Talk:Nagunur Fort

Plagiarism and circularity

Please be aware that a story in Deccan Chronicle has plagiarised from this version of this page. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 06:36, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Timmarasu, you have readded this dubious content, despite my alert above. Please explain. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:24, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Kautilya3 I had no idea about the situation as I didn’t read the talk-page. I apologize for the blunder. I’ll revert my edits to just include information from the Telangana government. Again, I’m so sorry that I didn’t read the talk page. In future, how can you tell if an article or book is plagiarized from Wikipedia? Thank you. Timmarasu (talk) 11:00, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

You can't tell. If are here long enough, you will get to know Wikipedia content intimately, and will be able to recognize it when it gets plagiarised. Indian newspapers do it quite routinely now, especially Deccan Chronicle.

Other than that, you need to know that newspapers are never reliable sources for history. Newspapers are only good for reporting what they witness, or can find out by asking the experts. See WP:NEWSORG.

Government web sites are not reliable sources for history either, most of the time. You would expect that the Governments would consult the myriads of scholars they have access to and produce authentic information. But most often, these web site blurbs are written by PR people, who couldn't care less about all such niceties. Worse, the Governments are often interested parties. For example, the Tourism Department is interested in promoting tourism. So that adds biases. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 00:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Kautilya3 I appreciate the information. For now, I'll remove the Deccan Herald citation and then I'll see if alternative, non-governmental sources, can be found in published literature. Otherwise, we may have to have reduce this article significantly. Timmarasu (talk) 01:05, 26 April 2019 (UTC)