User talk:Our Proud History

Bhat family Peshwas and generals

Hello Jonathan, I know you are a well wisher of our Indian history and you are trying to safe guard our history. I am new to Wikipedia. I know that original Bhat from other branches of Peshwa family (apart from Raghunathrao's adopted family) stay in Pune. I just don't know how to edit it on Wikipedia since I am new here. Any suggestions ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Our Proud History (talk • contribs) 22:22, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Our Proud History, thanks for your message.Anything you add to Wikipedia has to be backed by a reliable source.When I first started on Wikipedia 15 years ago, you could get away for a while without references.Quite often now I can not add culture related stuff because

a. there were not sources available and b. sources were from pre-independence era by British civil servants which some editors frown upon. So try to find references with the following:

post -1947
Avoid blogs
Stick to academic sources
Sources should preferably be secondary, i.e. books or academic journals
Newspapers are considered primary and should be used with caution.
Make sure the books or papers are not using Wikipedia as the source.That will be considered "circular and not allowed.

Now getting back to "original lines", I am sure Bajirao II and earlier Peshwa had daughters, and so their descendants can be considered original. If you have any information on that in published form then that can be considered. As far as I know, the original male line from the Peshwa is with Samsher Bahadur's descendants.I hope this is helpful.Regards.Jonathansammy (talk) 17:17, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]