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Split

There has been no debate on the split tag. If the article is to be believed then the temple is separately notable. I note that the section is unreferenced, so splitting the article is taking a risk. I will take a chance. Op47 (talk) 17:30, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 09 July 2014

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Samalkot remains unmoved Vin09 (talk) 14:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samalkota → Samalkot – According to CENSUS INDIA the official name is Samalkot and Samalkota is a sub-district (mandal/tehsil), reference page see this. Vin09 (talk) 14:23, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Oppose in print sources it is still Samalkota. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:50, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm. You have a point. సామర్లకోట probably should be transliterated Samalkot. And the new romanization of Telugu below is rl ర్ల In ictu oculi (talk) 10:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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@In ictu oculi: But Census India shows Samalkota is a sub-district and the google search results shows it neither samalkot nor samalkota and a new name SAMARLAKOTA.--Vin09 (talk) 09:57, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@In ictu oculi: సామర్లకోట in telugu upon direct translation gives SAMARLAKOTA.--Vin09 (talk) 10:10, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@In ictu oculi: some proofs postal code, railway site, but I'm not able to stress more on this, as in Google maps it has samarlakota. I hope you are an expertise in wiki. Please decide an accurate name. I may have proposed the move, but let's wait for other users for some more info. Any comments?--Vin09 (talk) 14:09, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samarlakota gets 86,400 Ghits, Samalkota gets 30,60,000 and Samalkot gets 5,07,000 Ghits. So Samarlakota is ruled out. I tried to look for some news articles to apply to check which of the remaining two could be a WP:COMMONNAME and I couldn't really find much. So based on Ghits, I feel the article should stay unmoved. — LeoFrank ^Talk 14:31, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agree @LeoFrank: Superb! I support Google result decision of yours, I hereby withdraw my request.