User talk:Canadian sikh guy

Thanks for getting in touch with me. The comments that you added were injecting your own POV and analysis into the article (i.e., you were openly questioning Randhir Singh's motives and were discussing things that you thought were "possibly" or "most likely" true). Wikipedia requires that all articles maintain a neutral point of view. Also, all claims, especially controversial ones, must be cited using reliable sources. The source that you cited, namely an atheist website, did not appear to meet Wikipedia's standards for reliability. Hence, I deleted your addition.

That being said, I'm a bit concerned about the article as it stands right now. The possibility that you brought up about Randhir Singh is something that has crossed my own mind as well. I'm also a bit concerned about the sources currently used to back up the various claims about Randhir Singh; I'm not sure if those sources are reliable enough per Wikipedia's standards. Perhaps you could contribute to the ongoing discussion at Talk:Bhagat Singh and we can reach some kind of agreement?

Thanks for your help and understanding! --Hnsampat (talk) 22:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Personally, I'm not satisfied with the Randhir Singh story, either. And, like I said, I question the reliability of the sources used in the article right now to back up the Randhir Singh story (one is from Randhir Singh himself and one is a third party citing Randhir Singh's autobiography). If you take a look at Talk:Bhagat Singh, there's an extensive discussion about this subject there, largely involving a single user. There does appear to be this sense of denial among some people regarding Singh's atheism. The picture in question is probably this one: [1]. In the past, people have put this photo in the article claiming it was taken several days before Singh's execution. It shows Singh with unshorn hair and a beard. I don't think that just having long hair and a beard is proof enough that Singh had "re-embraced" his Sikhism in his last days. But, just now, as I was searching for this photo via Google, I found several websites (none of them "reliable" enough by Wikipedia's standards) saying that this picture is actually from 1927, when Singh was first arrested (i.e., BEFORE he shaved his beard and cut his hair to begin with!) So, there are indeed a lot of issues and none of them have a lot of proof surrounding them. I think there needs to be a serious discussion on Talk:Bhagat Singh about all of this. Would you like to get such a discussion started there? Feel free to use some of my points here in doing so. Good luck! --Hnsampat (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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