Template talk:Moreinfo

New template - moreinfo

Moved here from the Pub:

For the Cairo article, I needed a template to link readers to the Egypt article for visa information, but found nothing suitable. The closest thing was the {{seealso}}, which is not ideal in this case. So, I created a new template: {{moreinfo}} to meet the need.

It works like this:

{{moreinfo|Egypt|visa requirements}}

Will create:

For more information on visa requirements, see the Egypt article.

I added this and the seealso template to Project:Template index. Please let me know if this new template duplicates anything, or any issues. Otherwise, hope it will be useful for others. (WT-en) Aude 00:22, 31 December 2008 (EST)

Looking at this again, it might be better to omit the "more" and have the template say "For information on ___, see the ___ article". (WT-en) Aude 00:31, 31 December 2008 (EST)

Looks fine to me. We've usually done links like that inline, and there's an existing {{seealso}} template, but that doesn't take arguments. (Maybe it should?) (WT-en) Jpatokal 01:16, 31 December 2008 (EST)

Do we really need this though? Visa info always goes on the country page, Cairo isn't an exception... so if this is to be put into use it would go on all the city articles that have int'l airports? It seems like unnecessary clutter for the pages to me :) – (WT-en) cacahuate ^talk 19:46, 31 December 2008 (EST)

We don't "really" need it, but the frequency with which people jam visa info onto city pages means that they expect to find it for major gateways like Cairo (the entry point for probably a good 90% of Egypt visitors), so I think a pointer is good. (WT-en) Jpatokal 22:11, 4 January 2009 (EST)