Hi,

First of all many thanks to our Calcutta brethren  for conducting this photo walk and many thanks for uploading the images to Commons. Such events will greatly help our country's herittage buildings, architecture, landmarks etc be preserved.

After trying a quick & dirty look up with the results of your wonderful event,  some points come to mind.

1. NAMING OF IMAGES - . The images with building names included in name are very useful & easily locatable

eg : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aayakar_Bhawan_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0067.JPG

Images named in the following manner are not at all useful to find the building concerned

eg : File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(32).JPG

especially since about 150 of these are so named.

2. CATEGORISATION - Images need to be categorised otherwise the images cannot be located/used by those who dont know where to look for them.

3. ARTICLE USAGE - Tried to see what has stubs/images on English Wikipedia  -

1. Shahid Minar - No link. [[Shaheed Minar]] of Bangladesh not India
2. Metropolitan Building - [[Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis0]] not Kolkata
3. Tipu Sultan Mosque - [[Tipu Sultan Mosque]], image already available
4. Victoria House - no article
5. Statesman House - no article but an image may be added (when located) to [[The_Statesman]]
6. Aaykar Bhawan - no stub
7. Great Eastern Hotel - can be added to [[Places_of_interest_in_Kolkata#Historic_hotels]]
8. Central Telegraph Office - page for CTO Colombo & London but not for Mumbai & Kolkata
9. National Assurance Building - no building
10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
11. Raj Bhawan - can be added to [[Raj_Bhavan_(West_Bengal)]]
12. St. John's Church - Meerut & Secunderabad pictured for India only
13. General Post Office - can be added to [[General_Post_Office,_Kolkata]]
14. Kolkata Collectorate - no article
15. Writers' Building - [[Writers'_Building]]
16. St. Andrews Chapel - no article

4. STUB IMPROVEMENT - Many buildings have no stubs. These need to be made. Others need references, geo-code, images, etc.

Hope this feedback is useful in some way.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan.sarkar@gmail.com> wrote:

We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.

ROUTE
We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. >From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the  Writers Buildings.

MONUMENTS
We covered the following monuments.
1. Shahid Minar
2. Metropolitan Building
3. Tipu Sultan Mosque
4. Victoria House
5. Statesman House
6. Aaykar Bhawan
7. Great Eastern Hotel
8. Central Telegraph Office
9. National Assurance Building
10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor
11. Raj Bhawan
12. St. John's Church
13. General Post Office
14. Kolkata Collectorate
15. Writers' Building
16. St. Andrews Chapel

STATUES
1. Lenin
2. Asutosh Mookerjee
3. Prafulla Chaki
4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy
5. Binay Badal Dinesh