Talk:Ambigram/Archive 5
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Ambigram URL
I have created an ambigrammatic domain name and corresponding URL. To my knowledge the worlds first. See ap.xozzox.de I think the example would make a nice addition to the examples section. I would add it to the entry, if this would be acceptable. Comments? xozzox ,i.e. 87.174.206.223 (talk) 08:36, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
The domain has been picked up and discussed by the online Ambigram Magazine - xozzox, i.e. 87.174.226.21 (talk) 08:51, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Removing non-illustrative Examples by Arif Fachrudin
These examples do not add much in the way of explaining what an ambigram is. They are not particularly notable, and do not show any special types of ambigrams. Additionally, they were added by the author, suggesting that they are really just supposed to be advertisements for his own work, or a way of showcasing some work that he liked. Hence I am removing them from the article. Jesterjester (talk) 16:28, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
Some links to T-shirts with mirror-image antonyms
http://www.moillusions.com/2006/07/love-hate-optical-illusion.html
http://www.moillusions.com/2009/06/cleverest-stupid-girl-arround.html
I have no idea what copyright license if any the images might fall under so i am hesitant to upload them but they are brilliant illustrations of ambigram-style writing.
Warmest Regards, :)—thecurran Speak your mind my past 11:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
ЯEDЯUM
Would this qualify as a use of an ambigram in popular culture? (From The Shining, reads as "MURDER" in a mirror.) Lurlock (talk) 18:58, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Fixing this page
It's sad. I'm an expert at ambigrams. I know most of the prominent ambigramists personally. I've done them myself for almost ~30 years. I spent tons of time cleaning up this page, adding historical information, including the first ambigrams ever, a timeline and other information, and removing lots of random ambigrams. But, I was chased away by a few griefers who probably spent more time on Wikipedia in a day than I spend in six months. I didn't have the time to fight them. The page is now inaccurate, a mishmash of information, and has a bunch of borderline ambigrams that look like they were added to help promote products. Lots of great information is long gone. To cap it off, somebody took a piece of artwork by Doug Hofstadter, which I had personally obtained permission for it to be on Wikipedia, and replaced it with an SVG replica. It is completely inappropriate to replace original artwork with replicas.
If others are interested in a concerted effort to bring this page's quality back up to where it was during the brief period before the griefers took over, and there are enough people, contact me. Otherwise, this page is going to continue to degrade in quality.
RoyLeban (talk) 05:56, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Rotational Ambigrams are often called 'flipscript'
- http://www.deviantart.com/?q=flipscript
- https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=flipscript
- http://statigr.am/tag/flipscript
- http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-and-cool-ambigram-designs/ ("the flipscript or rotational ambigram...")
External Links for Ambigrams
customambigrams.com by graphic artist Clayton Mabey. Mariericks (talk) 02:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)--Mariericks (talk) 02:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
The removal of many of the excellent ambigram site links was a mistaken judgment. Without a link to Scott Kim's Inversions page, for example, this page becomes less useful for my illustrative purposes. 74.77.26.243 (talk) 16:11, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
I agree with the above comment. Several definitive ambigram sites were mistakenly removed in that wholesale deletion. The fact that the site of Scott Kim (one of the originators of the ambigram art form) and Ambigram.com (widely considered to be THE definitive ambigram site on the internet) were removed without a reason being provided is a sign that there should have been more consideration afforded with regards to the trimming of the alleged 'link spam'. At the least, both of those sites should be reinstated.Punyam (talk) 07:12, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Ambigram Generators
The ambigram generator section had become outdated since the company mentioned (Glyphusion) is out of business and no longer exists. I also updated what had been written about the ambigram generator with more accurate facts. 67.85.133.154 (talk) 19:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to add this to the page, but it doesn't allow me as one of the sites is blacklisted:
List of ambigram generators
There are currently five online ambigram generators:
[this is incorrect] 67.85.133.154 (talk) 19:16, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
FlipScript Ambigram Generator[1]
WowTattoos Ambigram Generator [This is the ambigram generator licensed from the developer of FlipScript]
Parescientifica Ambigram Generator[2]
TattoFonts' Ambigram Generator [This is also the ambigram generator licensed from the FlipScript developer]
Ambigram.Matic[3]
References
- ^ FlipScript Ambigram Generator
- ^ [http://parascientifica.com/ambigram.php Parescientifica Ambigram Generator]
