Talk:Bengaluru/Archive 8

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Semi-protected edit request on 24 June 2021 - disambiguation of 'Romans' link

In the History section there is a link that goes to a disambiguation page -

• ==History==
• ===Early and medieval history===
  • ... found at Yeswanthpur and HAL indicate that the region was involved in trans-oceanic trade with the [[Romans]] and other civilisations in 27 BC.

To disambiguate link, please change to:

• ... found at Yeswanthpur and HAL indicate that the region was involved in trans-oceanic trade with the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] and other civilisations in 27 BC.

Thank you. 49.177.30.125 (talk) 05:31, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

 Done Living Concrete (talk) 07:14, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 September 2021

Below the photomontage in the infobox, change "Clockwise from top" to "From top, left to right". Cowscroup (talk) 17:40, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:26, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Name Change

Change Common names of Karnataka cities including Bangalore as Bengaluru to their native/official ones. The present ones are old and colonial. Lokeshwaran V R (talk) 16:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 October 2021

Please remove Garden City University from the list. The university on the list under education tab are institutes of importance or state or Central University.

Garden City University must be moved to paragraph below along with other universities.

Thanks

Instead you may add the four state Universities in Bangalore

• Bangalore University
• Bengaluru City University
• Bengaluru North University

These universities have affliation to over 500 colleges. 49.207.223.50 (talk) 08:48, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:56, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes, Garden City University is fairly unknown University in the city. I would also reccomend only State Universities and Universities of National Importance on the list rest can be moved to the paragraph below. Also would reccomend adding Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences JJBengaluru (talk) 19:24, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Incorrect grammer/language

Under the section for 'Economy', there is a sentence in the first paragraph that reads, "The economy of Bangalore is contributes by information technology, telecommunication, biotechnology, manufacturing and industries (electronics, machinery, electricals, automobiles, foods & beverages) sectors etc.". Do consider changing the word 'contributes' in this sentence to 'contributed'.

VineetPrasani (talk) 12:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC) --VineetPrasani (talk) 12:25, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Y Done: Thanks VineetPrasani for pointing this out. I have made the required changes. Happy editing!! -Kpddg ^(talk) 14:53, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 January 2022 - inaccuracy in the etymology section

The 'Etymology' section has this text: -- The earliest reference to the name "Bengalūru" was found in a ninth-century Western Ganga dynasty stone inscription on a vīra gallu (Kannada: ವೀರಗಲ್ಲು; lit. 'hero stone', a rock edict extolling the virtues of a warrior). In this inscription found in Begur, "Bengalūrū" is referred to as a place in which a battle was fought in 890 CE. It states that the place was part of the Ganga Kingdom until 1004 and was known as "Bengaval-uru", the "City of Guards" in Halegannada (Old Kannada). --

Clearly, this is not possible. If the stone inscription is from the ninth century, it cannot state that Bangalore was part of the Ganga kingdom until 1004, which is the eleventh century. Can this be re-worded? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.99.171.153 (talk) 09:56, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done I removed the last sentence, as it was not found in either source. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:24, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

We Request Wikipedia to move the title of the city Banglaore to Bengaluru. All the official websited have this name on their official websites — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.205.149.195 (talk) 06:43, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Proposal for a moratorium on discussions to move this page

This page has been nominated to be moved to ‘Bengaluru’ 12 times! I think that there should be a moratorium to prevent discussions from happening too frequently. For how long, I’m unsure, but other editors can suggest how long down below. Ale3353 (talk) 07:52, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. It's only been nominated to be moved three times in the past seven years, and prior to the most recent close there was a year and a half gap between requests. If we see a second request in the next couple of months, then this will be appropriate, but until then I think it is unnecessary. BilledMammal (talk) 07:56, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose WP:MORATORIUM This is not a case of repeated requests in shorter periods of time. 3 (including this) in the last 6-7 years is fairly acceptable, with the last one before this at ~15 months ago. While there are comments here and there on the talk page requesting the name change, they were promptly abandoned with no further discussion around them. No prejudice against another moratorium request if another RM appears in a short while (I'd say within one year). — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 10:37, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose for same reasons as above. StarHOG (Talk) 15:32, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. If these aren't consistently happening at least once a year, I don't think any moratorium would be the right course of action. Obviously there are a large number of move requests that can be probed here; I'm wondering if there isn't a possible guideline with broader implications embedded within those discussions that might prove to be both more robust than a cookie-cutter moratorium, as well as good guidance for those people who have been advocating for this and other similar page moves. VanIsaac, MPLL ^cont_WpWS 15:58, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

