Talk:Sacred Jackfruit Tree

Sacred Jackfruit Tree 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.

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Date	Process	Result
August 1, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed
September 1, 2016	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 13, 2016.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that one of the seven images of Krishna carved from the Sacred Jackfruit Tree is located in the Shree Govindajee Temple (pictured) in the palace at Imphal?

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You took the coordinates of the tree from Wikimapia, and this was accepted by the reviewer? Wikimapia is not a reliable site, it is (as the name makes obvious) a wiki.

"The Sacred Jackfruit Tree is a historical site in the Indian state of Manipur" but the article says very little about the site.
"One such temple is the Shree Govindajee Temple at Imphal." (where the first image was installed). But Shree Govindajee Temple says that the temple was originally built in 1846, while the statue wsa finished in 1779. What happened inbetween?
"(Jackfruit in Manipuri language means Theibong)" This should be reversed surely?
"The site measures 22 by 18.40 square metres (236.8 sq ft × 198.1 sq ft) and is called Kaina temple complex, which is being developed as one of the three major tourist complexes in Manipur along with the Kheba hillock and Marjing temple complex on the Heingang hill in eastern Imphal." For starters, you can't have a site measuring X square metres by Y square metres (or feet), it measures either X metres by Y metres, or Z square metres. Furthermore, the dimensions seem to be absent from the source[1]. Finally, the site being redeveloped is the Kaina temple complex, but this is not the site of the tree, but the site of the Shree Govindajee Temple[2][3].
"Acceding to Chandra's prayers, Krishna appeared to him in a vision the night before the fight with the elephant. He told the king to face the elephant in front of a jackfruit tree in which he would be present, holding a rosary of Tulsi. Krishna commanded that after the fight he should carve images of His out of that particular jackfruit tree, and to deify and worship them in temples built for the purpose.[5]" Nothing in the sources seems to indicate that the elephant fight happened in front of or near the jackfruit tree.[4][5]. According to [6] it happened in an arena instead.

When even a short reading of the article produces such errors, and otherwise leaves the reader rather confused about what happened (e.g. with the dance mentioned near the end), then it is clear that this should not have been promoted to GA. By the way, the main source for the article, The Letter by Advani, is a self-published autobiography, not really a reliable work for such a subject. The author seems to be a nurse from Imphal now leaving in the US, so not a recognised expert in history, mythology or religion either. While that doesn't mean that her source is wrong, it does make it unreliable. Fram (talk) 08:21, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are even more strange stuff. TrangaBellam (talk) 21:58, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]