A2: To add or remove images, start a thread on this page first. See WP:FP? and WP:IMAGE.
Q3: Why was my external link removed?
A3: To prevent bloat and clutter, new links must first gain talk-page consensus. See WP:EL.
Q4: The name of the article should be Calcutta, not Kolkata!
A4: Consult the archives of this talk page for discussions regarding the naming of the article. As of February 2012, the last discussion and voting regarding this issue was completed on 31 January 2012, and result of the move request was: No clear consensus to move this title, either name is appropriate for the article and no one made compelling Commonname arguments for either name over the other.
Q5: Why is person "X" not named in the article, although he/she is an accomplished person related to Kolkata?
A5: There is no strict inclusion and exclusion criteria for accomplished personalities mentioned in the article, although a working set of criteria is in the process of development. Some individuals such as Rabindranath Tagore or Mother Teresa are very significantly associated with Kolkata, while there are many others whose contribution or significance may not be as important. The significance level is a matter of subjective analysis, and there is room for discussion for each individual person. The following set of guidelines is recommended. The person need not meet all the criteria.
a. The person should be notable enough to have a separate wiki article.
b. Individual reliable inline secondary citations proving the notability in the Kolkata article must be given.
c. There should be significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
d. The person received prestigious international or national awards or was nominated.
e. The person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective prestigious scholarly society or association,
f. The person is in a field of literature (e.g writer or poet) or the fine arts (e.g. musician, composer, artist), and meets the standards for notability in that art, such as WP:CREATIVE or WP:MUSIC and his/her work is well recognised as evident from reliable secondary sources.
g. The person must have born, or lived, or studied or worked significantly in Kolkata, that is, the person should be related to Kolkata significantly.
h. The name(s) should be added in such a manner that it should not look like a laundry list, rather it should flow into a prose.
i. Please discuss in the talk page prior to addition of a name. Please see Question a in the FAQ section to be aware that dits can be removed.
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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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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, incorrectly in English, "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 relevant 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 vandalism but like all structures and rules some people 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.
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