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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by John Price (talk | contribs) at 06:55, 5 February 2003 (The rule (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions) is to put articles at the most common name unless disambiguation necessitates something else.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

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

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 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
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