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New Montage to be included

[[file:File:Hyderabad skyline Khajaguda.jpeg|alt=]]

Business District at Khajaguda

File:Telangana State Secretariat Front View.jpg

Telangana Secretariat

Charminar during Ramadan

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ustadeditor2011 (talk • contribs) 11:32, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes says Infoboxes may also include an image, a map, or both. It does not say a gallery of seven images. Collages/montages are allowed; WP:MONTAGE says: Collages and montages are single images that illustrate multiple closely related concepts, where overlapping or similar careful placement of component images is necessary to illustrate a point in an encyclopedic way. ... If a gallery would serve as well as a collage or montage, the gallery should be preferred, as galleries are easier to maintain and adjust better to user preferences. What you have done is to create a gallery. It should not go in the infobox. One of the problems with galleries in the infobox is that they are far too big; montages take up less space. There is a lot to be said for having single images in infoboxes, as is done with the article on the Khajaguda Lake.

Regarding the proposed gallery, one of the images File:Hyderabad skyline Khajaguda.jpeg is an unfree image, that is up for deletion - see Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2024 June 12.

It would also have been better if each image had been given alt text. This was explained to you here. -- Toddy1 (talk) 11:54, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A bot has removed image 1 from your gallery.-- Toddy1 (talk) 13:13, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Detroit and Bangalore Why??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore. These are not in montage format, then why ru forcing Hyderabad article to be in montage format? can u be clear I dont understand your views. Updated montage format in Hyderabad article pls check, but in this format cant put a title below the picture like Bangalore article. Then montage should be place in bangalore article also. Why special considerations for Bangalore article I dont understand Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 05:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OTHERCONTENT. DrKay (talk) 06:36, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just dont copy paste a rule and escape, tell people in simple language why you are disrupting when I am trying to contibute updatted images? things should be uniform when it comes to montages of city Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 10:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But you have not contributed updated images. You uploaded copyright images with an irrelevant fair use rationale. If you want to contribute updated images, get a camera and take some photographs of features of the city that you think ought to be photographed.

Regarding what the rules are, I have already answered that question, both in response to your question, and to previous accounts who asked the same question. You can find the answers both on this page and in the talk page archive. -- Toddy1 (talk) 11:07, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ustadeditor2011: Please do not delete or substantially edit your posts after other editors have responded to them.-- Toddy1 (talk) 11:12, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you tried adding a revised montage in the correct format, and using alt text. Well done!

But it was far too large: 215 millimetres (8.5 in) tall. The old one is 135 millimetres (5.3 in) tall.
And it had a copyright image as part of it.

-- Toddy1 (talk) 11:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The copyright image is retained if new montage is allowed to be uploaded, whats is wrong if it is 8.5 in tall. Check Bangalore article. I am now assuming it as consensus recieved. Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 03:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

When the bottom two photos are put side-by-side it reduces the height to 135 millimetres (5.3 in) tall, which is acceptable. I have also fixed the order of the caption for the montage in the infobox so that it corresponds with the order of the photos. The alt text is so useful in checking that they correspond (or not).

Since nobody has objected to the deletion of the copyright photograph, it will be presumably be deleted some time after 17 19 June, and then we can go back to the old montage.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free images cannot be used on wikipedia unless there is no free equivalent and no other way of describing the content. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for guidance, and specifically Wikipedia:Non-free content#Non-free image use in galleries or tables. DrKay (talk) 08:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Income figures

Under economy section, it says "Its per capita annual income in 2011 was ₹44,300 (US$530)", I think this figure must be for monthly income and not annual. As a resident of this city this sounds very wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.56.17.146 (talk) 10:37, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The figures come from a July 2011 article in the Times of India: Hyderabad's contribution to the GDP of the country is significant. Its size and per capita income of about Rs 44,300 are among the highest.^[1]

In this March 2023 New Indian Express article the term "per capita income" seems to have been used to mean Net State Domestic Product (NSDP) divided by the population.-- Toddy1 (talk) 11:50, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hyderabad, initially known as Gollaconda, which was a shepherd hillock, later a mud fort was constructed by Kakatiya Dynesty rulers and from then it is called as Golconda. The mud fort reconstructed with stone by the Qutub Shahi dynesty 2405:201:C012:8043:4506:D9C2:CDDE:3596 (talk) 09:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. --Ferien (talk) 09:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hatnote

Please make sure the hatnote directly links to Hyderabad, Sindh. That is a city of over 2 million people that is named "Hyderabad"--when people type Hyderabad, they should not have to go to the disambiguation page to find what they were looking for. Red Slash 01:45, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Naming, Toponomy

The first stanza discusses naming firstly indicated its after Captain Ali Talib (Haydar) Then it goes on to speculate itwas after the supposed title "Haydar Mahal" taken by the founder's wife Only one can be correct and I am pretty sure the the last line is the mistaken legend, the name was after her named Bhag Nagar in the earlier Hindu years, then named "Haider Abad" after the Sultan, it cannot be both since the hindu girl probably lived much him JackDurden01 (talk) 07:51, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article already explains this. DrKay (talk) 07:58, 10 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]