Talk:Ambigram

message: -- Thanks! -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:55, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ambigram]] promoted on Twitter via @Wikipedia 

message: Hello,
*I  with kwami. It's not OR. See Wikipedia:No original research#Original images: "". This example also meets WP:STICKTOSOURCE.
*Please read WP:IUP: "". Roy Leban, why not uploading your works visible on the website www.royleban.com/ambigrams (archive), that you give on your user page?
*The ambigram Fuck is labeled  Quality Image and has been used on Wikipedia in various languages, sometimes inserted by other users.
*The reason why this specific four-way ambigram tessellation was chosen is because it is the only one containing 4 letters. The other candidates that would be possible include "Yum" and "NYC" (3 letters), or "OK" (2 letters).
*The examples given to illustrate the section Ambigram tessellations have been picked up from the related category: :c:Category:Ambigram tessellations. Sorry but the 29 files currently available have all been drawn by me. More works are always welcome, but in this case there was no other choice.
*It's vulgar language, but an original ambigram, that people usually enjoy. Read for example this discussion where Adam Cuerden says it's his "favourite". 
*The images chosen to illustrate the article mainly come from the public Category:Featured pictures of ambigrams or Category:Quality images of ambigrams. I'm not always responsible for my works being promoted. For example the head image has been nominated by  and the Escher tesselation by . But once again it appears that 137 Quality Images out of the 141 are my works, that means 97%.
*There are many images on the article that are not my works, but uploaded by me on Wikimedia Commons. Examples: New Man, MAOAM, Bounce, etc. 
*The section Ambigram#Comics contains ambigrams from the :c:Category:Ambigrams by Gustave Verbeek that I personally uploaded. Idem Rex Whistler (Drawings), and more. 
* Ambigram Wikipedia is a work initially designed for this project, and then published in a book. Proof that Wikipedia is a rich source of inspiration 
*To finish, concerning the SVG templates left on Commons, please read the talk page, where my comment left in February says "totally agree". And I fixed similar files, including Douglas Hofstadter's artworks.
Regards, -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:54, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Seriously, are people complaining that we have an exceptionally good creator of ambigrams uploading ones for Wikipedia - and anyone else - to use for free? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 17:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The only problem I anticipate would be someone trying to promote their business or having some other reason to force their images on WP against consensus. That's clearly not the case here. The main problem I've seen in images is people edit-warring over politically, pseudo-historically or culturally biased maps, not in creating art. — kwami (talk) 20:36, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Wikipedia edition (not original research) 

message: Hello! This is to let editors know that :File:Ambigram of_the_word_ambigram_-_rotation_animation.gif, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for August 1, 2023. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2023-08-01. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page.  If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you!  — Amakuru (talk) 17:45, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD 

message: Hello , thank you for pointing out that the "New Man" logo was already used in the article. Sorry I missed that! (I was quite surprised that I didn't see it, hence the hasty mistake: Measure once, cut twice; Measure twice, cut once.) There is another  of the logo on commons, if there's any point in showing both the static artwork and the animated gif file (e.g., the animation in the section where I inadvertently placed it, and the artwork in the "Logos" section where the animation is now). Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Cl3phact0, for your contribution. Personally I think that two illustrations of the same logo would constitute redundancy. Some famous ambigrams such as SUNS, DMC or SONOS are not even on the page, to avoid image overload. -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:38, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Carry on then. It's a very informative and enjoyable article. Glad that it was featured on the Main Page. I've always been intrigued by this particular type of palindromic symmetry, and was very happy to see so many excellent examples in one place! Thanks for putting in the time to make is so image-rich. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 14:10, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  so much for your enthusiastic feedback and encouragement! -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:29, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "New Man" logo