Dear Debanjan,
The very first page of web search in Google yields that :
* the Journal of Indian History is published in Madras since the early decades of the Twentieth Century. (see http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofindianh014918mbp#page/n1/mode/2up). Keeping in mind that Vol VII was published in 1928, we can assume that it began publishing in 1920 or 1921. * the University of Pune includes it in the list of journals it subscribes to ( See http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=journal%20of%20indian%20his...) * Not finding it in JSTOR or indeed in Google Book Scholar implies that it is one of those journals which has not digitised its valuable IP and offered it online either free or under a paywall.
So what to do?
By using Revision History Search from the History page of Gandhi & typing in "Journal of Indian History" text (also known as WikiBlame). Give it time to run and it will find the insertions. Here is the url :
http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php?user_lang=en&lang=en&pr...
After 5 minutes it points at two insertions by User:Rjensen who is a history professor and presumably has both access to the document and knows what he does. So, the only thing to do is to ensure it is in a cite template - in this case "cite journal". If it is already in the format, no issue. If it is not, convert it.
So the crucial question is - does the edit reflect the original text neutrally and accurately? Since we do not have access and the editor is a respectable co-worker with us, we may assume good faith and leave it at that. Should we feel that the edit is far-fetched or that we need to check it out we may either:
* find it in a library OR * if its JSTOR, make a request at Resource Request (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resourc...) * Ask the inserting editor for a copy of the paper.
Then we check the reference to see that the edits are accurate and that there is no copyvio or POV editting.
Hope this satisfies your thirst for knowledge. :)
I'm bumping a copy of this to the WikiProject list as I'm sure others will face your situation in the future and this may help in giving them guidance.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debastein@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Ashwin,
I've finally got access to well some type of internet connection, its not too dependable but it works, and that https idea worked well also. Ok, so while cleaning up the references, I found there are a lot of unverifiable references, mostly protected by jstor. Look at reference no 84. It reads as follows:
Watson, I. Bruce (1977). "Satyagraha: The Gandhian Synthesis". Journal of Indian History 55 (1/2): 325–335.
I am totally unable to find any link of the original article, i.e. the Journal of Indian History. The closest thing that I found was that it was referenced to a jstor article,
The Principles of Equity and the Sermon on the Mount as Influence in Gandhi's Truth Force
But that too is locked by jstor to only paid users. What do I do in this regard??
-- Regards, Debanjan
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