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India locator map[edit]

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An outline of India, without any captions, no cities listed, that allows lazy use in articles of not-particularly-useful maps.

Reason: Locator maps are useful ways to get a temporary map into an article showing its rough location. But they fail to show any other context: For example, they tend not to be geographical maps, so fail to give infornation on major features nearby, and show no other cities, so fail as political maps. As such, the encyclopedic value is low, and the best you can say about them is that they're a fast way to get something for your article.

As such, I don't see them as the best of our work, as our best work involves effort to make the best possible map for use in an article, not making do with a fast, easy option, that provides less than the minimal encyclopedic information that any other map used for discussing a location anywhere but Wikipedia would include.

You may get the feeling I think locator maps are a blight on Wikipedia. That's because they are. It only takes a few times trying to figure out basic things like "What's the nearest large population centre to X" using Wikipedia, and failing because of the ubiquity of bad maps on Wikipedia...

Well, I'll spare you further rants. It's not Wikipedia's best work. It's part of a systemic problem that ranks amongst Wikipedia's worst work.

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Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/India-locator-map-blank.svg
Nominator: Adam Cuerden ^(talk)

Delist — Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:17, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist mostly per nom. We have hundreds of similar maps, many with more detailed geographic information. In itself the locator map has limited EV, has no scalebar and shows no international boundaries between neighbouring countries. --ELEKHH^T 04:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist per nom --Muhammad(talk) 08:26, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist. Per what Adam says above, it bothers me that this has very little potential value outside of Wikipedia, or even the narrow locator usage within Wikipedia. Most of our FP maps are much more versatile. Chick Bowen 16:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delist I personally think locator maps are very useful, but they are not in and of themselves "Wikipedia's best work". Jujutacular (talk) 04:57, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They can be useful as a stopgap, where they stop being useful is when even featured articles use them, without adding other cities. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:01, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delist as above. J Milburn (talk) 17:21, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delisted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:19, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]