User talk:HTV872V

Aslockton railway station
Hi, regarding your : please note that Wikipedia is not a railway timetable, so we so not normally show information like train times, their stopping patterns or how the service changes during the day.

Wikipedia is not a travel guide or directory. If people want the times of trains, or their calling points, they will not go to Wikipedia, but to official sites: the train operator's website, or to National Rail Enquiries. These organisations have a responsibility for ensuring that timetable information is up to date - Wikipedia has no such responsibility, so information will become out of date in a matter of months, even weeks - that's if it's not been tampered with by vandals in the meantime. If we include timetable information, we're doing readers a disservice: duplicating authoritative information that is provided elsewhere, possibly providing outdated information. Consider that there are 2500+ railway stations in Great Britain, and the timetables on most routes change two or even three times a year; it is a vast task to keep this up to date. Wikipedia usually appears first in search results, so our providing train times and stops actually interferes with the reader's access to the authoritative source.

That is not to say that we cannot show which is the next stop on a given route, nor what is the final destination of the majority of services. The purpose and nature of Wikipedia is to be a tertiary source drawing information from secondary sources. For information about stopping patterns and times to be shown, it should be drawn from such secondary sources as the railway press, and these sources should also be cited per the policy on verifiability. -- Red rose64 (talk) 17:34, 21 May 2012 (UTC)