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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination. Discussions: Mahatma Gandhi -> Mohandas Gandhi, Moved, 21 November 2007 (diff) Mohandas Gandhi -> Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Moved, 1 December 2007 (diff) RM, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -> Mahatma Gandhi, No consensus, 3 June 2008, Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/Archive 6#Requested move RM, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -> Mahatma Gandhi, Not moved, 1 July 2011, Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/Archive 9#Requested move RM, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi -> Mahatma Gandhi, Moved, 1 January 2013, Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/Archive 11#Requested move RM, Mahatma Gandhi -> Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Not moved, 12 June 2013, Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/Archive 12#Requested Move (June 2013) See also Talk:Mahatma Gandhi/Mahatma vs. Mohandas

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Hi@Capitals00:. I was wondering why did you revert the ip's post? I don't see the need to revert and much less revert without an edit summary. Sincerely, --Thinker78 (talk) 03:12, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That message was nothing more than blatant trolling and I obviously reverted it per WP:DNFT. Capitals00 (talk) 03:41, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see it more as a content dispute between you and the ip. What they pointed out can be found in criticism against Gandhi elsewhere, in the very easy google search I did. Please restore and use the consensus process. Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 19:48, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is not a content dispute but blatant trolling. You really need find something productive instead of feeding the troll. Capitals00 (talk) 01:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Info about criticism against Gandhi[edit]

There has been criticism against Gandhi, including claims that he was a British agent,^[1] his practices of sleeping with naked women,^[2] bias and rivalry with Nehru.^[3] The revert of the ip post was undue and failed to assume good faith. Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 21:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your third source is not supportive of your claim. In fact it is simply the opposite.

As for the rest, so what do you want us to do? Add this all into the article? There are those who claim Holocaust was a hoax, COVID is fake, vaccines cause deaths and more and they do get coverage but when they raise those issues here we simply revert them away.

You are just wasting time over a troll IP and you need to stop it. Capitals00 (talk) 01:51, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Capitals00 I request that you follow the consensus policy and the dispute resolution policy. Anonymous ips also have the right according to the Wikipedia's Five Pillars to present legitimate points in the talk page. I do not appreciate at all that you are telling me that I need to stop simply because it is an ip and you were in the wrong reverting without a proper edit summary and calling it trolling when it was not trolling, failing to assume good faith.

Wikipedia is free content that anyone can use, edit, and distribute.

Thanks. Thinker78 (talk) 03:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"As for the rest, so what do you want us to do?" I simply presented the information backed by sources. It is up to a consensus whether to include it or not. You are pointing out to other things but even for those things there is a policy called WP:FRINGE, which I don't know if it is the case with the information presented by the ip. Sincerely, Thinker78 (talk) 03:41, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change every mention of "convicted for" to "convicted of." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pplantier (talk • contribs) 15:17, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bapu is gujarati word usually used to address elderly wise men. Its being misinterpreted with hindi word baap. It gujarat anyone above 50 and mostly belonging to saurashtra region are addressed in respect as bapu, similarly in north india people address elderly as babuji.

I am sorry as i cannot produce citation for same, but being a gujarati i can explain the difference. Unvindia (talk) 00:32, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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he was a sigma 165.0.10.6 (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk|contribs) 08:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Respected editors I request you to kindly make an omission in The title of the page and make it form "Mahtma Gandhi"to "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi" as acording to article 18 of our Indian constitution the abolition of title acct which states that :

Abolition of titles (1) No title, not being a military or academic distinction, shall be conferred by the State.

(2) No citizen of India shall accept any title from any foreign State.

(3) No person who is not a citizen of India shall, while he holds any office of profit or trust under the State, accept without the consent of the President any title from any foreign State.

(4) No person holding any office of profit or trust under the State shall, without the consent of the President, accept any present, emolument, or office of any kind from or under any foreign State. Thus I request you aagain to remove mahatma form mahatma gandhi as it is a violation of our Indian constituion Ananye Sharma17 (talk) 06:02, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: See WP:COMMONNAME, which uses this article as an example. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 06:10, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]