Talk:Anke Gowda

Need help tracking down two awards

I've tracked down four of the six awards Gowda received. Two I cannot find (I suspect they are not in English) include a Asamanya Kannadiga Award, which may have been awarded before 2016, as many of the awards after that date are in English. I suspect that he may have received the Asamanya Kannadiga between 2012 and 2015, but that's just a guess. The second is a "State Library Award", which may be a grant, I think, which I've found evidence for, but not under that name. Any help is appreciated. Viriditas (talk) 22:52, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Also need more information about the government subsidies he received. Viriditas (talk) 01:16, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Young bus driver photo

The photo of him circulating as a young bus driver is amazing. We really need to get a copy of it here. Viriditas (talk) 23:52, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Sold his home?

Need to confirm that he sold his home to continue his obsession. Viriditas (talk) 01:15, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Zzz plant (talk) 15:24, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

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Anke Gowda displaying a book from his collection

• ... that Anke Gowda, a retired sugar factory timekeeper, built India's largest private collection of books?
  • ALT1: ... that Anke Gowda, who amassed the largest private collection of books in India, was once a bus conductor?
  • ALT2: ... that Anke Gowda, who amassed a collection of over two million books, was once a bus conductor?
  • ALT3: ... that an Indian sugar factory timekeeper (pictured) founded a library with over two million books?
  • ALT4: ... that a retired Indian sugar factory timekeeper won a Padma Shri award for founding a library?
  • Source: BBC News; The Hindu
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/USS Anzio (CVE-57)

Created by Cl3phact0 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

Cl3phact0 (talk) 10:28, 12 February 2026 (UTC).

• Article created 7 February. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQ is done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 20:31, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

  Pulled from prep due to sourcing concerns, per this discussion. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:04, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

• ​​ Courtesy link to discussion regarding this nom. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:04, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
• ​​​​ Courtesy link re: Pulling doesn't undo the review discussion, which seems to indicate that Thriley's review is in fact still valid. Please clarify "correct" procedure. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 09:15, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
  • As long as there's no reason to doubt a review on a given point – the content has not changed and the assessment has not been challenged – it can stay. I think what TechnoSquirrel69 means (and they are, by the way, very correct that all content in a DYK article that could reasonably be challenged needs to be cited to a reliable source – i.e. no unreliable sources should be there) is that the new content in the article, of which there is a lot, has effectively not been reviewed and needs to be checked against the content-specific criteria (sourcing, neutrality, copyright). theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 12:02, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
  • Also – I notice you want to clarify these things a lot, Cl3phact0, and I think that's great, but you should know that, afaik, TechnoSquirrel69 has been here for less time than you have. He doesn't (yet) have Mysterious Secret Insider knowledge of "correct" procedure that is unknown to everyone else. He's just making a common-sense judgment call based off the fact that all content in a DYK article needs to be checked against the DYK criteria. Maybe I've run into this scenario before, maybe not, but the rule I've communicated above is just an amalgamation of judgment calls I've made and have seen other people make, not an excerpt from a hard-and-fast set of rules that all of the DYK regulars agreed upon and forgot to write down. All of this is to say, I think it's great that you're involved with DYK and trying to get a clear expectation of what the rules are. Just know that there's not much we know that you don't; it is just our application of our experience and DYK's general principles, which is a thing you can also do and have an opinion on. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 12:13, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
• New review needed as the article has been significantly expanded since being pulled. (I've boldly updated the credits to list Viriditas as a co-author.) For what it's worth, I have no objections to Thriley re-reviewing if they're interested in going so — RSNOI issues can be tricky to spot, so I don't hold anybody at fault for the fact that these weren't brought up during the previous review. I also agree that this can be exempted from timing out under the circumstances, unless further concerns are identified on the re-review. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:28, 1 March 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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This one's great, thank you; have added "(pictured)" to ALT3, which is good to go, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 08:17, 12 March 2026 (UTC)