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Hi WestCoastMusketeer. Your edits have been reverted because Tamil language was not a primary language of the empire. Also a FA is a summary article. Based on your argument, we should have images of Malayalam and Portuguese inscriptions as well, because there are a few of those too. Majority of the inscriptions were in Kannada followed by Telugu, and hence the focus on them. As such the FA has enough images. Can you justify why a Tamil inscription from a temple in Bangalore and one from Tamil Nadu should find a place in a summary style FA on Vijayanagar Empire to admins and see their reaction.Jugaari cross (talk) 13:29, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

The images show the greatness and broadmindedness of the Vijaynagar rulers in patronising all languages. If there are any Portuguese Vijaynagar inscriptions I'll be delighted. Please include the same. How does the scholarship of this article reduce by including inscriptions of Vijaynagar in other languages? I have no interest in promoting any language, I'm not even a Citizen of your country for that matter. Both the inscriptions are Vijaynagar from a temple in Bangalore and another in Hoskote which is also in Karnataka. Also, the file http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poetic_Kannada_inscription_of_Manjaraja_dated_1398_CE_at_Vindyagiri_hill_in_Shravanabelagola.jpg which is part of the article is clearly a Jain inscription and missing the sun and crescent moon momogram of the Vijaynagar empire, how do you justify that?

Hi. Manjaraja (also called Manjarasa) was a court poet in the Vijayanagara court, under King Harihar II. If there was a poetic inscription of a Telugu poet from the royal court I would put it there, but I can't find any. Wiki is about "major facts" and Tamil/Malayalam/Tulu/Portuguese are not major points w.r.t the empire. I fully understand Vijayanagara's greatness. You may not be from India but that does not mean anything. You just need to understand that FA is not meant to be cluttered with images and with less important material. Now that you have got the article locked up, I hope you have the courtesy to request that admin to revert your edit, unless you are using the same mechanism (single point) that you are accusing me off.Jugaari cross (talk) 14:20, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Agreed that this is a FA article, but the information has to be diverse and inclusive. I don't see merit in the notion that just because the a language has greater inscriptions only that shoul be represented. And how do you judge the importance? Having said that I am ready to remove one image and retain the The Hoskote inscription. If we cannot come to an agreement, I'll take it up for arbitration

Hi Westcoast. The importance of Kannada and Telugu stems from the fact that they had prominence in the royal capital Vijayanagara of which there are no shortage of sources. Tamil does not come under that category. Putting images of Tamil, Malayalam and Tulu (only 2 of which have been discovered out of 7000 in all) creates a biased view. Remember the adage "a picture says a thousand words"? It fails the WP:UNDUE. How does one know Roman was important in Rome? Would you add an image of a Kannada/Telugu inscription (of which there were plenty locally in the Mysore Kingdom/Hyderabad) to an FA on the Mogul Empire?. Think about it with an open mind. This is not an issue about bargaining, but an issue of common sense. I can see from you edit history you have thrown the same images in numerous articles. So the intent may not have been to bring out the 'greatness of the empire'. I don't want to start guessing about your intentions. You may remove one image and keep the other, but If you sincerely want to improve the article without any language bias, I suggest you request that the article be reverted to its original form and call for a discussion. As such the WP:Burden of proving the validity of the Tamil inscription is still yours since the article was quite stable until you came along.Jugaari cross (talk) 19:25, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

I'll take this up for arbitration once the article opens for editing. Thank you.

Feel Free. But bring the article back to its original form before you do so. That's how wiki works. You discuss first and then make edits. You don't make debatable edits, freeze the article, and then go to arbcom to discuss.Jugaari cross (talk) 12:29, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

The article will be taken for arbitration as it is now. Its you who have a problem with the edits and not me. The article was frozen by admins if you have a problem with that, then take it up with them. now that it has been decided to go for arbitration, I don't wish to argue any further on my talk page.

Hey cool it, don't get too worked up. Users with hot tempers and parochial views usually don't get much done on wikipedia in the long run. BTW, due to urgent professional business, I will not be able to take active part for a while, so you can hold off on the arbcom. Just too busy right now. Good luck learning to be a good wikipedian, you could start by signing your name with four 'tildas' every time you leave a message.Jugaari cross (talk) 23:58, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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1	Sam Manekshaw	C	GA	Krishna Chaitanya Velaga	Undergoing construction
2	List of destroyers of the Indian Navy	BL	AL	Krishna Chaitanya Velaga	Undergoing A-class review
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