I think the best guidance would be to clarify whether WP:TITLEVAR and WP:ENGVAR apply to place names. Whatever the result of the consensus, it should be a robust solution. BilledMammal (talk) 16:01, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

It's been going around for about as long as I can remember with different outcomes in different places. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 118#Conflict between WP:TIES and WP:Article titles is the last substantive discussion I can recall outside an individual article and that's from over a decade ago with RMs all over the place on this. There does seem to be a pattern that name changes in some countries are more quickly accepted than others which hasn't helped. Timrollpickering (talk) 19:22, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

@Timrollpickering: Might be time to have another discussion then, try to settle the matter - "Does WP:TITLEVAR and WP:ENGVAR apply to place names?", or similar. BilledMammal (talk) 08:03, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Oppose per above. ― Qwerfjkltalk 16:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose as per above discussed. Sajaypal007 (talk) 14:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose as per above Kpddg ^(talk) 08:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support Giving how distruptive the page move conducted by other users with no other means, i think the page should be given a moratorium for at least 30 days and can be extended as long as it needed. 125.167.59.74 (talk) 22:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 19 January 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. There is evidence that "Bangalore" is still the common name of the Indian place in international English usage, despite the official name change. Editors disagree how WP:TITLEVAR applies to this title. This question can be revisited in future if there is evidence that the common name has shifted. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 04:08, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

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Bangalore → Bengaluru – Bangalore was renamed to Bengaluru way back in 2014. One of the primary reasons that this page has not yet been moved on previos discussions was that most reliable sources use the name 'Bangalore'. However, most (if not all) official documents and reliable sources now use the name 'Bengaluru'. We use 'Mumbai', not 'Bombay'as page title. Same for 'Calcutta/Kolkata'. So I feel that the page should atleast now be renamed to its official one. According to WP: Common Name, it does state to use the English name in case of dispute, unless most reliable sources name otherwise. (here) Same should be done for other cities (Mysore->Mysuru, Mangalore -> Mangaluru, etc.), but this is a different topic. I hope we reach a consensus to rename Bangalore to Bengaluru. Thank You. Kpddg ^(talk) 02:41, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Support Google ngrams only goes up to 2019, so unfortunately it doesn't help us know if recent usage is shifting. However, against my expectations, Google news is giving me around 24 million results for Bengaluru and 17 million for Bangalore. There is definitely a geographic split there, with India-based English sources preferring Bengaluru, but there's nothing wrong with that -- it's a city in India, and India is near the top of most populous English-speaking countries (although we often have a bias towards US and UK sources, we shouldn't). It's certainly a split outside of India -- the UK, and US governments for example, appears to use the new name with their embassies, while some news outlets use the other. This split, coupled with the fact that Bengaluru is the official name (which while not reason alone to move, does make it slightly more of an uphill case to keep at the old one), makes me, against my expectations, come down on the side of supporting.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:17, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Noting that WP:MPN requires global usage, rather than just local, and that WP:GOOGLETESTs have issues when there are many results - I get around 56 million results for Bangalore and 48 million for Bengaluru. I did previously consider proposing this myself, but at the time felt such a proposal was premature, so I will look again before committing to a position. BilledMammal (talk) 03:31, 19 January 2022 (UTC) Just noting that the previous reply used to read "It's certainly a split" before being altered to "It's certainly a split outside of India", as my reply makes a little less sense following the edit BilledMammal (talk) 04:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Totally fair, but global usage is split as well. Again, for me it's somewhat of a tie goes to the runner situation -- with no runaway clear answer, going with the official and current one feels preferable.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:41, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
• Also if it makes a difference in your results, make sure to put them in quotes -- otherwise Google is too smart for our own good, and will bring up results that only mention the other term.--Yaksar (let's chat) 03:42, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• It adjusts it a bit - Bengaluru goes up to 54 million, Bangalore goes down to 33 million - but the numbers are still very different from yours. Generally, in cases where there no clear answer, I am inclined to leave the title at its most recent clear answer (typically the articles current name) per MPN requiring the change to have become predominant in common global usage, but I know that other editors interpret policy differently. BilledMammal (talk) 03:52, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

