Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of New South Wales railway station codes


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The result was Keep, merging might still be an option, but would need further discussion.Tikiwont (talk) 11:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

List of New South Wales railway station codes

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This topic has no notability as it is unknown outside a narrow interest group and has no particular importance or impact. It is unlikely to be of interest to a general encyclopaedia reader, and the codes are already individually listed on railway station pages Quaidy (talk) 11:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy close - a couple of users (including one I almost never agree with, but in this case I do agree with) are currently in consultation about the future of this page (most likely a merge into the list of stations page for Sydney and another page for stations outside the metro area. The creator of this page acted in response to a comment I made to him in relation to stupid comments he made on another page, and his response is immediately to try to delete this page. It's bad faith and not in the spirit of the discussion we are having. If for some reason that's not an acceptable way to end this debate, then Strong keep/merge as per our discussion (which was heading towards that anyway). The codes are in use for general passenger information (it's not "just a narrow interest group" as the nominator wrongly suggests, and there needs to be somewhere to put these. If it's on the stations page, I'm fine with that, but deleting this page serves no purpose other than to spite me. JRG (talk) 12:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep/merge A list of railway stations in a given sub-national unit is quite encyclopedic; though, with the capacity for sortable tables, we don't need a separate list article for every potential sorting of railway station data like "List of New South Wales railway stations by date of construction", "List of New South Wales railway stations by population of catchment area". Instead, they can all be put into a single list. cab (talk) 12:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.   -- Bduke (talk) 01:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge hopefully to a single list with a sortable heading row.Garrie 05:45, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep this badly needs some references, but the article is probably OK. If there was a List of railway stations in New South Wales or similar I'd vote merge. The article's statement that the codes are "commonly [used] on public timetables as destination codes" is correct and is a broader claim of notability than the first part of the sentance ("They are used in CityRail's internal workings") which suggests that the article is train-cruft. --Nick Dowling (talk) 07:45, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge and incorporate codes into List of Sydney railway stations seems to be of a better solution imo. --Arnzy (talk · contribs) 14:55, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Not all of the stations in the list are in Sydney. --Nick Dowling (talk) 07:00, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep on pretty much exactly the same basis as Nick Dowling. Orderinchaos 16:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.