Talk:Chunkath Joseph Varkey

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. The argument given for the move to "C. J. Varkey, Chunkath" is not valid since this is not the commonest form of the name. Of those that commented, only one editor supported a move to this title. Two editors supported a move to "C. J. Varkey" on the basis of common name, however, after considering the cultural sensitivity argument, I do not feel that this is sufficient to move the page to a title that would be the equivalent of moving "John Smith" to "S. John". DrKay (talk) 21:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

Chunkath Joseph Varkey → C. J. Varkey, Chunkath – Common name of the subject. All sources referred also use the same form (except one which has chosen to expand the initials to the full name, which is not likely to match most searches for the subject.) relisted--Mike Cline (talk) 21:22, 14 February 2012 (UTC) Karnan (talk) 04:57, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't he be C. J. Varkey? There are only two entries on the C. J. Varkey DAB, so WP:TWODABS would apply. C._J._Varkey,_Kuzhikulam had 0 views in last 90 days, compared to 83 for this subject. Kauffner (talk) 09:20, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Firstly, the present page for C. J. Varkey, Kuzhikulam is the result of my moving what was there on C._J._Varkey yesterday. So perhaps you need to look at the statistics for the latter page. Also, Varkey is the first name of either of these individuals (actually, a variant form of George). In olden times, schools for obscure reasons wrote their official names by abbreviating their surnames and middle names, in that order (similar to John F. Kennedy getting the name K. F. John in the official records). In the wider world, this cause much confusion, so they usually chose to use a common form of the name in which the surname is appended to the official name (like K. F. John, Kennedy). So both these are their common names. I was not attempting to disambiguate them. One of the references uses the common name for Chunkath. Many sources on the net (such as this, the most authoritative one) use the common name for Kuzhikulam (I think C. stands for Cuzhikulam, a variant spelling). Karnan (talk) 16:17, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The Christian impact in South Kanara gives "C.J. Varkey", while The Catholic who's who and yearbook gives "Varkey, Chunkath Joseph". (I assume the latter version of the name is reversed for alphabetizing reasons that don't apply to Wiki.) I get 37 deghosted Google Book results for Madras "CJ Varkey", one for "C. J. Varkey, Chunkath". Kauffner (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It is difficult to ascertain how authoritative these sources are for the question under consideration (I find that one of the 37 refers to the other one). I suppose his own family uses the common name here in the form I indicated. Karnan (talk) 19:11, 5 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisting comment - from a sourcing perspective both Chunkath Joseph Varkey and C. J. Varkey appear to be common names. However C. J. Varkey, Chunkath appears to only show up in sources mirroring or aggregating WP content.  Additionally, at this time I am reluctant to move the title, because the new title isn't even addressed in the article. If it is that common, why doesn't the article address it.  Further discussion should be around a move to C. J. Varkey as suggested by Kauffner. --Mike Cline (talk) 21:22, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Move to C. J. Varkey. Expanding on the result above, only C. J. Varkey is common. I think this covers all the permutations: zero results, zero results, zero results, one hit, zero results but 79 hits.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Common name is C. J. Varkey, Chunkath. I do not wish to repeat the reasons I have stated above, except to make clear that C. J. Varkey was the official name which proliferated in the records for reasons mentioned already; people who wrote about him and who were not familiar with the particular culture he came from (Indian and Catholic St. Thomas Christian) merely copied the school records. His family and his close associates from the same culture are authoritative sources for the common name. There are books which mention this which are not reflected in google searches. There is also his personal letterhead. Similar is the case for C. J. Varkey, Kuzhikulam, with the source being his diocese. Karnan (talk) 06:30, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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