Wikivoyage talk:RDF Expedition/Place type

Template:Cityguide, Template:Countryguide, etc.

VFD discussion:

Includes the following pages:

• Template:Cityguide
• Template:Countryguide
• Template:Districtguide
• Template:Regionguide
• Template:Parkguide
• Template:Continentguide
• Template:Continentalsectionguide
• Template:Stateguide

I'm not familiar with RDF, so I'm not sure what these templates were formerly used for, but since now RDF is depricated, these templates do not do anything. –sumone10154^(talk) 05:37, 7 October 2012 (CEST)

• Comment - Some of them are transcluded on a huge number of pages [1] We would have to consider how to remove all the instances. 08:10, 7 October 2012 (CEST) —The preceding comment was added by JamesA (talk • contribs)
  • I'm assuming we would use a bot to remove them. –sumone10154^(talk) 19:12, 7 October 2012 (CEST)

• I'm a little hesitant to delete... at the moment it's the only way we have of distinguishing the different types of articles from each other in a machine-readable way (even without the RDF, the mere presence of the templates is useful in that way). If we ever need them again, it'd be a lot of work to add them back. LtPowers (talk) 15:28, 7 October 2012 (CEST)

• Keep. I don't think they're confusing any newbie editors or travellers, space will be practically infinite and cheap and the Lieutenant makes a good point about bot searching. --W. Frank^e-mail_talk 20:24, 7 October 2012 (CEST)

I think they are confusing. Especially because we have Template:Cityguide and Template:Guidecity, which are distinctly different. --Inas (talk) 05:46, 15 October 2012 (CEST)

• Keep per LtPowers. They are potentially very useful for things like, for example, suppressing "add listing" functionality to, say, region articles, or huge city main articles. --Peter ^Talk 20:24, 7 October 2012 (CEST)

• Comment A link to a template is far from the best way of doing this. Categories may be better. But we need to develop a strategy before deleting. --Inas (talk) 00:24, 8 October 2012 (CEST)

Could we create hidden categories to replace these templates then? Or have the templates place the article in a category? –sumone10154^(talk) 05:25, 15 October 2012 (CEST)

• Comment - Keep until we design & implement something better. I'd say it was fairly obvious that status stub/.../guide/star should use one set of tags and article type city/region/.../continent/itinerary/topic another, rather than confounding them into a larger set of dual-purpose tags as at present, but that & other questions need discussion and we have more urgent things to do now. Pashley (talk) 12:16, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Outcome: Kept. --Peter ^Talk 21:10, 18 December 2012 (UTC)