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== History == | == History == | ||
Sarkarverse was | Sarkarverse was officially launched on 2013 October 21 by [[Acarya]] [[Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]. In early 2013 Abhidevananda and a few other editors were working on Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar related articles in Wikipedia (English). There their series of articles were repeatedly challenged and finally deleted or merged, often for lack of [[SV:Secondary sources|secondary sources]]. After the incident, Abhidevananda almost left Wikipedia and stored all the articles from Wikipedia in the website [[onlyhis.name]]. In the preface to the project in that website, Abhidevananda wrote—<ref>[http://archive.is/yu0Am Archived copy of the preface]</ref> | ||
<blockquote>As is well-known, Wikipedia suffers from a considerable amount of systemic bias. Furthermore, many senior editors openly acknowledge that Wikipedia does not | <blockquote>As is well-known, Wikipedia suffers from a considerable amount of systemic bias. Furthermore, many senior editors openly acknowledge that Wikipedia does not "do truth". An over-reliance on secondary sources often results in articles that are nothing but book reviews of book reviews.</blockquote> | ||
He wanted to create a Wikipedia type encyclopedia for Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar | He wanted to create a Wikipedia-type encyclopedia for Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar and his various works. In early October of 2013, Sarkarverse was planned and work on the began. | ||
== Site data == | == Site data == |