Talk:Mount Kailash/GA1

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Nominator: Magentic Manifestations (talk · contribs) 09:23, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: TrangaBellam (talk · contribs) 12:13, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I cast a glance at the sources used in the section on Hinduism and the lesser said, the better:

• Source 1 (Chandra;1998) is published by a publisher of barely any repute; I cannot find anything on the academic credentials of the author, either. ~40 citations for an "encyclopedia" in 25 years do not instill confidence.
• Source 2 (Sangha;2015) and 3 (Kaur;2021) are published by Lulu.com and Notion Press both of which are self-publishing platforms!
• Source 4 is a travel-blog from Times of India, a grossly poor source, and contains gems like "Tourists and pilgrims have discovered that the air of this ancient peak amps up the process of ageing!" and "[Mount Kailas] is the point where heaven meets earth. The Google Maps vouch for the validity of this fact."
• Source 5 (Rangaswamy;1958) is decent but too old.
• Source 6 (Wisdom Library;??) is a random website.
• Source 8 (New Indian Express;2022) might be a generic RS but not in the field of art history! Use peer-reviewed scholarship!
• Source 9 (News24; 2023) is some shady news website reporting about a podcast where people claimed to have met "nine-foot-tall transcendental entities" (!) at Mount Kailash!
• Source 10 (Nalangula;2022) is a one-page "research proposal" that claims the body of an epical character to have been preserved at Mount Kailash!
• Source 11 (Allen; 1978) is decent.
• Source 12 (Bora; 2020) is published by the college where he teaches and is (practically) self-published.

This article, as it stands, is about a dozen bargepoles away from meeting GA and there is little point in not quick-failing this nomination. Thanks, TrangaBellam (talk) 12:40, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]