Template talk:LocateMe

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Contents 1 Category 2 Link to Coordinates 3 Templates gone mad 4 Maybechecker

[edit] Category

I can't figure out how to get this to put the article, rather than the article's talk page, on which it sits, into the category. Andy Mabbett 15:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Was this, in fact, the reason you decided to put the tag on the article? --Tagishsimon (talk)

No. Andy Mabbett 14:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link to Coordinates

This template sends people off to an abstract mathematical article on coordinates, which doesn't really help with the LocateMe task. I suggest it would be better to refer people to the article on geographic coordinates or perhaps just to refer people to the WikiProject page. --RichardVeryard 17:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates gone mad

Do we really need a template for the article page that alerts us to the fact it doesn't have coordinates specified? What next? "This article appears to refer to a person but doesn't specify their height"? "This article mentions elephants but doesn't specify Indian or African"? Talk page would be fine and adding a category on the article page is no problem, but cluttering the articles up with templates asking for tiny bits of information doesn't seem like a good plan to me. Yomangani^talk 15:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Coordinates are a vital part of a location, putting the object in crucial context. It would be akin to a book without an author, or a website without an address. A location is its coordinates. (Although I wouldn't be opposed to simply adding a category, but the template brings the issue to forefront more readily.) --Ybbor^TalkSurvey! 00:30, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

But an article on a place is more than a just a pointer to its location. Other less extreme examples of templates we could add to articles would be asking for the architect, decorator, or client for a building (yes, they are important aspects for an article on a building, but we wouldn't put a template on the article page asking for them). In addition, an address, even a vague address, for example, "near Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, at the western end of Oxford Street in London, England, near the tube station of the same name" is a way (perhaps a more accessible way) of specifying a location for an object, so while coordinates might be nice, the lack of them does not automatically mean the article is left in geographical limbo. Yomangani^talk 00:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Absence of coordinates leaves the article in limbo, so far as projects such as the Google Earth tie-in are concerned. Andy Mabbett 12:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

For what it is worth, I agree with User:Yomangani - this is a message for editors, not readers. Like {{reqphoto}}, this should appear on the talk page. Unlike cleanup templates, such as {{copyedit}}, there is not much chance that a run-of-the-mill reader is going to be able to add proper coordinates, as this template requests. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:26, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I, too, think that the template should be restricted to the talk page. I see no consensus its inclusion in the article space.The need to serve projects such as google earth do not provide a good enough reason for putting the template on the article. --Tagishsimon (talk)

An article is still a valid article (complying with policies) if it doesn't contain coordinates - but it could be improved. However, an article is not a valid article if it is unreferenced. Hence {{unreferenced}} should belong on the article page whereas {{LocateMe}} should belong on the talk page. AndrewRT(Talk) 21:21, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maybechecker

Use the maybechecker and forget about this template. The ratio of serverload for adding this template vs. actual work needed to geocode the article is ridiculous. --Dschwen 13:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

That makes sense. The template certainly shouldn't be in articlespace. Tewfik^Talk 19:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)