Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Vijayanagara literature in Kannada

Vijayanagara literature in Kannada

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add {{collapse top|Previous nomination}} to the top of the discussion and {{collapse bottom}} at the bottom, then complete a new {{TFAR nom}} underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 20, 2014 by Bencherlite ^Talk 10:30, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vijayanagara literature in Kannada is the body of literature composed in the Kannada language of South India during the Vijayanagar Empire which lasted from the 14th through the 16th century. The Vijayanagara empire was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I. The empire is named after its capital city Vijayanagara, whose ruins surround modern Hampi, now a World Heritage Site in Karnataka. Kannada literature during this period consisted of writings relating to the socio-religious developments of the Veerashaiva and Vaishnava faiths, and to a lesser extent to that of Jainism. Authorship included poets, scholars, and members of the royal family, their ministers, army commanders of rank, and nobility. Writers of this period popularised use of the native metres: shatpadi (six-line verse), sangatya (compositions meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument), and tripadi (three-line verse). The development of Veerashaiva literature was at its peak during the reign of King Deva Raya II, the best-known of the Sangama Dynasty rulers. The rule of King Krishnadeva Raya of the Tuluva Dynasty and his successors was a high point in Vaishnava literature. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): I've looked through Wikipedia:Today's featured article/recent TFAs and didn't find anything related to a topic discussing this wide a corpus of literature in such a genre.
Main editors: Dineshkannambadi
Promoted: 2008
Reasons for nomination: Educational and encyclopedic article relating to the culture of an old and major organized religion, Hinduism; the Wikipedia article on that currently notes that "Hinduism has been called the 'oldest religion' in the world". And the same Wikipedia article also states that "Hinduism, with about one billion followers is the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam."
Helps with WP:WORLDVIEW as noted by Cenarium in a comment at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties.
Cenarium helpfully suggested in a discussion at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties that this article is worthy of TFA:, writing: "There are plenty of articles of international interest in various areas yet to be featured, as a cursory search of WP:FANMP indicates. There are also numerous articles of local interest but from countries that are not over-represented at TFA (more like vastly under-represented). Those articles may have few interwikis due to the specificity of the subject (rather than the lack of global interest), and they are worthy of being put on the main page for diversity reasons. As an example among others, we have Vijayanagara literature in Kannada, which is featured since 2008"
0x0077BE agreed that this is a good example of an article that could be TFA, commenting: "Presumably the only reason Vijayanagara literature in Kannada hasn't been featured is because no one nominated it. We need more nominations so we can get the kind of variety you're looking for"
I thoughtfully and carefully considered the suggestion by Cenarium and came to the conclusion that this article would indeed be a fine candidate to nominate for TFA.
I wasn't able to find a particular date relevance so just nominating for a nonspecific-date-slot.
Note: I've looked over the edit history going back to the last edit by original FAC nominator Dineshkannambadi to the article in 2009, and the article looks principally to not have had any major changes or problems that would result in significant degradation of quality.
Support as nominator. — Cirt (talk) 17:08, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support for all reasons above. Had planned on doing this myself if I had some time later to do it right, glad that Cirt got there first. 0x0077BE [^talk/_contrib] 17:15, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh, I didn't know someone else was also considering putting this one up for TFA nomination. Thank you, 0x0077BE, much appreciated. :) — Cirt (talk) 17:17, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good for countering WP:systemic bias, as noted above. —Granger (talk · contribs) 19:04, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, Mr. Granger, your participation here and Support is most appreciated. Have a great day, — Cirt (talk) 19:05, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks for nominating this article, Cirt. Cenarium (talk) 20:16, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- You're welcome, and thank you, Cenarium, for giving me the idea to do so. I hope you and your family are well, — Cirt (talk) 20:22, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per nominator. --BorgQueen (talk) 21:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, BorgQueen, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 00:19, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I have some concerns about inconsistent transliteration, detailed on the talk page. This is mainly a styling issue and I'm not sure that it should detract from the FA status. I'll try to correct some of this later today. Imc (talk) 14:14, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I have left a comment in the article's talk page regarding user Imc's concern. This is a common practice and needs no change.Mayasandra (talk) 16:30, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]