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Reliability of sources cited for Yajnavalkya

Vedic era philosopher Yajnavalkya (c. 900–700 Century BCE) proposed elements of heliocentrism stating that the Sun was "the center of the spheres".^[1]^[2]

References

^ Castleden, Rodney (2020-11-01). Discoveries that Changed the World. Canary Press eBooks. ISBN 978-1-908698-53-7.
^ Sabiu, Cristiano Giovanni (2006). Probing the Large-Scale Homogeneity of the Universe with Galaxy Redshift Surveys. Scotland: University of Glasgow. p. 12. arXiv:astro-ph/0703492.

Information available from Google Books on Rodney Casdeden: a geographer and geomorphologist by training and has been actively involved in research on landscape processes and prehistory for the last twenty years. He has written books such as Inventions that changed the World, discoveries that changed the World, People that changed the World etc. Should scientific matters such as Heliocentrism be used from author of such books as he isn't clearly a subject expert on the matter, also Vedic-heliocetrism relation is a disputed issue and not widely published in any reliable scientific materials(Indians sources regarding the matter is subject to further reliability check as plethora of works produced from India are heavy embellishments of the actual fact). The second source clearly states it is a paper done for the completion of MSc degree by an individual sans peer review. So it is explicit that citation is unreliable അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 15:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to reliable sources it is highly unlikely that Yajnavalkya talks about anything related to heliocentrism.

According to Greek ethnographer Megasthenes, (300 BC)has been interpreted as stating that

contemporary Brahmans believed in a spherical Earth as the center of the universe.

Every ancient Indian astronomers during classical period such as aryabhatta, brahmagupta,Varāhamihira and lalla all believed in geocentric model of the universe.There was a speculation of aryabhatta theory being heliocentric throught it was been rebutted and his model was also geocentric.

So most of the early sources talked about geocentric earth not anything related to heliocentrism. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 07:24, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism

There is now a deletion discussion here 1 going on about the article Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism that may be of interest to readers of this page. അദ്വൈതൻ (talk) 15:34, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

It takes DuncanHill 26 minutes to object to a "dishonest" charge of conflict of interest and show that he has the same with his interest in diabolist and occultist Crowley. See Duncan's edits on 24/9/2024. Nova444Scotia (talk) 15:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)— Nova444Scotia (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

@Nova444Scotia: Please be clear as to what you are alleging. DuncanHill (talk) 17:29, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Denial of the evidence of the senses

At 10:34 on 24/9/2024, DuncanHill said "Unexplained removal...". He denies the visible explanation "No citation..", made a minute earlier. At 10:35, on 24/9/2024, he says there was an explanation but says it was not adequate. No details are given for supposing the explanation was inadequate. 10 minutes later, he has strengthened his claims to "vandalism". He complains about deleted references but does not quote them to show that heliocentrism was mentioned in the trial. T5r728hl (talk) 14:48, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple ip address vandalism

I have recently noticed several claims stating that Vedic scholars described heliocentrism before Aristarchus of Samos. However, the majority of sources cited for these claims lack reliability, as they are not published in reputable scientific journals.

Wikipedia adheres to guidelines that prioritize scientific journals and peer-reviewed publications over articles or opinions from less credible sources. If there were substantial evidence supporting the assertion that Vedic scholars proposed heliocentrism, it would likely be acknowledged in respected scientific publications such as those from Oxford, Cambridge, or in references like the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Wikipedia’s purpose is to provide accurate and reliable information, based on verified and credible sources, rather than promoting potentially misleading or fringe theories. If anyone wishes to challenge Wikipedia’s stance on this matter, they should engage in a constructive discussion on the Wikipedia Science Portal, adhering to its established guidelines and citing valid scientific evidence. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 20:54, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The above user seems to directly attack my identity like, removing arguments, User has also asked to protect the page out cleverly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:40e4:1d:e46c:b12c:688c:9343:e4e4 (talk) 21:16, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop directly attacking me everytime and stop vandalising pages by adding the unreference sources and the reason why I suspect you is that whenever I click your ip address it says that you are temporary blocked and secondly if you really want to contribute something in a page please use the talk page . Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 21:31, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why I removed your comment in talk page is that your ip address is showing that you are temporary blocked and it aligns with other ip address who added the content. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 21:46, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The content is neither unreferenced nor empty; As I explained The IP'S are banned for ad's they are mentioning in BHIM page which is marketing purpose I GUESS and completely different. 2409:40E4:1D:E46C:B12C:688C:9343:E4E4 (talk) 21:59, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay but if you really need to add those information then you need to ask other authors who are expert in it and as of all the peer reviewed sources that I have read nothing talks about vedic heliocentrism the only evidence we somewhat have of sort of heliocentric model is of aryabhatta but still it is a geocentric model and secondly please refrain from WP:Fringe theory that the vedas knew about heliocentrism is similar to that of flat earth theory and all the sources that you mentioned were all promoting these fringe theories without having to be reviewed by any scholar. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 22:08, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That would be too long I guess !

