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Contents 1 maps 2 Welcome to WP:INDIA 3 2008 IPL Article 4 CSK logo 5 VIT 6 Gandhi 7 Gandhi 2 8 Thanks!

[edit] maps

cool stuff there, you seem to be learning quite fast. The animation is awesome and something that can go into WP:FPC if you can make some improvements. You could have a timeline showing the date of progress and possibly have even the contours move. you should even add a legend for those colors -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 09:19, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

and arrears are real shitty business, avoid at all costs -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 09:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Amog, thats a really good effort on the animation, but it loses on the visual appeal factor. there are quite a few changes i could suggest, like using the different shades of blue for the progress and a very simple progress indicator. and a resolution like 800x1000 should be enough since its not going to be printed. try not be too flashy, focus on conveying maximum information with the least deatils. ah you are inspiring me to make maps, unfortunately im stretched for time :( -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 14:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

ah, maps can get quite complicated with all that data, thats why you try to follow the kiss approach. i made a quick graphic that you could draw inspiration from. But then id recommend that you actually put one up for fpc and what people say, the comments are always quite hard, but its a great way to learn and improve. I myself am wondering why i never nominated my maps as fpc -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 19:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

oh yeah, and stick to the basic fonts like arial, verdana, tahoma for non serifs and times, georgia for serifs. they are widely used for a reason - they have good readability. And keep your color palette to a minimum. use same shades for similiar data, pastel colors are always pleasing to the eye. oh, and im short on time cause i've taken up a summer job, doing something productive for once in my life -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 19:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

err, any more "studies" is stricly out of the question. im thinking of exploring something which has more of learning invlovled. And yea, sans is always preferred. And dont limit yourself to the existing color schemes, never be scared to experiment, who knows, you might end up with something that looks much better -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 18:34, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WP:INDIA

[edit] 2008 IPL Article

Hi Amog,

I notice you tried to edit the 2008 IPL article to include the winners of the fair play award in the infobox. However, the infobox template is a generic tournament infobox (Template:Infobox cricket tournament) and it does not have such a parameter. In any case, it probably isn't too important to have this in the infobox (unlike eg listing the tournament champion). There have been some suggestions on the talk page about including the "fair play table" in the article (and I don't think anyone has objected) so if you (or anyone else) wanted to add such a table, this would solve the problem you mentioned in your edit. BTW I have reverted your attempted edit to the infobox. Juwe (talk) 20:43, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CSK logo

I have vectorised the Chennai Super Kings logo. I don't have permissions to upload new files/update current ones, since I haven't made more than 10 edits. Please update the current logo with this one. [Chennai_Super_Kings.svg] Shoban Preeth (talk) 07:40, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] VIT

Hi Amog, I dont understand what was the need for deleting the below mentioned article from VIT page. Please leave some real things on the page rather than just some links to the page controlled by VIT. Wikipedia is not a linking program.

"But most of the admissions to popular courses is done through backdoor means rather than VITEEE. High Donations are taken from parents for the popular courses. The best citation would be the admission process of the year 2006 when the Biotechnology course seats were sold out well before the VITEEE was conducted! " Hooaamai (talk) 08:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Amog,Do you think we can find references to such things??Thats the whole point of maintaining a wikipedia page.Hooaamai (talk) 02:26, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi feels just right to most of us because that's how we tend to refer to him. However, his name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and so the question is whether there is a justification for not using his real name on the wikipedia article. It doesn't seem like there is such a justification (one should have a very good reason to not use the real name) and not naming the article Mahatma Gandhi does not make him any less a Mahatma. Of course, both Gandhi as well as Mahatma Gandhi redirect to the article so its not as if the name has any practical effect. --Regents Park (roll amongst the roses) 20:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I remember my textbooks referring to him as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi though popular literature used Mahatma. I remember my Hindi teacher making us write biographical essays on him and we had to use the entire name in the title and then write the essay in second person (aapka janam 1869 me porbander me hua - that sort of thing). Of course, I'm much older than you and grew up in a very different India and can imagine things being different now but the full name does seem more encyclopedic. --Regents Park (roll amongst the roses) 12:48, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gandhi 2

Hello! I see you're one of the few who agree with me regarding the common use and referral to Gandhi as Mahatma Gandhi and not his full name (which I've never heard anyone use in conversation...ever).

You mentioned text books and the like. Those are the type of sources we need to get this changed back to the way it was, the right way per WP Naming policy. The WP policy's first way to decide an article's name is the common usage in English. That could be supported by such things as text books and the like.

Could you dig out these sources? That would help our cause greatly. Feel free to respond on my talk page! Beam 18:07, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for signing! --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 23:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)