Talk:People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration

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Neil Shah-Quinn, It is "the Gupkar Residence" not "People's Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration". None of the sources have mentioned "the". Sources refer to as "the Gupkar residence" (where all-party meeting was held). Also, former name may be explained in the lead. Please see [1]. You may wish to revert your edit and rename to its original title, People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration. Regards TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 18:16, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

• TheBirdsShedTears, I don't completely understand your comment, but it sounds like you think the title should be changed back to People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration. I do find that sources more often omit "the", but there are plenty that use it. Here is a sample:
  • "People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration vows to fight against new J&K land laws", India Today (uses it in the first paragraph, but not in the headline).
  • "Is there any good in the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration?", The Kashmir Walla (uses it in the headline, but not in the text)
  • "In Kashmir, Gupkar Alliance says it’s entering the electoral fray to keep ‘divisive forces’ at bay", Scroll.in
  • "Kashmir parties work to give alliance formal shape, Farooq could be head", Indian Express
  • "DDC Poll Results Are an Emphatic Rejection of the Scrapping of J&K's Special Status", The Wire (uses it in the text, but not in a photo caption)
  • "Gupkar alliance to contest in J&K District Development Council polls jointly", The Hindu
  • "After DDC: Will Centre further alienate J&K?", Asian Age

Normally, I would still follow the majority who leave out "the", but to my ears it sounds very gramatically wrong. In my experience, "the" is always used in constructions of this kind: "the Balfour Declaration", "the Declaration of Helsinki", "the Arusha Declaration", "the 1890 Manifesto", "the Tashkent Declaration", "the Kyoto Protocol", "the Dayton Agreement", and so on.—Neil Shah-Quinn (talk) 18:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)