Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chhinnamasta/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 04:53, 30 October 2016 [1].

Chhinnamasta

Nominator(s): Redtigerxyz Talk 15:15, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As Hindus celebrate the festival of the Divine Feminine today, let me introduce you to an interesting aspect of the Mother. Chhinnamasta is a self-decapitated goddess, who holds her severed head in her hand and drinks blood from her wound. She stands on a copulating couple. A goddess of contradictions, she is a life-giver and a life-taker. A GA since 2010, the article was expanded this year. The article was fortunate to be copy-edited by User:Corinne (Talk:Chhinnamasta#GOCE_comments) and to have had a detailed PR by User:Johnbod, User:Nikkimaria, User:Ms Sarah Welch, User:Ssriram mt and User:Ruhrfisch. Thanks everyone for improving the article. Redtigerxyz Talk 15:15, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Images

This is a topic certainly worthy of a FA star, but, for now, I will limit myself to the images:

  • File:Chinnamasta1800.JPG Source links appear to be dead. Copyright tags specifying the PD status of the image in both India and the US are needed, are they not? (If I have made a mistake, please let me know.)
Tags added. Though original site is down, updated with new link of Bridgeman Art Library. Can not archive this due to scripts. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This is scan of a painting printed in a book. Tags added. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Tags added. Archived. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130817172648/http://aras.org/galleryimage.aspx?key=chinnamasta. Tags added. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Chhinnamasta.JPG Unless this sculpture is in the public domain for some reason, this will only be acceptable if it is permanently on display in a public place/a place accessible to the public, as per Commons:Commons:Freedom of panorama#India. If it is, you should add Commons:Template:FoP-India to the image page.
FOP added. Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Bengali Chinnamasta.jpg Unless I'm mistaken, this image is not the same as the one on the source page. Also, we will again need multiple copyright tags as above, I believe!
The image is cropped and the brownness of the paper is removed. Tags added. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
4th row, 4th column. It is a double image lithograph. I have cropped it; brownness of paper removed. Tags added. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Tags added. --Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Chinnamasta with Shiva.jpg Tags as above. I appreciate that the source URL is the correct one for the file, but where has the scan come from? Is that the original source of the scan?
The site does not give the source of the scan. http://personal.colby.edu/personal/n/nksingh/kali/pages/Devi.htm Nikky Singh, Crawford Family Professor of Religion, Colby College site uses the image in her lecture. Tags added. Redtigerxyz Talk 15:54, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Chinnamasta yantra color.jpg Am I right in understanding that the author of this file has created it based on the description given in certain Tantric texts? Could a source be cited?
It seems so that the author has created the image. Though I don't know the source used by the author, similar illustrations are available in books of Frawley and Shankar Narayananan.--Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
FOP added.Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the niggles; I'm confident most/all are fine, but some fiddling at the edges would be helpful! Josh Milburn (talk) 21:58, 2 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Josh Milburn for the image review. I have some changes. Please check.Redtigerxyz Talk 15:41, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for these fixes; I'll look more closely soon. It can be helpful to provide an explanation of the changes you have made to images that you have edited- that can help avoid people raising the kinds of worries I did above. Commons:Template:Retouched picture is a convenient template for this purpose. Josh Milburn (talk) 16:38, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Josh Milburn. Added Retouched tag.Redtigerxyz Talk 16:50, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comments -- I'm not sure why but with more than three weeks of silence, this review hasn't got off the ground except for Josh's helpful image review. I'm therefore going to archive it but am happy to waive the usual two-week waiting period for a renomination given the lack of commentary. Couple of related points though:

  1. I note several paragraphs finishing with as many as half a dozen citations, which would make verification heavy going -- can you make the referencing a bit more granular?
  2. There are also some paragraphs finishing with uncited sentences -- all paragraphs should end with at least one citation.

Although I've said I'm happy to waive the two-week wait before renomination, pls consider the first point above, and action the second, before returning to FAC. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 04:52, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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