User talk:C.R.Selvakumar

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About your article in WikiMania 2012

(talk page stalker) From Rangilo Gujarati's page, I realised that you are talking about how cooperation between Tamil diaspora helped create a better Wikipedia. I was curious to know:

whether you are aware of the following projects on English Wikipedia:
how the Tamil-Sinhala conflict in Sri Lanka affected your efforts and your experience resolving those issues.

AshLin (talk) 02:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the links, I've seen on and off some of these contentious pages and am quite familiar with the the emotions. Fortunately such things were not common in Tamil Wikipedia. A few pro-LTTE and anti LTTE, (both Tamil groups not Tamil-Sinhala) writings did appear but neutral point of view was reached quickly. So far no major problems. There were no edit wars even for Rajapaksa's page or other Sinhalese leaders. Generally there is a greater level of understanding and sense of neutrality in Tamil Wikipedia, I think (just my general opinion). --C.R.Selvakumar (talk) 20:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:IPA for Tamil

Regarding your edits to this page: you should know that using Indian English phonology as an "English equivalent" can be very misleading for most anglophones. Please use a more standard equivalent, like Received Pronunciation or American English, in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.129.251.22 (talk) 16:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment, but do try to understand that there is no simple RP for Tamil த. In Tamil it is dental and not alveolar and it is not a fricative θ,ð. I do not believe it is like t in stable! I tried to edit it because many entries were patently wrong. For example வ. It is not a bilabial phoneme or a fricative.--C.R.Selvakumar (talk) 17:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if வ is neither bilabial nor fricative, then /β/ (voiced bilabial fricative) is not the correct IPA character for it, and the chart is wrong.

I understand that த is dental. That is why I put "with the tongue touching the back of the front teeth" as a pronunciation tip. It is not pronounced like the "th" in "then" or "there". That is a voiced dental fricative, /ð/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.129.251.22 (talk) 14:36, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article-Help-IPA for Tamil

Hello C.R.Selvakumar, Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, especially your tireless work of nearly 21,500 edits for Tamil Wikipedia. You have contributed to this article, Help:IPA for Tamil and its talk page. I have been working on that page. If you could kindly spare some time, could you please take a look at Help:IPA for Tamil mainly (dental) 't' and rhotics group, their English examples. Thanks, by contributor 2know4power (talk) 05:27, 8 February 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you @2know4power:, I don't visit these pages frequently. I also need to merge my accounts. I presently use செல்வா account. --செல்வா (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2017 (UTC) I will look into it and get back to you as soon as I can. Sorry for a long delay.--செல்வா (talk) 15:53, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]