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The three rivers of India - Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical river of Sarasvati - meet at a point in the Allahabad district, known as Sangam, making this a holy Hindu city.

There are only three rivers in India? And one of those only exists in myths and legends? Is that what is really meant here? Skinsmoke (talk) 14:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

yes Ashish Maury's (talk) 04:39, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"change Allahabad to Prayagraj" 157.43.45.9 (talk) 17:48, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for two reasons: per WP:COMMONNAME and per the fact that the name change needs to be approved by the Indian Government before becoming official. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 17:58, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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122.170.97.55 (talk) 12:54, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Make it Prayagraj instead of Allahabad.

Not done per WP:COMMONNAME. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 12:55, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Name of the district

The name of the district has been changed to Prayagraj District and this should be reflected in the article. Whilst I can fully understand reluctance to change the name of the settlement of Allahabad / Prayagraj due to COMMONNAME, I don't see how this applies to a district which is not a settlement but a political entity. There is president for the change as Faizabad District was renamed a few days ago to Ayodhya District and this is already reflected on Wikipedia (including a change in article title) with no controversy. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 16:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AFAIK it applies throughout the English Wikipedia, I know of no distinction between "settlements" and "political sub-units" The reader coming across the article may think they are in the wrong place when all the references are to a name other than the article title. - Arjayay (talk) 16:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It would be appropriate to move this page from Allahabad district to Prayagraj district to avoid such confusion. Currently readers are led to believe there is a political entity in India called "Allahabad District" when there is actually not so very misleading and confusing. My edits clearly state that the entity currently known as "Prayagraj District was indeed known as Allahabad District until October 2018. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 16:43, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also, just read the previous text "Allahabad District, officially Prayagraj District, is... and see how ridiculous and un-encyclopedia like that wording sounds. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 16:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Common name does not apply only to cities. And stating that Prayagraj is the official name is just fine. And +1 for Arjayay's point about consistency.—Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 14:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Cordyceps-Zombie above as the administrative Entity is Prayagraj District and settlement is Allahabad/Prayagraj. There is a separate page for each and the names should also reflect the difference. In addition a redirect from Allahabad District to Prayagraj District should be setup. YadavSandeep —Preceding undated comment added 16:53, 11 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed edit - change opening to read "Prayagraj district, Previously known as known as Allahabad district" - this mirrors the wording used on the article about the capital city of Kazakhstan where such wording was added on the day that the city was officially renamed (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana). There were no common name objections raised to those words on that page and that should also be the case here. I will make these changes if there are no objections. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 16:42, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed page move

I propose that this page moves from "Allahabad district" an obsolete name for this country sub-division to "Prayagraj district" the correct legal name for this district. There is president on Wikipedia for this when political entities are renamed, the page titles are changed to reflect this for example in the case of "Macedonia" becoming "North Macedonia", the page was moved on the same day as that was the new common name for that political. If we don't reflect name changes, we might as well have articles entitled "Saigon", "Leopoldville", "Rhodesia", Leningrad, "Dahomy" etc. Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 16:50, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cordyceps-Zombie You can't do it here. The discussion is at Talk:Allahabad where people agreed to keep it as Allahabad as per WP:COMMONNAME. Regards. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 16:56, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Change this page name

~~There is no district in Uttar Pradesh by the name of Allahabad. Prayagraj district is an official name. Please rename this page Segabrand (talk) 14:45, 1 June 2020 (UTC)~~ [reply]

~~https://prayagraj.nic.in/ Segabrand (talk) 14:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)~~ Struck sock comments Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 11:24, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Exactly the same answer as at Talk:Allahabad -
We obviously know that - that is why the article opens "Allahabad district, officially known as Prayagraj district" - but as repeatedly explained, this is the English Wikipedia and we use the WP:COMMONNAME in English, which is Allahabad. - Arjayay (talk) 14:56, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Change: I actually beg to differ on that. Changing the name to Prayagraj, for all pages related, would not only make more sense but follow with its emerging usage, instead of Allahabad. I know many international people who refer to Prayagraj instead of Allahabad--Hari147 (talk) 16:39, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Change: User:Hari147, User:Arjayay Keeping the name Allahabad makes no sense. Nowhere it is used in that sense anymore. Even in the media it is used as Prayagraj nowadays.

See the following :

So actually Prayagraj has now become WP:COMMONNAME. It has become a necessity and it avoids controversies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TiredWalk (talk • contribs) 05:50, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TiredWalk This is about the district and not the city. The correct talk page you want to comment is Talk:Allahabad — DaxServer (talk to me) 08:00, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@User:DaxServer,User:Arjayay I am talking about changing the name of the district only, not that of the city. It doesn't matter and doesn't show how it nullifies any of the evidence i have provided above that even the popular media organisations, common public usage and official use is Prayagraj. You are just skirting the issue. WP:COMMONNAME itself shows that the usage is Prayagraj district. I don't know if it isn't arm-twisting or what. TiredWalk (talk) 12:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]