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List of diplomatic missions in Bangalore was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 September 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Bengaluru. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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A proposal to rename the Bangalore article to Bengaluru failed to reach a consensus and was closed on September 3, 2007. The discussion can be found at Talk:Bangalore/Archive 3.

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Demographics

Changing from opinion to actual statement based on the reference. Aligning to the demographics data as presented by the reference no 85.

The Mud Fort of Bangalore

The historical accounts in this article now say the original fort was a 'mud fort'. Some years ago I changed this to a rather more correct term, 'mud-brick fort' but it hasn't lasted. This seems to be because of some external references that use the term mud rather than mud brick. If so, that puts the reliability of these references into question. The fort was originally built of unfired bricks, often called mud bricks. Mud itself is of course wet plastic earth and was not the material the fort was built from. The expression 'mud fort' conjures up images of little boys building toy forts to fight battles with each other that they forget by the next day. I ought to change it again with better references but I just can't find the motivation to look them up now, given that someone will probably change it back. Imc (talk) 18:00, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Its not Bangalore anymore

I have replaced 'Bangalore' by 'Bengaluru'. As said in one of the articles below, "Bangalore means Bengaluru" is a wrong statement. The city name is nothing to do with its meaning. All it matters is the correct spelling. I request the admin to update caption and title as Bengaluru. Pramengr (talk) 18:34, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

@Pramengr Most English news sources seem to use Bangalore. If you want to change the title, you'll have to follow the instructions at WP:RM/CM. --NeilN 18:36, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

The rule on Misplaced Pages is not that the official name is always preferenced over other spellings; it's that the name most commonly recognized by English speakers is preferenced over other spellings. Unfortunately, like it or not, at the present time that's still Bangalore rather than Bengaluru. And even if the spelling is changed, note that you cannot just alter the spelling in template or category links until those have actually been moved to the new spelling; doing so just breaks them to no purpose. Bearcat (talk) 08:21, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Using Bengaluru

Hello All,

As name of the city is being corrected from Bangalore to Bengaluru, the wiki page needs to reflect the same. Locals have been calling the city Bengaluru for several centuries. There has been official circulation regarding this from Government of Karnataka and the Union Government & GSI have approved the same. Wanted to inform that I will be starting the corrections in a few days. Please note that name of the certain institutions will remain unchanged e.g Bangalore University.

Kindly inform if certain sections should be exempted.

Regards, Siri — Preceding unsigned comment added by Siriyaala (talk • contribs) 22:25, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, you cannot make the changes without consensus. Similar query has been asked before. Please see the discussion in the previous post. Amartyabag 06:21, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Coordinate error

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wrong Latitude —122.167.125.188 (talk) 01:56, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

That was a bit of uncaught vandalism, which I've reverted. Thanks for noticing. Deor (talk) 09:48, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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