Talk:Puducherry

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Disambiguation page

Per discussions at Puducherry and Pondicherry (city) (see here), I've made the plain name Pondicherry a disambiguation page. Reviews of the incoming links shows considerable confusion between the various entities called (or formerly called) Pondicherry, so for now a disambiguation page will probably provide the best service to our readers. Discussion is likely to resume if and when it's decided the city article should be renamed to something involving the current name "Puducherry", as it will be ambiguous with the territory's article.Cúchullain ^t/c 13:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now who will fix all incoming links? Even otherwise it is a bad decision. Woodthought (talk) 04:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Several editors are working on fixing the links now, but at any rate readers will be able to find what they want through this dab page. Your attempt to change the target left dozens or hundreds of links to the territory pointed at the city, which is much worse.Cúchullain ^t/c 04:51, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pondicherry primary topic is Pondicherry (city). All the links in dab page are proxy only to that, all are named after that city. Nobody has any doubt in that, we are going back in time. Woodthought (talk) 05:43, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you think that you can start a move request to move Pondicherry (city) to Pondicherry. There's nothing else to discuss.--Cúchullain ^t/c 13:51, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Woodthought is, of course, correct in terms of normal usage. I suspect though that this is going to be hard to prove. --regentspark (comment) 14:45, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In going through the incoming links I've noticed that more are intending the city than other uses. However, it's nowhere near an overwhelming majority, and many of them are pretty hard to tell, especially when they're talking about historical French Pondicherry. I think a dab page is the best solution for the time being.Cúchullain ^t/c 14:53, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Puducherry (disambiguation) should redirect here. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 00:23, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done Skinsmoke (talk) 10:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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Move discussion in progress

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