Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Indic-related articles)

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[edit] Devanagari for all sankrit-based names ?

My inputs on this issue with references to the article Ramanuja :

    • - I think having Devanagari for all sankrit-based names (both personal & place names) is not a good idea. Should the article on Karunanidhi have this ?
    • - It is better to have the person's mothertongue or/ the language of the land the person mostly lived on - for this purpose.
    • - Otherwise we will need to have Devanagari for people like Megawati Sukarnoputri (an Indonesian), Wickramasinghe, Premadasa etc
    • - Same for placenames like Narayanganj in Bangladesh, Anuradhapura in Srilanka or even Singapore.
    • - Ofcourse, Ramanuja was a sanskrit scholor- But not all articles on Latin/Greek scholors have their names written in Greek or Latin. Ex. George L. Hart
    • - Neither all Hinduism related personalities can have Devanagari transliteration. For, ex. Appar, a similar religious figure doesnot/neednot have skt/nagari. Same for Nakkeerar.
    • - His contribution to Sanskrit literature ? - Offlate, a lot of technicians contribute towards Bollywood Hindi films - Should articles on ARRahman, Priyadarshan, Maniratnam have Devanagari names ?
    • - This kind of finding connections - can go on and on without an end. So we need to have a well-defined criteria as to where a person/place/concept belong.
    • - So I feel, the use of devanagari script on wikipedia should be restricted to the following articles:
       1- related to Hindi/Marathi/Nepal linguistic area 
       2- related to Sanskrit literature
       3- related to basic concepts of Dharmic religions.
    • - Shall NOT be used for the following articles:
       1- Just for 'any' personality with Sanskrit-based names.
       2- Just for 'anything' related to Hinduism.

(Popular hinduism is considered to have multiple origins - other than sanskritic roots)

       3- Just for 'anything' Indian.

Best case in point is the controversial template for Indian personalities with just English & Hindi (as in Mahatma_Gandhi , P_V_Narasimha_Rao etc)

    • - Would like to hear your thoughts on these points.

thanks.