Portal:India/Selected article candidates/Buddhism

Buddhism

It is a former featured article that was removed because of its size (although the vote-margin was very narrow). I strongly feel that this can be included as a Selected Article on Portal:India as its quite comprehensive and well referenced. Although the article does not have inline references, I feel that its still featurable as the "overall" references are quite good. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:00, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment: Not exactly a nice-looking article. Comprehensive, but not as per manual of style. Also, 2 sections has "stub" notifications. "Notes" need formatting. References extensive but an article of this size would need some more inline citations. A little bit tidying up - and its a sure India SA. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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• Extremely disorganised article. "Gautama - the Buddha" is at section 1, while "Buddhism after the Buddha" is at section 4. Why? Obviously because people kept adding sections without thought to how it fits in with the overall layout of the article. This is a good example of the disadvantages of the Wiki idea.
• "Present state of Buddhism" is still a stub and does no justice at all to the enormous influence that the philosophy has had outside its traditional domain - its influence on current Western thinkers, etc.
• The lead section should summarise the article, not define the term. — Ravikiran 08:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Weak Object If you look at the history of this article, you will see that the article is not stable. The article has been going back and forth between 50kb and 80 kb. Currently, the size is 85kb. In April, it was only 50kb. People are still trying to reach consensus as to appropriate presentation of different sects of Buddhism. Correspondingly, these sections are quite messy. Some sections are bloated and too detailed while other sections are underdeveloped and still in stub. We should wait until the article find POV statility. Vapour