Talk:Chennai/Archive 2

message: The page has improved, but I feel that the page size is a little too big and a summary would be necessary. Hope that Chennai too becomes a FA soon.  == 20:35, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
:Candidates for moving into full articles: Transport (far too detailed) and Architecture (informative but not terse enough). Transport is also a good candidate for a merge with Chennai suburban in its present state. Would prefer getting a different image for a temple if possible (one that's fully free). Avinashswamy's images are still untagged (both are very good images, which is why I hope he gets around to tagging them). -- Brhaspati (talkcontribs) 22:11, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
::You can temporarily remove the image links from this page. I've had to sacrifice good quality images for Mumbai for lesser quality, but tagged images. Once Avinash tags the images, it you could add it back.  == 18:58, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
:I had a go at trimming the transport section.... I think perhaps a sentence or two should be added about the city's ports as they are mentioned quite prominently elsewhere. srs 23:21, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAC 

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Seems like the idea to add a Highlights hasn't gone down well with Brhaspati. Before I go on with this, sorry for the wrong edit to the Cooum - yeah I agree, it stills stinks. Thanks for correcting me.
The article on Chennai is already too long. I suppose at this rate, it would definitely put off the first time reader. We are ppl who know more about Chennai... Think about the first time reader - Would he be interested in Chembarambakkam Lake or for that matter our 'Otteri Nullah'? This thought came to me only when a foreign friend of mine asked for more information on Madras.
And, what about the curious guy who wants short information on Chennai? Calcutta has a section on Trivia. It's half summary of the main points of the article and half trivia that would not fit into the article... But they're all quick information. I belive, Chennai should also have some sort of a compilation of what it is known for (like the not so clean Second longest beach we have :P ). It doesnt cost much and it really helps people who are short on time - they don't need to burrow through the entire article. There are so many encyclopaedia articles which actually have a section highlighting the main things the city has. It would really help having some thing like this - probably an info-box, if you like. Comments?
Further, the article, as I mentioned is too long. We could consider summarising the entire article. Then, each section could be made a new wikipedia entry in its own right (there are loads the article lacks - like Education, for example), and the main article could be a summary linking to those individual entries.
Cheers!
:Anon has raised some good points.  == 19:30, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
*would be interesting if there is more info interms of the railway systems. the bus systems with a user point of view. 
*I would also like to raise the point of improving the maps. I understand the difficulty of finding copyright free mapping . I would also like see what kinda possibilities exist for obtaining maps. viyyer 20:14, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Highlights" section 

message: The article has a lot of links for relatively unnecessary words such as city, east, coast, 2005, meter, boat, nature, habitat, June. In my opinion, all these are useless. A person who does not know the meanings for the words boat, nature, city, etc would consult an English language dictionary before reading an article on Chennai. Thus, we do not need to create a link for almost every English word.
Please note, however, that we should continue linking British, South India, Tamil, etc.
I would like to mention here that the BBC once had discussions with its readers about keeping links within the body of news articles and the Editor decided "they are a distraction". I agree with him!
Does anybody differ in view? If not, I will remove all unnecessary hyperlinks.
-- BN 210.214.227.48
:I agree partially. Retain links for all years, dates and units of measurement. Link terms like city or coast in the first sentence of the article but not necessarily elsewhere. (The first sentence is as close as we get to a formal definition). All other terms mentioned may be linked the first time they occur (if necessary). (All this was only my opinion). -- Brhaspati\talk/contribs 10:36, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
::*Finished removing links -- there are still a lot of links though! Any special reasons for linking the mentioned words in the first sentence? Also, why link years (except 1947) and months? (Sorry, I am ignorant about any rationale behind this.)
::*Isn't Marina the second longest in the world?
::*Added sentence "The Telugu speaking population was so large that when portions of the present Tamil Nadu were given to neighbouring states, Andhra Pradesh wanted to have Madras as its capital on language basis". Do we have the statistics for the % of Telugus (and people speaking other languages) in Chennai? Many reports pegged it at 30, some even 40%. I have adopted a conservative figure of 30%. Can somebody please fill us in with the correct demographics?
-- BN : Bnitin 05:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reducing Hyperlink Clutter