Talk:Mayawati Kumari

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Contents 1 Unsourced and POV check 2 Cousin of Narendra Modi 3 Upcoming (2007) Assembly election in UP 4 Template 5 Changing name back to "Mayawati" 6 WikiProject class rating 7 Criticism section 8 Only referenced sources to be used 9 POV Check 10 Illicit Relationships

[edit] Unsourced and POV check

This article is completely unsourced and requires a thorough POV check. It needs clean up as well. --Andy123(talk) 09:56, 12 April 2006 (UTC) Mr Andy which one be specific.Holywarrior 12:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I have added a couple of references.--Keynes.john.maynard 00:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cousin of Narendra Modi

I find the statement that Mayawati is a cousin of Narendra Modi hard to believe. I have found no references that validates this. Can anyone confirm? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.174.241.179 (talk) 07:26, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Upcoming (2007) Assembly election in UP

POV: Too much criminalization is there in U.P under Mulayam Singh Yadav govt whereas it was much under control during Mayawati's tenure. Vjdchauhan 13:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template

The template looks terrible. Someone needs to introduce a linebreak between 32nd and Chief. I can't seem to manage it. Hornplease 01:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changing name back to "Mayawati"

Mayawati's adopting the single name is a deliberate form of protest against caste labels. Assigning a surname to her as "Kumari" is not supported in the references.

Mayawati never uses the name "Mayawati Kumari". She sometimes uses "Kumari Mayawati" - but here the Kumari is the same as "Ms." in English. Google with "Mayawati Kumari" gets some 1580 entries, many of them foreign media like BBC who are uncomfortable with single names, and wikipedia derived sites.

Google results:

• "mayawati kumari" - 1580
• "kumari mayawati" - 22K
• "mayawati bsp" - 110K
• "mayawati naina kumari" - 68 pages

Not all Mayawati references have "bsp" in it, so the latter is certainly an underestimate. So clearly, everyone is referring to her as just "Mayawati", or occasionally, "Kumari Mayawati" ,Behanji. Almost never "Mayawati Kumari". mukerjee

The name in the lead "Mayawati Naina Kumari" - appears to be a complete fabrication... mukerjee (talk) 20:00, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 23:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism section

A criticism section has been added to the article. Most politician's articles on wikipedia have a critism sections even Tony Blair.--Jiff5 (talk) 10:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Only referenced sources to be used

On this article only statements that are referenced and cited from e.g. news sources should be used to prevent the article from becoming Pov. If there is no citation then it can be removed. If cited then it obeys Wikipedia policies and is OK.--Jiff5 (talk) 10:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POV Check

Although I'm willing to accept the idea that Maywati is a dalit Boss Tweed, this article is heavily slanted towards allegations of corruption and lacks any degree of objectivity. It also fails to contextualize Maywati's role in Indian relations, and seems to have an ant-dalit bias. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.129.158.232 (talk) 17:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Illicit Relationships

The section has fake references. The articles in the references don't convey what has been claimed. Salilb (talk) 19:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

I've deleted this section complying with Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons Salilb (talk) 20:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

The references are not fake. Please check them. True that some of the statements need references and look like a result of original research, although the turn of events mentioned there can be corroborated by any person who was a working journalist during the mentioned period. Nevertheless, whole section should not be deleted. At best those sentences, which are result of original research may be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.41.76.193 (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

The references are news articles which do not contain any mentions about illicit relationships. Salilb (talk) 08:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)