Talk:Bhubaneswar

message: I have begun cleaning up this article extensively. There were many unnecessary parts to it, and they should not be added again. In addition, the tone of this article is hardly enyclopaedic. Please refrain from writing this as if it were to be read from a touristy handbook. I understand there may be important information that has been left out. Please do not hesitate to add it where it is needed, but please use utmost discretion.
Abhishek 17:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent work! I am doing the same thing with the Odisha article. I think Ekamra Kanan should be added to the list of tourist attractions. I have some beautiful pics of Ekamra kanan and some other parts of BBSR that I will upload within a day or two. SDas 19:06, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Again, please refrain from adding unnecessary educational institutions to this page. If you would like to help on this page, start by editing the tone of the article. It currently reads like a tourists guide, not an encyclopedia. If you feel that your institute of education is of note, make an article about it, and link to it in this article. Thanks. Abhishek 13:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I did my bit. Heavy cutting down of flowery language. If someone feels this has led to information loss, have included the deleted lines below for easy reference. Will come back for more in sometime
Bhubaneswar is associated with cluster of magnificent temples, almost constituting a complete record of Kalinga architecture from its nacency to its culmination. Its unique sculptural and architectural heritage, coupled with sanctity as Ekamrakshetra one of the five great religious centers of Orissa since early mediaeval days.[1]
Its antiqury remain both that carry us back to the dawn of dated history and bring us down to the last days of Hindu supremacy in Orissa.R. P. Mohapatra, Archaeology in Orissa, Vol I, Page 47, B. R. Publishing Corporation, Delhi, 1986, ISBN 81-7018-346-4.
Having merged its intriguing past so uniquely with its modern aspirations,
However Bhubaneswar is famous for its cool and refreshing evening breeze. Even on the hottest of summer days, evenings tend to be nice and pleasant thanks mainly to this evening breeze.
Higher Technical Education is also a big market.
The large density has earned the city the sobriquet of "Kota of the East".
Malls with a wide array of branded stores and foodcourts have changed the way the city shops.
he National Highway 5, connecting Kolkata and Chennai passes through the city and is one of India's premier highways being part of the 'Golden Quadrilateral' network.The National Highway 60, connecting Balasore to Kolkata.
including Guwahati, Dibrugarh,Jamshedpur Durgapur, Ranchi, Bokaro, Gaya, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Mathura, Haridwar, Panipat, Patiala, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Kota, Gwalior, Jhansi, Bhopal, Ujjain, Bilaspur, Raipur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Gandhinagar, Vadodara, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Warangal, Tirupati, Hubli, Goa, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Pondicherry, Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram andKanyakumari.
Bhubaneswar has grown to be a melting pot of various cultures. 
South Indians(especially Telugus)
The Kalinga Stadium at the heart of the city forms the focal point of sports activities in Bhubaneswar. It has excellent facilities for athletics,football, hockey, basketball, tennis, table tennis. There is also a olpympic standard swimming pool within the Kalinga Stadium compound. The newly constructed Railway Cricket Stadium is supposed to be the biggest in Eastern India with radius of 81 mtrs. The second phase of construction is on with galleries modelled along stadiums in New Zealand. It hosted its first Ranji Trophy match in November
Situated inside the info city, it is surrounded on one side by country’s leading IT companies and stretches of forests and hillocks on the other side giving one of the most picturesque views from the pavilion of the club house
and added it to WP: Cities
--Srath12345 (talk) 02:24, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaning up this article

message: Originally at Talk:Bhubaneswar, Orissa state's capital city
Bhubaneswar is the state capital of Orissa in eastern India. Now there have been many ocassions of misspelling teh word, by adding an h, and it is understandable given the varied and many languages in India and thus for varied pronounciation. In anycase, the offcial name is Bhubaneswar.
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 19:04, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Google returns 16.5 million results for Bhubaneswar and 19.8 million for Bhubaneshwar.  The difference was even greater between "Bhubaneswar tourism" and "Bhubaneshwar tourism": 948 to 5,570.   And the variation is not just between people with different languages or pronunciations: both spellings each occur more than once on the same page at http://www.tourism-of-india.com/bhubaneswar.html for example.  Does Wikipedia have a policy about whether to use the commonest spelling of a name or the "official" spelling?  One advantage of the former as a criterion is that it is objective and easily evaluated.  --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 07:30, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move request

message: * Colleges, universities, institutions are SUB-SECTIONS, not individual sections.
* Please do not list the same college three or four times under different redundant headings
* Having a notable section separately and listing only a few colleges is POV
* Subsections for colleges read like advertisements. Also they are unnecessary and expanded the article to great lengths. Information on individual colleges should be on the COLLEGE wiki-page.
* External links should be at the end of the article in footnotes, notes, see also, or external links sections NOT in the middle of the page.
* PLEASE DO NOT BUMP YOUR OWN SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY UP. I am Oriya myself and I want to see this page get featured someday but it will take hard-work not a desire to boast and publicize.
Thanks. --A. Mahapatra 17:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please read before adding information to the EDUCATION

message: Note:  Project Banner with Orissa workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Orissa or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article -- Amartyabag  TALK2ME 07:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Orissa Addition 

message: 3 - Urbanisation  process in Orissa evolved at Geostrategic  locations, India , Kataka , Kalinga , Mahanadi,    Garah- Kataka   Concept  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.93.129.89 (talk) 04:32, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments

