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December 26

Why only North Indian farmers took more seriously than South about 2020 Indian agriculture acts?

From here, I read this line: the most widespread protests took place in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh.

All this 4 states situated in North India. Rizosome (talk) 01:49, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because that's where most of the rice and smog is made. (Correction: wheat, maize, and pearl millet were the significant crops leading to the regional differences in production, in the 1960s, see link below.) Card Zero (talk) 02:33, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly... AnonMoos (talk) 09:43, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See Green Revolution in India. Alansplodge (talk) 11:47, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The last paragraph needs a source, so I'm going to link to this page about the Zamindari / Ryotwari/ Mahalwari regions, whatever those are. (Page explains.) Card Zero (talk) 16:34, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They were methods of rural tax-collection or "land revenue"... AnonMoos (talk) 18:26, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I got satisfied by this 2 lines:

Because that's where most of the rice and smog is made.
Punjab is well-known for having embraced the 1960s "Green Revolution" (which had more to do with agriculture than environmentalism) quickly and thoroughly... Rizosome (talk) 01:54, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

The least obscure person

Who is the least obscure, most deserving person in world history who has not yet had a Wikipedia article written about them? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:11, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sig Sackowitz? --<-Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots-> 20:15, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are Wikipedia:Most-wanted articles and the sub-pages of Wikipedia:Requested articles... AnonMoos (talk) 21:18, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you, AnonMoos. At least twice I've suggested to the wiki-gods that we have some sort of list of redlinks readily available to gap-pluggers, but I've been rebuffed. It's all too hard, they told me. It would consume far too many resources, they said. And now this. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:15, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They're too busy fooling around with other stuff. --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:20, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I maintain a (shrinking) list of scientists that have an entry in the book Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD but no article (yet) here: User:Lambiam/RedlinkedScientists. --Lambiam 00:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I also have my own list of redlinks that ought not to be red, as do many other editors. What we lack is one grand unified list that is maintained at the project level. Why is this so hard? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 11:34, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JackofOz @Lambiam forgive my naivety, but what's stopping you from making it a sub page somewhere and linking it in Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Science and academia or more broadly at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography? ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 14:05, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]