Talk:Rova of Antananarivo/Archive 1

Italics or not?
I invite anyone to share their opinion on the use of italics to denote the names of buildings on the Rova compound. The advantage here is that it would help readers to distinguish between the names of people and buildings which may be otherwise difficult to tell apart. Drawbacks are the frequent use of italics could be an eyesore or distraction. Normally italics for foreign words would either be used on the first appearance only or for every use thereafter. I'm not following any particular standard yet but this article should conform to some consistent style standard before it makes it to GA. Comments? -- Lemurbaby (talk) 19:14, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know of any guidelines pertaining to this, and I can't say that I have a strong opinion either way. If you plan to take the article to FAC, you might request feedback on the issue there if no one else comments here.  It would be an easy change either way. –  VisionHolder  « talk » 18:29, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Having now copyedited many articles containing foreign names I think that what makes for the best readability and appearance is to italicise only the first occurrence of the term. ► Philg88 ◄ star.png 22:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

to do for FA
More as a note to myself than anything else - Lemurbaby (talk) 10:35, 25 July 2011 (UTC) / Lemurbaby (talk) 03:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * replace Rova maps
 * add interior maps where possible -- TBD
 * names translated & italicized first instance
 * Malagasy term first, English translation second
 * Short forms of names provided first instance
 * Update status of reconstruction work

Illustration of damages
We could use a picture of the fire or the aftermath. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 16:23, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Old free photo
Nice black and white free PD photo facing page 97 in this book published in 1896. "Two campaigns: Madagascar and Ashantee" by Bennet Burleigh Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 21:01, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Ruhrfisch, could you possibly do a screen shot of it and upload it to WP? Here in Rwanda Google books doesn't give me access to that book. Thank you, Lemurbaby (talk) 03:12, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Here it is. Hope it is useful - I recognized it from the Rova article (was looking for the other images in published works). Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 04:38, 28 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Note to self: here's another good photo to use. Lemurbaby (talk) 08:15, 26 May 2012 (UTC)