Talk:Toba Tek Singh

Requested move
I think the current Tobey Te Hings article needs to be moved to Tobey Te Hings District (as it is about the district) and then this article should be moved to Tobey Te Hings.

Thank you Kalahari Sahib  22:58, 10 December 2007 (GMT)


 * Suggest we discuss the two moves together at Talk:Tobey Te Hings. Andrews (talk) 09:03, 19 December 2007 (CUT)

Name in Gurmukhi script
Recently, someone from IP 108.115.142.224 objected on it's name written in Gurmukhi script. First of all, it's named after a Sikh saint named, Tek Singh. So Gurmukhi is very closely related to the article but as you described I've removed the Gurmukhi name from "native name" filed of the infobox. Secondly, Wikipedia is not for just Pakistan. The native lang. name helps the users understanding the name who don't know Urdu. TariButtar (talk) 08:04, 3 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Whether or not TTS is named after a Sikh saint makes absolutely no difference to the fact that this city is Pakistan, and not East Punjab. Gurmukhi is not a script used in Pakistan. If this city were in East Punjab, writing its name would make sense in Gurmukhi - but this is Pakistani Punjab. Likewise, Granada in Spain is derived from an Arabic name, yet its name is not written in Arabic on the Granada page. A


 * Regarding the fact that this page isn't just written for Pakistanis (which if we believed that, then this page would be written entirely in Urdu), then you still cannot simply include various languages so prominently. The "native language" name you speak of is an invalid point, because the name wasn't altered into some Urdu variant: it is pronounced and spelled exactly as it would be in Punjabi, and the Shahmukhi script.


 * If you wish to make this page more accessible for East Punjabis, then you should go ahead and make a Gurmukhi version of this page. Because I find it hard to believe that anyone who is interested in reading this page would not know that the "Singh" identifies it as a city named after a Sikh. And if they don't recognize that Singh is a Sikh name, then I really doubt the presence of Gurmukhi script will elucidate that point (Since if they dont know what Singh is, they very unlikely know anything about Gurmukhi. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.183.0.122 (talk) 20:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree with the previous commenter. This is Pakistan, not East Punjab. The "clarification" argument isn't very good, because the Indian city of Ahmedabad is a Persian/Urdu name, but Indians don't write the Urdu/Persian script on the Ahmedabad page. Likewise, Toba Tek Singh is a Sikh name, but we don't need to include Gurmukhi script since Indian's wont include our scripts for their major cities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.186.68.229 (talk) 17:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I add my support to using only Urdu/Shahmukhi Punjabi on this page. I am heartened by the fact that East Punjabis still feel a sense of attachment to this town, but it is a Pakistani town - not an Indian one. It is preposterous to suggest we use your scripts in our country. We both use Nastaliq - but only you use Gurmukhi.Willard84 (talk) 15:30, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

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