Template talk:Infobox C-Train Station

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[edit] How to use

The parameters are as follows:

• station: The name of the station as given on the C-Train map (i.e. ‘Centre Street’, ‘Chinook’, ‘McKnight-Westwinds’).
• address: The station’s street address, as given on the C-Train map.
• image: A photograph of the station, in fully MediaWiki syntax; it should usually be 300px wide, without a thumbnail box, but a caption should be provided for the visually-impaired. If no photograph is available, leave this field blank.
• coordinates: Geographic coordinates, please use {{Coord}}
• opened: The date on which the station opened to the public. This information is available from Transit Toronto.
• line: The line(s) serving this station, either 201 or 202.
• nextstation: Links and distances to the next stations. Please mark the distances with ≅ if they are approximations based on the distance by road.
• connections: The routes connecting to this station. Bus routes should be identified with only their number (to save space), unless there is only one connecting route, in which case the name should also be given, so that readers do not mistake the route number for the total number of connecting routes. If there are no connecting routes, leave this field blank, and it will not appear.
• platforms: Whether the station has centre or side platforms.
• wheelchair: Set to ‘yes’ if the station is wheelchair-accessible, and an icon will be displayed beside the ‘platforms’ field. Otherwise, leave blank.

Please do not add extraneous link in the infobox fields (i.e. to articles about the street on which the station is built, or to more than one article per connecting route.

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

Please do not rename or remove these classes.

When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.

[edit] image display

A problem with this infobox, is the image field in cases where there are two platforms for one article (downtown platforms). Now, ideally two independent platforms should have two articles. But since we've combined them, it seems wrong to arbitrarily pick one as the the image to go inside the infobox. Putting two images at the top of the infobox, pushes the textual info too low down. So, I suggest, we move the image field to the bottom of the box, and as a standard, display two images there, if there are two platforms covered in the same article. --Rob 03:37, 10 August 2007 (UTC)