Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Indic)
Latest comment: 11 months ago by Rustyshackelford in topic Honorific
Swami in article titles
I noticed this afternoon that the naming convention for articles with Swami is not consistent, with advocates on both sides. It seems random to me which pages have consensus for which. The meta question being, does it matter to the overall quality of Wikipedia that they're inconsistent? These are the ones I came across casually:
Without Swami:
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Chinmayananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Satyananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Vishnudevananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Chinmayananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Sivananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Vijnanananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Murder_of_Lakshmanananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Dayananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swaminarayan (vs. Swaminarayan Swami postfix)
With Swami:
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Vivekananda/Archive_1#Moving_to_original_page_'Vivekananda'
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Swami_Prameyananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Swami_Smaranananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Bhaskarananda_Saraswati
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Swahananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Prabhavananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Chidbhavananda
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Swami_Ramanand
- https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Talk:Muktanand_Swami (postfix)
Honorific
Perhaps I am missing one of core Wikipedia guidelines, but someone could help me with a specific confusion I have. Whereas I see "King" and "Queen" appear before names for Western monarchs, why is "Maharaja" or "Maharani" supposed to be "questioned"? Rustyshackelford (talk) 16:46, 31 May 2023 (UTC)