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Requested move 13 March 2023[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Page moved. (non-admin closure) Treetoes023 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kempegowda International Airport → Bengaluru Airport – Majority of English Language Sources uses "Bengaluru Airport" or "Bengaluru International Airport" so as per WP:COMMONNAME I request to Move/rename the article. ಹುಲಿ🐯^talk 11:54, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support As per WP:AIRPORTNAME

PalauanReich (talk) 17:13, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Restoration[edit]

Note that I have restored this name per this discussion]. As I noted in my edit summary, this appears to be the most recent talk page discussion and it concluded that this article should be at Bengaluru Airport per WP:AIRPORTNAME and WP:COMMONNAME. This was reverted by a user seemingly unilaterally (I cannot find a discussion). If it should be at Kempegowda International Airport, then there should be a new discussion opened. Avgeekamfot (talk) 14:33, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2024[edit]

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The ownership is wrong I believe. It is not Fairfax financial. It is Fairfax India holding that owns through another company an majority share. 212.107.146.227 (talk) 23:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done RudolfRed (talk) 00:30, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 4 May 2024[edit]

It has been proposed in this section that Bengaluru Airport be renamed and moved to Bangalore Airport.

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Bengaluru Airport → Bangalore Airport – This article has gone through a number of move changes but the most recent discussion (seen above) concluded that it should be named Bengaluru Airport. One editor has unilaterally moved the article to reflect the airport's official name without opening a new discussion which I have undone. However, upon reflection, I feel that the WP:COMMONNAME for this article would be Bangalore Airport. This would reflect the consensus seen at Talk:Bangalore#Requested_move_21_March_2024 that Bangalore is the common name of the city, not Bengaluru. Bangalore is also what major English-speaking international carriers describe the airport as including United [1] and British Airways [2]. Qantas, meanwhile, feels the need to clarify that Bengaluru is Bangalore using quotations further underlining that Bangalore is more common [3].

Additionally, given the consensus for the Bangalore article, having the equivalent name for the airport is supported by WP:CONSISTENT. Avgeekamfot (talk) 11:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. SilverLocust 💬 16:28, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Notified: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports. Sunnya343 (talk) 04:07, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Per above and WP:COMMONNAME. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 14:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose What three individual airlines call it is not sufficient evidence of usage - where is the evidence to show usage within India? My searches also appear to show Kempegowda Airport is used by many sources. Cathay Pacific use Bengaluru, as does Air India along with Flightradar24 so I'm not seeing convincing evidence that Bangalore is the common name. AusLondonder (talk) 14:57, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support move. The common name is clearly Bangalore Airport. O.N.R. ^(talk) 23:19, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Change back to Kempegowda International Airport. Sure, Bangalore Airport is probably the common name around the world, just as Omaha Airport and Abuja Airport are likely the ones for those airports. Yet the titles of the latter articles are Eppley Airfield and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, respectively. It appears that the custom on Wikipedia is to use the airport's official name as the article title, and I think that's fine. The term Bangalore Airport strikes me as unnecessarily generic. Therefore I support restoring the official name in the title in order to create consistency with other airport articles. Sunnya343 (talk) 04:09, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sunnya343 I agree to your point, it's better to stick onto the official name of this international airport and not have either "Bengaluru" or "Bangalore" and by the way, geographically, this city is named as "Bengaluru". But keeping that point aside, I prefer to have the name as "Kempegowda International Airport" as what is given by the officials of BIAL Pvt. Ltd. Hope this supports your point. Thank you. Santosh4118 (talk) 09:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to add that this Requested Move is based on a 2023 discussion in which just two people took part and no evidence was cited. I know that no minimum participation is required, but we can hardly call that a solid consensus. Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) had been the stable title for years. Also, I imagine that news organizations generally don't feel the need to write out the official name; for them Bangalore airport (or Abuja airport or Las Vegas airport) will suffice. I see airports as different from cities. A news outlet has to decide between writing Bangalore or Bengaluru, but when talking about the airport, it can just write Bangalore/Bengaluru airport for simplicity's sake. So maybe Bangalore/Bengaluru airport appears more often in the news, but for the Wikipedia article on the subject, I believe it's more appropriate to use the official name in the title. I should clarify that KIA is by no means an obscure name and that it has appeared in major news outlets, such as The New York Times, Reuters, and The Hindu. (By the way, the links provided by the nom are referring to the city, not the airport.)
In addition, Bangalore Airport with a capital A is grammatically incorrect since it isn't a proper noun; Bangalore airport is correct. Even so, I can't think of a single airport article on Wikipedia that has such a title.
Per WP:CRITERIA, we can determine by consensus whether to prioritize certain naming criteria over others in a given article. In this case I believe KIA is recognizable, precise, and consistent with other airport articles. Sunnya343 (talk) 19:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Change back the name to original name. Kempegowda International Airport is the correct name, like Heathrow Airport or O'Hare international airport or JFK Airport, instead of London Airport, Chicago Airport or New York Airport. 115.99.168.35 (talk) 12:19, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:52, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]