Talk:Vishwasrao Chowgule

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

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Portrait of Chowgule

• ... that in 1976, the Government of India officially declared Vishwasrao Chowgule (pictured) as the wealthiest person in India based on wealth tax statistics?

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Created by SerChevalerie (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

SerChevalerie (talk) 21:18, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

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Overall: New article. QPQ not required as user has less than 5 noms. Hook is cited and interesting as the wealth is measured based on wealth tax statistics. Good to go. Toadboy123 (talk) 03:40, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

• • @SerChevalerie and Toadboy123: Can you quote in English the passage in the source that supports the hook? Machine translation of the passage from Wikisource doesn't render the hook fact. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:02, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

@Dclemens1971:, the OCR is also bad. The 3rd paragraph from the end says,"In 1976, based on wealth tax statistics, the Government of India declared Vishwasrao as India's wealthiest person". SerChevalerie (talk) 17:54, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. I am going to promote based on this. I do not believe the image should be promoted based on the inability to verify the license on Commons. Dclemens1971 (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2026 (UTC)