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Regarding Udupi Cuisine
I was simply browsing through the edit history and found out that all the additions of Udupi Cuisine (given with source) have all been reverted. Everybody in South knows about the specialty of Udupi cuisine and its prominence in the South. Please provide a satisfactory explanation regarding the undoing of that edit.--YoYoRockNRoll (talk) 08:18, 30 January 2021 (UTC)YoYoRockNRoll
User 202.134.163.150 : I have added your source and oint of Udupi Cuisine but have removed the 'rave reviews' and ;has gained prominence' part as it is irrelevant. Please stick to the point and do not add useless adjectives or phases.--YoYoRockNRoll (talk) 08:35, 30 January 2021 (UTC)YoYoRockNRoll
Removal of the phrase "Dravida Nadu" from infobox.
I am not sure why the phrase "Dravida Nadu" is used in the info box. It is not a traditional name for southern India. In fact, as far as I am aware, it is a name which was made up by Tamil nationalists and separatists in an attempt to create some sort of "Dravidian identity."
In fact, even the Wikipedia article of Dravida Nadu states that it is a "hypothetical state."
The ONLY people I have ever seen using that name are Tamil nationalists and people from related "Dravidian parties" in Tamil Nadu such as DMK. This name being in the info box is appears to be politically motivated, and should be removed, as it is a potential violation of WP:NPOV, and its usage by fringe groups such as Tamil nationalists is likely a violation of WP:FRINGE.
Wikipedia policy does not allow for politically motivated statements to be put on articles. I am removing the name in the name of the violated policies stated above. I putting this on the talk page to receive any feedback on the matter. If there are any objections, feel free to voice them. Kalariwarrior (talk) 07:30, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
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Tulu in lead
Why was Tulu given such a prominence in the lead? I'm pretty sure it's a POV push. — DaxServer (talk) 09:54, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Orphaned references in South India
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of South India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "eb-calico":
- From Calico: Encyclopædia Britannica (2008). "calico".
- From Kozhikode: Encyclopædia Britannica (2008). calico
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:26, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Dakshin Bharat
I don't think it's sourced, is it? Also, it's a transliteration from Hindi which is not a majority language and thus, even if sourced, would be WP:UNDUE in lead as the majority-language transliterations are not set. Ping @Rasnaboy — DaxServer (t · m · c) 08:03, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for checking. Please feel free to remove it if you feel so. The reason why I retained it was that, unlike those anti-Hindi partisan narratives claim, the term wasn't an exclusively Hindi one. It's an ancient, pan-Indian term (of Sanskrit origin, such as the term "Bharat", and hence is common in many Indian languages, including many South Indian ones). It simply means southern Bharat. Unlike other regions of India (North, West, East) which are somewhat loosely defined, South India is a pretty well-defined cultural region, with a relatively stable definition. Hence I though of retaining it given its cultural significance. Rasnaboy (talk) 09:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Have added a citation, too. I also noticed that this is how it is known in many of the southern languages including Telugu and Kannada. Rasnaboy (talk) 08:47, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, it is known as such. My objection is the transliteration. If the Telugu version is transliterated, it would be "Dakshina Bharatadesam" te:దక్షిణ భారతదేశం. Kannada seems like "Dakshina Bharata" kn:ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಭಾರತ. Either way, is that how the it's spelled in the book you've added? — DaxServer (t · m · c) 09:19, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- No. The source is for the meaning of it. It doesn't include the variants. The "Desam" in the Telugu is just an additional suffix meaning country or land. I mean to say it's a pan-Indian term like Bharat. Even the term "Bharat" can have numerous regional variants like "Bharatam", "Bharata", "Bharata Desam", "Bharatha Kandam", etc. Rasnaboy (talk) 09:51, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, it is known as such. My objection is the transliteration. If the Telugu version is transliterated, it would be "Dakshina Bharatadesam" te:దక్షిణ భారతదేశం. Kannada seems like "Dakshina Bharata" kn:ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಭಾರತ. Either way, is that how the it's spelled in the book you've added? — DaxServer (t · m · c) 09:19, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
- Have added a citation, too. I also noticed that this is how it is known in many of the southern languages including Telugu and Kannada. Rasnaboy (talk) 08:47, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
If you insist on retaining this appellation based on Sanskrit, I suggest you modify it to Dakshina Bharata or Bharatam, since the south has not resorted to schwa-dropping, which is dropping the a in the end of words that Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages have done. Chronikhiles (talk) 08:25, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
- The appellation is not based on Sanskrit but on Southern languages such as Kannada and Telugu, which still use the term primarily. Nevertheless, I see they both use the terminal schwa, with several variants (such as "Bharatam" in Telugu) adding to it. So I'll go by your suggestion of retaining the "a" at the end. Thanks. Rasnaboy (talk) 12:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)