Talk:Metro A Line (Minnesota)

Former plagiarism by the Met Council
An interesting oddity I found while researching this article is that shortly after creation the article had the sentence below in 2016.

"The A Line will connect the METRO Blue & Green lines with the busy Snelling Avenue corridor and several popular destinations, including Hamline University, Macalester College, Highland Village, Rosedale Center, Har Mar Mall, Minnehaha Park and the Midway area."

In 2018 the Met Council published the following sentence on page 64 of their Metropolitan Area Transit Finance Report. "The A Line connects the METRO Blue & Green lines with the Snelling Avenue corridor and several popular destinations, including Hamline University, Macalester College, Highland Village, Rosedale Center, HarMar Mall, Minnehaha Park, and the Midway area."

The sentence no longer exists in our article but I found the Met Council copying language from Wikipedia noteworthy. -Eóin (talk) 00:43, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 4 August 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Base terms redirected to the likes of x Line (closed by non-admin page mover) — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 11:21, 13 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Metro A Line → Metro A Line (Minnesota)
 * Metro B Line → Metro B Line (Minnesota)
 * Metro C Line → Metro C Line (Minnesota)
 * Metro D Line → Metro D Line (Minnesota)
 * Metro E Line → Metro E Line (Minnesota)

– I am aware that these pages were moved to their current article names from the names I am proposing that they be moved back to a couple years back, but I personally do not agree with this change. While I understand that this was done for the sake of WP:PRECISION, I believe that this change does not account for other public transport lines that may be referred to colloquially as "Metro X Line." An example of this is in Los Angeles, where public transport lines are also commonly referred to as such by Angelenos, train announcements, and by LA Metro themselves. This also has the added issue of making the naming of the articles for Minnesota Metro inconsistent, with the colored lines having their articles being named "Metro X Line (Minnesota)." I propose moving the articles back to their more descriptive geographical names and converting the more precise names to redirect links. --OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 05:59, 4 August 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support undo the move to ambiguity and restore title. The term commonly refers to A Line (Los Angeles Metro) etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by In ictu oculi (talk • contribs) 09:08, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Are you then suggesting the base name should be a DAB with the Portuguese one?  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 16:18, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it would be best to have the shorter names after moving be converted to disambiguating on links to A Line, etc. —OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 22:06, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I am fine with this. Out of curiousity who handles changing all the links and categories? I created the Commons categories for each of these topics and matched them to the article titles. (Commons:Category:Metro A Line). I just don't want these articles to be moved and have the backend links and categories be a mess for a long period afterwards. -Eóin (talk) 03:00, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move part 2
I hope somebody is willing to clean up the mess this move has created. So can somebody solve the links to disambiguation pages in:
 * 1) Template:Twin Cities Transit
 * 2) Template:I-35W Bus Rapid Transitway stations
 * 3) Template:METRO Blue Line
 * 4) Template:Metro E Line
 * 5) Template:Minneapolis Metro
 * 6) Template:Metro D Line
 * 7) Template:Riverview Corridor
 * 8) Template:Gateway Corridor
 * 9) Template:Marq2 Transit Corridor
 * 10) Template:Metro A Line
 * 11) Template:Metro C Line
 * 12) Template:Rush Line

Action will be really appreciated. The Banner talk 01:47, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The KML files for the E Line and B Line are no longer working as well. The Wikimedia Commons categories should likely be moved too. To whoever moved these pages, please don't leave this move only halfway complete. -Eóin (talk) 00:11, 15 August 2023 (UTC)