Talk:Kollam/Archive 1

Initial
I have modified the contents of this page by adding a bit of extra info. Thanks to the person who created this article. cheers Theruvath Prasanth Mathew — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tprasanthm (talk • contribs) 14:28, 14 April 2005 (UTC)

Anther town with the same name
According to this, there is another Kollam in Kozhikode district. -- Ganeshk  ( talk ) 08:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * * That's correct Ganeshk. Interesting thing is, there is a "Kollam" in Kozhikode district and a "Kozhikode" in Kollam district :) :D Arunvrparavur (talk) 10:04, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Administration section
The Administration section in the Kollam page is not related to the city. It talks about the administration of Kollam district, and hence should be moved to there. The details specific to the city such as the city corporation details, No. of wards, Mayor's name, the hierarchy of the Police force in Kollam city, etc. should be included here. -- Rajith Mohan (Talk to me...) :-) 11:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It has been moved. With respect to the other points raised, those will be filled in soon. Jisha C J 13:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)


 * * Now it's clear I guess Arunvrparavur (talk) 10:04, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

District and town
Many of the things in this article are about the Kollam district. It should be moved to its article. Lord Labak Daas 06:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Area of Kollam corporation
The area is not 2491 km². Can any one provide the correct figure ? Please change it accordingly. -- Rajith Mohan (Talk to me...) :-) 12:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I removed the area, but the other stats, except the population, also appear to be for the district. The density of the district can be calculated from http://www.kollam.nic.in/Gln.html to be 1038. Does the census dept publish literacy for each city, or just the districts ? Tintin 12:36, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

The census details of population, literacy, unemployment, poverty, etc, etc are available for each districts and cities. Even ward wise break up is available with the Census Department. But, unfortunately, the smaller break ups are not published in internet. You can contact the PRO at the HO of the Census Dept in Kerala for the break up details of the cities and towns. But, How to cite those in wiki is another question :-) -- Rajith Mohan (Talk to me...) :-) 11:01, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * * Rajith Mohan, Tintin : It was 58.18+ sqkm, before 2016. Now GOK has merged two small panchayaths with Kollam Municipal Corporation and the area has reached 73sqkm now.. Arunvrparavur (talk) 10:04, 27 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks. If you have a specific citation, can you please add that also. Tintin 08:35, 28 October 2016 (UTC)


 * It's already there in the infobox. For more detailed citations, please see the "Demographics" section. Arunvrparavur (talk) 11:28, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Citations needed
The article lacks citation for many many sentences. The entire article needs to be more wikified. Hope the editors will pitch in for this. -- Rajith Mohan (Talk to me..) 11:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Redirect to Quilon(industrial chemical)
Should the redirect from Quilon to Kollam be removed since there is a need for a page on the widely used industrial chemical family called Quilon?Peri 03:17, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * * "Quilon" is a centuries old name of this city. It would be better to create Quilon(Industrial chemical) article for the chemicals rather than creating diambig., in my opinion. -- Arunvrparavur (talk) 12:04, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

List of schools and temples needed?
Is it needed to add the names of all temples in Kollam in the article?? Cant it be deleted?? Shekure (talk) 10:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree with you. The article has multiple issues right now (and I've tagged it as such). Please be bold and do what you need to. Aditya (talk) 11:06, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Notable people
Lists of names in this article should be sourced in accordance with WP:BLP. As there is no way of constantly maintaining linked articles, this applies to names which have a Wikipedia article as well as those that do not. Any name listed with no verifiable citations should be removed. Fæ (talk) 07:49, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'm removing your individual citation tags though, because the section already has one, so yours are redundant. Aditya Ex Machina  08:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Rework needed
Need to clear the article of regularly reappearing spam about ashrams and tourist resorts. Most of the stuff is just not believable and borders on scamming. All of them are scamsters setting themselves up as ashrams and seeking legitimacy via mentions on the wiki. Shaji K V (talk) 19:28, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Kollam
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Reference named "Cities1Lakhandabove": From Asansol:  From Thiruvananthapuram:  From Patna:  From Chandigarh:  

