Template talk:Tracks infobox

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Track Infobox

Right. I've spent a lot of time looking at these things and was wondering about maybe tweaking them up to make them more appearance pretty. Okay, I figure someone does it because I don't know enough about Wiki code to pull this one off yet. This is going to be a it of a speech, so grab a coffee!

For me - the boxes seem a bit too big. At least the text does when you compare them to the Wikipedia track boxes. I think we discussed this before, Chris, whereby we both used the Spa layout of the box as a good example of what to aim for - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Spa-Francorchamps ; particularly as in some cases where multiple layouts have been used. It might just make things cleaner on it. For example, do we really need a lap count? Particularly for tracks that may be used in multiple series.

Things such as first winner; most wins and such could easily be listed in the main body of text like has been done in other lists. It would help to fill out that page as I assume there is little point in us copy/pasting stuff from Wiki to fill out what the track is like.

Thoughts? -- Philip Cullen

All valid points I think Philip - perhaps a move closer to the wikipedia boxes would make it look a little tidier, although as always the devil is in the detail. I'd say keep the main points like track map, Location, Length, Number of turns and first held and add a field for the events held there (SL/SC/Masters etc). The others like time zone(?), lap record, laps, most wins etc probably would be better in the main text like you suggest.

As said before the multiple layouts are going to cause headaches, but can probably be done with separate templates for those tracks with a single layout, 2 layouts, 3 layouts etc. --Chris williamson 11:57, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Oh I totally agree. Things like Location, Lenght, Turn Numbers and such are important info I think. Plus I spent too much fecking time doing those track maps to not have them feature prominently! :P

Any chance we could do something similar to Spa - y'know how they have the little sections inside the one box to break up the different versions? Any way to copy/paste that sort of layout over or is it harder than that to pull off? Stop me if I'm getting too far ahead of myself in terms of what is possible to pull off. Doing a lot of hypothetical stuff in my noggin about these things.

Heres my thinking. Again, using the Spa infobox as an example. In this order going down.

Flag and track name;

Most current track layout used by the league;

Location;

Track Type; (? - not so sure about that, bit like GMT. Is it required?)

First GPVWC event held;

Events used at that track.

Then under that you would have the versions of the track, preferably segmented like they are on the Spa one. Under each of them you would have:

Length;

Turns (since it obviously differs for track tweaks);

Track Lap Record for that version.

Then as we say, we have things like most wins at track and other misc stats such as lap records in other mods, and anything else that would be useful for broadcast in the main body.

If that makes any sense! -- Philip Cullen