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about the tulu nadu movement

hey don't erase the tulu thing from kasargod it is mentioned as kasargod taluk not the whole district .anyways tuluvas are fightinf for separation from karnataka the major part is there not in kerala.tulu and malayali culture are more or less the same.nothing against malyalis or kasargod.

Kasargod Tulu

Hello Arun,

Since I am not an admin, I do not have that ability. You might want to report it to WP:ANI (if there is persistent vandalism), or perhaps to one of the Indian admins. --vi5in^[talk] 18:52, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, please discuss that with the person who started a page on Beary language. Mr. Gnanapati asked my opinion about kasaragod tulu page with me & i just replied to him. I don't have any objection for you starting that page. You are also free to start pages like Mumbai Tulu, Pune Tulu, Coimbatore Tulu, Andhra Tulu, Dubai Tulu, etc. You can find a lot of tuluvas all around. --Crazysoul 09:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Then i've done your job easier, right? --Crazysoul 09:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

What do u want me to do? --Crazysoul 09:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

But why do u want to focus on Kassargod alone? Why not Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore or Coimbatore where there are significant no. of Tuluvas? --Crazysoul 09:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I think there are different dialects for most of the languages. There is nothing wrong in keeping a record of that. Dialect can attributed to the influence caste, language etc. However in cities the language spoken by a spcific subgroup is that of common/standard/largest acceptable dialect. In the case of karanataka, there are only 65% of people's mother tounge is kannada. Muslims have there own language which is similar to urdu and hindi. its good to record all these languages and dialects

Daya anjali 10:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Re:

Please stop your nonsense and start working on giving references to that article. Thanks, Gnanapiti 13:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for removing removing vandals Malabar a non-Kerala Region Daya anjali 16:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Urgent Attention

Where do you get these books? :) Seeing as it is old, make sure that the information still applies to modern times :) To add a citation, just put the citation information between < ref></ ref> tags. Then right at the end, make sure you have </ references> (without the spaces between the angle brackets). If you're having trouble, simply leave the citations in the text and I'll fix it --vi5in^[talk] 15:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! See if you can scan it or make a copy. You can perhaps inform the Googlebooks project about it. I'd be very interested in getting a copy of the book, if possible. Like you said, it is in terrible condition and it definitely needs to be preserved. --vi5in^[talk] 17:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Hanuman

Hi, nice userbox. Do you have any plans to improve the Hanuman article? Also please see Hinduism and provide feedback what needs to be fixed. Thank you. Gizza^{Discuss ©} 04:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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For updating the Hanuman userbox. Remember you can keep I am a Hanuman devotee but that would mean the category will have to go under Wikipedia's policies. However, changing it to interested in Ramayana should save the userbox and the category! Out of curiousity, how do Keralites pray to Hanuman. I know that in North India, Hindi speakers pray with Hanuman Chalisa. Regards, Gizza^{Discuss ©} 11:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

ISBN

Hi Arun :) Yes, I got the ISBN. Thank you. Haven't been able to review it as yet. I feel pretty bad about not being able to help you out :(. But work is taking up a lot of my time. --vi5in^[talk] 16:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Righty so.

Yes. I agree totally with you. I am a relatively new User. After I started making edits In Telugu related articles I encoutered a vicious group of people who are hell bent upon silencing others. I understand your problems. Now I am slowly understanding WP safeguards. Only a strong defence supported by WP guidelines can protect our articles and edits.Kumarrao 07:33, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Mappila Malayalam

Please do not try to frame your own opinions of relating Beary bashe and Mappila Malayalam and pushing that into the article. You have mentioned that you are not sure about the relationship between these two languages here. When you by youself are not confident about this relationship, how can you insert that into the article? Please provide proper citations if you really want to introduce Beary bashe into the article... ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits}12:54, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words left on my talk page. Your knowledge or my knowledge of Beary bashe has no bearing on Wikipedia. That I speak Kannada fluently and you speak Malayalam fluently, does not mean that we can write whatever we want in those article pages. As you said facts are facts and if you feel that the relation between Beary bashe and Mappila Malayalam is a fact, then you should be able to provide a citation to reflect the same; and that will end the dispute. Hope I am clear... And please dont introduce personal blogs as citations as you did earlier, they will not qualify as per WP:RS, Thanks - ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits}14:17, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Intolerance

