Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Inscriptions of the Vijaynagar Empire in the a particular langauge are being removed

Inscriptions of the Vijaynagar Empire in the a particular langauge are being removed

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Editors involved in this dispute

1. WestCoastMusketeer (talk · contribs) – filing party
2. Jugaari cross (talk · contribs)
3. Holenarasipura (talk · contribs)

Articles affected by this dispute

1. Vijayanagara Empire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Other attempts at resolving this dispute that you have attempted

Tried reasoning with editor Jugaari cross, offered to include just one photo for representation from the existing two and no agreement was reached

Issues to be mediated

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Primary issues (added by the filing party)

This is to do with the article Vijayanagara Empire, which ruled much of South India between the 14th and 17th Century. There are number of inscriptions spread across South in several languages. Addition of inscriptions of the Empire in a particular language (Tamil in this case) is being repeatedly undone of some users. The justification being given that the language in question was only a provincial language, etc. Some comments lean on regionalism, such as This is about Vijayanagara empire centered in Vijayanagara, not Tamil Nadu. The photos are

• File:Dharmeshwara Temple Plates.jpg recorded by eminent Indologist B. Lewis Rice
• File:Vijaynagar Tamil Inscription, Someshwara Temple, Ulsoor.jpg

Another reason being quoted is that the article is a FA Article and hence there was no place of addition of these articles. But at the same time, the article has File:Poetic Kannada inscription of Manjaraja dated 1398 CE at Vindyagiri hill in Shravanabelagola.jpg on the claim that it was the inscription of a royal poet of one of the Kings. But the inscription is missing the Vijaynagar Emblem 'Sun and Crescent Moon' and hence no direct link with the Empire.

I believe, leaving out an historical inscription, just because it is a particular language violates Wikipedia NPOV policy. If the Vijaynagar Kings were keen on promoting only a particular language, they would not have commissioned edicts in several languages. Other examples of the Vijaynagar Inscriptions in Tamil are

• File:Vijaynagar Virupaksha Inscription, 1481 AD, Thiruvanamalai District.jpg
• File:Vijaynagar Venkathiraya Inscription, 1605 AD, Vellore District.jpg

The monuments of the Vijaynagar Empire are UNESCO recognized monuments, and as such the culture belongs to the entire human race. Here Attempts is being made to portray that the empire belonged only to a particular community.

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1. Agree. WestCoastMusketeer (talk) 03:38, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

This section should only be edited by a mediator. The Mediation Committee's representative will indicate in due course whether the request is accepted (meaning a mediator will be assigned) or rejected (meaning you will have to try a different type of dispute resolution). If the mediator asks you a question in this section, you may edit here.

• Reject. This case is rejected under prerequisite for mediation #9 which authorizes the chairperson to "refer back to other dispute resolution venues (e.g. dispute resolution noticeboard, third opinion, request for comment, or additional talk page discussion) a dispute which would benefit from additional work at lower levels of the dispute resolution process". Information about those processes, and links to their various pages, can be found here. For the Mediation Committee, TransporterMan (TALK) 20:27, 11 June 2016 (UTC) (Chairperson)