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welcome to the project edit

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates! --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:02, 9 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

{{Infobox settlement}} edit

A few things you may not realize about this template:

  • Providing coordinates_type causes coordinates_region to be ignored.
  • coordinates_type must follow the syntax of {{Coord}}. In particular, it is incorrect to set coordinates_type=adm2nd

If you have questions about this, please contact me via my talkpage. --Stepheng3 (talk) 18:59, 10 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Your understanding does not agree with mine, which is based on reading the template code. In addition, the template documentation at Template:Infobox settlement/doc explains these parameters accurately.
For historical reasons, coordinates_type encodes the region, type, scale, and other things associated with the coordinates, such as would be found in the final positional parameter of a {{Coord}} template. You can verify this for yourself by examining the GeoHack URL associated with the coordinates or clicking through to GeoHack.
I don't recommend leaving coordinates_type blank for counties, because the template will default to type:city. There are many articles for which this is OK, but counties are not among them.
If you're confused, keep asking questions. --Stepheng3 (talk) 01:44, 11 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
I agree the parameter name is misleading. I think it dates from an era when "type:" was the only parameter associated with coordinates. Keep up the good work, --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:55, 11 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles edit

This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:19, 17 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

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