Talk:Chowk

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Proposal to de-disambiguate

I disagree with the rationale for making this into a disambiguation page in the first place, and propose to de-disambiguate by reintroducing the removed text visible here, which states:

In Urdu, a chowk is a place where paths intersect. Usually a chowk is named where four or more paths intersect. Some famous chowks of Pakistan include Kalmah Chowk and Laxshmi Chowk in Lahore and from India include the Chandni Chowk in Delhi, Chowk in Lucknow and Hutatma Chowk in Mumbai. In Mumbai however, even three paths are known as a chowk.

In some parts of Pakistan and India, chowk refers to a roundabout build at the intersection of two perpendicular roads. This serves the purpose of bringing the entire traffic in a unidirectional flow and thereby preventing head-on collisions.

It is common to see small marketplaces around the Chowk and is sometimes an important landmark in small towns.

It is apparent from the incoming links and the predominance of partial title matches on the page that Chowk does not refer to a specific place, but to a type of place, basically a town square. This is not really a disambiguation page so much as it is a list of chowks, and it should be denoted as such. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:10, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]