only two uses in the article of this other name.
Done went with Azad which is what most sources go with.
Lead
functioned from different locations from Bombay, present day Mumbai — change the second "from" to "in" and hyphenate "present-day"
Done
Mahatma Gandhi should be introduced in full with honorific here, as this is not done anywhere else in the article. If the style used here is typical in Indian text, let me know.
Done
It was organized by Usha Mehta (1920–2000), then a twenty-two year student activist with the help of amateur radio operators. Add a comma after "activist" and change "twenty-two year" to "22-year-old"
Done
Her other associates for organizing the Congress Radio — remove the "the" and maybe reword as "Others who helped Mehta organize Congress Radio". I see many are unlinked; are they notable and worthy of mentioning here in the lede? I also see "the Congress Radio" several more times where an article isn't warranted.
Done. Will come back to check again.
De-italicize Chicago Radio
Done
Remove the first "1942" in the second sentence
Done
Background
Add comma after "throughout the British Empire"
Done
"then-imperial" hyphenate
Done
with understandably no space for the dissenting voices from the Indian independence movement which was rapidly gaining steam during the war time — I think this could be reworded. The "understandably" is a bit strange in texture. Perhaps something like Wartime restrictions left no room for the dissenting voices from the Indian independence movement, which was rapidly gaining steam during the war.
Partly done
Remove comma after "8 August"
Done
Capitalize empire in "British Empire"
Done
Add commas after "arrested" and "across the country"
Done
Remove comma after "at this time"
Done
"Set up" is two words as a verb. (This recurs once more in this section.)
Done. Gosh I need to keep this in mind. Seems like I have made this error at multiple places.
"and was a student" remove the "was" as the second one
Done
"master's degree" with apostrophe
Done
The last two commas in the sentence starting Some of the other founding members... should be semicolons, as one of the list members has an appositive set off with a comma.
Done
locations as wide Germany, Japan, Rangoon, Saigon, and even Singapore which held by Japan at that time. There are two words missing: "as" after "wide" and "was" after "which". Add a comma after Singapore.
Done
Comma after (transl. Radio Free India)
Done
Operations
"Meters" should be "metres" to use Indian English.
Done; Also did this for the 40-meter band. However, if I should revert the latter, please do let me know. Thanks.
Comma after "avoid the police"
Done
Comma after "Indian independence movement" (and remove Mahatma if you add it in the lead sentence)
Partly done; regarding the latter, another reviewer had once told me that I should interpret the lede and the rest of the article separately. If that is not the case, please let me know and I will remove the word 'Mahatma' and retain Gandhi.
The then government was able to occasionally jam the radio signal, but, the station's broadcasts were heard as far across the country and as far out as Japanese-occupied Burma. Tidy: The then-government was able to occasionally jam the radio signal, but the station's broadcasts were heard across the country and as far out as Japanese-occupied Burma.
Done
a broadcast of Sare Jahan se Accha, written by Muhammad Iqbal and ended the day Complete the appositive by adding a comma after "Iqbal".
Done
In one of its broadcasts it took up the topic of mass-rapes by British soldiers calling it the "most bestial thing that one could imagine" asked for citizens to stand-up to it. Whole sentence needs work. Consider: Congress Radio regularly spoke up on the atrocities committed by British soldiers and administrators. In one broadcast, it addressed the topic of mass rapes by British soldiers, calling them the "most bestial thing that one could imagine" and asking for citizens to stand up to rape; other broadcasts discussed the plights of one woman raped in a police van and another who had been carrying food to political prisoners before being assaulted. The original was lacking commas for flow as well as a conjunction and had extra hyphenation. I've also reflowed it with one two sentences down on a similar target.
Done
Sentences after the above have very similar starts. Maybe to follow... Another broadcast touted the values of secularism and spoke about the need for unity between the Hindu and Muslim communities.
Done
Comma after "and students"
Done
The station also took the message of the Indian movement beyond the country by messages of internationalism. Overuse of "message", maybe "and preached internationalism" instead?
Done
The then Government of India's home ministry add a hyphen after "then". Possibly consider "The British imperial home ministry".
Done
However, they were not able to detect the originating location since the operators would mask their location. Overuse of "location". Maybe However, they were not able to trace them to a source, as operators would mask their location.
Done
Printer was captured by the authorities for his association with the station and he would lead the police to the Paradise bungalow near Mahalakshmi temple in Bombay, location of the final broadcast on 12 November 1942.User:Sammi Brie/Commas in sentences — comma needed after "with the station".
Partly done Makes sense. I broke the sentence into two. Please see if that is alright.
It was noted that the station was playing its concluding Vande Mataram song at the end of the day's broadcast when it was shut down. A bit awkward. Maybe It was noted that the station was playing "Vande Mataram", the song it used when signing off for the day, when it was shut down.
Done
Reference changes
Is reference [5] to a book blurb used in place of the actual Congress Radio blurb? If not, consider using
shortened footnotes for all the references to Thakkar and specifying page numbers. Several claims cited to the blurb fail verification, as they presumably are in the actual book. This would also replace [8], a book excerpt.
Unfortunately, I do not have the book. Also, checked the local library and they do not have the book either. Any other options here?
Reference [7] should cite The Hindu as the source (the article is dated 25 August, not 11 September) and then link in the |archive-url= parameter to the archived page.
Done I think, might need another pair of eyes.
Other items
Earwig mostly seems to catch quotes.
Two images. One is GODL-licensed. The other has an appropriate fair use rationale, but I note the rationale states usage in the infobox, and it's not in the infobox (nor is it a good image for there). Both need
alt text (not strictly in GA spec, but I tend to ask for it with copy changes to make editors aware about it as a best practice).
Done Added the Alt text.
Archive references (not all are).
Done I think. Will come back at the end and check once more.
Thanks for this review and detailed notes,
Sammi Brie. Will find some time this week and try address these points. If I need some extra time, I will be sure to let you know here. Thanks.
Ktin (
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14:49, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Sammi Brie -- wanted to follow up here and ask for some additional time for me to get to this one. I was hoping to get to this over the weekend, but, something has come up IRL that I need to be largely away during the weekend. Much appreciate your consideration. Thanks.
Ktin (
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17:46, 1 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your patience @
Sammi Brie. Also, thank you for the detailed notes. I have completed almost all of the requests, I think. Passing back to you to have a look at your convenience.
Ktin (
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00:31, 7 September 2022 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Consistency of names
In the lead section you have Nanik Motwane - but in the third para of Background it's Motwani. I know it's difficult to transliterate many names, but may I suggest you pick one and stick with it? Also, the lead mentions Babubhai Thakkar - but in the second sentence of the third para of Background he has become Babubhai Khakhar, and in the next sentence he's Khakar.
Prisoner of Zenda (
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12:15, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks for highlighting. This is important to fix, and I will get to having a look later this afternoon. In our defence, the sources from where we picked the spellings for each of those instances had it that way. But, not making an excuse. Let's get this right.
Ktin (
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13:10, 11 September 2022 (UTC)reply