Talk:Guruvayur Temple

Disputes

Early History "The Guruvayur temple is said to be at least 5,000 years old": Who says? No historian would say. Even this article is not able to trace any history beyond 17th century. Cite the sources even if it is mythical.

Onslaught by invaders " ... as Muslim conquered much of Kerala ..". when did that happen? Is it about the Tippu/Hyder attack? Then one can as well describe the US invasion of Iraq as Christian attack.

History? Assertions in these paragraphs are not history; individual beliefs only.

Clt13 04:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Kokasandesam is not considered as a Tamil Epic as it is in Manipravalam style.Malayalam was very much independent from Middle Tamil and it is clearly distinguishable.As Manipravalam Employs Sanskrit it definitely not going to be Kuruvayoor in which Ka and Gha are not distinguished.Guruvayoor woUld be term.The chance the place may call Kuruvayoor is because of an Dravidian term called Kuruvai for sea is build on exaggeration.There is no authentic recording in any works which mentions the place where the temple situated and The term Kuruvai is used together. Littleskylark95 (talk) 19:55, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Note about Tamil reference

The Tamil script does not differentiate between voiced and voiceless consonants (pairs like p and b, k and g etc), so it probably wasn't called "Kuruvayur".--172.215.240.230 (talk) 17:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I Think so.Not even Kokasendasam a Tamil Epic.It is a sanskrit mix in Manipravalam style.There should be some serious re shuffling of Information.Baseless and controversial statements are based on regional intrest. Skylark95choppen (talk) 04:53, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

The word is “Kuravai-oor”. Kuravai meaning the ritualistic sound made using the throat ChandlerMinh (talk) 06:16, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Requested move

The reason: MOS. temple is common name.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 12:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Disagree. "Guruvayur Temple" is the proper name of this particular temple. Compare Second Temple, Mississippi River, Table Mountain etc.
--Yumegusa (talk) 18:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose. I think the proposer must have misunderstood the MOS; Perhaps they could quote the particular section which has suggested this move? Or, will they similarly be renaming Rocky Mountains and Murray River because mountains and river are both also common nouns? Andrewa (talk) 04:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I was talking about "The first letter of the first word, letters in acronyms, and the first letter of each word of a proper noun are capitalized; all other letters are in lower case (Funding of UNESCO projects, not Funding of UNESCO Projects)."--Redtigerxyz (talk) 04:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, that's from Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles (it's helpful to give a wikilink, there are a lot of style guidelines). I still think you misunderstand it. It says the first letter of each word of a proper noun are capitalized (my emphasis). As stated above, Guruvayur Temple is a proper noun. I think I might even see the cause of the confusion here, in that common name isn't the same thing as common noun; A common name can be a proper noun. See Noun#Proper nouns and common nouns, and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). Andrewa (talk) 05:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2018

Can you please allow me to edit this Wikipedia page? 117.221.148.202 (talk) 14:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:27, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 July 2018

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 12:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

117.248.8.154 (talk) 12:04, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 12:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Hinduphobic references

so many Hinduphobic references have been added questioning the reference itself. one example is that of questioning the Tamil history of Kuruvai ("by what" and a rude question mark at the end) for which the reference has been provided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kpbolumbu (talk • contribs) 15:42, 15 July 2025 (UTC)