Talk:Stalin K

Referencing issues

The page has repeated citations that have not been combined into one reference link. Moreover, some citations redirect to Wikipedia articles (mostly redlinked), which should not be put in <ref> tags. AyushMukherjee376 (talk) 07:59, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Date of birth is needed.--2A00:1FA0:4F5:6FD5:0:3C:8822:7D01 (talk) 12:23, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

• • Stalin K.** (also known as Stalin K. Padma) is an Indian documentary filmmaker, human rights activist, and pioneer of community media in India. His documentaries *India Untouched: Stories of a People Apart* (2007) and *Lesser Humans* (1996) on caste discrimination and untouchability have received multiple international film awards and have been used in academic and educational settings in India and internationally.[citation: KPBS, The Hindu] He co-founded Drishti Media Collective in 1991 and Video Volunteers in 2003, organizations that helped develop participatory community video and community news models in India.[citation: existing Wikipedia sources, esodoc] He was a co-founder and former Convener of the Community Radio Forum of India and was part of the group that helped draft India's Community Radio Policy enacted in 2006.[citation: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting; designyatra] — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-30194-39 (talk) 20:47, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Request Edit COI Disclosure

This LLM-generated text has been collapsed and should be excluded from assessments of consensus.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

COI disclosure: I am the Fundraising Manager at Video Volunteers, an organization co-founded by the article's subject.I am proposing the following additions here for review by uninvolved editors. The current article is missing coverage of Stalin K. 's work that is well documented in independent, reliable sources but not yet reflected. I'd like to propose the following additions. I'm not proposing any change to the existing text about the 2018 allegations or the sections addressing them — only additions of sourced material about his broader body of work. 1. International press coverage of Video Volunteers' community media model Add to the "Video Volunteers" section: Video Volunteers' community journalism model has been covered by international press, including The Guardian (2013), The Economist (2014), BBC (2012, 2017), and Public Radio International (2012). 2. Academic study of the organization The MIT Governance Lab published research in 2022 on community media accountability models in India, using Video Volunteers as a case study. Economic and Political Weekly's EPW Engage platform published analysis (2021) of Video Volunteers' work during the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Academic reception of "India Untouched" (2007) Prakash Louis's 2008 study in Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage Journals) examines the film from a Dalit-perspective critical lens. The film was screened at Harvard Kennedy School in November 2024 as part of a program on caste discrimination organized by the school's Casteless Caucus. 4. 2021 award for Video Volunteers' COVID-19 documentary "Fixing India: How Community Media Like Video Volunteers Changed During COVID-19" received the Adaptation & Resilience Award at the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards, held at BAFTA London, per Nepali Times (2021) and the.media. 5. Filmography detail Several additional documentaries directed 1991–2005 (e.g. "Our Water, Our Future," made with the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone communities of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming) are documented via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism but not currently listed. Sources for all of the above are on request — I have links for each and can provide them in whatever citation format is preferred. Happy to adjust framing or drop any item an editor feels isn't due weight. Thank you for reviewing. Bodie727 (talk) 21:37, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Not done: your request appears to have been generated by a large language model. Day Creature (talk) 05:26, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi! While I used AI to help organize my thoughts I did not rely on it 100%. I need to update Stalin's page with more recent details of his accomplishments. Would you kindly add the following: dd to the "Video Volunteers" section: Video Volunteers' community journalism model has been covered by international press, including The Guardian (2013), The Economist (2014), BBC (2012, 2017), and Public Radio International (2012). 2. Academic study of the organization The MIT Governance Lab published research in 2022 on community media accountability models in India, using Video Volunteers as a case study. Economic and Political Weekly's EPW Engage platform published analysis (2021) of Video Volunteers' work during the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Academic reception of "India Untouched" (2007) Prakash Louis's 2008 study in Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage Journals) examines the film from a Dalit-perspective critical lens. The film was screened at Harvard Kennedy School in November 2024 as part of a program on caste discrimination organized by the school's Casteless Caucus. 4. 2021 award for Video Volunteers' COVID-19 documentary "Fixing India: How Community Media Like Video Volunteers Changed During COVID-19" received the Adaptation & Resilience Award at the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards, held at BAFTA London, per Nepali Times (2021) and the.media. 5. Filmography detail Several additional documentaries directed 1991–2005 (e.g. "Our Water, Our Future," made with the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone communities of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming) are documented via UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism but not currently listed Bodie727 (talk) 16:53, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not sure how to set the paramater to No. I am not trying to go against any rules, I just don't know how to get my edits here? Bodie727 (talk) 21:35, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

You are welcome to create a new edit request that is written entirely in your own words, without any AI assistance. Day Creature (talk) 18:07, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Also you need sources (links) to support your claims. - FlightTime (open channel) 18:16, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi! I resubmitted with sources. is this allowed to be published? Bodie727 (talk) 22:48, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I added a separate request. Bodie727 (talk) 22:17, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Proposed addition to "Video Volunteers" article

I would like to please consider adding new content to this page. I have previously disclosed my relationship to the subject as I am the fundraising coordinator for www.videovolunteers.org We are growing within the United States and would like to update our pages for both Stalin K (co-founder) as well as the wiki page for Video Volunteers to reflect this growth. Suggested text: Video Volunteers' community journalism model has been the subject of academic scholarship, such as research led by Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, https://politics.virginia.edu/people/gabrielle-kruks-wisner, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at the University of Virginia. This article illustrates how the Video Volunteers model of training citizen journalists [] positively impacted the lives of rural citizens during the Covid 19 pandemic. Stalin K. used this data to produce a documentary film, Fixing India: How Community Media Video Volunteers changed during Covid 19 which won a 2021 Global Sustainability Film Award []

Thank you for the consideration Bodie727 (talk) 20:25, 14 July 2026 (UTC)