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=== Other Guidelines ===
'''Pune / Poona''' and '''Mumbai / Bombay'''
Many Indian cities have changed their names since 1947. Most such changes will have little impact in the Sannyas Wiki, but these two cities have a special resonance in the  hearts of Osho's people, and a potential conundrum arises regarding how to represent them here. Standard bibliographical practice is to use the name current at the time of publication if the location of the publisher is mentioned; thus, a 1993 Rebel edition might mention Poona and a 1996 one Pune. Mumbai and Pune both changed around 1995. Most of Osho's discourses were given in Bombay and Poona, but these old names are associated with the old colonial empire-wallahs and as they drift further into the past, they may also become irrelevant, annoying or confusing.
To deal with all this, the wiki has evolved a not-entirely consistent approach which aims above all to be accessible and relevant, and so it is basically context-dependent:
:* For publisher locations, quotes, institutional and other proper names, the name as it was at the time shall be used.
:* In text ''about'' books or talks, the modern names shall be used.
:* In the Osho Timeline pages, both shall be used, as Pune (Poona) and Mumbai (Bombay).

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For example, the following entries will list "Ma Papaya Pineapple" in the "Browse by Name" section of the wiki

[[category:Names|Pineapple]]

the "Browse by Location" section under the town of "New York"

[[category:New York|Pineapple]]

and the "Browse by Topic" section under "Computers & Internet"

[[category:Computers & Internet|Pineapple]]

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New page template

Editors, when entering names with missing info, please make a page for that person. In that way we will all be advised that this person is mentioned in the wiki. To easily make a page using the standard template, click on a "wanted" redlinked name and in the blank edit section just type : {{subst:People}}, save the page and then edit again. At the bottom of the resulting page, remove the comments around [[category:People - to be completed...| ]]. Once the info on the page is more or less complete, change over to proper categories (Names, <towns>, <topics>, etc).

Double names

If you have a name that already exists, or as an editor you have to enter a Ma or Sw with a name that is already in use: put a space and (2) behind the page-name, like Ma Papaya Pineapple (2).

When entering these names on the page, do like this: [[Ma Papaya Pineapple (2) | Ma Papaya Pineapple]]. This way that ugly (2) does not show.

Name-errors and name-changes

Editors, when you describe a book with the people that worked on it, there may be names that are misspelled or otherwise wrong. In that case, mention the name as in the book, but link to the correct name, and make a remark about the error.

An example is here where Ma Prema Veena is misspelled as Ma Prem Veena: [[Ma Prema Veena|Ma Prem Veena]].

A different situation is where a person has had a name-change, like with Ma Yoga Vivek --> Ma Prem Nirvano. They get a "redirect" page for the older name, which points to the newest name. In this way all names are found in the people-lists.

Center information

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Rules for Sannyas-wiki pages

General remarks on editing pages

Rules for books / book editions

Rules for pages on music

General editing of wiki pages

How to edit a page

How to layout your pages

Images and other uploaded files

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You can search for a phrase using double quotes. A phrase can be considered to consist of whole words (case-insensitive), so the phrase 'Prime Minister' will not be found by a search for "ime Min", but it will be found by a search for "pRIME mINISTER".

Alternative to the inbuilt Wiki search, you could use other search engines and restrict the search to our website. This is a sample Google search for the word rose.

Other Guidelines

Pune / Poona and Mumbai / Bombay

Many Indian cities have changed their names since 1947. Most such changes will have little impact in the Sannyas Wiki, but these two cities have a special resonance in the hearts of Osho's people, and a potential conundrum arises regarding how to represent them here. Standard bibliographical practice is to use the name current at the time of publication if the location of the publisher is mentioned; thus, a 1993 Rebel edition might mention Poona and a 1996 one Pune. Mumbai and Pune both changed around 1995. Most of Osho's discourses were given in Bombay and Poona, but these old names are associated with the old colonial empire-wallahs and as they drift further into the past, they may also become irrelevant, annoying or confusing.

To deal with all this, the wiki has evolved a not-entirely consistent approach which aims above all to be accessible and relevant, and so it is basically context-dependent:

  • For publisher locations, quotes, institutional and other proper names, the name as it was at the time shall be used.
  • In text about books or talks, the modern names shall be used.
  • In the Osho Timeline pages, both shall be used, as Pune (Poona) and Mumbai (Bombay).