Template talk:Infobox TTC station
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[edit] How to use
The parameters are as follows:
- station: The name of the station as given on the TTC map (i.e. ‘Bloor-Yonge’, ‘Downsview’, ‘Eglinton West’).
- address: The station’s street address, as given on the TTC 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.
- 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 (i.e. Yonge, University, Spadina, Bloor-Danforth, Scarborough RT, or Sheppard). For Yonge-University-Spadina stations, please indicate which of the three constituent lines the station is actually on.
- 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, with links in the case of railway stations, streetcar routes, neighbouring transit systems, and Viva routes (i.e. link to [[Viva Orange]], [[Mississauga Transit]], [[512 St. Clair (TTC)|]], or [[Kenndey (GO Station)|Kennedy GO 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.
- transferrequired (not yet implemented): Set to ‘yes’ if a paper transfer is required to transfer between TTC routes at this station (i.e. a ‘T’ appears within the station’s circle on the official TTC map). Leave blank otherwise, or if ‘connections’ is blank.
- 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.
[edit] List of uses
The following stations currently have an infobox:
- Bay — old ‘next station’ box already removed; perhaps Lower Bay should have an infobox as well
- Bloor-Yonge — no photograph
- College — no photograph
- Davisville — explanation of three-track configuration could be clearer
- Downsview
- Dundas — no photograph
- Eglinton — no photograph
- Finch* — no photograph;
- Islington
- King — no photograph
- Kipling
- Lawrence — no photograph
- Museum
- North York Centre
- Osgoode — no distance information, over-full connections box
- Queen — no photograph
- Queen’s Park — old ‘next station’ box already removed
- Rosedale — old ‘next station’ box already removed
- Sheppard-Yonge — incomplete distance information
- St. Andrew — no distance information, over-full connections box, overlap with old box
- St. Clair — no photograph
- St. George
- St. Patrick — incomplete distance information
- Summerhill — no photograph
- Union — over-full connections box
- Wellesley — no photograph
- Wilson — no photograph
- York Mills — no photograph, incomplete distance information
The following stations still require an infobox:
- Bathurst
- Bayview
- Bessarion
- Broadview
- Castle Frank
- Chester
- Christie
- Coxwell
- Donlands
- Don Mills
- Dufferin
- Dundas West
- Dupont
- Eglinton West
- Ellesmere
- Greenwood
- High Park
- Jane
- Keele
- Kennedy
- Lansdowne
- Lawrence East
- Lawrence West
- Leslie
- Main Street
- McCowan
- Midland
- Old Mill
- Ossington
- Pape
- Queen’s Quay-Ferry Docks
- Royal York
- Runnymede
- Scarborough Centre
- Sherbourne
- Spadina
- St. Clair West
- Victoria Park
- Warden
- Woodbine
- Yorkdale
The following planned stations do not currently have an infobox, but until they are built, much of the necessary information (even including the station names) is not available or definite:
- Sheppard West
- Finch West — see Keele-Finch (VIVA)
- York University — see York University (YRT)
- Steeles West
- Interchange — see Interchange Way (VIVA)
- Vaughan Corporate Centre — see Vaughan Corporate Centre (VIVA)
[edit] Other template?
Sheppard-Yonge, Don Mills and McCowen uses the {{Infobox TTC}} template and it looks a lot worse. Why are there two templates where one is obviously more desirable? The other template seems a lot worse (much larger font, for example) than this one. I'm going to change them out, and if there's a reason not to, they can be reverted TheHYPO (talk) 18:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