Aryabhata's theory is although mentioned or described by several as Heliocentric though some has disagreed it. Nonetheless, the Fringe doesn't apply here since it's not part of my research but also, what the source as well the Translation of the Text mention as well as what Author mentions. 2409:40E4:1D:E46C:B12C:688C:9343:E4E4 (talk) 22:21, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vedic heliocentrism itself is a Fringe theory and it has no scientific support and what translation you are talking about is just misinterpretation of what the actual text says .The actual text doesn't even talk about heliocentrism it's just like how authors misinterpreted vishu dashavatar as darwin theory of evolution.None of these stuff should be added in scientific articles and secondly it has been removed long time ago you can just check the archive of this talk page and why it is removed . Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 22:31, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It actually isnt; since what's being added are in alliance with either sources or authors notes and what's ot and what's not should be mentioned indeed!

Later thing is clearly unrelated.

I will suggest you adding these paras to which it was removed with misleading paraphra. 2409:40E4:110D:EFC9:7111:4442:E98:E238 (talk) 22:54, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is a fringe theory and should be added in interpretation of religious scriptures not on basis of scientific articles and it isn't accepted by mainstream academia.Adding these lines would damage the reliability of wikipedia.Wikipedia always follows the guidelines of scientific and peer reviewed articles and I can't find any peer reviewed sources from notable university of backing these claims. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 23:04, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are definitely not known about Wikipedia guidelines and therefore you are editing as yours version in..

None mentions the fringe theory do you see clearly pointing out here..It was well explained why to add and with clearly multiple cites available in form of related documents..It's just need some to mention here you must get know what it's actually there 2409:40E4:110D:EFC9:7111:4442:E98:E238 (talk) 23:07, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

After it gets mentioned in the scientific journals and credible sources there is a scope for mentioning out here I say. There are atleast few siurces that mention in. See it.. 2409:40E4:110D:EFC9:7111:4442:E98:E238 (talk) 23:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If vedic scholar philosopher Yajnavalkya describes heliocentrism then we need to change the starting sentence of the article which says that

Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the universe. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, who had been influenced by a concept presented by Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – 385 BC).

and also we need to change various information in other wikipedia articles so if proper discuss isn't done about this topic by various users then we can't upload it.We also need to change it in other articles like Indian astronomy and Astronomy which doesn't describe this Vedic claim. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 06:20, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

for now, I suggest just with mentioning those things at the first place rather than very thinking. Once started, it's not very difficult at all to do all and I will surely give some amount of time to those mentioned Articles. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 15:09, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because these stuff aren't accepted by mainstream academia or scientific community and it is easily dismissed as fringe theory and if you are still not satisfied or confused go to any peer review university journals and search about heliocentrism then it either mentions aristachus of samos nor they mentions nicolaus copernicus nowhere they mentions anything related to vedic heliocentrism Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 15:33, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stop accusing others for not knowing wikipedia guidelines.Vedic heliocentrism already comes under WP:Fringe theory and secondly it is mentioned as fringe theory multiple times in the talk page and the reference provided isn't really peer reviewed nor it is accepted by mainstream academia and you used also look at WP: Reliable source of what is counted as reliable or not.I do appreciate your efforts in contributing in wikipedia but you need to aware that wikipedia accepts only peer reviewed sources as reliable references. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 03:46, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're repeating same thing at every piece rather than addressing those points. 2409:40E4:11EB:FB67:8037:7716:4447:C052 (talk) 15:07, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's under discussion so don't need to make changes and it's already discussed in talk page multiple times go and see the archives of this talk page and if you really want to address it then these changes should also been done in other articles related to astronomy. Myuoh kaka roi (talk) 15:30, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Castleden, Rodney (2020-11-01). Discoveries that Changed the World. Canary Press eBooks. ISBN 978-1-908698-53-7.

[2] Sabiu, Cristiano Giovanni (2006). Probing the Large-Scale Homogeneity of the Universe with Galaxy Redshift Surveys. Scotland: University of Glasgow. p. 12. arXiv:astro-ph/0703492.

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