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I've left a note on the images at WT:UKRAIL. Simply south...... eating lexicological sandwiches for just 7 years 18:01, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Railway stations
Hi Lamberhurst
I just spotted that you had opened WP:RM discussions on some English railway stations which had a county disambiguator at the end of their name: e.g. Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire) → Whitchurch (Hants) railway station. I will support those moves, because as you noted, "Foo (Countyname) railway station" is how they appear in the timetables and are commonly known.
I had noticed a few such glitches before, and had meant to get a full list of them. So your good efforts prompted me to do so, and I have placed the list below. I used WP:AWB to get a list of all articles in Category:Railway stations in England and it subcats, and removed those who names did not end with a close-round-brcaket.
It seems to me that all those with a county name disambiguator at the end need renaming, but that the others are OK. What do you think? --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:53, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Stations which may need renaming
- My own view is that if the disambiguator forms a verifiable part of the station name - that is, it was shown on the station nameboards or on official timetables of the railway company (e.g. Bampton (Devon) railway station) - it goes before the words "railway station"; but if it's something invented by Wikipedia editors (e.g. Witney railway station (goods)) purely to create a unique article name, it should go after. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- That's an impressive list; I had only been looking through the lists of active stations and not dared to look further. I would also include comma separated station names such as Newcourt railway station, Exeter and Christchurch railway station, Dorset. The root of the problem is the absence of a naming convention to achieve a more uniform approach. One such convention does exist but it was never formally adopted. We therefore fall back on the default WP:DISAMBIG rules. This results in a situation where the disambiguator follows the station name only where the national operators explicitly provide for it (as in the Whitchurch stations which I nominated) or where an editor has been WP:BOLD. Where the national operators do not provide for a bracketed disambig, problems arise in applying this approach - see for example this discussion. In particular, it is very difficult to use this approach for stations which need to be disambiguated due to a similarly-named station in another country. In short, a piecemeal approach for active stations and an approach based on boldness for the others.
- @Redrose64: I can see your approach but it will not help us with stations such as Upwey railway station, Dorset. More importantly, the manner in which a station is referred to in timetables and on nameboards can be inconsistent and vary over time (see for example the discussions about Penrith, Coombe Junction, West Malling and Wells-next-the-Sea). Also, what to do where the other station which made the original disambiguation necessary closes or changes its name? Did Bampton (Devon) remain as such even after Brize Norton's change of name or did it become simply "Bampton" rather like Buxton railway station (Derbyshire) seems to have become "Buxton" after Buxton railway station, Norfolk and Buxton (Midland) railway station closed? Should we really care? Would it not be better to continue the original disambiguation regardless of subsequent events? Lamberhurst (talk) 21:14, 21 February 2014 (UTC)