Talk:Britomart Transport Centre
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"Auckland spreads a suburban population of 1.2 million over an area rather larger than London" -This is simply not true, while the regional area may cover an area greater than london, the suburban (i.e. urbanised/developed) area of Auckland is much less. The regional area include huge tracts of land in Rodney, Waitakere and South that are farmland, bush or mountains. The urban area of Auckland is less than half that of Sydney for example. Population density of urbanised Auckland is comparable to Mebourne and Sydney.
"making bus and rail services more expensive to implement" -Also not particularly accurate, Auckland pays some of the cheapest subsidies for its bus system in the world, so it is unfair to claim that it is expensive to operate. And certainly expanding the bus and rail networks would be expensive, but this has little to do with the area of Auckland alone. -Nick R. (User:202.27.216.35)
[edit] Disambiguation
I found the redirect to Britomartis confusing, particularly considering that the transport centre seems to be more notable than the character of The Faerie Queene (as can be seen by Google searches), so, I've added a disambiguation page. --Dom 05:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Date links
I do not diagree with formatting standards. I disagree with the necessity of linking to 12 September and 2006 at these particular points. What good is clicking on them, and being referred to these articles, in connection with ARTAs DART project? Is it really interesting to the reader of "Britomart Transport Centre" that the Apple computer "it's Showtime!" special event happened on that day, or that 2006 was a "Mozart Year"?
Providing date links in these instances runs contrary to Wikipedia:Only make links that are relevant to the context, as does providing date links WITHIN the references (which only talk about the day they (the references) appeared. MadMaxDog 04:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- The point is not about linking dates, it's their displaying in accordance with users' preferences. "September 12 2006" will always display just like that, irrespective of those preferences: September 12, 2006 will display in the style that the user's prefences are set to - "12 September 2006", "September 12 2006", "September 12th 2006", "2006-09-12" - whatever the user has specified. It's covered (can't remember where!) in the Wikipedia guidelines, and is entirely consistent with the guideline that you quote. Birdhurst 07:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
