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Technical requests

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Uncontroversial technical requests

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I am seeing three different spellings of this city's name in English sources: Kandivli, Kandivali, and Kandivili. See also Kandivli railway station which uses two of those, including in an image file. This is probably the result of poor translation over the years, as errors were repeated among media sources. The correct spelling can probably be obtained from a local resident, or... maybe this is the answer. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 13:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is a tough one... The long-term title for 15+ years until 2023, was the present one, Kandivali but then there was a bold (and unexplained) move followed by a reversion, and then another bold move by the same editor (who's since been blocked) four days later, which wasn't spotted. As such, despite Kandivli being the name for almost two years, I think the Kandivali has a definite claim to be the stable title based on the fact that a challenge was ignored back then.  — Amakuru (talk) 09:59, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That is a purely procedural analysis but reality might be simpler. The article title that was stable for 15 years may have been wrong the entire time and nobody noticed. Instead of trying to determine what was right or wrong for how many years and who got blocked for doing what, perhaps we can consider how the city spells it own name. That picture from the train station seals the deal for me, at least. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 23:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Doomsdayer520: Adding to the complexity, 1 2 and 3 images of local post offices with Kandivali. And this google search shows about 6-7 images of train stations with the same spelling. Maybe the one you linked was a typo itself. Also the Hindi and Marathi spellings have a slight pronunciation of the a sound as well. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 09:44, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


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Contested technical requests

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Contentious topic partially nominated for deletion (twice). Article has only existed for a few days. Spirited discussion on the article's Talk page. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:59, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems WP:PCM then. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Al-Waqīmī This was moved in 2019, and subsequently confirmed in an RM (Talk:2019_India–Pakistan_border_skirmishes/Archive_6#Requested_move_27_January_2020). We can only revert recent moves here. Please open an RM by clicking the "discuss" link in your requests if you wish to pursue this further. Toadspike [Talk] 18:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Halbared This move was performed in February 2024 – the current title has been stable for over a year, which is even longer than it was at the previous title for. We can only revert recent undiscussed moves here; please open an RM to discuss this by clicking the "discuss" link in your request. Toadspike [Talk] 18:56, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But, it doesn't appear Yusuke Suzuki (footballer) was deleted? Mdewman6 (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per the logs, it had been WP:PRODded and was undeleted following WP:RFU#Yusuke Suzuki (footballer). Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 23:36, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For whatever reason, the footballer article currently exists, so the provided rationale is not currently a valid reason for renaming the race walker article. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 06:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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