307:. For example, the national language debate has nothing to do with which languages are official. The decision to call Sanskrit, Tamil and any other languages "classical" also has no bearing on the official use of the language. The official recognition granted to a language is not the same as the status of a language as an official language, if you see what I am trying to say. The section on "other popular languages" and on the use of Portuguese in Goa etc. also has no bearing at all on their official status.
465:- First of all, this "no primary sources" or "primary sources will be allowed only if supplemented with a secondary/tertiary source" is taking wiki policies and guidelines too literally.. to the extent of being detrimental to article quality. Secondary sources as we have seen display wide differences in the way they treat the subject. Some even have taken the liberty to call Hindi the "national" language, which we all know is "factually incorrect". I would at this point like to point out
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Offical languages for Goa is stated as Konkani, Marathi, Portuguese, English. The facts are: Portuguese is non existent, Marathi still has to be added as an official language(the process is underway) English is NOT an official language anywhere in India. It is an associate language.
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Apart from that, there are a lot of claims that are wrong. The
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Devanagari script and the international form of Indian numerals form the Official language of the Union. Among the Indian languages, Hindi is the most highly empowered language which constitutionally/legally has multiple status - an official language of the Union; official language of 13
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This issue is in a rather peculiar position. Because it is not an issue which is likely to be litigated, the standard commentaries on the
Constitution don't discuss it. At the same time, because it is so obvious, it isn't the type of thing academic journals will publish. So locating secondary
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There may, however, be something in political science or other social science journals, even though they will not analyse rules in this detail. What we will need to do is completely set aside what I've done so far, start by taking a look at whatever is available in journals and other secondary
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here. There is no need to follow wiki policies and guidelines even when they are so patently detrimental to article quality. Lex's rewriting of this article is to be appreciated without any qualifications. For the first time in the article's history, it is 'looking' and 'reading' like an
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Since it seems what I did was original research, I have reverted the article to the version as it stood before I intervened. The article is riddled with factual inaccuracies, but due to the paucity of secondary sources I will not try to fix them. I have added an appropriate tag. --
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Maharashtra: Marathi and Konkani. In Maharashtra Konkani is treaded as a dialect of Marathi and not as an independent language. There are no govt organisation working on Konkani.Konkani is only spoken in pockets on the coast.
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This and most messages above point to a very sloppy and misinformed style of writing. The content will be more correct for "Languages in India" than "Official languages of India". either rename this article or clean it up thoroughly.
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the primary sources as and when we locate secondary publications. In the meantime, the current text of the article can serve as a guideline for what "facts" we need to get properly sourced. I don't see how reverting to a
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I agree with your analysis of the problem, but not necessarily with the solution. I would recommend that we search for secondary sources (in political and social science publications, as you say), and then
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I can see how two of the states might have Hindi as an official language, but not the principle one. I cannot see how the two union territories listed can equate to the three mentioned in the heading --
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wikifying this article, is through reversion to a less encyclopedic version. Rather since the main issue with the article is the lack of secondary sources, we should concentrate our efforts on
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I am collecting secondary sources (appropriate for this page) in the collapsible box below. Some of the links may not be accessible for everyone, but I will add relevant quotes from the.
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such sources. Of course, we will be highly dependent upon your access to Indian law books, journals etc where such issues are more likely to be addressed with sufficient accuracy. Thanks.
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encyclopedia article. This nitpicking by some who claim to follow wiki P&G to the tee is proving detrimental to article quality and seems like a bad faith attempt to me.
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