Wikitravel talk:Continent article template

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[edit] Continent pages

Moved from Wikitravel:travellers' pub by Evan

Half of the continent pages (North America, Europe and Asia) are divided into (1) Sections, (2) Popular Destinations, (3) Countries and (4) Other Destinations. The initial idea was to differentiate real countries under the Countries header and other territories like colonies, outlying territories, etc. under the "Other Destinations" header. Without the "Popular Destinations" there I see no problem. But the current divisions are somewhat confusing: the differentiation "Countries" vs. "Other Destinations" is not obvious, and it's easy to think that there are "Popular Destinations" on the one hand and "Other Destinations" on the other. I think there are two possible solutions:

1. We rename "Other Destinations" ("Territories" or something else?)
2. We regroup the "Countries" and "Other Destinations" into one division ("Countries and Territories"?)

My personal preference is no. 2 because on this level it is not really that important to know if something is a territory or a country. DhDh 12:36, 5 Feb 2004 (EST)

Actually, the solution I'd prefer is just not to have the "Popular destinations" section. I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense at the continent level. If it's required, we could rename it to "Cities", like we do for popular cities in Countries or Regions. --Evan 16:10, 9 Feb 2004 (EST)

[edit] Creating the project page

So I created the page with very rough outline... not that it's of urgent importance, but I noticed today how all over the place the different continent articles were and already made a few changes to them, so just trying to standardize it a bit, and maybe establish what sections we do and don't need on those pages.

I left out a few on this template, and I'm thinking the "buy" section could probably come out as well... feedback and section rewrites encouraged... ::: Cacahuate 08:00, 20 January 2007 (EST)

We're still all over the place on which section headers to use for continent articles. Have we made any progress? --Peter ^Talk 05:35, 23 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] related pages

and, I've added the travel topics on the Australasia page to the "related" box, but should they also still be included within the article? ::: Cacahuate 08:19, 20 January 2007 (EST)