Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tamil civilization

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World Classical Tamil Conference 2010
Hope the members involved in improving the projects related to Tamil civilization can contribute a lot to this article about the upcoming World Tamil Conference. I need your help improving the article guys. --Ben (talk) 09:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Tamil civilization articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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 * It has been proposed that we consider adding Ayya Vaikundar to the collection, but I notice that it has cleanup tags on the article, so we're reluctant to add it. I'm coming here because I notice that the article is assessed as Top-Importance for this project.  Do the cleanup tags relate to minor issues, or does the article need a serious cleanup?  By all means, reply here. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 05:13, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Tamil IPA template
I've created a Tamil IPA template, IPA-ta, which links to an IPA key, WP:IPA for Tamil. I don't know Tamil, and our articles disagree with my sources about which allophones appear in the language (e.g. whether there's a ). Perhaps some of you would like to review the key, and also verify that the two dozen articles that link to the template conform to a single standard of transcription. I don't think we need to worry about unassimilated Sanskrit and the like, because that is not likely to crop up in the words we transcribe in Tamil, but some of the native allophones might be inconsistent. Also, there are likely other articles out there with Tamil script that could use IPA transcriptions. — kwami (talk) 21:40, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Expanding the article Chera dynasty
How about expanding the article Chera dynasty?

(115.117.211.100 (talk) 10:31, 21 June 2011 (UTC))

Thai Pongal
Thai Pongal is currently tagged for needing more references, and according to the rules at Selected anniversaries, must be omitted from the Main Page on January 15, 2012, unless the issue can be addressed. There are a little over 12 days to go, so hopefully that gives editors enough to time to take care of this. Thanks!  howcheng  {chat} 20:06, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Tamil civilization will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Tamil society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 20:30, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Chola dynasty
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Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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WikiProject X is live!


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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

FAR listing
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WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Tamil Language and ancestry
The article Tamil Grammar needs improvement. I have expanded sections related to Tamil Nouns. Still improvement is needed for other sections. New and elaborate pages needed to be created for Tamil Grammar elements. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjraman94 (talk • contribs) 14:16, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Vaidyanathan
Is the name Tamil? Xx236 (talk) 09:58, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes mostly, but can also be Malayalam name as well Kanatonian (talk) 03:01, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Two new articles

 * Tamil loanwords in Ancient Greek
 * Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew

Kanatonian (talk) 03:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:List of loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 00:12, 23 April 2024 (UTC)