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Hey. Just to clarify, are you planning to translate Mindaugas Urbaitis, Konradas Kaveckas and Aleksandras Kačanauskas in-place from ltwiki in mainspace? Thanks. Silikonz💬 18:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

it's more interesting to me to try first to source new material from western sources. Why? In ictu oculi (talk) 19:42, 30 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Hi to whomsoever it may concern. We cannot retain former names of cities, the current name is Gurugram and not Gurgaon. Why do we need rfc ? it is common sense? If that is the case, then we should retain the city names Bombay and Madras. The advise received in preceding section is some editor's personal opinion. Personal opinions doesn't work in this case. News paper articles can write anything, they just take info from wikipedia, it is called mirroring of wikipedia. Coming to books and articles, there are still millions of articles calling cities as Bombay and Madras before their official name change. You cant take it as a standard, and forcefully rub your opinions on other editors. Your personal interest with Gurgaon instead of Gurugram cannot be endorsed by other editors. The Govt officially designated it as Gurugram city in (Gurugram District) - https://gurugram.gov.in/department/municipal-corporation-gurugram/ And why should we keep your personal preference Gurgaon in Infobox Fostera12 (talk) 14:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This post duplicates Talk:Gurgaon#Official name is Gurugram. – Uanfala (talk) 15:01, 15 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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No problem. I do feel though that however the RM goes the real WP:RS name of the village should be visible on the dab page at all times, particularly to anyone travelling that line by train. And the dab and village some level of edit protection from vandals as the homonym causing the problem. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:51, 31 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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