Talk:Vishnudevananda Saraswati/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:48, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks for taking this on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:56, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Comments

• Any reason that "guru" reference needs to be in the lead? Can the claim not be made and referenced in the main body?
  • Done.
• "Sivananda Yoga Teachers' Training Course, one of the first yoga teacher training programs in the West" is this mentioned in the main body?
  • Added.
• "books The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga" The doesn't appear to be part of the formal title.
  • It's printed on the book's cover, both in the edition on my shelf and on the first edition photo in the article.
    • Cool, should the article be moved then? The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 16:10, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
      • Maybe, but that's not for this page.
• In our article, Rāja has a diacritic.
  • It shouldn't, the project avoids them, or we'd have vṛkṣāsana for tree pose all over the shop. But they pop up like mushrooms in the night.
    • Cool, should that article also be moved? The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 16:10, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
      • Maybe but that's not for this page.
• "Sivananda." can you contextualise who this individual was?
  • Glossed and wikilinked.
• "monk, in February 1949[2] and " comma after 1949.
  • Added.
• Can we replace the "n.a."s in the File:Soorya Namaskar in Complete Illustrated Guide to Yoga.jpg non-free image with suitable justifications, "not applicable" is not acceptable.
  • Added.
• "teach hatha yoga in " overlinked.
  • Fixed.
• "rock group The Beatles to" the Beatles.
  • Done.
• "and is said to have sold over a million copies" as of 1989?
  • Added.
• "in 1959.[12][13] In 1961" bit repetitive.
  • Edited.
• "he called into life" bit whimsical.
  • Edited.
• "and intuitively chose" is "intuitively" really necessary?
  • Removed.
• A lot of sentences in this para start "In (month) (year)". Bit repetitive.
  • Edited a bit.
• "ashram" doesn't seem to be linked anywhere.
  • Linked in 'Early life and training'.
• "he conducted peace flights" did he himself pilot these or was he a passenger? Did they literally just "fly" over things?
  • He flew himself. He literally overflew things like the Berlin Wall, yes.
• "flew from" if indeed he did fly it himself, could you use "piloted his Peace Plane from..."?
  • Done.
• West and East Berlin have separate articles.
  • Linked both.
• Where are the two works referenced (after the Complete Illustrated... one)?
  • I'd have thought listing these in 'Works' was sufficient really. There's no indication they achieved specially remarkable sales or anything like that.
    • How do we verify they exist? The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 16:10, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
      • Added ISBNs/OCLC.
• Ref 31, spaced hyphens should be en-dashes.
  • Fixed.
• Ideally ISBN's in consistent format.
  • converted ISBN-10.

That's all I have here. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 09:33, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Many thanks, all done. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:40, 31 August 2021 (UTC)