- ^ Ambigram.Matic
- See WP:LINKFARM policy, and the WP:ELMAYBE guideline that proposes alternatives. DMacks (talk) 18:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
FlipScript
This article claimed that another term for ambigrams are FlipScripts. FlipScript is an online ambigram shop, and the term has never been used to replace ambigram. Kaimonington (talk) 14:21, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
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Citation not needed
There are a whole bunch of Citation needed claims in the Types section, that I believe aren't needed. For example, a mirror image ambigram is pretty obviously one that can be read as a mirror image. When people put in Citation needed, they are supposed to add to the talk page a discussion on what is needed, unless it is especially obvious. Seems to me that all these are not needed. Gah4 (talk) 03:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
- Sometimes, yes, but not always. For example now in the lead section, this quote by Douglas Hofstadter: "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves", which book does it come from? Seems valid, but no source. These templates also testify the article is read by someone, and encourage the other contributors to improve, or to be accurate in their inputs. -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:04, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
How to quote / copyrighted materials / examples without image
I found this example, but I do not know how include it https://www.redmolotov.com/catalogue/tshirts/all/schrodingers-cat-is-alive-dead-tshirt.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enrique.garciasimon (talk • contribs) 11:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
- You shouldn't cite a shirt.
- That is not an example of an ambigram.★Trekker (talk) 11:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
- Some consider this as a "Figure-ground" ambigram, however I don't think this is a successful one. If the copyright is owned, then the picture of the shirt can be uploaded on Commons. -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
generators
@Basile Morin: the generator section needs some work. I have an overview of the types of generators and history here, maybe you could take a look and see if it can be used as a source?
I would argue that naming some of the websites and dates makes sense, especially ambimatic and maybe flipscript. The others can just be a reference like they are now. Can put a draft here if you want. Synethos (talk) 15:13, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Section History
Interesting paragraph, that should be illustrated with an image. -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:16, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
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and more in Category:Ambigrams by Gustave Verbeek
Done -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:12, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
Rewrite
I feel like this entire article needs a rewrite. It has become a summation of facts with no clear story. History and popularity can be merged I think and I would also do something about the introduction. I can make an attempt, but I wanted to post this first to make sure that I am not stepping on anyone's toes.--Synethos (talk) 14:40, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
- Certainly this article can be improved. However, please start by reading our policies and guidelines, and try to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia in general, first, before moving everything like a hurricane. Thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:45, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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@Basile Morin: Ok so clearly I have stepped on some toes since all my revisions are being reverted. Can you please explain how a Donald Trump/Hillary Clinton clinton 'ambigram' is relevant, especially when it is miscategroized? Any why we need a section on other names for ambigrams, where other articles put that in the introduction? e.g. "Ambigram, also known as." I guess that one can discuss about weather or not mentioning an existing font is relevant or not. But why would the French Davalan generator not be relevant while the ambimatic, TrulyScience or flipscript are? You really can't talk about that subject without mentioning the websites at least, especially if there are some up already. Also do we really need a citation needed when stating that there are multiple possibilities to make an ambigram of the same word? I would personally throw that sentence away completely, but if one keeps it, I don't see how it should be cited. --Synethos (talk) 16:32, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
@Basile Morin: The fact that you dig up previous edits that I have not mentioned nor tried to defend as an argument to why everything else is wrong is not the best look, nor does it show goodwill. (eg 1,2)
You've still ignored:
Anyway, maybe we should start one of these dispute resolution requests, as I don't think that this is constructive on either sides. --Synethos (talk) 08:14, 2 April 2020 (UTC) Here we go: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Ambigram Please do put down your part of the story, but can we please keep it to the edits done yesterday and the points discussed here? Again I am aware of point 1 and 2 being wrong, and have not tried that again. We're not all wikipedia veterans, but that shouldn't mean that people just can't edit at all. --Synethos (talk) 08:37, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
