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 | On 28 April 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved to Modern Tamil. The result of the discussion was not moved. |
Requested move 28 April 2025
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 17:49, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Tamil language → Modern Tamil – I propose renaming the article from "Tamil language" to "Modern Tamil" to better reflect its focus on the contemporary form of the language. The current title suggests coverage of all historical stages, while the content primarily addresses the modern phase. A more accurate title would enhance clarity and allow for the proper development of a broader article on the Tamil language in the future. DelphiLore (talk) 15:26, 28 April 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Bensci54 (talk) 16:39, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure most of our "X language" articles focus on the contemporary form. It is also very likely that the contemporary form would be the primary topic of any "X language" title. English language for example, is mostly contemporary while dipping back into history where it helps. CMD (talk) 15:41, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose per WP:CONSISTENT and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. We have many articles for old versions of contemporary languages. We do not include the "Modern" prefix in the article titles of any of the contemporary languages e.g. English language & Old English; Greek language & Ancient Greek; Chinese language & Old Chinese; Hebrew language & Biblical Hebrew; French language & Old French; German language & Old High German; and Arabic & Old Arabic.--Obi2canibe (talk) 21:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose - wp:commonname & wp:consistent - wp:commonname Most of the literatures and media just simply called a language, say abcde, simply abcde and not "modern abcde". Most of "Modern" prefix to a langauge are just redirects (like Modern Japanese, Modern Korean, Modern Chinese) while Modern Greek, Modern Arabic language, Modern Hebrew, Modern German, Modern English, have a separate article than Greek language, Arabic, Hebrew, German language, English language, which in this case doesn't have a separate article yet and in my view unlikely because *Modern Tamil* subsection is too short to be wp:split (just 4/5 paragraphs). - Calmira90 (talk) 08:13, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Obi2canibe Sorry sorry sorry, I inadvertently change the letter case "Modern" at
We do not include the "Modern" prefix
and had change back to capital letter. - Calmira90 (talk) 08:19, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Obi2canibe Sorry sorry sorry, I inadvertently change the letter case "Modern" at
- Oppose. I agree with Calmira90. Adumbrativus (talk) 06:05, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose agree with the reasons stated above.
- Oppose as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC - if you are looking for an article on Tamil, you type "Tamil", I can't imagine anyone would think to type "Modern". - Arjayay (talk) 11:32, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Semi-protected edit request on 5 May 2025
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|''atu avaratu panam. na:n'' ''pe:na:vai avanitam kotutten.'' |''Atu avaratu panam. na:n'' ''pe:na:ve avankitte kotutten.'' |It is his money I gave the pen to him
Should be
|''atu avaratu panam.'' ''na:n pe:na:vai avanitam kotutten.'' |''Atu avaro:da panam.'' ''na: pe:na:va avankitte kotuttæn.'' |It is his money I gave the pen to him
Under the "Spoken and literary variants" Pixelpito (talk) 19:40, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Partly done: I found the cited source online and the same chart is in it (page 47, for the record). There was a mistake in our article, but not exactly what you suggested as the correction. Since I don't speak Tamil, I went with what the cited source says. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 18:43, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Regarding the alternative writing for the language name.
I request an editor to correct the spelling of the alternative writing from 'Tamizhil' to 'Tamizh'. Code-72 (talk) 03:45, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2026
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Need to change Dravidian to tamizh ~2026-13758-13 (talk) 12:48, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. CMD (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
