Talk:Alexandria to Cape Town by train and bus

Attribution

The original basis for this itinerary was material copied 10 Feb 2012 UTC from the version http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Alexandria_to_Cape_Town_by_train_and_bus&oldid=1992488 at Wikitravel, as permitted by their CC license. The only contributor there was WT User:Travelgeek. -- Alice^✉ 03:12, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Change in format

Thank you Alice for creating this page. I find the date format not very helpful. So I will start to reformat it. Please let me know if you disagree. —The preceding comment was added by Tigerleapgorge (talk • contribs)

To Usable status

This article could use a map. It's also a bit US-centric ("Total fares are about US$586. Total visa prices for US citizens are about US$465"). Other than that, what is needed to make this guide Usable? I guess it would help if someone would make sure the bus schedule information is still current, but if it is, the guide does look pretty Usable to me. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:38, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Further to these thoughts: Right now, there are too many images, because they go quite a bit further than the text. Does anyone propose to add more content to this article, or should we remove (or comment out) the last 4 (or another group of 4) photos? —The preceding comment was added by Ikan Kekek (talk • contribs)

Change to "Nairobi to Cape Town Overland"?

This itinerary partially overlaps with another existing itinerary Cairo to Nairobi overland. If we cut this article in two and merge the Cairo to Nairobi part with that other article, then this becomes "Nairobi to Cape Town Overland". The two articles combined would form "Cairo to Cape overland" which has a nice ring to it.

The other motivation is I doubt anybody is overlanding South Sudan these days. So if we merge away the first half, this article can become more useful. Tigerleapgorge (talk) 03:52, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

See Wikivoyage_talk:Itineraries#Should_itineraries_overlap.3F for older discussion. I think shorter itineraries with IsPartOf tags pointing to the longer ones, and links in the longer pointing to shorter, would be fine. I'm fairly certain some folks disagree, though. Pashley (talk) 16:20, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

See also Wikivoyage:Votes_for_deletion/May_2011#Overland_from_Singapore_to_Shanghai, Talk:Bangkok_to_Ho_Chi_Minh_City_overland and related discussions. 16:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)