Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All the Stations


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The result was Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Pkbwcgs (talk) 10:08, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

All the Stations

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This is just WP:FANCRUFT. It is a train enthusiast's own project to visit all the railway stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland and this doesn't make it notable at all. The article is made up mostly of a table which tells which railway stations Geoff visited and which day he visited them. This is fancruft because it is only of importance to a small number of railway enthusiasts. This is not a very notable and well-known project and sourcing is made up of mostly the All the Stations website or the Kickstarter website. Therefore, this should be deleted. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. It's not fancruft because there is extensive coverage of the program in The Times, The Telegraph, CNN, The Guardian, etc. I know there are some train-obsessed people who want articles about every station water fountain but this is well-sourced and actually quite impressive. —МандичкаYO 😜 09:23, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It is not very well sourced because the majority of sourcing points to All the Stations which is the project's own website, Kickstarter which is where All the Stations was crowdfunded and Twitter which is not a reliable source. Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:31, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep WP:FANCRUFT is an essay and not a valid deletion reason in itself (as it says, it simply means that fancrufty articles may fail other deletion criteria). In this case, given that it's sourced to at least three major UK newspapers, national UK TV, and CNN, this probably doesn't fall into any of them. A 2-minute Google also found sources from the BBC and two major Irish news outlets. Black Kite (talk) 09:26, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge. The article does have a number of good reliable sources (CNN, The Times, etc.) and is quite notable, but it's not much more than a glorified list of YouTube videos. There is already a reasonably well-sourced section on Geoff Marshall which discusses the project - any particularly notable / interesting information should perhaps be merged from to Marshall's personal article. All the Stations has previously been nominated for deletion on 14 September 2017.--Tvcameraop (talk) 09:28, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - substantial mentions in a number of reliable sources across a range of media, including national news media such as the BBC and RTE. There is an argument for doing something better with the tables, but that's much more of an argument for improvement rather than to delete - and, frankly, we have featured lists which have less notability or sourcing than this article does. Blue Square Thing (talk) 09:44, 17 February 2020 (UTC)


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