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Q1: Why isn't this page titled Bengaluru?

A1: In English Wikipedia, articles are titled according to their most commonly used names in sources written in English, regardless of what it may be officially called. Currently, Bangalore is more common in English sources than Bengaluru.

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Bangalore is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Bangalore has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 2, 2006.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 20, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
March 24, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
July 23, 2012	Featured article review	Demoted
July 13, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 29, 2022. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the name of the Indian city Bangalore* could be derived from a Kannada word meaning 'town of boiled beans'?*
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

List of diplomatic missions in Bangalore was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 September 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Bangalore. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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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:

(Less formal discussions are also found in the archives but are not listed.)

Bangalore → Bengalooru, Moved to Bengaluru, 31 October 2006, Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics/Archive 18#Article name updates for some Cities of Karnataka
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Procedural close due to parallel discussion, Talk:Bangalore/Archive 1#Requested move, 1 November 2006
Bengaluru → Bangalore, Moved, 3 September 2007, Talk:Bangalore/Archive 2#Requested move [3] (back to "Bangalore")
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 10 March 2008, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_3#rename as bengaluru
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 7 April 2008, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_3#New survey
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 3 February 2011, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_4#Move Request
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 18 October 2014, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_5#Requested move [5] 18 October 2014
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 31 October 2014, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_5#Requested Move 6
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 22 April 2015, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_5#Requested move 7
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Withdrawn, 3 June 2015, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_5#Requested move 3 June 2015
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 31 July 2015, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_5#Requested move 27 July 2015
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 8 December 2015, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_6#Requested move 29 November 2015
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 3 September 2017, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_6#Requested move 3 September 2017
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 24 August 2020, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_7#Requested move 24 August 2020
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 19 January 2022, Talk:Bangalore/Archive_8#Requested move 19 January 2022
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 20 June 2023, Talk:Bangalore/Archive 8#Requested move 20 June 2023
Bangalore → Bengaluru, Not moved, 21 March 2024, Talk:Bangalore/Archive 8#Requested move 21 March 2024

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