Prithu was one of the Philosophy and religion good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that according to Hindumythology, the "first king" Prithu chased the Earth in the form of a cow(pictured), who eventually agreed to yield her milk as all the world's grain and vegetation?
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The first sentence of the lead needs to be rewritten; it is too complex and should probably be rewritten into two sentences. The problem lays in that the listing of alternative names breaks up the sentence so the flow is lost. Also, in the main text the sentence "However, The Manu Smriti calls the earth (Prithvi) as Prithu's wife, instead of his daughter, thus was the name Prithvi from her husband's name." doesn't make sense to me. Could you please rewrite it. Otherwise I have done some minor copyediting.
I found, as section Prithu#Symbolism's 2011-contributed, citation-free, 2nd & last 'graph (which i've moved to here instead), the following:
Of course, as is universally perceived, man struggles to mold phenomena, which is at odds with his or her belief systems, into a more conforming form. In the case of scholars, such molding is done by careful speculation executed after amassing considerable knowledge of various fields. Also, British agenda has been proven to define scholarly interpretation and translations more than inherent intellect of the scholar himself. As such, interpretations should be taken with a grain of salt or ignored altogether.
The first two sentences seem to be an assertion that everyone knows that presumptions of objective scholarship, such as the citation-bearing 'graph that preceded it in the accompanying article, are inherently fraudulent. The third is either incoherant, or a claim that a national and/or profession-wide conspiracy is responsible for something -- in the absence of clarity, presumably the 'graph preceding it.
IMO perhaps the whole moved 'graph, but in any case especially the final sentence, would be constructive as part of an essay-tagged page at WP:Why WP is part a futile struggle against the indefinability of the Cosmic Truth. I'm not interested in working on such an essay, but if the 'graph is moved there, i will support its retention there. --Jerzy•t10:28, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Redtigerxyz, the prose quality is now below GA standard. Take the first body paragraph alone: the first sentence is ungrammatical, "a ayonija" is clearly a spelling error, etc. Most of the article also seems to be based on a source (Wilkins) that is not cited. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:41, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed with Airship that the prose needs some work to be at the level needed here. The GA bar for sourcing is not all that high, but I also have reservations about the age and quality of some of the sources used here, and the formatting of the references and bibliography is confused: while that isn't in itself reason to delist, I certainly wouldn't allow it through a GA nomination without fixing those problems. UndercoverClassicistT·C17:35, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.