You are still cherry picking and dodging questions. Yes makeambigrams is mine, and it is a ambigram generator website, which I thought is relevant. You may have noticed that I also added other generators and general information on the topic. Which I still believe is relevant. I mean feel free to leave it off, but why the rest? Symbiotogram is used by many sources, including John Langdon. I can add sources if you want, but I feel like you do not. I do not know what other languages say. I gave my reasons as to why I removed that image, if people disagree than fine. I feel like I explained this 3x now. The fact that many of these terms seem invented, I agree with fully. Some can be merged, others can be removed. Anyway, it stil does not feel like we are being constructive here. --Synethos (talk) 10:04, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Synethos, we could argue and argue endless. So let's be constructive, instead. Your ambigrams by Gustave Verbeek are excellent, and you definitely should upload them on Wikimedia Commons. If the publication date is 1904, then they are now public domain, because the author has died since 1937. See Commons:Help:Public domain. Do you have a scanner, or a good camera? After that you can make your point on the article, by explaining the purpose: with a fair description and a short synthesis, your illustrated content might be very educative. -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:26, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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- The article is fascinating, I read Hofstedter a millennium ago (feels like) and the topic deserves coverage. That said, there are plenty of problems with its construction, not least the use of WP:Primary and commercial sources, the presence of unWP:CITEd statements, lack of neutrality, and so on. In short, I concur with the comments above: this article needs work. It would be really helpful if the enthusiasm could be transmuted, by learning about Wikipedia's policies and standards, into a robust and correctly-written article. There is quite a "steep learning curve", as the unlovely jargon has it; but it'll be worth it. Good luck! All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Chiswick Chap, I agree with your contribution, and unfortunately had to revert Synethos once again, since the wise recommendations written in your summary have been ignored (or misunderstood). There's obviously a problem of advertising and conflicts of interest here because Synethos owns the personal website makeambigrams.com and would probably like to keep the link visible in the article. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:02, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Let's be completely fair here, this is one of four websites that generates ambigrams in the world. I agreed long ago that linking directly is a bit much, but it makes no sense to not even cite any of them. Links on wiki are no-follow and get 0 weight from google, so honestly there are better ways to get traffic. With all the edits that I am making, is it really that hard to believe that they are in good faith? There is a wealth of information on ambigram generators that is not written down, and frankly it makes no sense to say that generators exist and not talk about any details whatsoever. I can open another dispute if you guys want, as I honestly do not believe that me being connected to one of the sites, is a reason to exclude them all. Synethos (talk) 06:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Given the clear potential for the appearance of conflict of interest, even assuming complete good faith, the only safe approach will be for you to propose what you think should be done here on the talk page, and to leave it to the community to decide whether it can be implemented in the article. On the "information .. that is not written down", that is a kind offer - it is obvious you have detailed knowledge - but it is strictly forbidden by the WP:OR policy, so we cannot use it under any circumstances. The best I can suggest is that you draft suggested changes here on the talk page, each one cited to reliable, independent sources not connected to any ambigram website, and leave it up to other editors to action. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- Let's be completely fair here, this is one of four websites that generates ambigrams in the world. I agreed long ago that linking directly is a bit much, but it makes no sense to not even cite any of them. Links on wiki are no-follow and get 0 weight from google, so honestly there are better ways to get traffic. With all the edits that I am making, is it really that hard to believe that they are in good faith? There is a wealth of information on ambigram generators that is not written down, and frankly it makes no sense to say that generators exist and not talk about any details whatsoever. I can open another dispute if you guys want, as I honestly do not believe that me being connected to one of the sites, is a reason to exclude them all. Synethos (talk) 06:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Chiswick Chap, I agree with your contribution, and unfortunately had to revert Synethos once again, since the wise recommendations written in your summary have been ignored (or misunderstood). There's obviously a problem of advertising and conflicts of interest here because Synethos owns the personal website makeambigrams.com and would probably like to keep the link visible in the article. -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:02, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