WP:ties is relevant here too—blindlynx 17:03, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Very strong Oppose most trustworthy and more reliable sources still calling the city as Bangalore. 125.167.59.14 (talk) 03:25, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose for now Giving the gap between Indian and most international sources (mainly US, UK, or European) regarding th name of the city. I suspected that most non-Indian sources didn't update the city name as "Bengaluru". For example BBC Weather still called the city as the colonial name, as well as AP and AFP. Most non-indian sources often cite these news media for reporting anything about Bengaluru (as how Indians call Bangalore). 182.3.70.217 (talk) 03:37, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Just for our information....the second source you provided was about a cricket team. This news source now uses 'Bengaluru' (like in here). Increased number of news sources are switching to Bengaluru. Thank You. -Kpddg ^(talk) 05:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. Still very definitely the common name in English-language sources. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:04, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:TITLEVAR which is clear that the name in Indian English is critical over international sources. Timrollpickering (talk) 11:08, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:MPN and wp:ties—blindlynx 17:03, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. Working through the list of English languages sources at Newspaper of record, I find that while many use both names, the preferred name is always "Bangalore", with a single exception. See table below. This is further reinforced by ngrams, which shows significantly more use for Bangalore then Bengaluru.

Newspaper	Bangalore results	Bengaluru results
The Age	454	113
The Daily Star	1180	554
The Phnom Penh Post	63	10
The Globe and Mail	139	86
South China Morning Post	281	21
The Hindu	WP:GOOGLELIMITS, more results for "Bengaluru"
The Irish Times	283	132
Haaretz	43	2
The Gleaner	156	7
Daily Nation	13	3
New Straits Times	240	98
Dawn	1570	357
Manila Bulletin	6	3
The Straits Times	888	725
The Daily Telegraph	844	195
Los Angeles Times	174	7

BilledMammal (talk) 00:01, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

There will definitely be more results for Bangalore as it was the previous name. Now, increased number of sources are switching to Bengaluru. And the ngrams are showing the history from 1800. Now, Bengaluru is slowly increasing. Kpddg ^(talk) 02:49, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

The Times of India and The Hindu are the only two papers that should be taken into consideration—blindlynx 04:08, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

WP:MPN requires that the name has become predominant in common global usage. BilledMammal (talk) 04:19, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

see WP:TITLEVAR that says If a topic has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation, the title of its article should use that nation's variety of English—blindlynx 14:38, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

TITLEVAR refers to ENGVAR, which speaks about differences in vocabulary, grammar, and spelling - none of which apply to this discussion. Toponyms typically come out of vocabulary but are not considered part of it, and though an argument could be made that Bengaluru and Bangalore are the same name with different spelling, the fact that the change is typically described as a name change rather than a spelling change suggests that argument would be incorrect. Further, as MPN is more specific than TITLEVAR to this discussion, it would be sensible to follow MPN if the two did conflict. BilledMammal (talk) 15:51, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

No TITLEVAR has long applied to article titles between the national common name and international continued usage of the previous name - see Talk:Odisha/Archive 2#Requested move was a key part of the move. Timrollpickering (talk) 23:24, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

