Talk:IIT Madras

Hostels

Any enthu for adding detailed information about hostels, departments etc?

I've listed the hostels and added some info about hostels in general. I've heard there are some new ones coming up, though... Any idea what they're going to be named? --Ajitq 07:27, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

There is one new hostel coming up and a new mega mess. They are still under construction. Even the new IIT Map doesn't give them any name. Just "New Boys Hostel".--Arunkumar 16:48, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Here's all the information you need: http://www.iitmadras.org/news/2005/aug31/#hostels

Yes, crocodiles

Who says there are no crocodiles in IIT? I have a photograph with me somewhere of a sign near the lake (close to TTN's house) saying "Beware of Crocodiles". I also have it on good authority that there have been at least 3 instances when crocs have come from the neighbouring GNP into the lake, and have caused havoc.

I'll agree that there is a board inside IITM that says "Beware of Crocodiles". That in itself does not prove anything more than a sign saying "Beware of Dragons" proves the existence of dragons. Do we have anything more substantial than hearsay that there really are crocodiles in the IITM lake? All other animals cited are spotted on a regular basis - monkeys, deer, dogs, birds and snakes. Please cite your sources if possible. -- Brhaspati (^talk_contribs) 22:47, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)

IIT user template

Add the following template to your user page if you are a IIT-Madras Alumni / Student
{{user iitm}}
--DuKot 08:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Moving page

It has been suggested that this article be moved to Indian Institute of Technology Madras. (Discuss here) — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 06:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Undergraduate Academics

Why do NSS/NSO/NCC figure under this topic? I feel it shouldnt be there. Ganesh, 2:00, 21st Oct 2006 (IST)

Internet Access

internet (web) access is through web proxies, so primarily only web access is available. there IS a difference between blocking something and not having something available. if one were doing nat and not allowing irc or something else, that is blocking. if one is providing http access through a web proxy that does not say anything about non http services. besides, this is not the forum for arguing this. Iitmsriram 12:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Credit System

Somebody fix the math in the CG calculation in the article...

Better Introduction? first three lines

The article has the most ordinary and routine introduction I've seen for an elite school like IITM. The article currently starts with "The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is an engineering university located in Adyar the southern part of Chennai city (formerly Madras), in Southern India." That's like a robot saying what it is. It should say something about being one of the elitist or one of the best engineering schools in India.

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Notable Alumni

Request someone to remove alumni who are not particularly notable from the long list. Would be helpful to have a handful of extremely successful alumni in this list rather than a long list of a lot of "not so well-known" alumni. Due to this, the extremely successful alumni get lost in the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsachin (talk • contribs) 11:32, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I'll give try... Salih (talk) 12:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I suggest that instead of deleting somebody's hard work in compiling the list, we should start a separet list of notable alumni of IITM and link to that.

Vinay84 (talk) 12:44, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

It's a good idea to start the list of notable alumni of IITM. I did not delete the names of some alumni just like that. By the way, I saw that you have removed the {{Refimprove}} tag stating that "Removed citation tag after giving citation". I think the article is largely unreferenced; of the 16 references 13 are concerned to alumni list and only the remaining three are concerned to the main article. Salih (talk) 13:18, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Most of the information in the article is from the official website which is listed in the end.WE should work on linking the appropriate sections to the corresponding info. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinay84 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Turns out the Big problem with references was that reflist was not there in the code. Now the article seems decently referenced. Also, I invite editors to be free and bold and Tag for citation so that referencing can be improved.Vinay84 (talk) 05:03, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Facilities section

I suggest that Campus subsection be made a full section and facilities be made a part of it. Vinay84 (talk) 04:50, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Indian Institute of Technology

This article uses the template {{Infobox Indian Institute of Technology}}. This template was forked from {{Infobox university}} way back in 2006. The template {{Infobox university}} has been completely rewritten since then, and this forked template has not benefitted from these improvements. From the point of view of maintenance, a few standard templates are better than a collection of many specific ones.

If the template {{Infobox Indian Institute of Technology}} in this article were replaced with {{Infobox university}}, no information would be lost and the parameter |mottoeng= would start to work. I therefore suggest that this be done. HairyWombat 21:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Later. Done. HairyWombat 15:50, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Grammatical construction

I thought of starting this as a new section as it didn't fit in any of the existing sections. The grammatical construction of several sentences needs updating. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsachin (talk • contribs) 11:28, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Self Promotion

Sentences such as "we are also actively involved in counselling or offering any kind of help" proves that said section is an attempt at self-promotion and does not present a neutral point of view. Chellarian (talk) 16:19, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Very good point. I have removed the section from the article. It was copied and pasted from the source and was not neutral. It clearly violated Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:NPOV and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Yaurz39 (talk) 09:50, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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This article has a notable lack of citations at this time - the references used are also insufficient. Consequently, this article has been downgraded from B-class to C-class by the WikiProject India Assessment Dept. Ncmvocalist (talk) 04:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

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Tamil name of the institute

The article seems to provide multiple inaccurate Tamil names of the institute. The board at the entrance of the institute has some other thing written on it in Tamil, which is neither the one mentioned in the article nor in the template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.139.160.85 (talk) 17:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

I have removed the non-English names from the lead per WP:NOINDICSCRIPT. The only other place I can see the use of such scripts is in the infobox. The Google translator says that the Tamil name at the top of the infobox is correct. But if you think it is wrong, please correct it or remove it. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 05:12, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

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After doing bs in medical science n engineering

Cab we applied for gate for cs branch? 47.15.196.168 (talk) 07:31, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Move of page to full name

@Hmains In 2020, it was decided to move "Indian Institute of Technology xyz" to "IIT xyz". Hence, I suggest that you revert your recent move of "IIT Madras" Tagooty (talk) 01:57, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

@Hmains: A gentle reminder Tagooty (talk) 04:39, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

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