- The article is fascinating, I read Hofstedter a millennium ago (feels like) and the topic deserves coverage. That said, there are plenty of problems with its construction, not least the use of WP:Primary and commercial sources, the presence of unWP:CITEd statements, lack of neutrality, and so on. In short, I concur with the comments above: this article needs work. It would be really helpful if the enthusiasm could be transmuted, by learning about Wikipedia's policies and standards, into a robust and correctly-written article. There is quite a "steep learning curve", as the unlovely jargon has it; but it'll be worth it. Good luck! All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:20, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
Nissin
Nissin is a mere imperfect ambigram, isn’t it? -- Gohnarch░ 09:42, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Yes. This Nissin is more symmetrical. See also Sonos, VIA, VOA, Handy, Opodo, Oxo... -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
Article reorganization
Hello,
To improve the structure of the article, I propose the reorganization below.
Headings and sections (expand)
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Short description Etymology History Characteristics
Types
Symbols
Fields
Creating ambigrams
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The section Popularity might be kept or divided. Of course, this suggestion is totally open to improvements. If it suits everyone, I'll proceed to the modification the next days, with expanded text and relevant citations. Hopefully it will help everyone to develop a specific part, and / or to navigate through the content. -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:07, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
- Done I think 6 days were enough to consider the change. -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:42, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Please no major changes without prior discussion
Hello,
Per WP:CAUTIOUS, please don't change everything without prior consensus.
Illustrations organized in matching sections are more useful than isolated in bulk in an overloaded gallery. Regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:15, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Ambigram promoted on Twitter via @Wikipedia
Wikipedia @WikipediaWhat is it called when a word is flipped but remains unchanged or mutates to reveal another meaning?
An ambigram! w.wiki/4VMz
📹 Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0November 18, 2022[1]
- ^ Wikipedia [@Wikipedia] (November 18, 2022). "What is it called when a word is flipped but remains unchanged or mutates to reveal another meaning? An ambigram! w.wiki/4VMz 📹 Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2022-11-18. Retrieved November 18, 2022 – via Twitter.
-- Thanks! -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:55, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
Original research, original artwork
It's really sad to see the state of this article. Years ago, I did a lot of work to improve it, including putting together a well-sourced timeline of ambigrams. For example, I dug up the "chump" ambigram from The Strand, and others. I was fought tooth-and-nail by a deletionist who argued, among other things, "there are no timelines on Wikipedia" (there are tens of thousands) and that I couldn't cite books that I owned because he didn't also have copies (e.g., Dmitri Borgmann's famous-but-long-of-print Language on Vacation and Doug Hofstadter's Ambigrammi: Un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creativita, published only in Italy). That editor eventually got permanently banned, but I had given up. Fast forward to today. While I'm pleased to see that "chump" finally got restored, the article is now filled with original ambigrams inserted by the people who created them! We call that Original Research around here. Also, some original ambigrams by others have been modified without permission (e.g., converting hand-drawn line art into vector art) — one would not vectorize the Mona Lisa, and one should not vectorize anybody else's art!
I'm writing now because somebody removed the tessellation ambigram of "fuck" and the creator of the ambigram restored it, saying it's ok to have an offensive word. I removed it again, but not because I care so much about the offensive word. I removed it because the person who restored it is also the artist who created the ambigram, Basile Morin, who is certainly not unbiased with respect to whether his original artwork is appropriate or needed. I don't think it adds anything to the article, it is not a particularly good or attractive ambigram, it is not a famous or well-known ambigram, and it does not seem to exist anywhere on the internet except the creator's own site and this page. If it is necessary that a particular point be made, a non-offensive example could be found. There is nothing special about the word "fuck", which is something clear to anybody who is familiar with ambigrams.