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KOLLAM
IN KOLLAM UNDER THE TITLE NOTABLE PEOPLE' I FOUND SOME OF THE NAMES HAVEBEEN DELETED BY AN EDITOR NAMED Salih' IS IT YOU, IFSO KINDLY LET ME KNOW THE REASON ,,WHY THIS HAS DELETED..HOPE YOU READ THE DELETED,,,DONT THEY HAVE RELEVANCE IN KOLLAM, KINDLY LET ME KNOW, parklane777@yahoo.com.....THE DELETED NAMES ARE.. * A.A.Raheem MLA, MP, Minister, Union Minister, former Governor of Meghalaya. − * Kochu Hassan Kunju Bahadoor MLC, MLA of Sree Moolam Popular Assembly, 1904, 1916. Quilon Town Improvement Committee, Quilon Merchants Forum. − * CHC Mohammed Kunju Police Inspector, Later Alappuzha Dist Registrar Born on 1885 Died on 1938 − * Kayikkara − * Vayalil Koya A prominent businessman from kollam − * Alsan Pilla Pulavar Businessman − * Jnaana Rathnam Kaviraj-Shahul Hameed Pulavar


 * * Can you see the wiki article links for the mentioned names? I think "No". That's why those names are in red color. So my request is, no need to mention such names here. There may be thousands of famous people living/lived in Kollam city alone. But no need to mention all those names here Arunvrparavur (talk) 10:04, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 20 May 2022
Hi someone added wrong information on this article and now shows protected .Kindly open it. Kollam is 4rd largest city in Kerala and someone edited to 5th. Also need to add recent kollam district connectivity details too 149.199.50.128 (talk) 10:31, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 May 2022
Hi ,

This page someone added so many wrong information and wiki protecting it. Kollam is 4 th largest city in Kerala as wiki itself is correctly saying in another page but someone here changed that to 5 th largest. That need to correct. I will append the links. Similarly so many wrong data been added here. Kindly open Kollam wiki for editing.

Kollam 4 th largest city in Kerala

https://worldpopulationreview.com/territories/kerala-population

Wiki correct data here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Kerala 117.230.181.31 (talk) 18:32, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: I would classify the World Population Review website as generally unreliable in agreeance with Newslinger from 3 years ago. It lists 2 sources for the entire website at the very bottom of the home page, both of which are estimates and/or "prospects" for world population. For the Kerala page in particular there is nothing on the page providing any sort of sourcing; it doesn't even explain where in the sources it lists on the footer of the homepage you can find what it's claiming on the Kerala page.
 * The only source I could find on List of cities and towns in Kerala that I can evaluate or was relevant was https://www.citypopulation.de/en/india/kerala/, and no matter which column I click on, Kollam is not 4th. Just because another page on Wikipedia claims the information does not mean that it is authoritative. This is in stark contrast to the sentence in this article that claims it if ranked 5th which has 4 sources just for that claim. That said, I will concede I am unable to evaluate them as they are either not using HTTPS (and I refuse to go to non-HTTPS websites) or in a language I do not read, so it's possible that point is entirely moot.
 * I would suggest beginning a consensus discussion on this page, and possibly even on List of cities and towns in Kerala, to iron out with other editors how this should be resolved. — Sirdog (talk) 20:10, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2022
Hi Wiki just closed the conversation without understanding the context. Kollam City is 4 th largest City in Kerala. India cities are classified by population thats why in another page wiki updated correctly this. Here someone mistakenly or intentionally written Kollam as 5 th and now wiki supporting this, thats very bad. It questions integrity of Wikipedia.

Kollam is 4 th largest municipal Corporation in Kerala and second most density corporation in Kerala. Its in second position in per capita income as well.

Government websites

https://kollamcity.keralapolice.gov.in/kollam-city-police/history/kollam-city-police-history

https://lsgkerala.gov.in/lbinfo/#

https://www.kudumbashree.org/sub-district/8881002/20

https://www.republicworld.com/amp/lifestyle/travel/best-homestays-in-kollam-city-to-have-a-memorable-trip-to-kerala.html

https://dbpedia.org/page/Kollam_Municipal_Corporation

https://bigbangpokemon.com/animals/which-is-the-biggest-city-in-kerala.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollam_Municipal_Corporation

http://cyberjournalist.org.in/towns.html

https://www.mapsofindia.com/kollam/

https://keralatourism.travel/destinations/kollam

https://travel2karnataka.com/kollam.htm

https://www.oyorooms.com/hotels-in-kollam/

http://www.muraharatravels.co.in/routes-directory/kollam-to-bangalore

https://traveltriangle.com/blog/things-to-do-in-kollam/

https://kids.kiddle.co/Kollam 117.230.171.191 (talk) 05:31, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Instead of submitting a new request, you should reply to and reopen the original request by setting the "|answered=" flag to "no". Aaron Liu (talk) 07:26, 4 June 2022 (UTC)