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Chennai will be IT capital by 2010

It is estimated by Economic Times that the city will be the IT capital of the country, knocking down its rival Bangalore, by 2010.Please visit this link http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Software/Chennai_emerging_as_Indias_Silicon_Valley/articleshow/3000410.cms .The largest development facility of Infosys is located in Chennai's Mahindra City. This is a fact that can be verified on Google.Also Chennai IT companies focus on all over the world unlike bangalore which focusses on West.Slow down i West would bring down export revenue of bangalore but Chennai will be unaffected.This toocan be verified in Google on any news channel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.255.198 (talk) 22:57, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, now the city doesnot face any traffic problem and due to rain water harvesting, ground water levels are high and no water problem at all.I would suggest to remobe those lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guru coolguy (talk • contribs) 09:59, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Chennai emerging as a IT capital of the country is a prediction, guess what, it can just be wrong. Even if it is correct, a lot can go wrong. WP:SPECULATION policy of wikipedia discourages listing future events in wikipedia unless it is verifiable and certain to happen. Besides, the article in Times of India by Rajesh Chandramouli may just be a over enthusiastic opinion piece. Is there more than one article and more than one source (newspaper or magazine) which predicts Chennai's emergence as an IT capital?

http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=58257 Please go through this news site.It is quite big and clear article which points out the problems in bangalore and the reason for Chennai to be the silicon valley in future. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guru coolguy (talk • contribs) 12:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Chennai not having any traffic problem, do you have a sound source? --Like I Care 11:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

About the water problem: http://www.hindu.com/pp/2009/01/31/stories/2009013150010100.htm this news article shows the graphical representation of the increase in rain water harvest.It says A study of Chennai Metrowater shows that there has been a 50 per cent rise in water level in the last five years and the water quality has significantly improved. One more http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4302240.cms dated 2009 march.

Regarding traffic: http://in.truveo.com/Chennai%E2%80%99s-new-fleet-of-buses-to-ease-traffic/id/2854657046 show the video which says about the reduction in traffic. Also the following new flyovers were opened in Chennai in past 6 months alone, which removes the bottleneck problem of traffic. http://chennai.metblogs.com/2007/05/24/new-flyover-at-gn-chetty-road/ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Finally_Kathipara_flyover_opens/articleshow/3644159.cms —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guru coolguy (talk • contribs) 13:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Regarding IT, the 2005 article in Express India predicts downfall due to Bangalore's crumbling infrastructure. It has been four years since the prediction and nothing has happened. Wikipedia is not a newspaper to write every indiscriminate information we can find. The information has to be solid and encyclopedic, please read WP:NOT#NEWS. --Like I Care 13:05, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I believe, ground water level info can be added to the article. Regarding traffic reduction, the IBN video just predicts traffic reduction and the new flyovers are expected to reducte traffic congestion. again prediction. let us just wait on this one as well. --Like I Care 13:13, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Firstly, i would like to know if the statement which says chennai has trafic congestion and water problems is from a valid source. There has been no reference for the same in the article and i feel it should have been removed immediately when it was inserted. Secondly, Chennai's infrastructure was well designed to provide large volumes of vehicles compared to obangalore.I have seen the worst traffic in Bangalore where vehicles dont move for 30 minutes or it takes 1 hour to cross some 1 km. So these statements should be in Bangalore's page not in Chennai. So please delete the lines for one obvious reason that they dont have any reliable source to prove it. Guru coolguy (talk) 09:45, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

fair enough. i removed the statement. --Like I Care 11:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

hi all ! seeing all your works i too feel like working on this article , soon will start my cntribution ...good luck all ...--Doctor muthu's muthu ^{wanna talk ?} 16:57, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Archiving talk page

This page is too long, so if there aren't any objections, I'm going to archive all discussions prior to March 2009 in (new) Archive 4. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 04:23, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Infobox image/map

The infobox image is neither representative of Chennai or one of the more important landmarks nor is it particularly pleasing, so I propose changing it. Also, the infobox is too long, so I'd suggest moving the map out to the article area.

For image choices, here are a few from commons:

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  Museum
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  Fort St. George during Chennai's early years
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  Santhome church
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  Santhome church
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  Kapaleeswarar temple
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  Kapaleeswarar temple
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  Rippon bldg
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  Egmore station (poor res)
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  kathipara
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These are some of the better quality images, not much to choose from, but still better than Chennai Central. Any opinions? Cheers -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 04:45, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

prefer the corporation image. --L I C 12:05, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

a similar montage can be made of the corporation building, Marina beach and some others. --L I C 11:35, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Possible, I'll try get a montage done, that might be better than a single photo. My choices - Kannagi, Kapaleeswar temple, Santhome church, one of the museum pics. Rippon bldg is already included in the article, so unless that's removed, it doesn't make sense to include it in the montage, and I'd say it needs to be a separate pic. Let me know anyone else has any other ideas. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 19:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Added few more pics. -Coolguyche17 (talk) 20:52, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Madre de Deus church

I just removed the statement that said that the church was demolished in 1997. The only thing I could find on the web was on WP mirror sites, and everything was a verbatim copy. Also Page 38 of this book, pub 2009 talks about it in the present tense, S. Muthiah's book published in 2004 also talks about the church being demolished in 1894 and rebuilt then, but I couldn't find any ref about a subsequent demolition. -SpacemanSpiff^{Calvin‡Hobbes} 06:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

City expansion

Based on the back and forth reverts, let's look at the following sources. All these report the expansion of the city in future tense, as something that will happen.

