Talk:GWR 6959 Class

Misleading heading Name should be Named after
I made a resonable mistake of assuming that with a column called name and nearly every entry a red link that the link under number had been changed but not that under name. I've been informed by the person that reverted that change that that was because the column represents what the locomotive was named after. I therefore changed the heading to Named after. This was immediately reverted. To me this looks as though the reverter, who has made most of the recent edits, doesn't respect the GFDL and wants to own the page, and not permit changes. In both cases, they failed to explain the reason for the reversion in the actual edit summary, whreeas I gave detailed summaries in both cases. --David Woolley 16:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * It's how every other page is. You want to change every other page?  Why is named after better than name, when the named after is implicit in name? &mdash; Dunc|&#9786; 17:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)


 * If there are other pages that follow the same pattern, yes. I'm only aware of the problem on this page.  I assume by "every other page", you mean that there are pages about other classes.  It is quite a common tactic in hyperlinking to hyperlink both columns in the same way when giving both a code number and a description (very typical on e-commerce sites), so it is a reasonable prsumption that both columns are intended to link to the same thing.  To be honest, I'd question the deliberate use of lists of speculative links anyway.  On the other hand, the whole subject isn't really important enough for me to really worry about it.  I only found the page as the result of trying to find the right name for an article proposed by someone else.  --David Woolley 17:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Speculative links
I agree with David Woolley about speculative links. I've come across several instances in Wikipedia where a speculative link has later become a real link to something completely irrelevant. My policy is not to introduce a speculative link unless I intend to create the relevant article in the near future. Biscuittin 09:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)