Talk:Vanathirayanpattinam

Requested move 22 November 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. There's a rough consensus that "Vanathirayanpattinam" is more common in reliable sources. Jenks24 (talk) 05:03, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Vanathirayampattinam → Vanathirayanpattinam – A couple recent IP edits seem to be asking for a move.

Vanathirayampattinam has 4130 Google results. Vanathirayanpattinam has 1400 Google results.

Attempting to refine the search a bit more...

Vanathirayampattinam, Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu gives 26,900 hits. Vanathirayanpattinam, Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu gives 1150 hits.

I seem to find from those searches that the village itself is often spelled with an 'n' and the area of the village with an 'm' but I'd like more eyes on this.

The original source is archived at, but that page doesn't have either name. (I believe the controls at the top gave that information, but they don't seem to work in the archive.) —PC-XT+ 01:58, 22 November 2015 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 08:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - it's Vanathirayampattinam in the 2011 Census. —Мандичка YO 😜 12:35, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Tentative support the state government appears to use the "n" version consistently, e.g. search on tn.gov.in, or see Tamil Nadu Directorate of Census Operations . (I assume they prefer that form because – if I am not mistaken – it's an "n" in the original Tamil: வானதிராயன்பட்டினம் Vāṉatirāyaṉpaṭṭiṉam). I don't think the Google hits at large are worth much either way, because they're all just scraping a tiny number of underlying geographic or postcode databases. 210.6.254.106 (talk) 15:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. The proposed form does seem to be slightly more common on Google Books; most books using the "m" version are sourced to this Wikipedia article.--Cúchullain t/ c 13:24, 18 December 2015 (UTC)


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