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Can we delete the section on "racial slurs against tamil people" ? One "slur" just amounts to the indian version of the "N"-word and the other "slur" seems to be borrowed from the 16th century as far as I am concerned. --128.12.188.108
The section on "ethnic problems" has a single introductory sentence. "Tamilians faced many ethinic problems." In my opinion, that sentence isn't needed, since it merely restates the header. Besides this, the sentence has a spelling error, it's incorrectly in the past tense, and it's phrased in a misleading way, IMHO. So I removed it. Not a big deal.
Rrjanbiah, you then reverted this change, calling it "vandalism". Please do not call other users' edits "vandalism" just because you disagree. Reverting things in this way, without discussion, is a good way to start edit wars, which are bad for Wikipedia. I'm going to remove the sentence for the reasons stated above. If you disagree, please say why here instead of reverting. Quadell (talk) 15:25, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)
I think some information like author of literary works has been lost with time. In fact for works like Tholkaapiyam, even the exact period of this work is not known. The lack of information doesnt ascribe to "fame-free culture". I think the paragraph and its title needs to be rephrased. Sanjeeth
I like the idea of putting a gallery of famous Tamils along the side of the page... But are all noteworthy Tamils men? (I notice there's a serviceable picture at M.S. Subbulakshmi.) And what about J. Jayalalithaa after all? QuartierLatin1968 20:27, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I might be biased. But, I have few points to make about the recent edits.
In this article, I have added some/many sections sometimes ago, but didn't/couldn't improve it.
When I added the images, my idea is to give the quick overview about "Who are Tamilians" and "How the Tamilians will look", etc to the *foreigners*. That's why I added the images of *very well known* people. I could have added Velupillai Prabhakaran, but didn't have his image. But, the recent edit seems to deteriorate that. There is also a separate page to list the famous/all Tamilians.
Also, I don't agree with the characteristics that was listed in *core culture* section. I'm yet to come across such characterisation of ancient Tamilians. It is hard to accept that Tamilians were "sectarians" and or "success/fame oriented".
These are the reasons for my commenting out of the texts. If you have any good reasons, feel free to revert or improve. -- Rrjanbiah 19:27, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Can somebody provide a link to the claim that it has been included in the Olympics? AFAIK its only been included in the Asian Games. -- Sanjeeth 10:20, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)