Talk:Muttiah Muralitharan

Language order
As a note to future editors, the presentation order of renderings of names in different languages may be contentious due to national pride. Per this edit on 1 July 2021, it is probably best to leave things alone unless sources tend to put one first or put prominence on one language/script. --Anon423 (talk) 18:11, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Agreed, thanks for bringing this up. For consistency across pages, the article for the subject's country of birth, Dominion of Ceylon, lists Sinhala before Tamil in the infobox. The language order has remained as such on this page for a while and I see no reason to change it now.  TG HL ↗  🍁 20:47, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


 * It got changed at some point, and a set of Malayalam script added as well. I've removed that as the Malayalam article makes no mention of its use in Sri Lanka that I could see and it clearly falls under WP:NOINDICSCRIPT. Blue Square Thing (talk) 18:40, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Spelling of name
Not sure what the policy is here, but it seemed hilarious to me while reading that this article has a whole section on what spelling he prefers, but still uses the other alternative anyway? any reason for this? 2405:201:200E:A058:F94E:B9D4:28C3:F3A (talk) 03:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)


 * WP:COMMONNAME I'd guess - a lot of news outlets use the variant used here; though I guess they're just taking the name they see on Wikipedia, as happens a lot with Indian sources (one of the reasons why a lot of Indian sources are considered unreliable). Fwiw Cricinfo and ICC consistently use Murali's preferred spelling.  Java Hurricane  04:15, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * So... I dug through the Sydney Morning Herald , which used "Muralidaran" for a fair while till 2015 at least, but has since reverted to "Muralitharan". The Guardian only uses "Muralitharan" as far as I can tell. Same for the BBC (except their Sinhala edition, which uses Murali's preferred name sometimes). The Times also uses "Muralitharan" only. I've not gone through additional RSs but it would seem that "Muralitharan" is indeed the COMMONNAME.  Java Hurricane  04:49, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Copyright material
I've removed a large chunk of text due to it being taken word for word from https://web.archive.org/web/20080315182255/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl1520/15201400.htm. It was added on 19 March 2008 by 203.24.7.9 in 2 edits here and here. JP (Talk) 12:53, 19 March 2024 (UTC)