Tremendous amount of intolerance is discenible in Wiki articles related to Kannada. Even the most logical and harmless inputs are being deleted ruthlessly and that too by persons taking turns in doing so. I am at a loss to understand their behaviour and am exasperated by their attitude. We used to see this kind of high-handedness in fifties and sixties, exhibited by Tamils (Tamils should excuse me). It is incredible to believe that Kannadigas, reputed to be very pleasant and reasonable people, are doing this. May be, a couple of persons with multiple Usernames and IP addresses are engaged in this practice. Kumarrao 09:07, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Sorry for replying late. I saw your post on my Talk page. I agree that some unfortunate and unforeseen incidents happened which left me scarred. Since, more than enough citations are available now, I think anybody sensible wouldn't challenge and dispute them. Anyways, happy to hear from you. Thanking You, Altruism^{To talk} 11:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks!

Hey Arun, thank you so much for the barnstar :) --vi5in^[talk] 19:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank You

The block has ended. As a friend, your discussion page's colour is very bright. Thanking You, Altruism^{To talk} 06:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

To help you with the colours see this. --Altruism^{To talk} 08:20, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Plz. see this immediately. --Altruism^{To talk} 10:06, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

More info abt beary and mappilas=

Please find info and references of abt beary and mappilas

http://www.ap.gov.in/BC%20Welfare/new_page_5.htm

thanks Daya anjali 06:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi Arun! You have brightened the colour further. Its very difficult to read your page. Take a look at the previous post where I gave a link for your reference.

Try not to name individuals, no matter how angry you are. You can only complain against users at select places like WP:AIV, WP:ANI etc. by naming them. Thanking You, Altruism^{To talk} 05:25, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm here :)

Hi Arun! Sorry, I have just been pretty busy. I am studying for the GMAT's right now, for my MBA. This is why I have been rather busy. My activities on Wikipedia have been limited to reverting vandalism and making minor changes. As such, I cannot be involved that much in articles. Thank you for your support for adminship. I will consider that sometime in the future, but I cannot right now as I simply don't have the time. I don't think I would be able to discharge by duties effectively. Thank you anyway, and keep up the good work! --vi5in^[talk] 19:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure

This colour's good---but is plain, you could colour it a little if you want. I'll start archiving once you reach 50 messages, so each Archive would contain 50 messages. Or, shall I do it earlier, some do it once for every 25 messages or once a week.--Altruism^{To talk} 05:12, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Howz the Archive? Liked it? I've archived once for every 25 messages. You could also change this--Altruism^{To talk} 05:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome --Altruism^{To talk} 05:59, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello, not sure if you're aware that your user name is listed on the hindu god's category page... probably not the best place for it. Not sure how to remove.

Kuppaya - Kuppayam dispute in article Beary

Hi. Beary community uses a dialect called Beary Bashe in which it is called Kuppaya and NOT Kuppayam. Kuppayam is a Malayalam word! So kindly fix it. Thanks Abushahin 06:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

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Approximately 20 - 25% of Beary bashe words come from Malayalam. When those words are Bearified they change their pronunciation. For instance, Vellam becomes Bella and Kuppayam becomes Kuppaya. A Latin word loses it latin phonetic when it is used as an English word. It is true to every language of the world. So, in Beary bashe the correct pronunciation is Kuppaya. So please fix it. Thnaks Abushahin 07:51, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for communicating. You may read Dr. Sushila Upadhyaya's doctoral thesis and her other works on this subject to correctly defferenciate between Mipilla Malayalam and Beary bashe. The cultural capital of Bearys is Mangalore which is called Maikala, Mikala, Maikal in beary, where Beary bashe is being spoken. Kuppaya is bearified word for Malayalam word Kuppayam. Singular form is Kuppaya and plural for Kuppaya is Kuppanga and NOT Kuppayam. I have seen the word table in Mapilla Malayam page. It needs the following correction:

