Template talk:Station

Parameters

Anecdotally, I've encountered a number of cases where this template is used incorrectly, because people assume that the unnamed second parameter adds the disambiguation link. Given the progression in naming conventions and WP:NCCAPS, the only place where that use case is broadly valid is Japan, and there's another template ({{STN}}) that provides that functionality, and uses the second parameter for disambiguation. I think there might be some value in reconciling the two, and changing the second parameter to do the same thing as the third. You'd want to do a one-time pass of transclusions and migrate any uses that actually want the capitalized Station to {{STN}}. Mackensen (talk) 02:31, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In my first pass with JWB checking usage, I found 2 articles using the second parameter in the first 5000 pages:

Link light rail (valid, converted to STN)
LRT Line 2 (unnecessary, and also invalid)

This is in addition to the half dozen Japanese articles I had already modified (Japanese articles mostly used STN already). Mackensen (talk) 03:37, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did another dozen; most of them were used incorrectly and linking to the wrong pages. I think it's safe to change the template, but I'm holding off. Mackensen (talk) 04:02, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with template?

Hi. I wonder whether anyone might know why Gosaek and Omokcheon are failing. I've used them in the Suwon article, where they show as dead links (they're in red), but the Gosaek station and Omokcheon station pages definitely exist. I think they may be some sort of bug. Thanks for any tips anyone may have. JPBarrass (talk) 08:02, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

{{STN}} is a separate but similar template that capitalizes station. Mackensen (talk) 11:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]