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It is always and only spelt as "Bhuta Kola", there also is no other way of pronouncing it. whoevever made the title was trying to hide the fact that the word indeed is Bhuta = Ghost. Its a mockery of wikipedia as no where else online is it spelt as Buta kola, when searching on google the suggestions will always be Bhuta Kola
Its easy to test claims such as "no where else online is it spelt as Buta kola" - I just google "Buta Kola" and I get ~17,600 results, I search "Bhuta Kola" I get ~8,140 results - If I search only news on google "Buta Kola" get ~2,860 results and "Bhuta Kola" 18 results. KylieTastic (talk) 09:19, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The term būta is the native local pronunciation of the word. Just because it has a slightly different pronunciation than the original Sanskrit doesn’t mean it should be Sanskritised for the sake of a larger pan-India audience. ChandlerMinh (talk) 10:01, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Het666 yes it a source that has one spelling - so? I do not have an opinion about what the correct page title should be, not my area. I was just pinged above (I assume because I made 1 edit to the article) and refuted the false claim "no where else online is it spelt as Buta kola". KylieTastic (talk) 11:56, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
ChandlerMinh, in the local languages, Tulu and Kannada, it is ಭೂತ ಕೋಲ which is spelt as, "Bhootha kola". Please restore that name in the lead (I observed that you have removed it).-116.73.139.174 (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I didn’t remove it. It is still there in explanatory notes. Too many words in the opening sentence is making it a mess. Also Tulu was written in its own script historically; widespread use of Kannada script happened only in last hundred year or. So how it is spelt in Kannada script has little relevance here. ChandlerMinh (talk) 07:12, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I have tried to change the name of the page to "Bhoota Kola" as per pronunciation norms and requests. Don't know whether I followed proper procedure for it or not. As I'm still an amateur editor and navigator at Wikipedia. Please do the needful if I have erred anywhere. Thank You. VikramPrabhuUdupi (talk) 05:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@ChandlerMinh i feel its not a better source. As it is written by a Foreigner,he has written in his POV. So this may not be the better source but we can refer that and add some information to this article by cross chechking it TuluveRai123 (talk) 05:47, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The book is not entirely based on foreigner perspective. Both editors and publishers are Indian. Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy is a very authoritative publisher in this topic. They used papers by a britisher only as a reference. only foreigner dared to record subaltern cultures. Most of the knowledge about subaltern culture was recorded by the British. Those days, literate Indians were mostly from the caste that stayed far away from these cultures. ChandlerMinh (talk) 07:05, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The spelling buta is consistent with the local pronunciation of the term. Same spelling is also attested in the most sought after Tulu dictionary (Tulu Lexicon: Volume 6, edited by Uliyar Padmanabha Upadhyaya published by Rashtrakavi Govind Pai SamshodhanaKendra, Udupi). Please don’t keep changing it. The explanatory note [a] in the lead do mentions the etymology and alternate pronunciation/spellings. ChandlerMinh (talk) 17:03, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Worship Types
Bhutas are worshipped in many types and it is also mentioned in the article. Some users are removing that. Please don't keep removing the proper information. TuluveRai123 (talk) 05:33, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]