Mapilla Malayalam is nothing to do with Arabic, hence Arabic name is not a necessary. Of course both MM and BB have influence of Arabic. But I can provide you Arabic equivalent on Saturday once I am on My PC. This laptop doesn't have Arabic fonts. Thanks Abushahin 08:53, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

It's not for you to decide whether Beary bashe is the dialect of Mappila Malayalam or not. What we follow in Wiki is that we go by scholar opinions. If you have any scholarly work which say the same thing, produce them here or stop reverting. Gnanapiti 15:15, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Ha Ha...Joke right.Look, those Abba, Aga are more of words used by Urdu muslims; not Bearys.I prepared that table not by my own knowledge, but by collecting them from 20 Beary friend of mine.Nakk is correct and i admit that i have to change that.

Friends? Are you kidding me? Please see No Original Research. If you intend to do some original research please do it elsewhere and not in Wikipedia. Or else, publish your research paper and then we'll see whether to draw from the paper or not. Gnanapiti 18:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

here goes the arabic for mappila malayalam: مابيلا مالايالم please copy and paste. if u face prob please let me know. thanks Abushahin 08:40, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

i will get back to u arun. One info i got is BB was using Current MAL script.

Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 13:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

i have seen in some website. i will find it asap and let you know

Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 12:08, 10 August 2007 (UTC) ARUNKUMAR P.R (talk · contribs) 06:42, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Stop personal attacks

Please do not attack other editors, which you did here: Talk:Mappila Malayalam. If you continue, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Your edit summary here is a personal attack. Stop it and stop it now. -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits}08:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Have replied to your other accusations here -- ¿Amar៛^{Talk to me/My edits}08:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Malayalee

Hi! Noticed that you've put in a lot of work into the page. Any WP:FA plans for it? --thunderboltz^(TALK) 10:37, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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Mappila Malayalam

Sadik Khalid seems to be a user of the language. Would very much appreciate if you could discuss here: ml:സംവാദം:അറബി മലയാളം

The word Malayalam could have come from the words Mala and Eelam (christensed, probably, by the tamils, note Tamil eelam) The word Keralam could have come from the words Chera and Eelam.

the word Eelam couild heve come from Eelam of of southern Iran.

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Beary

Hi Arunkumar, thanks for your comment and advise. Once i get some time after busy office hours I must work on providing citation. Wikipedia is interesting! Abushahin 06:02, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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Malayalee

Hello Arun, yeah long time no see! Well, the problem is that Daya Anjali objects to the fact that the sentence "Nairs had their own form of inheritance, martial arts..." is in the article. He claims that there are other communities with the same customs. I don't disagree with that. But sociologically, Nairs were known to be a Martial and Matrilineal/Matrifocal community. He also claims that Malayalam didn't evolve from Tamil and that it evolved independently, which is blatantly wrong. So yeah, that's the source of the fuss! All the messy details are in the talk page! --vi5in^[talk] 16:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi arun, I firmly believe that Malayalam developed independently having more influence from Tamil. Having said that, the language has similarities with other languages in south india. It has loaned words from sanskrit and many foriegn languages. Its grammatic styles are similar to Tamil. Script is more similar to Tulu Script. Even then You cannot call it new language. The people of malabar cost was using languague which was different from Tamil even during Sangam period, though part of same kingdoms as that of present day Tamil Nadu. The people are different, the culture is different, the script is different. The words Mala and ali are there in many languages in south india and foreign languages like Sinhala, Thai etc. Its not known where the words come any paryicular language. And about customs of Nair cast, its not specific to nairs. More than that this is not the article that you can list out all the customs and tradition of aparticular community. You have a separate article where you can add details.