• Strong oppose. As seen above, sources continue to prefer "Bangalore". O.N.R. ^(talk) 00:47, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose Per WP:COMMONNAME, which still seems to be the current name._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 01:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support per WP:TITLEVAR, WP:MODERNPLACENAME and WP:NAMECHANGES despite clear results in favor of Bangalore in academic use: Bengaluru 49k vs. 372k. The argument in favor resembles that of the move from Kiev (Russian) to Ukrainian (Kyiv) Talk:Kyiv/Archive_7#Requested_move 1 July 2020. As the world becomes more multipolar, old toponyms which are result of colonialism and imperialism are bound to fall out favor. The change to Bengaluru is such a case.--Maleschreiber (talk) 03:25, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose. The common name is still the current title. Rreagan007 (talk) 04:50, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• Oppose ‘Bangalore’ is still used in maps produced by the CIA and the National Geographic Society. This is further reinforced by major English language news sources such as the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press and many others. Ale3353 (talk) 08:13, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• Support Names of various places in South_Asia and Southeast_Asia were changed or modified under Colonial Rule of British. Many of these have been reverted back to their original names. Sticking to old name Bangalore just on the basis of continued usage by non-local and non-authoritative entities is a testament of existing colonial Stereotype. Anudeepnrao (talk) 10:32, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
• Comment The fact that the name ‘Bangalore’ came from colonialism and imperialism does not matter; the thing that matters is that it is the common English name. Ale3353 (talk) 20:34, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

I don't think it's true that it doesn't matter. See these excerpts from WP:TITLE: "These should be seen as goals, not as rules." ... "When there are multiple names for a subject, all of which are fairly common, and the most common has problems, it is perfectly reasonable to choose one of the others." --184.148.20.52 (talk) 13:25, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

• Oppose. Bangalore has been shown to be the WP:COMMONNAME. It doesn't matter why Bangalore is the common name, what matters is that it is the common name. --Spekkios (talk) 00:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

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I just saw this. The refusal to use the correct name is very Americancentric. RTripathiKarnataka (talk) 20:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2022

Change Bangalore to Bengaluru. 2409:4071:D1F:4319:2721:C42B:C4ED:DE49 (talk) 02:40, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. the page has been requested to be moved to Bengaluru 12 times. the latest move request was closed by buidhe with: "There is evidence that "Bangalore" is still the common name of the Indian place in international English usage, despite the official name change. Editors disagree how WP:TITLEVAR applies to this title. This question can be revisited in future if there is evidence that the common name has shifted." 💜  melecie  talk - 03:03, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 30 June 2022 (2)

Somebody (I searched the history of the article but cannot see who) has replaced, "After the fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565 in the Battle of Talikota, Bangalore's rule changed hands several times. Kempe Gowda declared independence, then in 1638, a large Adil Shahi Bijapur army led by Ranadulla Khan and accompanied by his second in command Shāhji Bhōnslē defeated Kempe Gowda III, and Bangalore was given to Shāhji as a jagir (feudal estate). In 1687, the Mughal general Kasim Khan, under orders from Aurangzeb, defeated Ekoji I, son of Shāhji, and sold Bangalore to Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar (1673–1704), the then ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore for three lakh rupees." to, "After the fall of the Vijayanagar empire, Kempe Gowda declared independence; in 1638, a large Adil Shahi Bijapur army defeated Kempe Gowda III, and Bangalore was given to them as a jagir (feudal estate).The Mughals later captured Bangalore from and sold it to Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar (1673–1704), the then ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore." but it seems to be incorrect grammatically, so please restore the original. 2402:8100:281F:475E:0:0:0:1 (talk) 07:32, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Y I think the sentence is fine now...it was shortened to reduce exessive detail in the lead. Detailed info can be found in the respective section. Thanks, Kpddg ^(talk) 12:48, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 June 2022

Please change, "In post-independence India, schools for young children (16 months–5 years) are called nursery....." to, "In India, post-independence, schools for young children (16 months–5 years) are called nursery....." 2402:8100:281F:475E:0:0:0:1 (talk) 06:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

