[Wikimedia-in-en] GA master class - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi #2

[Ashwin Baindur]

Referencing Tip #1 - *Use Google Books to replace unverifiable references.*

For a subject like Gandhi, you will often come across references such as
this:

*^<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=470829986#cite_ref-5>
* Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi (1997). *The Mahatma and the Poet*. New Delhi:
National Book Trust, India. p. 1.

(reference 6 on this oldid -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=470829986
)

The reference was for Rabindranath Tagore being the person who coined the
term "Mahatma" for Gandhi.

Instead, by searching for "Tagore coined the term Mahatma" on Google, I got
lots of links, a few with preview.

I immediately find this link:
Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations: Volume 1 -
Page 15<http://books.google.co.in/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC&pg=PA15&dq=Tagore+coined+the+term+Mahatma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAg>
<http://books.google.co.in/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC&pg=PA15&dq=Tagore+coined+the+term+Mahatma&hl=en&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=3&ved=0CEUQ6wEwAg>
books.google.co.inAmar Nath
Prasad<http://www.google.co.in/search?num=100&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=33v&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1280&bih=842&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Amar+Nath+Prasad%22&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&ved=0CEMQ9Ag>,
A.N. Prasad Rajiv
K.Malik<http://www.google.co.in/search?num=100&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=33v&sa=X&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1280&bih=842&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Amar+Nath+Prasad%22&q=inauthor:%22A.N.+Prasad+Rajiv+K.Malik%22&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&ved=0CEQQ9Ag>-
2007 - 269 pages - Full
view<http://books.google.co.in/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC&pg=PA15&dq=Tagore+coined+the+term+Mahatma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&ved=0CEYQuwUwAg>
It was *Tagore*, who popularized the *term* "*Mahatma*"- great soul as a
description of Gandhi. *...* His fame rested partly on his charisma-a world
that might have been *invented* for *Tagore* — which was experienced at
first hand in many *...*

So when I click the link, i reach this page,

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC&pg=PA15&dq=Tagore+coined+the+term+Mahatma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IpQOT9TpEYjUrQetj6XsAQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Tagore%20coined%20the%20term%20Mahatma&f=false

which works admirably as a reference:

*It was Tagore who popularised the term "Mahatma" - Great soul, as a
description of Gandhi.

*So just pickup the page url & add it to reftag*

*http://reftag.appspot.com/*

*and bang!* *RefTag gives you a ready made WikiText reference to use*:

<ref name="PrasadMalikPrasad2007">{{cite book|last1=Prasad|first1=Amar
Nath|last2=Malik|first2=Rajiv K.|last3=Prasad |first3=A.N. |title=Indian
English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations|url=
http://books.google.com/books?id=g2DHBzEO9UEC&pg=PA15|accessdate=12 January
2012|date=1 November 2007|publisher=Sarup &
Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-730-5|page=15}}</ref>

*Just add it instead to the article instead of the unverifiable reference &
you only need to save.
*
*Actually, since I used a different search term, I found another reference
for the article instead of the one above.*

*Richard L. Johnson; Gandhi (Mahatma) (2006). *Gandhi's experiments with
truth: essential writings by and about Mahatma
Gandhi*<http://books.google.com/books?id=dRQcKsx-YgQC&pg=PA279>.
Lexington Books. p. 279.
ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number>
 978-0-7391-1143-7<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7391-1143-7>.
Retrieved 12 January 2012.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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