message: This article has become a bit of a mess. The education/hospital/economy sections are constantly getting extended with more and more examples, turning them into laundry lists with nothing useful to say; they're also pumped full of peacock terms like 'world class', 'prestigious', etc. As with the parent article, Odisha, these can be moved out into list pages (which already exist - see List of educational institutions in Orissa, etc).
A second problem is the pastes of unsourced 'announcements' and 'plans'. eg "Infosys is a planning a second IT park near Khandagiri", "Golf Club with a 9 hole course and a plan to develop ...", "Ayush Hospital and Trauma Care Limited has drawn up a plan to set up its second multi-speciality hospital" etc. This is just cruft and needs cut.
There's also problems with grammar, and over- and under- linking, in particular of abbreviations and terms that would not be globally understood. eg the Politics and Environment sections between them have one link - to India.
I'll address some of this over the next few days. Bazzargh (talk) 11:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup - March 2010 

message: I have capitalized the term "peace pagoda and deleted the quotation marks. I added a link to the Peace Pagoda page, which is being updated. Shanti Stupa is a translation of Peace Pagoda, and means the same thing. Thank you, --Marilyn 14:22, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Dhauli Giri Peace Pagoda

message: I have planned a major cleanup of the Bhubaneswar page in near future. The following thing is in my mind and will like to share with the major editors for their comments.
* The Economy' section is totally unsourced. Certain statements like "Some of the populace live in slums. Migration from rural areas, especially from the northern districts of Andhra Pradesh, has led to the growth of slums which are a major challenge to the city's growth. " seems outright biased and need reliable sources. Regarding Retail sector and malls, its totally unnessary to have the names of malls and retail outlets in an encylopedia, its not a travel and toursim brochure. Only PSU organisations which have a headquarter/registered office in Bhubaneswar will be added. Regarding IT/ITES sector, the setences must flow into a prose and not a laundry list of companies present in Bhubaneswar. -  promos and laundry lists. 
* The Transport section need to be written in a WP:SUMMARY manner, avoiding details and laundry list of cities it is connected with. 
* Demographics section has outdated information and needs to be expanded. 
* I find the Architecture section to be unnessary and may be merged with a new section Urban structure, which is more common. -  Removed and merged 
* Regarding Education section, as found from earlier discussions, it is the most debated section and often the additions are reverted. It is essential to frame a guideline regarding the addition of names. Primarily, I have thought of this criteria Only universities, institutes of national importances, institutes granted "Centre of Excellence" status by the University Grants Commission or institutes which have significantly wellknown status, and such recognisation must be verifiable from reliable sources will be added. In addition the institue must have a separate Wikipedia page and the addition the names should be added in such a manner that it should not look like a laundry list, rather it should flow into a prose. 
: I will be happy if some one takes up the pain to rewrite this section to avoid COI. This issue has been raised earlier in the talk page. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 14:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Shortened the list. Still need independent review. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 10:41, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

text: more information from brainstorming. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 14:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

text: In the first stage, I will be removing unnessary details and unencyclopedic statements.  The second stage will constitute addition of necessary and missing sections and informations with proper referencing. The third stage will constitute addition of proper references to the unsourced statements. The fourth stage can be proper copyediting of the article. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 05:37, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Update Have updated most of the sections with proper references. History, Culture, Education and Demographics section need to be worked on. Developing the culture section need brainstorming for content addition. Suggestions awaited. Amartyabag  TALK2ME 14:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Cleanup Planned 

message: Substituted at 09:35, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The Wikipedia Policy WP:INDICSCRIPT specifically states that there is a prohibition of Indic scripts in lead sentence of an article and infoboxes. There is no such prohibition stated regarding the rest of the body of the article and sub-headings. Hence, using Indic scripts in parts apart from the lead sentence of an article and infoboxes is NOT against any Wikipedia policy. Unnecessary removal would be considered as vandalism.
:Regardless of what the guideline might say, it has been common practice not to include scripts in lead sections even before the recent changes. I'm not sure if the problem is a poor phrasing resulting from the recent changes to the guideline but, regardless, gaming the system in this way is not A Good Thing. There is no need for scripts, period, and if necessary I will seek local consensus here on this article to that end. That includes the body. They add nothing of use to most readers, they often require browser plug-ins, they are targets for vandalism and they are difficult to maintain. If anyone wants to see the native name, they need only go to the equivalent article on Telugu/Tamil/Hindi etc Wikipedia, which is the one thing for which Wikidata is useful (it provides interwiki links in the menu on the left). - Sitush (talk) 15:29, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, this is the English Wikipedia, and such additions are simply unnecessary anywhere in the article - Arjayay (talk) 09:42, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding Indic Scripts 

message: Ref no. 22 Author name Praharaj,Maharani tobe corrected as Praharaj,Mayarani  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mayapraharaj (talk • contribs) 10:04, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 22 author name tobe corrected 

message: The Roads in Bhubaneswar article looks like a split-off of the Bhubaneswar article, essentially duplicating its Transport section and adding a readout of a city map (the "landmarks"). Its subject does not appear to have notability independent of Bhubaneswar. I don't see a merit in having it as a standalone article. — kashmīrī TALK 09:27, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it's true that article needs to be be submerged in the Bhubaneswar main article. Eshwar96 (talk) 04:32, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

text: MaxA-Matrix💬 talk 13:36, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose, purely on the grounds of WP:TOOBIG. At 128k, and with many other daughter articles, moving daughters like this in is unwarranted. The current structure matches WP:SUMMARY format and is best left alone. Klbrain (talk) 11:55, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Roads in Bhubaneswar]] into [[Bhubaneswar]]