1.I strongly feel this should be at Calcutta, which is currently a disambig page. The only other use is a gambling game. A glance at "what links here" shows that virtually every use, if not every one, is referring to the city. I've never heard of it being called anything but "Calcutta". Tokerboy
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- 2.Calcutta is the former name. Kolkota is the current proper (official) name, and generally cities countries, etc. whose names have recently changed are consitently listed under the new official name in Wikipedia - even if the former name is still better known.
- Examples: Myanmar (Burma), Mumbai (Bombay), Iran (Persia), Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Mkweise 06:46 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
- Except for Mumbai, none of those are parallels. (If the article is at Mumbai, I don't think it
- 3. should be) The rule (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions) is to put articles at the most common name unless disambiguation necessitates something else. That doesn't apply here, ergo, it should be at Calcutta. Burma, Sri Lanka and Myanmar are known as Myanmar, Iran and Sri Lanka by virtually everyone, I think -- they are by far more common than "Kolkota", which I've never heard of in spite of being pretty well-educated geographically. Tokerboy
- 4.The difference is that Kolkota and Mumbai officially changed their names a few years ago, whereas it's been a few decades for Sri Lanka and Iran.
- Also, it wold be rude to refer to a country/city by its former colonial name after it has officially changed its name. Mkweise 07:26 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
- It may be rude, but that is the naming convention. Greenland is at Greenland and not Kalaalit Nunaat, in spite of that being the correct name, etc, etc, etc... The wikipedia way is to keep articles at their least ambiguous name. That is Calcutta.
