User talk:Madhavanair42

February 2019
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to List of programs broadcast by Asianet have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Materialscientist (talk) 10:58, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Mridula Vijay


The article Mridula Vijay has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. JamesG5 (talk) 06:34, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Pedantic gender identification
Hi there, re: these changes, do you find in your community that people have a hard time differentiating male actors from female actors? In my experience it's a fairly easy thing to determine, such that we don't typically need to draw attention to who the boys and girls are. I'm looking at List of Millennium characters, which is a well-written list and I don't see anybody labeling stuff "main male lead" "secondary female antagonist" or anything like that. Further, it's redundant to say "main" and "lead", since a lead character/cast member is obviously part of the main cast, and even less necessary when the section you added this to is literally called "Main cast". As for the gender thing, consider that when you say something like "female lead", that almost creates a secondary, lesser class for women. It's borderline sexist, depending on context, and is totally unnecessary. Please refrain from adding this kind of stuff and please also note WP:PROTAGONIST, which discourages us from adding interpretive labels like protagonist, antagonist, etc. This guideline is widely embraced by WikiProject Television. If a character is an antagonist, we should be including descriptions that make that clear, like we do at List of SpongeBob SquarePants characters. "Although [Squidward] does not like SpongeBob and Patrick, they are oblivious to his animosity and consider him a close friend." If we describe Skeletor as an "evil sorcerer", we know that he's probably going to be bad news for He-Man. The interpretive labels aren't necessary. Thank you, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:57, 20 March 2019 (UTC)