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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Evrik (talk) 19:21, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

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Shanti Devi (social worker)

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A symptom of Yaws disease
A symptom of Yaws disease

Created by Baggaet (talk). Self-nominated at 02:30, 15 June 2022 (UTC).

  • @Baggaet:. Its long enough and new enough and based on good refs. The citation offered above doesnt cover the hook fact, but reference 3 in the article does. Victuallers (talk) 21:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC) The neutral article doesnt have a clear lede but that isnt essential for a DYK nom. I discovered that she was also noticed for fixing a disease so I have boldly added an alt below. I cannot approve my own alt, but I'm quite happy to approve the first alt if that is your choice. Victuallers (talk) 07:08, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
    Victuallers, thanks for improving the article further. Can we just mix the original hook and the alt1 as ... that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work and eradicating the Yaws disease (pictured) in a Village in Odisha? I don't have any issues with the Alt1 either and I'm fine with it too. Baggaet (talk) 10:00, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
  • Alt1... that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work and eradicating Yaws disease (pictured) in a village in Odisha?

Changed alt1 as suggested - all agreed and good to go. Thanks Baggaet Victuallers (talk) 10:25, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

    • @Victuallers and Baggaet: Sorry, but just to be cautious here. For a a claim as exceptional as being responsible for a complete disease eradication, I'd expect a better source than a tweet, even if said tweet's from the president of India – is such a source available? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 04:24, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
      • theleekycauldron The article states, "She was awarded the Padma Shri award on 9 November 2021 by the President, Ram Nath Kovind at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-IV, at Rashtrapati Bhavan for her social works and efforts to bring peace in the Maoist-affected Rayagada region of Odisha." That is not receiving the award for eradicating Yaws disease. An article in Google Scholar here makes me doubt the claim - "A number of Sorvoday activists - Gunanidhi Mohanty, Monmohan Chaudhury, Ramadevi, Ratan Das, Shanti Devi, Brundaban Jena, Alekh Patra, Nishakar Das, Baji Mahammad and Bishwanath Pattanayak worked for the success of Bhoodan/Gramdan movement in the Koraput district. While working for this movement they strove for the eradication of a dreadful disease, called ‘Yaws’. For this purpose the Sarvoday and Navajivan Mandal workers had to receive special training." So, it would be multiple people who worked on if it was true, but the 2014 article doesn't mention the village or say anything about Yaws being eradicated anywhere. I found nothing outside of recent Indian press for the claim. SL93 (talk) 04:55, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
      • I need proof that Sankhalapadar actually exists. I can only find the village mentioned in relation to Shanti Devi. SL93 (talk) 05:15, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
      • Theleekycauldron, I've added another source other than the tweet from the President which claims that she successfully cured 4000 people from Yaws in the Sankhalapadar village and another which supports that she is also known for eradication of the same disease is already present in the article. --Bears (talk) 05:36, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
        • The Indian Express article seems to claim that she eradicated the disease entirely, which any number of sources would contradict. Is there a firmer source, or should we just go with the 4,000? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 05:37, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
  • theleekycauldron I wrote User:SL93/Contradictions. Pinging Narutolovehinata5 for their thoughts - I have seen his work with contradictory sources at a DYK nomination of mine. SL93 (talk) 06:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
I am admittedly not an expert on Indian topics so I would rather defer to either Indians or experts on India, but for what it's worth I saw the noticeboard message and one of the replies is that news articles may have been basing information on a press release. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 06:58, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
There is no doubt some odd claims here. It is claimed above that this DYK claims she is "responsible for a complete disease eradication" which is clearly not the claim. Discussing that claim is off the subject here and there are thousands of villages in India that do not have articles (Ive added a few) and some that may not even be on a map (article written anyway). Does anyone have a reliable source that this village does not exist, because we would need very strong evidence to counter a reliable source. It could be that other people cleared up the disease locally and she was just randomly creditted with clearing it up - we don't know and supposition is not important. The hook doesnt say she cleared it up, it says that she was given an award for doing it. "news articles may have been basing information on a press release" - umm? thats how the news works, if NASA issues a press release to say that the moon a new crater, then newspapers report it, and Wikipedia uses one of those as a source. Victuallers (talk) 11:42, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Victuallers The village existing issue has been voided for a while now. The issue now is that four sources contradict each other. In regard to the article, it says, "Due to her efforts the disease was eradicated from the village". So the article does "say she cleared it up". There is a source clearly mentioning nine other people and another one mentioning that it was with her husband. We can't ignore the discrepancies in the article and they do need to be mentioned there. The article still doesn't say that she was awarded for doing it. The article says, "for her social works and efforts to bring peace in the Maoist-affected Rayagada region of Odisha." I might add the contradictions to the article myself after work as per standard Wikipedia practice for such things. SL93 (talk) 12:24, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
