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Victorian infobox station fields

Many of the Victorian railway station infoboxes have the 'Line' field incorrectly populated. This field should be the physical railway line, not the service. The latter goes further down in the 'Services' field. Hence Craigieburn railway station should have the line field populated with North East railway line and not Craigieburn line and Seymour V/Line rail service. Likewise Pakenham railway station should have the line field populated with Gippsland railway line and not Pakenham line and Gippsland V/Line rail service Wantenline (talk) 10:53, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Proposed merger of Park Road/Boggo Road station articles

Proposed merger of Park Road railway station, Boggo Road busway station and Boggo Road railway station content and all three redirected to a new article Boggo Road station. Please discuss in Talk:Boggo Road railway station. DigitalPanda (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Citation template (and other templates)

Responding to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian Transport/Archive 2#Replacement of Vicsig links...
@Anothersignalman (and anyone else that wants templates),
I can happily create a citation template for whatever is needed. I have created both simple (eg Stopping All Stations, VR Diagram books) and some more complex (eg Newsrail and Brief History Books) templates.

• Newsrail - automatically swaps publisher between "ARHS Victoria Division" and "Victorian Rail Publishing Inc" depending on year as well as auto getting the volume and number from the month and year.
• Brief History Books - automatically changing title, date, isbn, and even the addition of Daryl Gregory as author from book 4 onwards depending on what volume is selected.

I'd just need the details for what to add to each template.
This isn't limited to just citation templates, I have also made Table Age Calculator (or TAC2 for short) – a useful little thing to add sortable start date, sortable end date, and then give the age to a table without the need to re type the date multiple times (removing the chance of simple little errors). -- ThylacineHunter (talk) 06:57, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Number of years to include station infobox patronage figures

With the recent publication of patronage statistics for Victorian railway stations the relevant infobox sections of many railway station articles in Victoria has expanded dramatically. For example, see Laburnum railway station with figures going back to 2005. While this is important information it does make the infobox very large. To remediate this I would like to propose that only the past three years of patronage figures are included directly in the infobox - any previous statistics can be included in the main article (perhaps as a graph). Happy to discuss. Takerlamar (talk) 02:12, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

All the way back to 2005 is clearly excessive. UK stations have statistics for the most recent five years. That would have been a good thing during COVID, so people can easily see the pre-pandemic numbers, but now that we have reached a new normal, I don't think five years is as good anymore. Three years would be good, so that a trend can be shown, without there being too many years to show. Steelkamp (talk) 03:53, 11 October 2024 (UTC)