Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of rail accidents of major historic significance


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The result was merge with List of rail accidents. Can an editor experienced with this topic please merge the relevant information from the article history (after I turn it into a redirect). Thanks.  Majorly   (hot!)  20:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

List of rail accidents of major historic significance

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I am concerned over the term "major historic significance", because that is not a well-defined term which can easily discriminate between what should go in and what should not. The article does try to give some examples (led to a major change in working practices, or a key example of a particular type or cause of accident) but it does not solve the problem, again the terms "major" and "key" are subjective. I would actually say that most fatal rail disaster leads to some sort of change in practice, and all fatal rail accidents are of historic interest, that is why we have articles on them. This particular list is little more than a subset of List of rail accidents which provides all the information here. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge with List of rail accidents. Slambo (Speak)  10:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per Slambo, no deletion needed. (isn't slambo our resident railway expert?) - Mgm|(talk) 12:50, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh yes! He's done a huge amount for Wikipedia in that field. Regarding the article in question, redirect might work, but is there anything to merge? Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. The term major historic significance is too subjective but there is no reason for the information not to be held somewhere.  Ar ky an  &#149; (talk) 15:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per Slambo. We might want to look into some criteria for deciding which accidents are most notable, in order to keep the list from growing exponentially, but that isn't really a topic for this AFD.  --Elkman (Elkspeak) 04:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge Note, however, that the combined page will get quite long, and it might be wise to split the pages into rail accidents in each century, or some other arbitrary dividing line. YechielMan 14:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment, I compared this article with List of rail accidents and the daughter lists List of pre-1950 rail accidents and List of 1950-1999 rail accidents, and I see nothing in this article which is not already in those articles. I think simply redirecting this will be OK. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into the rail accidents articles. Herostratus 02:49, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


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