The current sentence looks fine.... Kpddg ^(talk) 12:50, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Name change

Now Bangalore is Bengaluru GOI restored it's original name. 2409:4071:2407:8705:EA5D:78D0:A161:8983 (talk) 05:29, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

That's what it says in the article "Bangalore, officially Bengaluru" - Arjayay (talk) 10:50, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Despite many requests for the article to be moved in the past, there has been no consensus. Kpddg ^(talk) 15:25, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

It's a bit silly at this point, Bengaluru is the current WP:COMMONNAME. If you look at any recently produced print atlas, the city will be labeled as that. Wikipedia is increasingly becoming an outlier in this. --Middle river exports (talk) 21:35, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2022

It is stated that Bangalore received 254mm rainfall in single day on May 17 2022. That is factually incorrect. 254mm was monthly rainfall. Bangalore received 114mm rainfall on 17 May 2022.

The line on that can be deleted as 114mm is not the highest 24hr rainfall anyway. Also eventually Bangalore failed to surpass the highest ever May rainfall amount too.

I am amongst group of people who run BngWeather twitter handle. PraveenC3131 (talk) 03:51, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. 💜  melecie  talk - 04:54, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

 Done @Melecie: OP is correct, kind of. I removed the statement entirely as the source is about rain in the first 18 days of May, compared to the entirety of May in 2022. Ovinus (talk) 05:35, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 14 September 2022

please change every mention of Bangalore to its actual name which is Bengaluru as we do not want our capital city name to be butchered. it is like calling america "amirika" because i cant pronounce it. it is the land of bengaluru and it would be nice for this change to be made. thansk in advance. Ashith Ranjan Gowda (talk) 11:37, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. There is an impressive list of requested moves discussing this issue listed at the top of this page, all of which came to the consensus that Bangalore is the WP:COMMONNAME. – Recoil (talk) 12:07, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Please note this has been fully discussed 12 times before, as listed at the top of this page. - Arjayay (talk) 12:09, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Area

The article infobox and body (with their supporting references) states 741 sq km; a lot of online sources as well. This article reports otherwise- 712 sq km. I suggest changing 741 to 712 in this article on the basis of this reference.

References

FacetsOfNonStickPans (talk) 17:12, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Another relevant ref. which says that BBMP limits increased from 712 sq km to over 716 sq km in December 2021. FacetsOfNonStickPans (talk) 17:17, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 January 2023

GDP Nominal : US $110 Billion Abhijit.shah1 (talk) 18:36, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

GDP Nominal : US $110 Billion, Source : https://www.worldwidewebtimes.com/top-10-richest-cities-of-india/ Abhijit.shah1 (talk) 18:38, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: - This source shows $110 Billion US as the GDP by Purchasing Power Parity, which is not the same as nominal GDP. PianoDan (talk) 19:21, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 April 2023

Albert P Xavier (talk) 06:56, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

One picture need to be added Under education section of this Wikipedia Page, for CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Banglore as one the Most premier and reputed Institution in Bangalore. CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Banglore is listed in Wikipedia Page of "Education in Bangalore" Kindly consider the same.

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 11:11, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 20 June 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Adequate evidence has not been presented that the official name is now the most common name globally. This is the thirteenth move request, following Talk:Bangalore/Archive 8#Requested move 19 January 2022. See also Talk:Bangalore/Archive 8#Proposal for a moratorium on discussions to move this page. While this has not been so frequent as to necessitate a WP:MORATORIUM, future move requests without substantial evidence should be speedily closed. (non-admin closure) SilverLocust (talk) 00:37, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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Bangalore → Bengaluru – Bengaluru is more commonly called name and I'd also add that most of the Indian tier one cities have their current official names in Wikipedia articles, i.e. Chennai (formerly know as Madras, Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta. So I strongly propose that Bangalore should also be renamed/moved to Bengaluru, per WP:COMMONNAME. — Akshadev™ 🔱 06:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

