Talk:P. V. Narasimha Rao/Archive 1

Archive 1

Economy

The Indian economy began to bloom within days of discarding several of the old protectionist measures as the GDP and economy grew by an average of 6.5%, a growth rate that was sustained over the entire decade for the first time in the Indian economy. Rao's advocacy of further economic reform lessened by mid-1993.

It's unclear to me over what period the 5.5% average GDP growth rate existed. Ground 21:16, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

See Hindu rate of growth. 1950-80's saw India having growth of 3.5%.

GA on hold

Please put retrieval dates and titles on your URLs. The titles make them look nicer and the retrieval dates are helpful when links go dead so that you or someone else can get it back via the Wayback Machine. I didn't really look at it aside from that.--Rmky87 03:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

OK done.--Shahab 07:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I took it off of hold.--Rmky87 19:06, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Failed GA

The referencing is okay, but please see the WP:LoCE about the prose. It looks strange, the sort of strange that I can't name. Maybe someone else can.--Rmky87 17:10, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Sathya Sai Baba devotee

If reliable references can be found, it may be appropriate to have small "personal" section about his devotion to Sathya Sai Baba. I happen to know that Rao is an SSB devotee and I can get some of SSB's speeches where he praised Rao's political actions, but I guess it call comes down to reliable references. Ekantik ^talk 15:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

GA review

I think the lead can be improved per WP:LEAD to include a better review of this article, including person's achievements, "corruption", "later life", and where he died --Rayis 12:08, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

GA on hold

Sorry if my review overlaps with the person above, but no one marked that they were reviewing this article so took it. Anyway, it is almost there, but I would like to see some things fixed within the next few days:

• There is a lot of stylistic but grammatically incorrect comma usage. Examples are the first sentence and the sentence and "He was a polyglot and could speak 13 languages, including Urdu..." and "When the Indian National Congress split in 1969, Rao remained loyal to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and stayed so during the Emergency period (1975 - 77)." Commas are only appropriate to separate clauses when the clause after the comma is a complete sentence.
• It is not clear from reading the article or the citation provided why he is in the Guinness Book of World Records.
• The National security, foreign policy and crisis management heading needs to be prose, not a bulleted list.
• The Corruption items read too much like legal briefs - please just write paragraphs about each case.
• Too many primary sources - for items like his being kidnapped by Kashmiri terrorists, you should find news stories or books instead of articles of parliament.

That's it for now. --Mus Musculus (talk) 05:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Excellent work, thanks for addressing these issues. The article is now listed. --Mus Musculus (talk) 18:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Anyone who knows Telugu or can translate from Telugu wiki

Can anyone who knows Telugu please translate the table at the the Telugu version of the Narasimha Rao article to English. Cheers.----Shahab 05:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Quotes

The quotes section at the end seems rather churlish and trivial, besides being unsourced. I would suggest deleteing it. Amit@Talk 17:29, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

One of the most important...

"He led one of the most important admistrations" - isn't this POV? Amit@Talk 17:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I suppose so. But being POV doesn't exclude being NPOV.--Shahab (talk) 04:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Mr. Smartypants :P Amit@Talk 11:25, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Speculation...

"It is speculated that he was in the running for president" ... This shouldn't be in wikipedia; besides obviously being "speculative", it is weasely, and has been sourced from a newspaper editor's blog. I suggest we remove this line. Amit@Talk 17:42, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Great power

This is unencyclopaedic : "This can be considered as the launching of India's emergence as a great power." IMHO we should remove it. Amit@Talk 17:46, 1 January 2008 (UTC)