Talk:National Capital Territory of Delhi

What is the current and proposed administrative status of New Delhi and the National capital territory? The two articles seem inconsistent at present, but on careful reading they are not, in that the NCT does not (yet?) have full statehood, but has some measure of independence. Or at least that is the picture taking the two articles together. Clarification needed IMO. Andrewa 15:29, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * The NCT is called Delhi, and it has two cities named Delhi and New Delhi apart from some nearby regions. And the NCT called Delhi. But my friend from Delhi says that the NCT is also called New Delhi informally, etc. Should Wikipedia reflect the administrative names, etc. or should it also include what informal names a place could have? -- Paddu 08:50, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * We should move this to Delhi (territory) then, I would say. Morwen 10:29, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)


 * Also Noida and Ghaziabad are part of Uttar Pradesh and do not fall under the administration of the NCT. But since they are served by Delhi Transport, etc. and are included in the Metropolitan region of Delhi, the term NCR (National Capital Region) is used to loosely include them as well as Gurgaon (in Haryana), etc. -- Paddu 09:07, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * That contradicts what the article says IMO. But it's a bit vague in some ways. Hmmmm. Andrewa 21:42, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * I am from Delhi and stay in Gurgaon, I can help answer any questions you may have regarding this subject, just post here.I recommend this stays as a seprate page and is not merged into Delhi. This page should focus more on the suburbs of Gurgaon and NOIDA and there interdependence and interaction with Delhi. FeralTitan 14:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Cite for name
The name seems to be capitalized in the Indian Consitution, here. Noisy | Talk 08:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Merge with Delhi
There is absolutely no reason to have two seperate articles on Delhi and National Capital Territory of Delhi. Delhi was first a union territory in India and later on after the commencement of the 69th amendment to the Indian constitution, Delhi was given a status of a National Capital Territory. As one can notice, most of the content of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is similar to that of the Delhi article. --Deepak|वार्ता 05:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Good point. Following the examples set by other federal capital cities, there seems to be some variation as to whether the city is treated as the same as the subnational entity where it is situated and whether one article is redirected to the other. For example, Washington is indistinguishable from the District of Columbia (the city, though not the entire conurbation) and so here in Wikipedia they both share the same entry. The same goes for Buenos Aires and Kuala Lumpur (no separate entry for the district, because its limits are coterminous with those of the city). The following federal capital cities which are physically and administratively not identical to their respective federal capital districts or territories, have their own entries in WP:


 * Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria separate from the city of Abuja
 * Australian Capital Territory separate from the city of Canberra
 * Venezuelan Capital District separate from the city of Caracas
 * Mexican Federal District separate from the city of Mexico
 * Brazilian Federal District separate from the city of Brasília


 * --Big Adamsky 14:04, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
 * oppose.IMO. merging should not be done. Read the Wikiproject Indian cities disambiguation for further ideas. This kinda issues have arised before in other city articles. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

New merge request
This article is part of WikiProject Indian states, as per the banner at the head of the page. If you wish to make any changes, then please agree them with the project first. There are approximately 80 articles that link directly to the article page, so if this page is to be made into a redirect, then all those eighty articles will have to be changed as well. Noisy | Talk 08:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Per WP:REDIRECT, it is not necessary to "fix" redirects that aren't broken. In fact, it is preferred not to fix such redirects if they display properly. Polaron | Talk 15:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)