• From anecdotal evidence, it seems that Bengaluru is now the WP:COMMONNAME of the city, but I am unable to confirm this. The Ngram data cuts off at 2019, that's unrepresentative of present-day data, but the trendline suggests that the new name must've caught on. Then, I looked at the news hits, Bangalore has 1,93,000 results, while Bengaluru has 1,36,000 results, but when I attempt to filter out results by last year or a custom range, the number of results is hidden, so I don't even know whether the new name has actually caught on or not. If it has caught on, there is little reason to believe that the data will revert back, so in the long-term the new name will persist and may be moved to, otherwise we might still be in the waiting phase. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 06:56, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

  You have to hit "tools" again to drop the date range menu and get a result.

  • "Bengaluru" (since 1 November 2014, normal google search): 177,000,000 results
  • "Bangalore" (since 1 November 2014, normal google search): 388,000,000 results
  • "Bengaluru" (since 1 November 2014, google books search): 110,000 results
  • "Bangalore" (since 1 November 2014, google books search): 585,000 results
  • "Bengaluru" (past year, normal google search): 66,600,000 results
  • "Bangalore" (past year, normal google search): 110,000,000 results

  I will note google news is giving a slight advantage to Bengaluru in the past year, but it's been weird for a while with strings in quotation marks and dated strings, so I have no idea if it's just giving news results (the numbers look too high for me to say they're accurate, so I'd throw it out):

  • "Bengaluru" (past year, google news search): 14,600,000 results
  • "Bangalore" (past year, google news search): 12,200,000 results

  I personally don't find google hits that useful on highly-contested name changes like this, but here's the numbers I got. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 21:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

  It's definitely moving in the direction of "Bengaluru", and it will likely get there in a few years. We might need to impose a moratorium on new move discussions for a year, then review the numbers then. If it shows movement past the threshold, then we can present that information, and hold a new move discussion. If not, impose the moratorium for another year, and repeat each year until the article is finally moved. BilCat (talk) 21:46, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

• Maybe the balance has tipped? BBC in May and Nov22 Kempegowda: India PM Modi inaugurates Bengaluru founder statue Published 11 November 2022 check https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c8z2pq2me70t In ictu oculi (talk) 11:18, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose for lack of clear evidence. The question we need to ask is: has Bengaluru become the common name? So far, this hasn't been shown. O.N.R. ^(talk) 20:44, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose/Speedy close - As per ONR, there's been no attempt to present clear evidence, so we shouldn't waste our time here. When the evidence has been collected, it can be presented. then, but not before, please. BilCat (talk) 21:38, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
• Speedy support--WP:NAMECHANGES tells us that the burden is on the old name to be proven to be significantly more common when talking about the present-day item. CX Zoom's sourcing is correct. Red Slash 03:34, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

  The burden comment in WP:NAMECHANGES is referring to historical/modern names pairs such as Constantinople and Istanbul, not contemporary names. And CXZoom's is admittedly anecdotal. Again, clear evidence is needed, and that isn't it. BilCat (talk) 20:34, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

• Support The Bengaluru is more common then Bangalore even Google uses the name in Google Maps Qwv (talk) 00:01, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
• Support It's high time that name is changed to official name. It is adopted in most of the places by this time. -Vijethnbharadwaj (talk) 17:54, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. Google Trends still shows "Bengalore" as more commonly used than "Bengaluru". Google Trends did show increasing usage of " Bengaluru ", So the article name maybe changed in the future, once "Bengaluru" is actually the common name. Ckfasdf (talk) 15:00, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Additional Comment I just noticed that this article was nominated for name change about 12 times in the past. IMO the argument to oppose name changes on those discussions are still valid. Ckfasdf (talk) 00:54, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

• Oppose per Ckfasdf. estar8806 (talk) ★ 19:55, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose, per the comments I made and evidence I presented in the previous RM, which appears to continue to apply. BilledMammal (talk) 01:53, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
• Oppose. Worldwide, the common name remains Bangalore. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:57, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

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Halasuru Temple image shown in the Infobox should be changed.

