User talk:Vagabond turtle

Hello, Vagabond turtle! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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Formatting

Hi Vagabond, thanks for your great contributions to Brazil articles. You'll notice that I have been cleaning up your edits to bring them in line with Wikivoyage style. We try to keep a consistent style to make it easier for readers to navigate through articles and find information.

For example, since Brazil uses the 24-hour clock, so do we for articles about Brazil, so we use 09:00-17:00 instead of 9AM-5PM, which we would use in an article about the U.S., for example.

Also, we have adopted the convention of using the shortest unambiguous abbreviation for days of the week, i.e., M Tu W Th F Sa Su. Please see WV:TDF.

We don't include postal information in addresses, so if there is a listing in the São Sebastião, article, we provide the street address, and leave out "São Sebastião - SP, 11600-000". (WV:Listings.)

And for phone numbers, we don't use brackets, and we do include the country code, do +55 12 2345-6789, instead of (12) 2345-6789. See WV:phone numbers.

Thanks again for your contributions. Happy editing. Ground Zero (talk) 14:22, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to clean up some of the entries that I've made recently. I try to add in information when I have time so that it's available to other people who are interested in the same places that I'm planning on visiting or have recently visited. I don't always have time to format things correctly but I like to at least share the information that I have. Please note though that Brazilian postal codes (called "CEP" here) are an essential part of travelling in Brazil - including by Brazilians themselves, even in their hometowns. They are very precise. Often they cover one or two blocks in the city, or one road in towns, and sometimes even one or two specific buildings. Cities often have more than one street with the same name and without the postal code you might not know which is the one that you want. When searching for a hotel, restaurant, shop or even someone's home, it's far more common to do a Google Map search using only the postal code because it's that precise. Taxis will also use it to find the place you're going to and if the restaurant or hotel isn't marked in their navigator or Google Maps, they can at least get you close enough that you can usually see the place. I know that postal codes are usually left off addresses in this wiki but the topic IS under discussion and it is an essential part of address here, not just for sending letters in the mail. --Vagabond turtle (talk) 18:46, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Vagabond turtle, could you please post about this in Wikivoyage talk:Listings, with a link here? If you don't have the time, I'll try to remember to broach this. We make an exception for British postcodes, and since postal codes in Brazil are so precise (more precise than British ones, it sounds like), it seems like a no-brainer to make them an exception, too. Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I've made a note of it there as well. Someone else also noted it there so I posted under his comment. --Vagabond turtle (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2017 (UTC)