Template talk:MBTA Commuter Rail Attleboro/Stoughton

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Two questions:

  1. This template takes up a lot of space. Can it (and its various MBTA siblings) be made smaller, by decreasing the text size below the title?
  2. Should this template be renamed, to reflect the new name of the line?

Thanks, --CComMack (tc) 12:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

It should probably be deleted and substed into the article an the line - I feel it was an experiment gone wrong. --SPUI (T - C) 14:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps it won't work out, but it's a good concept, and works well enough in many articles, and could use some more active working on. I, unfortunately, do not have the wikicode mojo to really work on improving it. Finally, it really doesn't make sense to subst until the code is in some stable form. --CComMack (tc) 16:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, after much trial and error, I just tried shrinking the text down to 75% of normal. If this makes the template unusable, let me know. If it works, it can be repeated on the other MBTA line templates, and perhaps other steps can be taken to slim the template; if it's too far and the text is unreadable, feel free to revert me.) --CComMack (tc) 17:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Railway line template: show branches/connections?

Providence/Stoughton Line
KBFa
South Station
ABZlf
Readville and Old Colony lines
BHF
Back Bay
ABZrf
Framingham/Worcester line
HST
Ruggles
ABZrf
Needham line
HST
Hyde Park
ABZrf
Franklin line
BHF
Route 128
HST
Canton Junction
ABZlf STRlg
STR HST
Canton Center
STR HSTe
Stoughton
HST
Sharon
STRrg ABZrd
HSTe STR
Foxboro
HST
Mansfield
HST
Attleboro
HST
South Attleboro
BHF
Providence
tHST
T.F. Green Airport
HSTe
Wickford Junction

Kudos to Geoking66 for converting this template to Wikipedia:Railway line template format. Question: would it make sense, or needlessly clutter the page, if the various connecting MBTA branches were included in the template, like so (wikilinked as appropriate)? If there's no objection, I'll go ahead in a week or so. —CComMack (tc) 07:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)