I am pretty sure that in the infobox of a city, the images should be recent(if you aren't able to understand, we should use the present Day image of the temple for the infobox). Sertyt (talk) 01:58, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 December 2023

It is Bengaluru and not Bangalore,though mentioned it as officially Bengaluru,Please make change on the search page 103.16.29.53 (talk) 05:17, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

@103.16.29.53,  Not done Both the terms Bangalore and Bengaluru redirect to the same article. This issue has been already discussed at #Requested move 20 June 2023 Leoneix _(talk) 07:03, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 16 December 2023

Bangalore → Bengaluru – Bengaluru is a more commonly called name. It has been almost ten years since the official name change. Today, most of the media houses uses the name Bengaluru. Both state and central governments have completely changed the name of Bangalore to Bengaluru wherever necessary. Even most multi-national corporations and organizations refer to it as Bengaluru. So it is important that this page (Bangalore) be renamed or moved to Bengaluru, per WP:COMMONNAME. Jayanthkumar123 (talk) 16:13, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 21 March 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 16:57, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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Bangalore → Bengaluru – Bengaluru is a more commonly called name. It has been almost a decade since the official name change. Today, most of the media houses uses the name Bengaluru. Both state and central governments have completely changed the name of Bangalore to Bengaluru wherever necessary. Even most multi-national corporations and organizations refer to it as Bengaluru. So it is important that this page (Bangalore) be renamed or moved to Bengaluru, per WP:COMMONNAME. Jayanthkumar123 (talk) 16:43, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• Right from government-purposes to several multi-national organizations situated in the city have been using the name Bengaluru. It has been a decade, since the name got changed. Sports franchises which are based in the city like Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Bengaluru FC, etc. are using the name Bengaluru. You can do a simple search on the internet, every news agency uses Bengaluru, from the national to the state media, everyone are using the word Bengaluru. Railway stations, airports, refer the city as Bengaluru. Culuturally, Bengaluru is familiar among the public. Jayanthkumar123 (talk) 16:20, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Comment: You haven't provided evidence for any of your statements. Please note that, without evidence, this move request is likely to be speedily closed. RegentsPark (comment) 17:55, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

  For context for RegentsPark's comment, I said in the June closure: "This is the thirteenth move request[ proposing this move....] While this has not been so frequent as to necessitate a WP:MORATORIUM, future move requests without substantial evidence should be speedily closed." Those previous requested moves are listed at the top of the page. SilverLocust 💬 18:14, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 12:27, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose for lack of any actual evidence. Wikipedia is a world-wide encyclopedia; people in India know about the changes, and may have changed their usage, but we need evidence that the majority of people over the whole world have changed their common usage to Bengaluru. - Arjayay (talk) 12:48, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose Bangalore is still more common, and also more natural looking and sounding to English speakers. DieOuTransvaal (talk) 19:36, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

  The second part is completely irrelevant, particularly as English is widely spoken in India. AusLondonder (talk) 15:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

• Comment I would be inclined to support if sufficient evidence on usage is provided. Per WP:TIES we should use the name most common in Indian English usage. AusLondonder (talk) 20:08, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
• Procedural speedy close: The same proposed renaming has been rejected in 13 previous formal RMs. The last one was less than a year ago, and nothing dramatic has happened since then and the nominator has not put hardly any effort into providing more substantial evidence than was previously considered. Please give it a rest for a few years before trying this again. We shouldn't have to keep repeating this discussion this often. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:03, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. No evidence this has become the common name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:37, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose. No evidence for common name has been presented in the opening comment. Celia Homeford (talk) 12:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose, no evidence provided for WP:COMMONNAME by WP:NAMECHANGES. Would possibly support if that is provided. DankJae 21:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 18 May 2024

I want to edit climate of bengaluru.

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 04:43, 18 May 2024 (UTC)