Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 September 6

Welcome to the Wikipedia Humanities Reference Desk Archives
The page you are currently viewing is a transcluded archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages.

September 6

Can someone help find an obituary for Radha Charan Gupta?

According to User:Yadavjp and an IP editor, the Indian historian of mathematics Radha Charan Gupta died today in New Dehli. Can someone help me find an obituary or other public source confirming this? –jacobolus (t) 06:54, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

https://www.news18.com/education-career/doyen-of-vedic-mathematics-professor-radha-charan-gupta-dies-bundelkhand-university-mourns-9041338.html reports this, but not the site of death. --Soman (talk) 16:34, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I think this is a translation of the article in Hindi that an IP editor added to the article after I posted this request. (I think they came from here.) I'll cite this one as well, pending probably more complete obituaries to come over the coming days and weeks. (Also it seems he died at home in Jhansi.) –jacobolus (t) –jacobolus (t) 16:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

By the way, if anyone wants to help I threw this on Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#RD: Radha Charan Gupta yesterday but got no replies. I'm not really familiar with how the "in the news" section works, but Gupta seems like the kind of person worth mentioning among the recent deaths. –jacobolus (t) 03:04, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

There is a preference (I think) to highlight on the Main Page only articles of a good standard (though not necessarily only those rated as WP:GA). Radha Charan Gupta is fairly short (though not a stub) and is currently rated 'Start-class', which may perhaps need revisiting.

If anyone has the expertise and time to rapidly expand the Article, it would probably improve its candidacy for 'In the news.' {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.83.137 (talk) 11:43, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

jacobolus, see this Times of India obituary. Alansplodge (talk) 08:56, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! –jacobolus (t) 14:23, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

NGO inclusion

I always hear people say "NGO" to describe an organization. Are organizations such as Girl Scouts of the USA and Science Olympiad considered NGOs? 172.56.164.27 (talk) 16:57, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Non-governmental organization: While there is no fixed or formal definition for what NGOs are, they are generally defined as nonprofit entities that are independent of governmental influence—although they may receive government funding.[11] According to the UN Department of Global Communications, an NGO is "a not-for profit, voluntary citizen's group that is organized on a local, national or international level to address issues in support of the public good".[5] The term NGO is used inconsistently, and is sometimes used synonymously with civil society organization (CSO), which is any association founded by citizens.[12] In some countries, NGOs are known as nonprofit organizations while political parties and trade unions are sometimes considered NGOs as well.[13]

--Error (talk) 17:52, 6 September 2024 (UTC)