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November 4, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
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September 17, 2023	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:23, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dakshina Bharath pov pushing

The term being is a contradictory and unsourced. It's not majorly used by the South Indians and the historians as well. Pushing something which is not even valid sourced to address South India isn't acceptable as per Wikipedia's guidelines.

The term "Dakshina bharath" is already added in the article without reliable sources. This is more than the enough. Stop editwarring further @Rasnaboy. You're a good editor, don't need to spoil your reputation by this unacceptable act. Bobwikia (talk) 06:00, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've already explained (as in here) why it was retained. The term is used primarily in Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh (at least 60% of population of South India). It is the primary term for South India in both Telugu and Kannada. Even if you're politically against Sanskrit, Hindi, etc. (as I see it from your earlier comments), you must not forget that the term has its own place in at least two major South Indian languages. Not sure why you're hellbent on removing what was retained after a discussion. It's not me who's edit warring but you, friend. I'm glad to have a civil discussion with you but not by any other means. Please feel free to seek consensus from other editors but not by edit warring, personal attacks, wikilawyering, etc. In fact, demanding South Indians (Telugu and Kannada people, in particular) not to use the term is what amounts to typical political POV pushing. Thank you. Rasnaboy (talk) 12:53, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mr.Rasnaboy, I already revealed Wikipedia is not your family run or your political party run website to push your delusions. It's for people.

Pushing your agenda and if any users reverts that with valid reasons you're accusing them editwarring. What a strategy, right?

Your father said the term used primarily in the 3 states? What's the source? what about Puduchery, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu which forms 50% of South India? Is Wikipedia your own website to push the crap?

Wikipedia has certain rules and regulations for its content. We can't accept your own made dictionary and delusions. It's all about Wikipedia's reliability and verifiability.

Talk with sources only, otherwise don't waste my time by talking nonsense about me. Anyways,

you won't stop your editwarring behavior. I'll deal with it. Bobwikia (talk) 02:32, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in South India

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of South India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "ChattopadhyayFranke2006":

From Kerala: Srikumar Chattopadhyay; Richard W. Franke (2006). Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala. ISBN 978-8180692949. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
From Economy of Kerala: Chattopadhyay, Srikumar; Franke, Richard W. (2006). Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in Kerala. Concept Publishing Company. ISBN 978-81-8069-294-9.

Reference named "eco":

From 2016 Indian Premier League: "IPL retains magic: Biggies in fray for new teams". Economic Times. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
From Economy of Kerala: Economic Review 2020 - Volume I (PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Planning Board. 2021.
From Kerala: Government of Kerala (2021). Economic Review 2020 – Volume I (PDF). Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala State Planning Board.

Reference named "History":

From Kerala: "History". Kerala forests and wildlife department. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
From Chennai: "History". US Consulate Chennai. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
From Arabs: "Arab League formed | This Day in History — 3/22/1945." HISTORY. US: A&E Television Networks. 2010. Retrieved on 28 April 2014.
From History of South India: Portuguese travellers Barbosa, Barradas and Italian Varthema and Caesar Fredericci in 1567, Persian Abdur Razzak in 1440, Barani, Isamy, Tabataba, Nizamuddin Bakshi, Ferishta and Shirazi and vernacular works from the 14th to 16th centuries. (Kamath 2001, pp157–158)
From Indira Gandhi: "History of Naxalism". Hindustantimes.com. 15 December 2005. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
From Royal Enfield: "The History of the Marque". Archived from the original on 13 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-04.
From Santosh Trophy: Anand, Vijay (16 March 2014). "The history of Santosh Trophy". SportsKeeda. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:40, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 11:40, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Informal review

It's just an informal review my concerns are below.

Etymology

As a reader I would like to know how this name came into existence or how and from when this region is referred with this name.

History

This sub section "ancient and medieval era" is just a list of kingdoms. (add some history about them and there period of rule)
Need to add the history of some powerful rulers of this region. (add Vijayanagara kingdom who made plenty of architecture, Kakatiya-global trade flourished during their reign, Bahmani-first independent Muslim sultanate of Deccan/south India..etc etc...
"Dravida Nadu" demand that occurred during 1940-1960's; What is it doing in colonial era section?

Healthcare Health section is not healthy this section really need a life.

It looks like the section is created only to show the Chennai being the healthcare capital of India.
need to mention what government programs are being implemented related to healthcare.

Education Why do we have education section; to add 3 tables that contain list of world famous institutions? and to have the gallery of images? keeping a list of IIIT's, IIM's and other world class institutions is not the encyclopedia of literacy/education.

Add

poverty and slum life.
informal economy.
how Kerala achieved those 90+ percentage of literacy rate. Literacy rate of genders, if possible add the number of public schools, colleges, universities.

Remove

Please remove unnecessary rankings, and comparisons.
Please remove unnecessary tables.

Replace

Statistics are almost decade old, need to be replaced with latest one.

Its just a random review need to check other sections, reliability of citation and its style.

Best of luck, you guys can make it; let me know if I can help you in any way. Regards :) Omer123hussain (talk) 21:01, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]