Talk:Kolkata

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Kolkata, India

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An advise to active users, remove some images that are in excessive usage, particularly of structures that are of government office/private companies and of modern buildings, it is spoiling articles standard. Regards :)--Omer123hussain (talk) 07:43, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 November 2016

45.250.247.228 (talk) 15:17, 19 November 2016 (UTC) also aditya shukla was born here

Not done: as the person mentioned does not appear to be "notable" - we have no article on them - Arjayay (talk) 18:39, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Naming of article.

How is it that the name of this article can reflect the official name of the city, and presumably local usage, whereas articles on places in Ireland with Irish names do not. Was there resistance to correctly naming the article from self appointed imperial era English name guardians? For years many of us have had to put up with a refusal to rename articles on our towns and villages to reflect official and local names; currently still an issue with my area of west of Galway city. Hope to get advice and support on this bugbear. Taibhdhearc (talk) 20:49, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Look in the archives of this talk page, in the archives of other city pages where the local language name does not match the common English name, and in the archives of Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names). There has been massive controversy over these questions, with hundreds if not thousands of pages of arguments being written over these questions. —Lowellian (reply) 06:26, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

You are right, it's a big problem with wikipedia these days. Wikipedia has essentially become political but I think it's unavoidable. Thus we end up with the absurd situation of Calcutta being called Kolkata - somehting like 99.99999% of English speakers in India and abroad call it Calcutta but the editors find a way to "prove" that since the BBC call it "Kolkata" that's the most appropriate name while by contrast for example Londonderry (the official name, as much as "Kolkata") is not used but "Derry" instead. There's no point bothering frankly, on these type of issues a few dozen obsessives have taken control of the relevenat pages and will not ever change. It is, utimately, the limit and downside of wikipedia; the lack of an editor means that such groups can push an agenda, such as deliebrately using the name "Kolkata" incorrectly in the English language wikipedia - wikipedia introduced structures and rules in good faith to stop vandalim but like all structures and rules some peopel game them better than others. It's a shame but there's nothing we can do and so Calcutta is, absurdly, referred to as Kolkata. It is something that would appear absurd to almost any native English speaker but we can't change it. In the end, it proves only the benefit of a traditional encyclopaedia. Nothing is perfect in this world.

Discussion at WikiProject Indian Economy about economy size and rank claims

There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indian Economy#City economy size and rank claims - a consensual approach which could affect this article. Please add all comments on that talk page regarding economy size and rank claims. Thanks, Batternut (talk) 01:04, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Edit request

Please change the hatnote to indicate the disambiguation page Kolkata (disambiguation)

{{About|the city|the namesake district|Kolkata district|the metropolitan area|Kolkata metropolitan area|the Indian Navy destroyer|INS Kolkata (D63)}}

change to:

{{About|the city|other uses}}

This article is about the city. For other uses, see Kolkata (disambiguation).

-- 70.51.200.162 (talk) 11:05, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Done that. Batternut (talk) 14:38, 27 February 2017 (UTC)