• Indian Express, Dec 31 -- "...the civic body’s Council meet slated for Thursday is expected to formally set the ball rolling on the merger and reorganisation by tabling the government order (GO) on the subject at the meeting."
• Times of India, Dec 31 -- "Moves to expand Chennai city’s limits from the existing 174 sqkm to 426 sqkm will be kick-started right away by the administration. The Chennai Corporation’s council, which is meeting on Thursday, will discuss the appointment of a high-level committee, headed by a special officer, to oversee the redrawing of the city’s map."
• The Hindu, Dec 30 -- "The area under the Chennai Corporation limit is set to expand by over two times, with the State government issuing an order for merger of several neighbouring local bodies with it."

All the above are in future tense as are the refs that have been added to the article. The merger has not yet been completed, and per the refs above, the merger plan itself is expected to complete only in about six months, after which it has to be approved and implemented. Until reliable sources report that the city has expanded and the population has changed (as in, past tense), please do not change the article. Until then, mention of this within the article as likely to happen is the only reasonable solution. -SpacemanSpiff 05:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

I have added a footnote to the article to explain the situation, to try and preempt the repeated replacement of the current araea and population statistics.. Feel free to tweak the language of the note, and placement/formatting of the superscripts. Abecedare (talk) 06:38, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Infobox image

I want This image to go into the infobox, which illustrates the Chennai skyline, while the current image can be moved into the article. An infobox image should show how the city itself looks, rather than just a single building. Anyone agree?--RM (Be my friend) 01:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Nope. The Teynampet image is in no way representative of Chennai or its skyline, is not of particularly good quality or resolution and is a bad addition to the article itself, let alone the infobox. Getting a montage together for the infobox has been one of the goals, unfortunately there just don't seem to be enough representative images available for that. The Rippon Building image is there because it currently is the best of the lot, not because it's the ideal image.—SpacemanSpiff 02:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

images

the beach image can be better, may be, include part of the road and buildings on the other side. Kathipara intersection choice looks silly. come on, guys. --CarTick 11:49, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Completely agree, the Kathipara image is very odd. —SpacemanSpiff 14:19, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

the beach looks so nondescript, it can be any beach. --CarTick 17:17, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Madras Tamil Nadu

The passports use the name Madras Tamil Nadu; see http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/anand14.jpg. Chvsanchez (talk) 02:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

what r u trying to accomplish here, posting somebody else's passport. --CarTick 02:36, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Infobox image, again

Once more the infobox image has gotten a bit unweildy, it's too big and the infobox is bleeding into the second section below, which doesn't really give a very pleasing look to the article. I suggest we trim it down a fair bit to include just two or three pictures and get the infobox to a reasonable size. —SpacemanSpiff 20:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

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I'll do it. These are the images I've picked for now. Suggestions welcome

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  perhaps a little cropping?
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  With cropping to focus on temple.
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  Because it's an awesome picture
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  Unsure of whether this represents the city accurately. reasonable iconic imo

- Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 11:34, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

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Section break, infobox montage (to avoid clicking above the images)

Question: Do we really need a montage for this? I'd just included the Ripon bldg image a while back which seemed to be accepted until someone replaced it with this montage. I'm not sure these images make a good collage and it's not very pleasing to the eye. I'm not against this collage concept, it works well on Delhi where the image collection is good and the transition from one to the next is smooth, but not so with our limited pool. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Unsure. Just following the trend, I guess. If this test version isn't good enough, then leave it as a single picture. Incidentally, all the other metro articles also have infoboxes flowing into their second sections - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 13:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

My biggest opposition to it here is the color conflict in the montage. See London for how a good pleasing montage is. Delhi and Bangalore are relatively nice too. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 05:03, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Tried making it less contrasting. Thoughts? - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 07:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks better, but can we play around with the colors a bit? Three different shades of blue in one layer for the same sky seems a bit heavy, no? Also, the red of Central is a little in your face (not the fault of the image though) don't you think? cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 18:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Now two skies and a less red central :) - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 20:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Definitely looks way better now, any chance you can reduce the brightness of the lower three to come to a level similar to the top one? If we go with this then we should think about a rolling image bit within the article (like on India), so that we don't get back the clutter. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 06:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, here it is. The image rotation thing is a great idea! I'm all for it. - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 07:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Er, tell me if that blue is too...erm...blue - Amog | ^{Talk • contribs} 08:04, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

This montage is too blue. I feel we should stick to a single pic of the Ripon Building or Central StationNashcode | Talk •

contribs 11:04, 21 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Chennai montage new2.JPG

Here's my suggested pic. Nashcode | ^{Talk • contribs} 11:39, 21 November 2010 (UTC)