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The coordinates at the top of the article overlap another set of coordinates. Can someone correct this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.69.5.234 (talk) 05:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

The {{Geolinks-cityscale}} template conflicts with Infobox template. I have commented out the Geolinks template so that coordinates don't overlap. This needs to be fixed. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 17:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Urban sprawl in Chennai

I am not happy about the contents written in Demographics section regarding the urban sprawl. Chennai clearly does not have urban sprawl like you see in American/European cities. Look at the population density of LA/Chicago and compare them with Chennai.

City of Chennai is among the densest cities in the world (most of them are Asian cities) and is as dense as any other metro in India. Also, Chennai metropolitan region has very little urban sprawl: 70% of metropolitan population live with the city limits. And whatever population that is outside the city boundaries live along the suburban rail network (Egmore-Tambaram, Central-Avadi and Central-Gummidipoondi). From energy consumption perspective, Chennai is a well planned city compared to most American urban regions (except NYC) that are essentially sub-urban.

chennai area locator maps

Just created location map for chennai. Some fine tuning necessary here on the top left and bottom right coordinates of the map. Its time we make a Chennai infobox and add it to all chennai places. The map is not complete and i just put it together using google maps (god bless them), i will modify it later over the next weekend. Right now pls look into implementing it in infoboxes -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 20:25, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Infobox created, Ive added it to a few pages as a test to check positioning, see Mylapore for example. Template can be edited here [1]. We need to decide what fields need to be included-- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 15:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Editing Transport section

User:Butter1 has repated re-inserted the following information only for other editors to remove it with various justifications. Rather than edit warring in the article, please discussion your positions for or against the inclusion of this material below. Please wait until editors reach a consensus before re-inserting the information (or permanantly leaving it out). Thanks.

"Auto rickshaws commonly called as Auto. New auto rickshaw fares are fixed by the state government of Tamilnadu in the month January 2007 and the auto drivers should follow only as per that government order. As per that order for the first 2km the charge is Rs.14 and Rs.6 from next kilometre onwards. If any problems arises passengers can lodge complaints against autorickshaw drivers by calling phone numbers of Chennai Police[[2]]"

I am removing the ref links for the auto fares. It does not have any context in the article. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 00:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

list of corporation wards

I have made the List of Chennai Corporation wards page. please try to improve upon it. Also Template:Infobox Chennai place is almost finished, please give your comments -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 09:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Infobox image or map?

We have to decide how to go ahead with the infobox. We can either use the image or use the map but not both. I personally prefer the map, but let us discuss this. I will comment out the image until we decide on this. ɤіɡʍаɦɤʘʟʟ 00:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Its simple, the locator map for landmarks, structures (Chennai Central) etc. and the infobox for places (Mylapore) -- ^{PlaneMad|YakYak} 16:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Most cities have an image that defines the city (landmark or skyline) in the infobox and a map below it. Since this is an encyclopedia, we must conform to the standards set by wikipedia in its city infobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_City). Nikkul 01:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Photographs

Folks, I've got some photos of Chennai - including St. Mary's church in the fort, The container terminal at night, MAC stadium, Napier Bridge, Marina and more. Can release them under a GFDL if you need it. Alternatively, some of the photos are on my flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages under a CC Attrib+ShareAlike license. --Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan

Linking to Flickr is discouraged under the external link guidelines WP:EL. Better to upload them to Wikipedia under GFDL. Nposs 13:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Have uploaded some photos...under GFDL. Here they are:

• St. Mary's church - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:St_Marys_church.jpg
• The War Memorial - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chennai_War_memorial.jpg
• Chepauk Stadium - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MAC_Chepauk_stadium.jpg
• Sir Thomas Munroe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Munro_statue.jpg
• Container terminal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chennai_Container_terminal_night.jpg

--Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan 05:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

External links

How about links to blogs about Chennai? Like the Metroblogging Chennai website, which covers a lot of topics about daily life in Chennai? (Disclaimer: I write for the blog too) --Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan 08:18, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Blogs are considered unencyclopedic sources under WP:EL. I'd recommend against linking. Nposs 13:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Area Locator Map

I feel that the area locator map should be the India map instead of the Tamil Nadu state map. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nashcode (talk • contribs).

Please discuss this issue at Template_talk:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 00:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

India map is now shown inset on the map. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Need more balanced coverage

Just an observation: The Chennai Wikipedia page reads like a marketing brochure, prepared by the Chamber of commerce of the city. The article only has positive things about the city, and the photos are all airbrushed and sanitised. A new visitor to the city will be quite shocked by the reality of the city. I would like to see a more balanced description, including some typical street photos, some mention of the poverty and the other problems which are visible to any visitor. No offense is intended to those who have contributed great content.

Portuguese origins of the name Madras

Good evening all,
A more likely origin for the name Madras, if indeed it derives from Portuguese, is Madre de Deus (meaning mother of god), not Madre de Sois -which has no meaning in Portuguese and is ungrammatical.
Soís is the plural of sol, which means sun; so a possibility is "madre dos soís" -grammatically correct and meaning 'mother of the suns'. Very poetic, but rather unlikely -given that there is no record of similar place names. And the corruption of "madre dos soís" to "madras" is somewhat tenuous phonologically.
On the other hand, Madre de Deus is quite common (see Madre de Deus in Bahia, Brazil), and since the final s in Deus is usually emphasized, would make a corruption into Madras in spoken Tamil quite possible.
Even if 'Sois' was the name of a person (and Sois is not a Portuguese name I have ever come across), "mother of-" prefixes for city names have never been followed by a proper noun: there are no cities called 'Mother of Joe' or 'Mother of Leo', for instance :)
Hope this is helpful (even if it matters little now that we have Chennai).
(Azariahmoreno 00:03, 19 May 2007 (UTC)).

Fair use rationale for Image:Tnlogo.png

Image:Tnlogo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 04:56, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Andrew Cogan and Beri Thimappa

Hi, just discovered that the two people instrumental to the formation of Madras - Francis Day and Beri Thimappa - didn't have a page on Wikipedia. Have created it, and for Day, used the content from the Andrew Cogan page. Will need help in adding to it. Here are the pages: Francis Day of Madras and Beri Thimappa. --Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan 06:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)