The hook appears to be original research. The New Indian Express says, "Shanti was conferred the Padma Shri-2021 for serving the poor in the undivided Koraput district for the last six decades." That could include her yaws work, but that would be original research. The Indian Express says, "She is also known for the eradication of Yaws, a chronic bacterial infection." two sentences after the award is even mentioned. SL93 (talk) 12:37, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Its quite frequent that sources contradict each other. Good idea to add it to the article. I would be wary of alleging original research when a reliable source says "She eradicated yaws disease successfully in Sankhalapadar village near Rayagada." Personally I think the President of India is a reliable source, he may be mistaken, but there is clearly no evidence of "original research". This remains a good faith article based on reliable references. There is no source "clearly mentioning" .... there maybe a source that mentions something and you may have found it. I'm not sure that "discrepancies", "original research" and "clearly mentioning" are very inspiring. Victuallers (talk) 14:55, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
I don't doubt the award, but there is currently no reference stating that the president of India gave it because of the disease. I will start a discussion on the DYK talk page later today. From what I can see, the award references don't explicitly state it. SL93 (talk) 17:13, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Victuallers I was operating on no sleep before. I misread the tweet from the President of India. I now see, "She is the President of Seva Samaj at Rayagada, Odisha. She eradicated yaws disease successfully in Sankhalapadar village near Rayagada." after the mention of the award for her social work. I will suggest a tweak below though. I'm so sorry that I didn't realize that I was having an issue. I hope that you can forgive me. I will still work on adding two other bits of info from reliable sources per the contradictions. SL93 (talk) 22:01, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
ALTa ... that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work including eradicating the Yaws disease (pictured) in a village in Odisha? SL93 (talk) 22:01, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
the new alt is identical to alt1 (written and approved three weeks ago), but I can approve this one as I'm not the author now. Victuallers (talk) 23:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
Theleekycauldron This can be promoted. SL93 (talk) 23:19, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
@Victuallers and SL93: I'm not on board – the reliability of a source is contextual, not set in stone by its publisher. I have no idea how the robust the fact-checking process is for either The Indian Express or the president when they haven't done enough independent research to actually verify the name of the village (press release typo got copied in several sources) – or, in the former's case, whether she actually somehow eradicated the disease worldwide. While I appreciate good faith, and I don't see evidence of OR, this hook isn't a little claim and needs to be backed up beyond reproach. Someone else wants to promote this over my head, that's fine, but I'm personally uncomfortable with a promotion. What does seem to be beyond reproach is the original hook, or some other hook about why she got the award that doesn't involve stating the eradication as fact. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 12:27, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
I mean, the likely story is that the government of India published their press release, and then some of the lower-level media outlets just regurgitated the claims without verification. I have no idea whether The Indian Express did thorough verification, as they left out the location bit entirely and claimed worldwide eradication – so, why trust it? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 10:16, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Happy for someone to see someone go with the consensus.... alternatively maybe we need a smudge in line the suppositions above.... we could add "according to the President of India" just to show that one of our editors isnt happy with something he put his name to. Victuallers (talk) 11:38, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
@Theleekycauldron and SL93: Have your concerns been addressed, and are you satisfied with ALTa? If not, can editors propose new ALTs? Z1720 (talk) 18:07, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Z1720 I'm fine with it, but theleekycauldron is not. SL93 (talk) 21:32, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
I took a look at the sources: I don't think the President's Twitter account is reliable. However, Indian Express, per WP:INDIANEXP, has been deemed generally reliable, so I am OK with using that. Unfortunately, the source provided in the article doesn't say where Devi eradicated Yews from. Therefore, I don't think ALTa can be used. Suggesting an ALT below:
ALT2 ... that Shanti Devi helped cure over 4,000 people from Yaws disease (pictured)?
ALT2a ... that Padma Shri Award winner Shanti Devi helped cure over 4,000 people from Yaws disease (pictured)?
@Baggaet, Victuallers, SL93, and Theleekycauldron: Thoughts? Z1720 (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
Either is fine but I cannot agree that we have sufficient evidence to write off the President of India because an editor or even several "don't consider it reliable". I think we should demand a reliable source or clear consensus before acting on such a conclusion. If I was a journalist I would write a story about such a conclusion hinting at cultural bias (with just as much evidence as is offered here). Obviously the safe thing is to ignore every source, but I think we are looking down on a World Leader when we should be showing AGF and aiming to look up. - but none of that effects the alts above... so lets go. Victuallers (talk) 08:11, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
@Victuallers: As the reviewer, can you specify which hooks are approved, and your preference? Please proceed this comment with the green tick (if any are approved) so that preppers know that this is ready for promotion. Z1720 (talk) 16:26, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
As the reviewer? really? My view is above when I said "Either is fine" (I think several of other hooks are fine too and we are showing cultural bias but I'm willing to let that slide as long as I don't have to agree to it). Victuallers (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
@Victuallers: I'm trying to let the preppers know if one of the hooks is ready to go. I cannot approve hooks that I proposed, which is why I'm asking someone who reviewed this nom to approve or not approve them. I usually ping the original reviewer first out of courtesy. I'm fine with hooks that I proposed being rejected, but it really helps preppers to have a clear statement about which hooks are approved (usually preceded with another green tick). If you would like a different editor to review the hooks, please add a red arrow. Thanks, Z1720 (talk) 12:48, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
"Either is fine" I shall say this more explicitly. I'm OK with the last two hook written by @Z1720: Victuallers (talk) 13:29, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
Readding tick, per above, so preppers know this is ready. Z1720 (talk) 13:33, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
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