Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of railway stations


 * 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 of the debate was No consensus. Deathphoenix ʕ 14:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

List of railway stations
List - unencyclopaedic - not even complete; seems only Paris has a station in France! Even if complete no place for it here. BlueValour 20:16, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Obviously delete. There is a thing on wikipedia called categories for this kind of thing. --Ezeu 21:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Lists are a valuable way to organize information separate from the main article but easily accessible. They are different from categories in the flexibility they offer for organization and annotation, and the ability to contain things that aren't articles yet. Fg2 11:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * delete It might be useful for the red-links, but a single article to list every rail-station on the planet? Seems massively unmanageable to me. ---J.S (t|c) 21:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as of unmanageable length. BillC 23:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but reorganize. For countries that have their own lists, the only entry in this article should be a link to the list (e.g. India). For countries that do not have their own lists, people can add stations to this article, and when there are enough, or someone's interested, they can move the content to a list for the country. Fg2 11:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep The fact that it is incomplete is helpful as it shows mainly important stations whereas the categories are full of tiny stations. Chicheley 15:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. There are so many railway stations in the world, listing them all is not an appropriate aim for Wikipedia. Cedars 16:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. The problem with this list is that it is so incomplete as to be useless. Nothing for Africa, Middle East or South America. Some countries have a link to a national list whereas others have a small number of their major stations listed. I understand the argument that perhaps this list could be fixed. Realistically, however, it never will be and probably cannot. There are a couple of other considerations. Firstly would anyone ever use it? I doubt it - they are far more likley to go to the national article. Secondly such an incomplete list like this will adversely affect the reputation of WP. TerriersFan 18:14, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but reorganise. I am all for railway station lists e.g. my work on List of South East Queensland railway stations. However, a world-wide one (I would even say a national one too, unless it is a smaller country) is just plain silly. There are far too many. Further, does this include passenger rail, metros, monorails, light rail, freight, underground postal railways, &c &c? The proper format for this page is found at the bottom, where it gives internal links to the lists for each Australian jurisdiction. This would be a good page to find the right jurisdictions and then find the railway station, not just a global search. Jammo (SM247) 20:59, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment to clarify - the UK one is slightly better (for the Aus/NZ one, disregard the individual stations shown). Jammo (SM247) 21:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Categorize. I've never seen this as a recommendation (in my 2 weeks on AfD discussions), so let me explain. Often I think the purpose behind these lists would be better served with the creation of a Wiki category. Two common criticisms of such lists are contradictory: 1) They don't include everything, so therefore they're incomplete and arbitrary OR 2) They include everythere, so therefore they'e indiscriminate collections. The addition of Wiki categoris might solve this problem: they make it possible to link articles without setting up a separate article-as-list. I'd suggest a uniform style: "Railroads in X." It would then be possible to have a supra-category "Railroads By Geographic Area" and include on that page the many separate "Railroads in X" categories. Go here for instructions on how to make a category. Is this an acceptable Wiki solution? Inter lingua  talk 21:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good list, helps in navigation. --JJay 23:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - no reason for list of this kind, rather unencyclopedic. Though categories would not be subsitution since it cannot list railway stations by country. --WinHunter (talk) 00:41, 22 June 2006 (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.