Talk:Sivananda yoga

Sivananda yoga has been listed as one of the Philosophy and religion good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: August 2, 2025. (Reviewed version).

This article was nominated for deletion on 2 June 2018. The result of the discussion was keep.

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GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Sivananda yoga/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 18:54, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chilicave (talk · contribs) 04:23, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm away from my desk for a few days, will get to it ASAP. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:01, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chiswick Chap

of course, no problem Chilicave (talk) 03:07, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

happy to review this article!

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B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?
A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

C. It contains no original research:

D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism: - sentences that are closely worded to their source lack creativity and best written the way they are. No issues
Is it broad in its coverage?
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Copy edits

–Some quick copy edit related questions:

organization or organisation? The spelling of word varies throughout the article. Choose one to make it more uniform.

Done.

He named this system, as well as the international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres organization responsible for propagating its teachings, after his guru, Sivananda.[S 1]

Who is He? Sivanananda or Vishnudevananda

Fixed.

-Spot checks

[S 1] - good

Source 4 - good

[S 8] - good

Are sources 11 and 13 not primary sources, and therefore more appropriate to place under primary sources subheading?

13 is primary to the organisation, while 11 is not, it's Salter's evidence against the organisation.

-- Everything looks good other than the minor queries I had above. Will revisit once you're back.

-- I'm back. Those have been addressed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:17, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Perfecto! I'm definitely impressed with how this article is set up. Congratulations! Chilicave (talk) 19:05, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]