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== History == | == History == | ||
Sarkarverse was officially launched on 2013 October 21 by [[Ac.]] [[Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]. In early 2013, Abhidevananda and a few other editors were working on Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar related articles in Wikipedia | Sarkarverse was officially launched on 2013 October 21 by [[Ac.]] [[Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]. In early 2013, Abhidevananda and a few other editors were working on Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar related articles in [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]. There, their series of articles were repeatedly challenged. Even a small article on Sarkar's collection of 5,018 songs, [[Prabhat Samgiita]], required over two weeks (17 days) of [[:wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Prabhat_Samgiita|heated debate]] just to pass Wikipedia's capitalistic concept of notability. In the end, most of the Sarkar-related articles were deleted, merged, or reduced to trivial and largely misleading content. After this experience, Abhidevananda withdrew from Wikipedia, storing the Sarkar-related articles from Wikipedia on the website [[onlyhis.name]]. In the preface to the early project on 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 "do truth". An over-reliance on secondary sources often results in articles that are nothing but book reviews of book reviews.</blockquote> | <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> | ||