Difference between revisions of "Template talk:Graticule"

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The bottom graticule neighbourhood being automatically a link means that I can't seem to use alternate text for the link. Could you make the names plain text (or otherwise tell me how to use alternate link text), please? -- Marz 00:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. What did you need that for? I'd prefer to not have to make users link neighboring graticules manually - ideally, there's some way to make the Right Thing happen on its own. Duskwolf 01:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The graticules surrounding Bristol have very long article names. I'd like to shorten them - for aesthetic reasons. -- Marz 01:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Ideally, article names should specify a single key city, not a set of cities - Birmingham East / Leicester / Coventry, United Kingdom should probably be renamed to Birmingham East, United Kingdom, for example. It's still pretty long, but much more manageable. Duskwolf 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I would also wonder how to do this. For example, I'm in the Lincoln, NE graticule. Neighboring me to the north and northeast are the two graticules for Omaha, which is a split city with a single page. Ideally, I'd like it to link to the Omaha page with each, but have West/East in parentheses next to the link within the table. Can this be done? Spike 06:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I think it would look cleaner if the surrounds are above the map (i.e. so users don't have to scroll down to see the neighbors). --KDinCT 02:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

That's an excellent idea. So excellent, in fact, that I just implemented it. Duskwolf 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Beautiful! --KDinCT 02:20, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

It'd probably look better if you left-align the left column entries, and right-align the right ones. And if people would use the state name abbreviations instead of the full names it wouldn't look so squashed. We'd only need to set up a few redirects then. Tyler 02:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. And some site-wide talk about naming conventions wouldn't be unwise - standardize on what abbreviations should be used and whatnot. Duskwolf 03:32, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

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 ::: Ideally, article names should specify a single key city, not a set of cities - [[Birmingham East / Leicester / Coventry, United Kingdom]] should probably be renamed to [[Birmingham East, United Kingdom]], for example. It's still pretty long, but much more manageable. [[User:Duskwolf|Duskwolf]] 02:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
+: I would also wonder how to do this.  For example, I'm in the [[Lincoln, NE]] graticule.  Neighboring me to the north and northeast are the two graticules for Omaha, which is a split city with a single page.  Ideally, I'd like it to link to the Omaha page with each, but have West/East in parentheses next to the link within the table.  Can this be done? [[User:Spike|Spike]] 06:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 I think it would look cleaner if the surrounds are above the map (i.e. so users don't have to scroll down to see the neighbors). --[[User:KDinCT|KDinCT]] 02:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)