Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Collaborations of the month/Nominations/2014 December

Article selected for Dec, 2014 is Languages of India

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INCOTM Nominations for 2014 December

Important : Please vote for one article only. Voting for both is the same as not voting at all.

Sanskrit

Vital article in "Language" and High-importance for Wikiproject India. It is rated B-Class. Can we make it GA class? --AmritasyaPutra^T 06:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator. --AmritasyaPutra^T 06:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support: yes. --Tito☸Dutta 19:56, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:07, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 18:12, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support VasuVR (talk, contribs) 13:21, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — CutestPenguin^Hangout 06:00, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Languages of India

Top importance, B Class.

Language is an important facet about our nation's history, culture and tradition. This is also of immense interest to visitors to India. At the same time, reliable information is not available. I suggest we make this article lean & mean & well-referenced.

Support as nominator - AshLin (talk) 07:18, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good one —Vensatry _(ping) 17:59, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support BPositive (talk) 06:43, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Suyog ^{talk to me!} 08:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support The right kind of topic for collaboration! Kautilya3 (talk) 13:49, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support While both topics so far nominated are important, this one surely gets more traffic, and more important in practical life. so, let's get this worked upon first.--Dwaipayan (talk) 14:06, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yohannvt (talk) 17:31, 16 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think though having a proper page for sanskrit is important. There is no doubt that this is one of the pages more people would use – Chinmayisk 11:02, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Comments

Comment - Visitors to India may not be that interested in list of languages and encyclopedic information on them. They may be more interested in practical usage in the places they want to visit. My 2 annas... VasuVR (talk, contribs) 13:23, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This page is not merely meant for tourists. Even people of India will want to know about other languages of India. (Perhaps they will stop using epithets like "madrasi" some day!) Kautilya3 (talk) 13:49, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

While I respect VasuVR's choice, I would disagree with his comment. Firstly, its NOT a list. Secondly, of course, visitors from unilingual countries may be fascinated with India's diversity of languages. I also concur with Kautilya3's comment that the Indian people also need good information regarding this topic. My only request to editors is - please choose only one topic & vote, as voting for both/all choices is as good as not voting at all. In the final analysis, it doesn't matter to users of Wikipedia which article is improved though imho Languages of India deserves priority. AshLin (talk) 13:59, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The only reason I made a comment is that the phrase "immense" interest to visitors of India was mentioned. I agree on rest of the points. In my opinion, the deft definition of "Public opinion" is "What people think people think." :-) VasuVR (talk, contribs) 08:15, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, initially I was asked to vote for both the nominations. Then I was asked to remove one vote (I could not really understand this request, before too I used to vote for all the nominations I liked). Anyway, I have not voted Languages f India, because it is a broad subject, my lack of knowledge and lack of sources (I have at this moment). On then other hand I have special respect for Sanskrit language. --Tito☸Dutta 14:41, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, I'm sorry if I gave the impression that both nominations were to be voted for. You did the right thing voting as per your convictions. Well done, @Titodutta:, keep doing so! :) AshLin (talk) 14:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Page views in the last 30 days & traffic ranking on En WP
- Sanskrit -72,164 pageviews & rank 5993.
- Languages of India - 58,840 pageviews & rank 7151.

AshLin (talk) 13:26, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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