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[edit] Scope

What's the scope of this project? Does it concern only the language and its literature or does it include people and its history too? If so, we can include Tamil people and Chola dynasty under Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Tamil#Featured articles. Let's define the scope and get going. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

In the section on scope, I've said: "This includes the language (Sangam Tamil), the literature, the poets, as well as Tamil history, society and culture from the Sangam period." I thought a broader scope would be better. -- Arvind 18:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
This is a pretty good scope Arvind! I can do as much as I can. I have access to a number of books on the Classical Tamil poetry, but I am no expert in this area. - Parthi 00:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links that could be of use

[edit] Project Template

May I suggest, instead of creating a project template for talk pages, please use,

{{WP India|tamil=yes}}

Please read Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Project banner for usage. It will help in the assessment project. Please let me know if you have any questions. - Ganeshk (talk) 22:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Tamil_people for an example. Adding the above will categorize all tamil project articles into Category:WikiProject Classical Tamil articles. - Ganeshk (talk) 22:19, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Classical Tamil period

What is the time period under consideration for this project. Are we only looking at Sangam age and immediate post sangam age literature? If so, are we omitting works like Kambaramayanam, Jivaka-chintamani, Periyapuranam, Tevaram, Divya Prabandams, etc? - Parthi 01:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inactivity

I agree with Parthi's proposal to expand this project to include all Tamil literature. And I'm sorry for not being active on this front. I'll soon start with yaappilakkanam. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 06:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

The project isn't supposed to be just about the literature, it's supposed to cover the literature amongst other things (language, history). If you would like to expand it to be Wikiproject:Tamil, please go ahead - though for obvious reasons I would very much like to keep politics out of it, and that will be difficult with a broader focus.
I'm halfway through a piece on Iraiyanar Akapporul, which I should be done with in a week or so, hopefully. I'm finding getting any free time a little difficult, hence the inactivity. -- Arvind 10:33, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, let's keep politics etc., out of this and have language and literature alone as our focus. I'm currently busy with my off-wiki life, Tamil wiki, and a bot for Tamil Wiktionary. I'll definitely catch up in about two weeks. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 10:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming Convention for Caste Names

Is there a discussion board for Tamil Nadu / Tamil related issues. I have a doubt with regarding to naming conventions. I feel that the name of Paravars will be better than Paravas (the same criteria of "R" being added to all the caste names like maravars rather than maravas) as it is the spelling in the official List of government of Tamil Nadu. What is your opinion. Please discuss to let us reach a consensus Doctor Bruno 15:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Self reference

Please avoid self references on the article namespace. I have removed the Category:WikiProject Classical Tamil from some articles. If you wish to categorize, please use the project banner, {{WP India|tamil=yes}} on the talk page. Please let me know if you have any questions. Sorry if I sound like a teacher. Most times I do. :) - Ganeshk (talk) 05:18, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Workgroup-level quality statistics

Please read. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 08:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project Tamil Nadu

I created a new project for Tamil Nadu that will focus on topics related to the state. If you are interested, please join in. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 02:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A More Broader WikiProject on Tamil heritage

Hello everybody,

I would like to bring to your attention a suggestion to create a WikiProject Tamil Heritage. WikiProject Tamil Heritage will cover everything from language, literature, dance, martial arts, history, and more. I see that there are a couple other Tamil WikiProjects started. Perhaps we can have them under WikiProject Tamil Heritage? WikiProject Tamil Heritage would also cover topics on Tamils in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and elsewhere. Please let me know what you all think. Thank you and Happy New Year.

Wiki Raja 10:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles to expand

I've started a few articles relating to Sangam age history and am trying to see if more content can be added to them to make them reviewable. Not to mention the lead section and the general narration that need lot more work. Please edit these articles, as you see fit:

With more content, each article above can stand on its own (for ex: the religion article needs more write up on Buddhism, Jainism and Animism). Once we have some more articles on Arts, Geography and Politics of this period, they can also rolled up into Ancient Tamil country.

The Pandyan articles most probably are generic enough to be called "Ancient Tamil...." but I sourced them from Pandyan-related books so I titled them that way. Lotlil 14:15, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mfd warning

Note that Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Classical Tamil has been tagged for deletion. John Vandenberg 12:45, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] collaboration of the history projects

Hi, I'm newly appointed coordinator of the Wikipedia: WikiProject History. I was coordinator of the Wikipedia: WikiProject Military History before. My scope is to improve the cooperation among the different history projects andf use the synergy of a common infrastructure to improve article quality. One idea would be to merge small project into a larger wikiproject history with a common infrastructure and the small projects continuing independently as task forces of this project. What are your suggestions? Greetings Wandalstouring 15:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:INDIA Tagging with TinucherianBot

TinucherianBot can automatically tag articles with {{WP India}} Banner as {{WP India|class=|importance=}} to the talk page of articles without the project banner. It can also add the workgroup paramaters like "|kerala=yes|kerala-importance=" etc ,if needed. The currently supported workgroups are Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Bengal, Goa, Himachal Pradesh , Karnataka , Punjab,cities, Cinema, Literature, Protected Areas of India, History, Politics, states, Geography,Maps,Districts and Tamil.

If you need so, you need to provide me with the Categories to run the Bot. Due to some technical issues, the Bot will not run recursively to sub-categories. The requester should kindly verify that there are NO non-related articles in the category.
You may request for the bot run on my talk page... Thanks -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 06:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)