Template talk:Great Eastern main line RDT

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The route diagram template for this article can be found in Template:Great Eastern Main Line RDT. The last version of the diagram which employed the parser-functions-based diagram markup before converting to the Lua-based Routemap diagram markup can be found here.

It seems a mis-use of the template concept to make a single page like this which is specific to one Wikipedia article. I can see the benefit in removing the complex text of the route diagram from the main page, but is this the best way to do it? It makes editing of the route diagram difficult (maybe that's what was intended?). Sangwine (talk) 21:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is better raised at WT:RDT. Most route templates like this are only to one article. Simply south (talk) 21:59, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and now I have looked there I can see that there are a huge number of templates like this one. Therefore I can accept that this is an OK way to handle these diagrams. Sangwine (talk) 18:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]