Talk:Ta Prohm

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Any knowledge on how they built these large figures? It looks like it was done in smaller bricks, but how did they conceive such a thing with bricks laid out on the ground? How do you visualise a carving, when the block is part of a bigger thing?

[edit] Picture inaccuracy?

The first picture, the face tower, is surely from the Bayon, not from Ta Prohm! Pretty sure there are no "faces" at Ta Prohm. I was just there today. I will double-check tomorrow.

I disagree. There are face towers at Ta Prohm. You can see them at the entrances. DoktorMax (talk) 07:19, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Is there a policy about how many pictures an article should have?

I just uploaded 2 more pictures of tree roots at this temple. I've also noticed that the original photo for this article is no longer linked.

I'd like to add them to this page, but the article doesn't seem longs enough to support any more pictures.

"The pictures say everything" seems to apply to this topic, so I think a few more pictures would be good. Should we make a new article for "Images of Cambodian Temples"?

Yes, there's a principle, if not a formal policy, that pictures are used to illustrate the article, not for their own sake; and in particular, Wikipedia isn't a picture gallery. There's really no shortage of pictures of tree roots at TP - I've got hundreds - but they're not what the article needs (ie more text, and pictures to illustrate that text). You could add images to the commons though (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Angkor#Ta_Prohm). Henry^Flower 21:04, 17 August 2006 (UTC)