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Semi-protected edit request on 30 July 2024

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Change Marseilles to Marseille Kaveh10 (talk) 15:23, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done To be clear, either are acceptable English spellings, but the page had both present, so I harmonized them to your suggested version, as consistent with the name of the WP article. PianoDan (talk) 20:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name change to Veer Savarkar

As per Wikipedia common name policy, Name should be changed to Veer Savarkar, Mahatma Gandhi is Mahatma Gandhi, not Mohandas Gandhi.

Veer Savarkar is most commonly used. Rehmanian (talk) 10:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please have a look through the talk page archive to see the many times this has already been discussed. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:59, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Savarkar was an Indian freedom fighter as well. This must be included in the opening sentence 106.207.117.218 (talk) 10:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]