Template talk:Infobox London station/Archive 1

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Contents 1 Inclusion of station lists in infobox 2 Tube Portal 3 Preceding/Following Station template 4 Width of infobox and problems with history display 5 Requested move 5.1 Survey 5.2 Discussion 6 Template:London stations live 7 Caption syntax described in transclusion does not work

Inclusion of station lists in infobox

I notice the recent useful addition to the template by Mtpt of the station list but think that, as this is the London Station infobox, it might be more useful to be a bit more selective and include just those on the London Underground and the Docklands Light Railway and those National Rail stations actually in London. These stations are listed at List of London Underground stations and List of London railway stations. I have drafted a modified version of the template incorporating these lists in a similar fashion to Mtpt's edit at my sandbox for comments. DavidCane 00:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Must have read your mind as I put this in last night without even seeing your comment. MRSC 09:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I've added back the UK railway stations link, but not the index - take the points above about being more selective about the index, but these stations are still part of the national transport network even if they happen to be in London. Mtpt 14:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

No need. There is already a link to National Rail info. MRSC 15:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

There is a need. See the comment above. The existing link is to *London* stations, not to the rest of the network. Mtpt 15:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

That article has links to wider Uk information. From an article of a station in London it is perfectly reasonable to link to other stations in London first. MRSC 15:37, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It didn't - it's just in that category - but before we hit 3rv I've edited it to include one. Mtpt 15:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Re tab It would be of some use to put the alpha list back in, in my opinion (subject to it working with a NR station only). It would keep it close to the main UK rail station info template and it would allow us to remove another template, reducing clutter on the pages. Regan123 09:48, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Tube Portal

I removed the recent addition of the {{tubeportal}} template from this template. This is because it appears below the main template box and has the effect of messing up the formating of many of the articles where secondary images are aligned directly under the template box.

It might be worth putting the tube portal tag into the template so that it appears inside the box but I don't want to attempt this as it is quite a complex template and I don't want to mess it up. - DavidCane 16:16, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Probably best to take it out; only insert it into the articles relevant. But not necessarily into the template. Simply south 16:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I've worked out a way of including the Tubeportal tag in the template so that it appears only on those stations that have a tube service. I have done this by adding a new row to the bottom of the box that appears only if the "tubeexits" parameter has been used. Obviously this only applies to stations with a tube service. At the moment there are many tube stations where the older "exits" parameter has been used and these will not show the tag, but it's a start, I think, in the right direction and will save tagging every station article individually with the tubeportal template. DavidCane 02:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

This addition also causes the wikiproject category to appear in the article space. These usually are attached to talk pages? MRSC • Talk 17:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Preceding/Following Station template

I wonder if by any chance, the possibility of incorporating the preceding/following station template into this as well? Could be a bit challenging with space but I guess it's better to have one template to contain info for a single station. matt-(my page-leave me a message) 03:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Whilst it would be nice to put the information pertaining to a single station in one place the preceding/following box at the foot of the page is a common feature of station articles used for railway and metro stations across Wikipedia, both in the English language version and other languages (see New York's Grand Central Terminal or Gare du Nord on French Wikipedia as other examples). The preceding/following box should be kept for consistency.

The technical and logistical aspects of making the change are also considerable:

• With several hundred tube, DLR and National Rail stations in London using the template, the rewrite from scratch would be considerable and probably not one that could be done by a bot.
• The Infobox template is fixed-width whereas the preceding/following box varies in width to suit the length of the station and line names - this would be difficult to accommodate in a narrow infobox.

DavidCane 17:30, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Width of infobox and problems with history display

I have noticed a problem when using the new years and events parameters. If the length of the event text is wider than the width of the second column it wraps to a second line. When there is more than one event to be shown this causes the year of the following event to appear next to the second line of the previous event rather than its own and any subsequent years will also not align with their events.

One solution I initially thought would overcome the problem would be to put a "<br><br>" between the years where this happens to force the infobox to leave blank row in the years column, but the problem is dependent on the reader's selected browser text size and it only happens at certain text sizes so the extra <br>" causes a similar misalignment problem if the events text didn't wrap. I think I now how to solve it but I'm going to have to experiment with the live template for a while to see how it affects different articles DavidCane 02:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:London stations live

Could someone merege the unique features of {{London stations live}} into this one, so that the "live" version, which is used on only one page, can be deleted? Andy Mabbett 12:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. Two additional optional parameters added - livedepline and livedepstation. For example, adding:

livedepline= victoria

livedepstation= OXC

will cause a link to the Oxford Circus page at [1] to appear. If the livedepline parameter is not used the link will not appear.

Note: not all of the lines or all of the stations on the lines are covered yet. I have changed the Brixton article to use the station Infobox London station format and added the necessary parameters to point to the relevant page. --DavidCane 00:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Caption syntax described in transclusion does not work

The syntax for putting a caption on the image, eg:

image = [[Image:barkinglongview.jpg|300px|Barking station]]

does not seem to work. See the current St Pancras railway station article; according to the example there should be a caption 'St Pancras Chambers' on the image, but I cannot see it. So how should we caption images in the template?. -- Chris j wood (talk) 09:43, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, answered my own question. There is a caption= parameter that does work. So the template documentation is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris j wood (talk • contribs) 09:47, 30 November 2007 (UTC)