User talk:Sarvan58

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June 2014[edit]

Hello, I'm Sitush. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Minhas, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Sitush (talk) 16:38, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Minhas, without verifying it by citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article.

Please be aware that sources from the British Raj period - Ibbetson, Crooke, Rose etc - are generally generally not considered to be reliable for statements made in Wikipedia articles. They were largely amateur ethnographers, they rarely checked their facts, they had an inherent misunderstanding of how the caste system operated, their purpose was to control rather than to document ... and so on. Please can you try to stick to more modern sources. Thanks. Sitush (talk) 16:48, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Sitush,

I do not approve of your repeated deletions of my well-considered note on Minhas clan, which is based on facts as well as clearly persuasive logic. I mentioned Ibbetson as well as Hoshiar Singh's most recent work (2000/2014) on the history of the Jats. Rajput is not a caste or a tribe. Rajput title, as the name suggests, was assumed by ruling tribes. Most of the Rajput peasant-proprietors in North-West India and Pakistan are Jats by tribal affiliation. It is naive to suggest that ethnography collected by Brtish Administrators was all fake or unreliable. That Minhas folks are Rajputs as well as Jats can be ascertained even today by undertaking an empirical survey. In conclusion, I may disclose to you that I am both a trained social anthropologist and a Minhas and cannot make baseless statements.

Kindly restore my note. Thanks Sarvan

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 08:49, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]