Talk:Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: Not moved. Jafeluv (talk) 07:22, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati → Bhaskarananda Saraswati — Swami is a Hindu honorific title. Inclusion of honorifics is discouraged through MOS:HONORIFIC and more specifically the proposed Indic naming convention (WP:NCIN) Labattblueboy (talk) 12:27, 29 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Swami Swahananda → Swahananda
 * Swami Chidbhavananda → Chidbhavananda
 * Swami Vijnanananda → Vijnanananda
 * Swami Prabhavananda → Prabhavananda

Oppose: Sorry, but I do not support the proposed move. There is not yet a consensus reached on this, or reliable sources provided to prove that "Swami" is a mere honorific title and not an actual part of a sannyasin's name. "Swami" seems to be at least a part of a sannyasin's common name. See Talk:Swami_Vivekananda, Talk:Swami_Chidbhavananda, Talk:Swami for previous discussions about this. The page Swami claims that "Swami" is an honorific, but provides not a single reference. And on the Swami Vivekananda talk page, no consensus was reached to move the page. Devadaru (talk) 13:12, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Oppose, as per Devadaru (above). Furthermore, even if at some point there were a consensus that "swami" is merely honorific, one must still take into account this convention (from WP:Naming_conventions_(people)): "Honorifics and other titles such as "King", "Queen", "Blessed", "Mother", "Father", "Doctor", "Mister", "Mrs" etc. are not generally used to begin the titles of biographical articles, unless they are used to form the unambiguous name by which the subject is clearly best known (as in Mother Teresa, Father Damien)" (emphasis added). Health Researcher (talk) 18:20, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.