Daya Anjali (talk / contribs) 08:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Ezhava

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Greetings in Malayalam

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Kasargod

I won't add Kannada script again, OK .
but I want to know why you are opposing to inclusion of Kannada script in Kasaragod Town article. Plz reply C21K^talk 03:06, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

But Mangalore article doesn't mention anything about Mangalapuram. Does malayalees call Mangalore as Mangalapuram? are you sure ???C21K^talk 13:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Mappila Malayalam

Dear Arun

I had a look through your creation of Mappila Malayalam and found it very useful. Gook Luck —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vssanakan (talk • contribs) 14:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009

Project news Congratulations to the West Bengal workgroup for having their flagship article featured on the Main Page! The Indian states workgroup is also involved in maintaining articles about India's states and union territories. » WikiProject Indian roads was recently started as a new workgroup, to standardize and improve articles related to Indian roads, mainly the National and State Highways. After all, India has the second largest road network in the world. Iravan, the son of Arjuna, is now our 85th good article. How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity. Article alerts update the project with what's happening to India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates. To do… During the last few weeks, peer reviews for the recent general election and 2003 Afro-Asian Games (held in Hyderabad) were opened and are waiting for more comments, as are several articles at the peer review department. Sikkim has been nominated for FAR, and Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay has been nominated for FAC. » Currently, 11,088 Indian articles need images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors… The last newsletter was written a year ago. In June 2008, Indian Premier League was "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year's IPL has attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articles in the scope of our project jumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-old India quiz continues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun! Wikipedians are organizing a meetup in Bangalore on July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia India. RegentsPark, one of the prominent members of our project, was promoted to adminship this year. If you'd like to know who are the most avid editors of Wikipedia by number of edits, refer to this list. "While this issue has been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true?" writes B. Narasimhan of MiD DAY as deeper implications of the Scientology arbitration case,1 reminding us of the core principles of verifiability and the neutral point of view. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — [sd], Ganeshk and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009

Project news File:India 1947 India Flag 3 and half annas.jpg A number of India-related articles have lost their featured article status, including Sikkim and Mumbai. The article about Gandhi was also demoted for referencing and image quality issues. Since then, Mumbai has been brought back to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Kensplanet and others. Transport in India was promoted to good article status, thanks to the efforts of Rsrikanth05, SBC-YPR and GDibyendu. Several new workgroups have been formed: WikiProjects Railways in India, Education in India and Transport in India. Please join us if you're interested in those topics! To do... The articles that have been selected for our latest collaborations of the month are history of Mumbai, Indian Railways, rail transport in India, Indian general election, 2009 and telecommunications in India. We need your help to improve them! These India-related articles are currently on featured article review: Kerala (FAR), Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (FAR) and rail transport in India (FAR). Would you allow these articles to lose their FA status? Wikipedia Takes Chennai – a scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest – has started in Chennai, along the same lines as Wikipedia Takes The City. We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to the noticeboard. »

From the editors... Wikipedians in Bangalore organised a meetup on 5 July 2009; thanks to Tinu Cherian for hosting the event! Arunram and Tinu Cherian wrote extensively about the meetup, which was also covered by Wikizine, Headlines India and The Wikipedia Signpost. Photos have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Sunil Abraham from the Centre for Internet and Society has offered to help host such events in the future. All in all, the meetup was a great success. Watch out for the next meetup! » Nichalp, an Indian bureaucrat and major contributor to more than 23 India-related featured articles and lists, was desysopped over allegations of paid editing and using sock puppets. An RfC about paid editing was opened as a result of this incident. A prolific editor and administrator, Bhadani is among the top ten Wikipedians by number of edits across the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits among Indian Wikipedians! Are you subscribed to wikimediaindia-l to learn about the latest developments of forming the Indian chapter of Wikimedia? Did you know that there are IRC channels for Wikipedians interested in India like you? Check them out at #wikipedia-in connect and #wikimedia-in connect! Wikipedia's India quiz remains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun! This is your newsletter, and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome – so feel free to join in! Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! — Ncmvocalist, RegentsPark, [sd] and Tinu Cherian Project · Portal · Members · Noticeboard · Discussion+

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