Category talk:Shaolin Monastery
Category names
[edit]When I first looked at this there were about 1000 uncategorized pics, tourist contributions or material limned from sites. This is unusual. On further investigation I found that we are not dealing with a simple building or a simple good old fashioned monastery. This is a complex location of several sites and hundreds of buildings. Historically it has been through the mill, most of it destroyed and rebuilt or redirected several times, most lately in the 1980's and 1990's. It is one of the major Chinese tourist locations. The revolution has not always known what to do with it. There is no good old-fashioned body of "monks" that have been there since the early 1st millenium. There are plenty of monks, plenty of schools. Martial arts have been highly publicised, highly fictionalized, and now UNESCO is having a say. Some of these places are film sites. And yet, there is a tradition. The problem here is to know what to call it. The buildings have been used, reused, built, rebuilt, occupied, reoccupied until now no one seems to know what to call them. Internet information is contradictory. I've taken my best guess on the category names. Some are easy, such as the pagoda forest. Most not so easy. If you see a category you know is wrong or is questionable, do speak up or act on it. You can mention it here as an issue. These categories can be changed. You put all the pics under a new category name and then you mark the category for speedy delete with template:speedy. Administrators have the power to change categories more directly.Botteville (talk) 11:33, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Databox problem
[edit]Attention progrmmers. This data box does bad things with Google Maps. No matter what coords you put in it puts them in the wrong place. Worse still, it superimposes a shadow image over the satellite image sticking in an outline map of the same terrain at 30 degrees negative rotation. Thus the same river appears twice. Moreover it changes the names of the features, creating a whole new imaginary landscape, apparently incorrectible. I know it is not Google Maps because there is no problem with the coords in the Wikipedia infobox. If you could fix that I would appreciate it. Also as a minor point the databox code is putting together the user-entered parameters with wrong, non-optional punctuation. Thanks.Botteville (talk) 13:27, 25 November 2022 (UTC)