Talk:Termoli

Listings of airports

Just for the record, it was I who deleted the listings for every Italian airport, as I doubted their usefulness at an article of this level. Are they really needed? Ibaman (talk) 12:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Pictograms as used in the article on Termoli

Swept in from the pub

Have a look at the article on Termoli - there we have some pictograms about e.g. the highways leading to the place and others. Should we use them, not use them, encourage their use, discourage their use, mention our stance on them in our existing manual of style or should we have a standalone policy on them? I have no made up opinion on this, but I think we should discuss this. Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:02, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

I'm not an expert in website accessibility issues, but I would expect that these would not work well with readers for people with visual impairments. I think they are a bad idea. Let's use our words instead. Ground Zero (talk) 12:42, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Our image use policy would indicate against such decorative uses. We do use images to make our articles "beautiful" but I'm not sure such pictograms qualify. Powers ^(talk) 13:56, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Well I think other language versions use them quite extensively. Have a look at Kassel's use of the German bus (tram) stop sign to see what I mean. Hobbitschuster (talk) 16:11, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

If you needed to find this, then don't you think it'd help to know what it looks like?

I like the highway signs in that article (assuming that they show what the real sign on the highway will look like). Highways in (at least) the US can be confusing because of the different types, and knowing whether you should look for the blue-and-red interstate sign, the white-shield US highway sign, or the state highway sign (usually a plain white circle?) would be helpful to the traveler.

I'm less excited about the icon of the boat and the train. They seem to be official symbols, but I'm not sure how useful they are.

I'm of two minds about the bus: On the one hand, a blue rectangle with the drawing of a bus in it is not so informative. The Italians seem to have settled on a remarkably simple icon for this. On the other hand, if that's what the sign looks like at the individual bus stops, then it could be a little useful to anyone and a lot useful to travelers whose home country's bus stop signs look different. Most of us could probably guess what a sign with a drawing of a bus means, but there are a lot of other styles in use, too. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:23, 25 July 2017 (UTC)