Talk:S. Balachander

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Shouldn't the article be moved to "Sundaram Balachander"? // habj 21:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

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Long-standing vandalism
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Feud with the Kanchi shankaracharya
Balachander,though hmself a brahmin heavily resented the influence that the kanchi mutt held over brahmins in tamilnadu. His remarks calling the Kanchi shankaracharya Chandra shekarendra saraswati "A senile old man" and calling he kanchi mutt a "420 organization" deeply hurt the feelings of the brahmin community.

From Revision as of 04:25, 4 September 2016

This was tweaked subsequently, but "mutt" and "420" endured throughout. &mdash; MaxEnt 15:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 19 April 2020

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Moved as proposed. Although a headcount would yield no consensus (notwithstanding that one oppose is qualified as "weak", the overriding policy invoked here is WP:COMMONNAME, for which sufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate that the initialism is used for this subject. BD2412  T 03:51, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Sundaram Balachander → S. Balachander – This is the more common name, and the one used in film credits. Compare the G-hits of S. Balachander and Sundaram Balachander.In fact, after he quit films he was called "Veenai S. Balachander" or "Veena S. Balachander". Kailash29792 (talk)  05:36, 19 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. buidhe 10:19, 26 April 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC) —Relisting. Jerm (talk) 19:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Weak oppose per WP:INITS, S. Balachander is used more often than Sundaram Balachander but they are both used a lot. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:14, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , the page you linked here should have given it away: "Generally, use the most common format of a name used in reliable sources". We say John F. Kennedy, not John Fitzgerald Kennedy; and J. P. Morgan, not John Pierpont Morgan. Besides, a biography of this subject calls him "S Balachander" on the cover. In the credits of his best known film, he is credited as "S. Balachander" (in Tamil but the S is in English) at 3:30. -- Kailash29792 (talk)  15:52, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment:, has the rationale provided by me changed your view in any way? Is there a way I can lure more commentors? -- Kailash29792 (talk)  15:54, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support as per nominator. He is known by this name and is refered to by the media by this name. TamilMirchi (Talk) 7:32, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Spelled out names are preferred to initialisms.  —SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:06, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Just searched his full name in Google books and it almost entirely came up with S. Balachander. We should go with what the majority of publications go with and cite his full name in the article.† Encyclopædius  10:08, 16 May 2020 (UTC)


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