On a related note, a rather large number of ambigrams on this page are OR by Basile Morin, and I would guess that they have all been inserted by Basile himself.
If other editors think this example is important to this article, please comment here. But, Basile, don't re-add your own artwork to the article!
RoyLeban (talk) 04:54, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
- It's not OR because there is no R. It is a potential COI, but it's not uncommon for WPians to create art for WP. — kwami (talk) 06:07, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
- We're going to have to agree to disagree on this. There are probably a million things on Wikipedia that I would classify as OR that aren't commonly thought of as that. If I take a photo of a building and say it's the Empire State Building, that's not considered OR. But if I say that the Empire State Building is on 34th St because I was there and it is obviously on 34th St, that's considered OR. This makes no sense (and I could go on).
- For this page, there is much content that has been uploaded by the creator (so, yes, COI) and which is claimed to be certain things (hence OR). This is not the same thing as, say, modifying a map to highlight something relevant to an article, or creating a chart of existing data, etc.
- Note that I'm not disagreeing with the statements themselves, which may well be accurate (I haven't examined everything). It's just whether they meet Wikipedia standards. What I hope and think we agree on is that artists uploading their own art is not good. RoyLeban (talk) 07:59, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Original Wikipedia edition (not original research)
Hello,
- I agree with kwami. It's not OR. See Wikipedia:No original research#Original images: "Because of copyright laws in several countries, there are relatively few images available for use on Wikipedia. Editors are therefore encouraged to upload their own images, releasing them under appropriate Creative Commons licenses or other free licenses.". This example also meets WP:STICKTOSOURCE.
- Please read WP:IUP: "Wikipedia encourages users to upload their own images". Roy Leban, why not uploading your works visible on the website www.royleban.com/ambigrams (archive), that you give on your user page?
- The ambigram Fuck is labeled Quality Image and has been used on Wikipedia in various languages, sometimes inserted by other users.
- The reason why this specific four-way ambigram tessellation was chosen is because it is the only one containing 4 letters. The other candidates that would be possible include "Yum" and "NYC" (3 letters), or "OK" (2 letters).
- The examples given to illustrate the section Ambigram tessellations have been picked up from the related category: c:Category:Ambigram tessellations. Sorry but the 29 files currently available have all been drawn by me. More works are always welcome, but in this case there was no other choice.
- It's vulgar language, but an original ambigram, that people usually enjoy. Read for example this discussion where Adam Cuerden says it's his "favourite".
- The images chosen to illustrate the article mainly come from the public Category:Featured pictures of ambigrams or Category:Quality images of ambigrams. I'm not always responsible for my works being promoted. For example the head image has been nominated by Bammesk and the Escher tesselation by Tomer T. But once again it appears that 137 Quality Images out of the 141 are my works, that means 97%.
- There are many images on the article that are not my works, but uploaded by me on Wikimedia Commons. Examples: New Man, MAOAM, Bounce, etc.
- The section Ambigram#Comics contains ambigrams from the c:Category:Ambigrams by Gustave Verbeek that I personally uploaded. Idem Rex Whistler (Drawings), and more.
- Ambigram Wikipedia is a work initially designed for this project, and then published in a book. Proof that Wikipedia is a rich source of inspiration
- To finish, concerning the SVG templates left on Commons, please read the talk page, where my comment left in February says "totally agree". And I fixed similar files, including Douglas Hofstadter's artworks.
Regards, -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:54, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
- Seriously, are people complaining that we have an exceptionally good creator of ambigrams uploading ones for Wikipedia - and anyone else - to use for free? Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 17:01, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
- The only problem I anticipate would be someone trying to promote their business or having some other reason to force their images on WP against consensus. That's clearly not the case here. The main problem I've seen in images is people edit-warring over politically, pseudo-historically or culturally biased maps, not in creating art. — kwami (talk) 20:36, 9 July 2023 (UTC)