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South India[edit]

The article meets with the wikipedia standards, I believe. It is well written and presented very elegantly. The pictures are also well placed. It was featured as a "selected article" on the India portal too. thunderboltz 06:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I second this opinion. Although I'm no authority, I think it meets points 2, 3 ,4 & 5. The 'powers that be' need to decide if it meets point 1. --hydkat 07:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object --
  1. The names of the states should not be bolded in the lead
  2. How is Goa linguistically a part of SI? Please support it with inline references.
  3. Article needs a copyedit.
  4. The word 'Carnatic' does not relate anyway to the Region Karnataka -- trivia info, please remove
  5. The south Indian people have a world view which is organic and celebrates the generative ethos of the natural world. -- generalised statement, POV. This is not a tourist brochure.
  6. Images with dubious copyright sources present. Please remove
  7. Please do not use image galleries. Use only relavent images.
  8. =Economy= should be written as a whole, not broken into the economy of the states.
  9. Please refer to Malwa to structure the article properly.
  10. No proper history

Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]


  • Object As someone that has worked on this article in the past, I feel this article falls short of FA status on many counts. The lead is not comprehensive enough and needs to be structured per WP:LEAD. Undue weightage has been given to the Economy section, with unnecessary use of the <gallery> tag in that section and all over the article. But for a couple of sentences, there is no information about the History of the region. An appropriate referencing tag such as {{ref}} or <ref> needs to be used to cite sources. There is no information on the demographical makeup of the region. I motion to move this article back for a second peer review where all concerns need to be addressed before a promotion to FAC. AreJay 01:06, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Object per Nichalp and AreJay. --Ghirla -трёп- 09:08, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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