User talk:Karthiksabaasha

Learn some linguistics and then your edits will be more than stupid comments like "all Dravidian languages derive from Tamil". --Taivo (talk) 18:12, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
Your recent editing history at Telugu language shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.  Neil N   talk to me  18:34, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

To make the edit you want, you'll need to provide multiple high quality reliable sources. -- Neil N   talk to me  18:37, 15 May 2012 (UTC)


 * As I stated right above, you'll need to provide multiple high quality reliable sources to make the edit you want. So far, you have not done that. -- Neil N   talk to me  12:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Please make sure you understand our policy of No original research. -- Neil N   talk to me  13:30, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Zhou Yu (talk) 03:22, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've added a reply there as well. -- Neil N   talk to me  03:51, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Basic Courtesy
Please take two seconds to spell my username correctly. --Taivo (talk) 04:10, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Don't Waste Your Time
Before you waste your time trying to "prove" the unscientific comment that Tamil is the source of all Dravidian languages, you must understand that the most important source in the study of the Dravidian languages is Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages (2003, Cambridge University Press). You should specifically read the Introduction (pages 1-47) in which Krishnamurti goes into great detail about the relationships of the Dravidian languages and their descent from Proto-Dravidian (not Tamil). Tamil is derived from Proto-Dravidian just as all the other Dravidian languages are. A second major source for understanding the history of the Dravidian languages is Sanford B. Steever, ed., The Dravidian Languages (1998, Routledge Press). The specific chapter which you should read is Sanford B. Steever, "1, Introduction to the Dravidian Languages" (pages 1-39). After reading these two major reference works, you should then be clear on what the science of linguistics says about the history of the Dravidian languages and you can forget all the nonsense about the Dravidian languages being descended from Tamil. I guarantee that none of your sources measure up to these two monuments of Dravidian linguistic scholarship. --Taivo (talk) 04:23, 18 May 2012 (UTC)