Talk:Pongamia oil

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 * Since this article is about a non-edible oil, and after consulting with the WikiProject Food and drink, I am removing the Food and Drink tag from here. -Killian441 (talk) 20:44, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Article name change
I am proposing changing the name of this article to Pongamia oil. I recently updated the article and as I stated in the opening paragraph there are many different names for the Pongamia pinnata tree including honge, karanja, pungai, etc. The common name for the tree in English seems to be Indian Beech tree, but this doesn't seem to be common when referring to the oil made from the seed. In fact I have done a couple of quick searches and it seems that Honge and Karanja oil are very common for English speakers from India. But it does seem that much of the recent research refers to the oil as Pongamia oil when referencing biodiesel.

A couple of quick searches:

I'm not an expert in this subject, but while looking for references it definitely seems like Pongamia oil, or Karanja oil, is a better title for this article. Killian441 (talk) 23:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't have an opinion on the name change, but agree that the other 2 major names seem to be perfectly good names. I created redirects from them.Shajure (talk) 00:42, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Maybe after a few months, we can check the usage of the names and see which is being hit more.Shajure (talk) 00:44, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

A couple months have passed and I am updating the table I previously put together. I'm removing "pungai oil" as there were very few results, and including "millettia oil" based on the new name of Pongamia.

It seems like "millettia oil" isn't very popular yet, but I will make a redirect page for it just in case. Looking at the traffic statistics from http://stats.grok.se Karanja oil was accessed 113 times in the last 90 days, while Pongamia oil was only accessed 42 times in the last 90 days. I think these accesses are slightly skewed, as Karanja oil is linked to from Karanja while Pongamia oil has no links at all. While I prefer changing the name to Pongamia oil (or even Millettia oil), there still doesn't seem to be a consensus. Killian441 (talk) 17:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Doing another round of this:

I'm going to change the name to Pongamia oil. The google results fluctuate a lot, and although Karanja has more springerlink and onefile results, I think Pongamia is more closely associated with the tree it comes from. If there are objections we can continue this topic. -Killian441 (talk) 22:50, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Merge Proposal
I am proposing that Millettia pinnata seed oil be merged with Pongamia oil (this article) as they both discuss the same topic. The only point of contention is the name of the proposed article. I recommend Pongamia oil as the name, as I think it has more traction and is more common. -Killian441 (talk) 00:12, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree to merge with pongamia oil as they both discuss the same topic.Palagiri (talk) 01:34, 16 November 2013 (UTC)