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Reviewer: CAPTAIN MEDUSA (talk · contribs) 13:19, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

For replying to Reviewer comment, please use  Done,  Fixed, plus Added,  Not done,  Doing..., or minus Removed. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

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  • Link Cocoon
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  • What's the point of linking (1963)
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  • At the time of its publication, he was 25 → Why is this important in the lead?
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  • interpretation → interpretations
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  • Remove {{italics title}}, the Infobox book template already makes the title italic.
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  • Remove unused parameters from the infobox.
  • Done (I have left only the 'publisher' parameter blank. I will add publisher's name soon.
  • country = India → unlink India
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  • Add the ISBN for the book.
  • The books was published in 1963 (in India) So it does not have ISBN. English translation has a ISBN number, Should I add it ?
  • Kosala is considered the first existentialist novel → Kosala is considered to be the first existentialist novel
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  • Add alt text for infobox image
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Prose

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  • Nemade's debut novel → no need to link debut
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  • who had learnt of Nemade's → had learned of Nemade's
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  • end up a cowherd → end up being a cowherd
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  • three-week period. → no source
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  • and living in Bombay → no source
  • Done. → living in his village. (It was a mistake)
  • No need to bold the characters names.
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  • by his nickname → no need to wikilink nickname
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Plot

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  • Pandurang is the son of well-to-do farmer → a well-to-do farmer
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  • he gives responsibility for management of → for the management of the
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  • now one among many unemployed → now one of many unemployed
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  • in the company of friends → whose friends?
  • clarified → his friends
  • his poorer friends → poor
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Theme and techniques

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  • Over a six year period → Over a six-year period
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  • influenced by existential philosophy → already linked in the lead
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  • Like other existential novels → same article (already linked)
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  • exploring existentialist ideas such as an obsession with birth and death, dread, alienation, and absurdity → cite sources
  • I have added citation at the end of each paragraph which verifies whole paragraph. Should I place citation repeatedly in a single paragraph supported by the same citation? If you suggest so, I will do. But I don't see any point in repeating the citation multiple times in a same paragraph when whole paragraph is supported by the same citation. --Gazal world (talk) 17:17, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Pandurang is estranged from his father, and has been from childhood. → cite sources
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  • the patriarchal value system characteristic of traditional Indian life.→ cite sources
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  • found anything meaningful in his experience of village life. → cite sources
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  • style, reading like a series of diary entries. → cite sources
  • serves as an instrument revealing his worldview. → cite sources
  • See above (hidden)
  • which ultimately uncover to them the absurdity and pathos of their condition → cite sources
  • See above (hidden)
  • including: autobiography, the diary, the novel, Indian folktales, folk narrative, and medieval hagiography. → cite sources
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  • the diary, the novel → no need to wikilink novel
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Reception

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  • both for its portrayal of the professorial class, and for its description of the profane world → cite sources
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  • Marathi literature, because of its open-ended quality and its potential for varied interpretation → cite sources
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  • Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar, Vilas Sarang, Sukanya Aagase, Rekha Inamdar-Sane, and Vasudev Sawant → cite sources
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Other

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  • For the table use {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}.
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  • November-December 1980 → November–December 1980
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  • experimental plays - art and culture → experimental plays – art and culture
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  • type=Ph.D → type=PhD
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  • I have used a blog as a reference to prepare a list of translation/translators. I have verified that these translations are available in respective languages. Due to lack of any citation regarding this elsewhere, I have used a blog as a reference. I think this translation table would not require any high quality reference either so please consider this reference as an exception. --Gazal world (talk) 17:18, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ref number 1 (publication-place=Bombay) → location=Bombay
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GA progress

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Good Article review progress box
Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()
3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()
Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed
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.