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 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. Franke-mailtalk 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)