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Oulu railway station and other Finnish railway stations
"Oulu railway station" is the name used by VR, the company operating at the station, and by the City of Oulu. I did not find any source for the title "Oulu Central Station". According to the applicable policy, [a]rticle titles are based on how reliable English-language sources refer to the article's subject. Moreover, there is only one railway station in Oulu, so calling it "central" is misleading and unnecessary. The same probably applies to most of the Finnish railway stations, Helsinki and Turku Central railway stations being the notable exceptions but those cities do have more than one railway station. ––Apalsola t • c 22:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC) –– (typo fix) Apalsola t • c 20:38, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * True, I hadn't considered that. The change I made on various stations regarded the use of the word "railway"; I omitted the word from Helsinki Central Station as it's redundant, the railway part is implied in the words "central station". That's the way corresponding articles for other cities, such as Stockholm and Copenhagen do it, and I'd be willing to argue that it should, at least in those cities with multiple train stations, be a convention. Worthwhile to discuss, nonetheless! Pessimistipasta (talk) 14:50, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, also for Helsinki, the most common form seems to be "Helsinki central railway station". (I did not find any source for "Helsinki Central Station".) I agree with you that consistency in naming is good to some extent but I still think the article titles should refer to the names actually used for the subject. ––Apalsola t • c 20:38, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

There are some cases, as with Pasila Station, where certain sources have, at least in Finnish, omitted ”railway”, as with HSL: (https://www.reittiopas.fi/terminaalit/HSL:1000202). (Note: HSL calls the Helsinki Central Railway Station ”Helsingin rautatieasema”, or ”Helsinki’s railway station”, which is different from what VR calls it. I have to agree that the former is, as you said, overwhelmingly more used.) This is certainly a good example of a case-by-case situation, wherein some articles require seperate methods from others. Pessimistipasta (talk) 21:00, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

NCP
Hey, I saw you are on an endeavour to update Politics of Finland articles. When you have the time/space, could you do an assessment and copyedit run of the National Coalition Party? I just finished rewriting/fixing/cleaning it, but could use a 2nd pair of eyes to spot extra mistakes/inconsistencies etc. Thx in advance, hölkynkölkyn! Manelolo (talk) 22:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I checked it out; looks good! Glad someone decided to do something about that page. There were some remaining minor issues, which I fixed in this revision. Pessimistipasta (talk) 12:01, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you a thousand! I nominated it for a good article to see what happens and test the waters, cheers! Manelolo (talk) 20:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve Ministries of Finland
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