Talk:Madras

Move?
Policy is that a well-known city like London gets the main article, lesser places with the same name get things like London (Ontario) and there is London (disambiguation) to index them. I think that is very much the case here. Madras may have been officially renamed Chennai but the old name is still well-known; I have a Madras curry powder in my cupboard, for example. It is one of India's most important cities, population (from WP) over 8 million. There is just no comparison to a town of 6,000-odd.

Unless someone objects strongly, I'll make the change soon. Pashley (talk) 14:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I object. I see no better reason to move Chennai to Madras than to move Mumbai to Bombay and Kolkata to Calcutta. Would you like to argue the need to move all those pages? Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:16, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I am not suggesting that. I am saying leave Chennai, Madras (Oregon) and the Madras (India) redirect I recently added right where they are but move this disambig page to Madras (disambiguation) and make the Madras page a redirect to Chennai.


 * If you look at "what links here" for the Madras page there are lots of links. Nearly all are obviously for the Indian city; I have not checked the others, but imagine they are too. Pashley (talk) 22:24, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Support for Pashley's proposal. The main article should remain at Chennai, but Madras, India seems to meet the "much more famous" bar for having a un-disambiguated page (which will be a redirect to Chennai), and for what it's worth that scenario matches what Wikipedia has done (Madras).  The only tricky part will be to make sure that the "otheruses" template on the Chennai page links correctly to the Madras (disambiguation) page. -- Ryan &bull; (talk) &bull; 22:41, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the further explanation, Pashley. Now that I understand your proposal better, I support it, too. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:59, 7 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Done. Pashley (talk) 23:09, 7 March 2014 (UTC)