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Is his actual name Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji? Should we use the 'Sree Sree' and 'Swamiji' honorifics thoroughout the article?
There are numerous statements thrgouhout the document which are either peacock terms or tall claims which require citations. E.g:

'The driving forces of Sree Swamiji's more than seven decades of service to humanity are hardwork, disciplined life, faith in Humanity and sincerity of purpose to help the poor and the downtrodden.'
'He is committed to the service of humanity with eighteen hour daily work schedule, even at the age of 100.'
'ree Swamiji's Guru Kula houses more than 8500 children of age group 5 to 16 years and is open to children from all religions, castes and creeds, who get free food, education and shelter and the moral blessings of the Sree Swamiji.' - citation needed for the secular nature of his work.

Parthi ^{talk/contribs} 00:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks for pointing these out. Will see if I can get citations for these.

Regarding the name, yes, for all practical purposes that is his name and that is how all the media components (News papers, TV, Radio) refer to him. We hardly see anywhere the name as just "Dr.Shivakumara" as mentioned in an earlier version of the article. Hope this helps. - KNM ^Talk 00:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

" Dr.Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji is known to be like this and being named and called throughout Karnataka and throughout India like this-- that is -- "Dr.Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji" for the verification please refer to any News papers of Karnataka,any Indian Premier English News Papers,Magazines. One can get the achievements of the saint and his service to the humanity from past 70 years and more --in Karnataka Central Library--Bangalore,Indian central Library,New-Delhi. About the statements made above are mere facts and no unfactual or adjectives added to those. Saint has lived those which are said about his service. World faculty can visit Siddaganga Math,Tumkur district,Karnataka state,India --and can witness the Godly and enormous service sage is Making to more than 8000 poor students from all over the country(Free food 3 times a day,Education and Shelter) He remains as Helping hand for lakhs of Poor in the country. The direct seeing and testimonial for years by anyone can realise the actuality of the humanitarian service...and even one can learn and realise the humbleness and Love in his heart and self.

About Swamiji's Spiritual Practice-- He remains in Meditative state for more than 3 hours in the early hours of the morning. Goes into Yoganidhra(a ind of blisful sleep) after 11:30 Pm in the night. foreign visitors,Tourists should not miss the visit to this place when they visit india. Now Sage has crossed 100 and his service has crossed 70,very few and rare is such an humanitarian service for such a huge time by any sage/person in the History of the world.

World faculty can visit Siddaganga Math,Tumkur district,Karnataka state,India --and can witness the Godly and enormous service of the sage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123Mahesh (talk • cont ribs) 10:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A sage Lived for Humanity

Dr.Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji is known to be like this and being named and called throughout Karnataka and throughout India like this-- that is -- "Dr.Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji" for the verification please refer to any News papers of Karnataka,any Indian Premier English News Papers,Magazines. One can get the achievements of the saint and his service to the humanity from past 70 years and more --in Karnataka Central Library--Bangalore,Indian central Library,New-Delhi. About the statements made above are mere facts and no unfactual or adjectives added to those. Saint has lived those which are said about his service. World faculty can visit Siddaganga Math,Tumkur district,Karnataka state,India --and can witness the Godly and enormous service sage is Making to more than 8000 poor students from all over the country(Free food 3 times a day,Education and Shelter) He remains as Helping hand for lakhs of Poor in the country. The direct seeing and testimonial for years by anyone can realise the actuality of the humanitarian service...and even one can learn and realise the humbleness and Love in his heart and self. About Swamiji's Spiritual Practise-- He remains in Meditative state for more than 3 hours in the early hours of the morning. Goes into Yoganidhra(a ind of blisful sleep) after 11:30 Pm in the night. foreign visitors,Tourists should not miss the visit to this place when they visit india. Now Sage has crossed 100 and his service has crossed 70,very few and rare is such an humanitarian service for such a huge time by any sage/person in the History of the world.

World faculty can visit Siddaganga Math,Tumkur district,Karnataka state,India --and can witness the Godly and enormous service of the sage.

123Mahesh (talk) 10:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)Mahesh[reply]

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Referencing

Hello The Rambling Man, thanks for your feedback about the referencing in the article. I have done major work in improving the references since you voted. Please reconsider the !vote at Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#RD:_Shivakumara_Swami. If you still believe that there is more room for reference improvement, then it would be helpful if you could add ^{[citation needed]} tags wherever necessary or mention on this thread here. --DBig Xrayᗙ 14:33, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Picture in the Awards section

PM Modi at Siddaganga Mutt
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting Sri Shivakumar Swamy ji, during his visit to the Siddaganga Mutt, at Tumkur, in Karnataka on September 24, 2014

Hi IP 117.198.113.27, I have Undid revision 879481834 by 117.198.113.27 (talk), because Subject getting garland from Prime Minister of India is a more strong picture for the awards section, face is hardly visible in both the pics. Lets discuss, here on the talk page if you still disagree. --DBig Xrayᗙ 15:14, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fair point. Just that in the other picture, his face is recognizable. Anyway I don't have an issue with either of the pics. Cheers. 117.198.113.27 (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but we already have a picture in the infobox that shows his face. Thanks for agreeing to my point. cheers. --DBig Xrayᗙ 15:22, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Social Work section

Hi, could you expand the "Social work" section? I feel the current text does not do his work justice. 117.198.113.27 (talk) 15:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, you can do this as well as per WP:Be bold. All we need are some good and reliable sources, that focus on his social work without looking promotional. I have got this page nominated on the Wikipedia Main page so we have to be careful about not adding unsourced information. cheers.--DBig Xrayᗙ 15:37, 21 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Year of Birth

Hi User:Editor5454 thanks for your contributions. Almost all the sources mention him as 111 years old. What does his biography or Mutt website mention his year of birth as ? --DBig Xrayᗙ 19:37, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see that USer:JFG has now reverted and restored 1907 as the year of birth, stating "Unclear: many sources give his birth date as 1 April 1907 (for example https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/shivakumara-swami-lingayat-siddhaganga-mutt-tumakuru-5548096/), and even sources that list 1908 state that he was 111 years old". IMHO I agree with the edit and reasoning by JFG. --DBig Xrayᗙ 21:12, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. We also have older sources documenting his 100th birthday celebration in 2007. There must have been some confusion at some news rooms in the rush to publish upon his death. — JFG ^talk 21:33, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, 100th birthday in 2007 is another strong reason to support the year of birth as 1907. So lets use this discussion as consensus to keep year of birth as 1907. --DBig Xrayᗙ 21:38, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why was my category removed?

I added the category "Indian humanitarians" to this article a little bit ago. Now I see it has been removed. Why? Maximajorian Viridio (talk) 19:43, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done Hello Maximajorian Viridio, Thanks a lot for your contribution of adding [1] category. It was me who had mistakenly removed your category while doing a revert [2] to an earlier last clean version that was free from disruptive edits from IP and new users. I failed to notice your constructive edit at the bottom and I apologize for this mistake. I have already restored the said category to the article with this edit. Hope it is fine with you. Please let me know if there is anything else that you would like to be changed. regards. --DBig Xrayᗙ 19:54, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay. Thank you. Maximajorian Viridio (talk) 21:47, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Spiritual life

Is there any detailed information around his Spiritual life?

Film and literature

Is there any documentary on swamiji or short movie?