Talk:Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha

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– ", Odisha" implies that this is a location, which it is not. Adding parenthesis would be better in this case as it is merely a local chapter of the larger Bharatiya Janata Party, which also happens to be the primary topic. - Ratnahastin (talk) 08:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). — Amakuru (talk) 10:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC) — Amakuru (talk) 10:08, 23 January 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Cremastra (talk) 13:56, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(contested techincal request reason copied from WP:RM/TR) - Gonna procedurally contest this one. 1. This is an issue with all articles in Category:Bharatiya_Janata_Party_by_state_or_union_territory, which is quite a few, and we should try to stay consistent. 2. The official website uses the current title [1], while the sources in the article tend to write "Odisha BJP" or use a descriptive name. I think you have a good point, but this should be decided for all similar articles in an RM, not by moving them one at a time at RM/TR. Toadspike [Talk] 09:26, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Toadspike and Ratnahastin: - notifying you of this discussion, following contested request at WP:RM/TR — Amakuru (talk) 10:09, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for taking the effort at formatting this RM, this means a lot. - Ratnahastin (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - personally I think the proposed format might be a little confusing for the reasons that Toadspike mentions - as these are different branches of the same party rather than completely separate parties called BJP that simply need to be disambiguated by location. It's actually BJP Odisha, not a party called BJP that happens to be resident in Odisha. The proposed format does actually exist in some sources, e.g. [2]... but my preference would be to actually use an en-dash rather than a comma or parentheses to differentiate these titles. So move to Bharatiya Janata Party – Odisha etc. This format does exist in places, for example the page title of [3] is titled "Bharatiya Janata Party – Andhra Pradesh". Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 10:14, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with your suggestion. - Ratnahastin (talk) 13:59, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisting comment: Need input on Amakuru's alt move Cremastra (talk) 13:56, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]