Talk:Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire)

Requested move

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No consensus to move. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:34, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire) → — Relisted discussion.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 19:53, 24 May 2010 (UTC) National Rail calls the station Whitchurch (Hants) like the stations in Shropshire and Wales.. CrossHouses (talk) 06:49, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose, unless it actually says "(Hants)" on the sign. Otherwise, that form is merely inherited from BR's house style.  On Wikipedia, we disambiguate placenames in full.  As this is a location rather than a geological feature, arguably it should be Whitchurch railway station, Hampshire with a comma.  81.111.114.131 (talk) 15:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose, largely for the reasons the IP editor gives. (Hants) after Whitchurch is just the way National Rail (and the TOCs etc etc) use to differentiate stations and even they don't use it when it's not necessary (e.g. this map and this interactive map). As such I suggest we stick to normal wikipedia style.  Personally I feel brackets is more appropriate as the article is about the structures at a site rather than an actual  location but I'm not too bothered which is chosen. Dpmuk (talk) 09:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
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Requested move 2

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The result of the move request was: Moved. EdJohnston (talk) 21:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire) → Whitchurch (Hants) railway station – This station is referred to as Whitchurch (Hants) by Network Rail as well as the train operating companies which serve it: This is a more WP:COMMONNAME for the station than the wiki-creation of "Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire)". Lamberhurst (talk) 09:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
 * National Rail
 * South West Trains
 * Network Rail
 * railwaystation.co.uk
 * Department of Transport


 * Oppose. The arguments in the previous requested move are closely aligned with my own thinking. We should use Wikipedia's style guidelines for naming Wikipedia articles. The name (Whitchurch) chosen by Network Rail may affect how we name the article, but the style (brackets, "Hants" instead of "Hampshire") shouldn't. See also the related move request at Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk). — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 14:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: Per WP:NATURAL, if the WP:COMMONNAME incorporates a disambiguating term, this should be used in preference to the default parenthetical disambiguation at the end of an article name. Lamberhurst (talk) 16:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Parenthetical disambiguation should go at the end of the article name. MRSC (talk) 16:42, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:NATURAL and my rationale at Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk). Thryduulf (talk) 20:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per Thryduulf. The objections by MRSC and Mr. Stradivarius are based on the false assumption that the parenthetical disambiguator in "Whitchurch (Hants) railway station" has been added by Wikipedia editors. In fact it is a a form of natural disambiguator, in that it is part of a widely-used name in the real world. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:NATURAL and Thryduulf's rationale at Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk). -=# Amos E Wolfe talk #=- 19:59, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
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