Template talk:LocateMeText
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Coordinates are a minor detail for an article and showing a request for minor details to all readers is not acceptable. Are there any good reasons to the contrary? --Para 12:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
- Yes; in the same way that we use {{listdev}} and {{ISBN}} to encourage user-participation. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 14:23, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Other than with the catchphrase "encyclopedia that anyone can edit", user participation is requested only when a major part of an article is missing or incomplete or doesn't follow Wikipedia's quality standards. What in your mind makes coordinates so important, over some other minor detail like, say, the weight of a car model in an article about the car? ISBN is the only unique way to identify a book and can thus be requested from everyone who sees the article, while geographical locations can be and are given in many other ways than just coordinates. The absence of coordinates from an article doesn't make the article incomplete, unlike a missing book identifier or an incomplete list. --Para 16:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
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- I haven't grasped why there is any difficulty in transferring the consensus established at Template talk:LocateMe to this very similar template. I agree with Para that coordinates are in general a minor detail of an object and a request for same is usually redundant and should at most be on the talk page. -- roundhouse0 17:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
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