Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Amtrak station codes (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   merge to list of Amtrak stations.  MBisanz  talk 00:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

List of Amtrak station codes
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List info is already present in List of Amtrak stations. – Dream out loud (talk) 16:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * redirect to list of Amtrak stations. It's obviously redundant. Mangoe (talk) 16:38, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect it's obviously redundant and duplicate info. --TV | talk 00:39, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * WAIT It may appear to be duplicative, but they were created by different individuals at different times. The two should be compared and consolidated and not summarily deleted and redirected. Also the page that would be left is not fully converted into a sorting table format; until that happens you could not effectively search by the 3-letter code. Highspeed (talk) 00:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:10, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:10, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Both lists are significantly inaccurate. Amtrak shows 11 stations with codes beginning with "Y", which is considerably more than either list indicates. It also seems to me that using our article on station codes as a source for expanding our list of stations makes no sense at all, when an authoritative reference is available. Mangoe (talk) 12:52, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 00:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)




 * Comment Why can't we just add all the station codes into a column in the station list article? This way we don't need two separate lists. – Dream out loud  (talk) 01:53, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect or merge if there's anything to merge. I agree with Dream out loud, better to combine the two lists.-- xanchester  (t)  10:31, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge - combine the lists. Bearian (talk) 21:08, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. The articles cannot be effectively merged into a single set of tables because of the existence of entries such as Allensworth State Park (CNL) and Burlington, Vermont (ESX) where the code and the station name do not start with the same letter. To retain the features of both existing lists in a merged article, therefore, List of Amtrak station codes would need to be copied in its entirety into list of Amtrak stations in addition to the current content.  The only other option would be one single massive unwieldly sortable table.  In any case that is not likely to happpen in the lifetime of this AfD so the current information will need to be kept "as is" in one article or the other at least on a temporary basis.  Spinning  Spark  23:14, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * That supposedly unwieldy list already exists, because the stations list already contains the station codes and is already sortable by them. Mangoe (talk) 23:26, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge - and make sortable. Of the two pages, right now only the 'A' section of the List of Amtrak stations is sortable. Highspeed (talk) 00:06, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
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