Talk:Hindi Covers
This is interesting idea. I was similar one some time ago for Russian and English publication in Excel format, but it is ot handy to use another database. But this concept is great. An editor can choose a cover and use it to move to a page of chosen cover. It may be work, but who searching must now Hindi letters.
What purpose of this page? Only search a needed cover? Also this page can show how many and which covers wiki has.
If guys will confirm this idea and standart, i will be able to add all Hindi and English covers (in this case English covers will be have own page).
I propose to separate the page on section according to alphabet (titles, which start from A, B, ...)--DhyanAntar 13:40, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
My idea was not database-oriented but visual. As such, it could be used for searching for particular images and various research possibilities, comparison of publishing styles of different publishing houses and eras, uses of images for different things, recurring themes that may not be noticed in other ways and who knows what else.
For all these purposes, it would be better to not divide it up alphabetically but have it all in one place, unless something in the wiki software will not support such a page, then maybe minimal division, such as A-L and M-Z. Separate sections of one page, sure, i guess that's what you meant. -- doofus-9 17:36, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
I don't quite get the idea yet. What are the uses of this page? Is it the idea to have similar covers/publishers together? Like this cover style, see under notes. But then you can not have the titles alphabetically.
If the use is to find some subgroup of "difficult" books, then better to limit the scope to those difficult cases, or? --Sugit (talk) 08:24, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Your example from The Earthen Lamps is a good one to illustrate the kinds of patterns that might emerge from such an image (re-)search facility. (Not that they have to be grouped at the expense of alphabeticity though.) Another example is the same picture of Osho that conceptually connects the cheap mini-compilation series of the late 80s. -- doofus-9 18:49, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
I stated two publishers for one cover, if they have the same cover. Or is it better to separate them as two the same covers with different publishers?--DhyanAntar 06:39, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
It seems likely that fewer pictures are better, as the page gets huge and may crash the server, so any time exactly the same cover is used, whether on different dates or by different publishers, text can take care of that more economically than another pic. (And Fusion is not so different from Diamond.) This may also go for almost-the-same pics too, like the two or three from Hind in each of their Es Dhammo Sanantano (एस धम्मो सनंतनो) (series) editions. Maybe to save space in those examples -- ie avoiding a long text explanation crammed into a 180px column -- an asterisk to a note at the bottom can be used. -- doofus-9 18:49, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
I just realized that OMI dropped Osho's pictures from half of its covers.--DhyanAntar 06:50, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Yes, they are doing this in the name of preventing us from worshipping "this dead guy", and more subtly, preventing people from identifying Osho as a person, so that not only was he never born and never died, he hardly was a person in between, just a brilliant disembodied author. Or something like that.
Meanwhile, page has been split into five pieces, with two more to go. Loading was getting pretty slow, verging on dysfunctional. My previous position re all-in-one has officially been reversed, due to aversion to crashing. -- doofus-9 06:58, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
That's good. I as working on S-page already.--DhyanAntar 07:07, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
