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Hi. Thanks for helping out! One small thing: In articles about India, please use the Rupee symbol (₹) exclusively, not INR. In exactly the same way, articles about the US use $, not USD, etc. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

P.S. Please see Wikivoyage:Currency if you'd like a reference on the policy. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:19, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Unlike the universally known and displayed US dollar symbol, the relatively new Indian rupee (not to be confused with the Nepali rupee) symbol is

1) not displayed properly on many screens (just one reason why the state bank of India often uses INR)

2) little used in India

3) displayed completely differently in various scripts officially sanctioned and used by Indian state governments that use neither Hindi nor Roman scripts

4) not well established

3) not universally known

at present.

In order to make preparation for automatic price conversions easier and for general lack of ambiguity, (see User:Seligne's comments) I think the advice given here is better for editors and readers alike:

http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel:Currency&oldid=2278131

However, if it's worrisome, I'll just stop editing Indian articles rather than go against a badly thought out and inconsistent policy.

While we're on this topic, why is the rarely used and even more rarely understood Vietnamese dong symbol still available in the weird and eclectic pick list of currency symbols displayed currently underneath the editing window?

(The current choice is rather haphazard:

₵ ¢ ₡ ₫ € ƒ ₲ Kč ₭ £ ₦ ₱ $ ৳ ₸ ₮ ₺ ₩ ¥ zł лв РСД ₪ ֏ ₹ ៛ ₴)

The ☎ symbol is also missing. 118.101.50.144 00:54, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Post to Wikivoyage talk:Currency for greater visibility and link to this discussion. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:54, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Reading that page is rather depressing. I don't think I've said anything new here on this page, have I?

For some folks, their irrational personal preferences just trump any attempt at rational persuasion and utility. Jpatokal is a fine writer and an asset to this wiki, but see how he just ignores the point Seligne makes so eloquently. For consensus to function, it needs people capable of both being persuaded by argumentation and courteous enough to explicitly say when they have been persuaded or their objections overcome or that they'll concede a point without losing face.

If you did want to behave logically, this is the page to edit: https://en.wikivoyage.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AEdittools&type=revision&diff=2538220&oldid=2360360

118.101.50.144 07:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure I care enough. But I'll point to this user talk page at that page and suggest that people consider your remarks. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:01, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

I do understand, it's pretty esoteric and of little interest except to those that think they should have an opinion and a veto about everything. And there is no need to link to here, I don't think I've said anything original about currency notations that wasn't already mentioned on that page far more eloquently. 60.53.183.139 10:43, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hold on, I wouldn't know what to say. I don't know what other symbols we should have. I also don't know why it would be important to have the ☎ symbol, when we want people to use listing templates. Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:03, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

There are occasions within body text and body text of listings where subsidiary numbers are listed. It's also rather inelegant to waste a whole listing template to list just emergency numbers in country articles, etc. 60.53.183.139 10:43, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure it's really needed. "You can use 911 in emergencies." What's unclear about that? Anyway, if you want to argue for it, I don't know where the most appropriate place is, so if you can't think of any, try the Travellers' Pub. Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:15, 9 May 2015 (UTC)Reply