Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Railway stations in the United States


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 02:37, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Railway stations in the United States

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Article doesn't contain any meaningful content and is unlikely to do so in the future -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 07:38, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Suggestion: Retitle to List of Railway stations in the United States, make this the head list for various lists of railway stations per state, something similar to List of windmills in the Netherlands. Mjroots (talk) 11:42, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Any volunteers? It's quite a simple task - take a public directory, copy-paste, wikify, here's the list (just sort out inclusion rules first). But who will subscribe for such a dull dull exercise? East of Borschov 12:07, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep improve and rename per Mjroots or redirect to Rail transport in the United States. At List of railway stations you can find a ton of these articles (easier navigation at the bottom of Category:Railway stations by country) but they are inconsistently named. Also they get quite long, like List of railway stations in India and List of railway stations in Japan. I imagine the U.S. one would be more enormous and would take a lot of work. Here is a start. Right now though, the article is a terrible representation of its subject. I left a comment at WikiProject Trains were an active discussion on these lists was ongoing.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:47, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The solution to excessively long lists is to split them into sub-lists. Mjroots (talk) 12:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * A lot of these lists already exist. Besides the List of Amtrak stations, which Mandsford already mentioned, you've got lists of many commuter railroad stations, especially one that I've done frequent work on such as the List of Long Island Rail Road stations. DanTD (talk) 22:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Is there a way then to make all of this branch of off one article?--NortyNort (Holla) 09:21, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Would it not be better as a category of stations listed in individual states? Britmax (talk) 13:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * It's in Category:Railway stations in the United States, which is de-facto by state cat. East of Borschov 14:34, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Such a list would probably have to be broken down into 'List of railway stations in [U.S. state]' as well.--NortyNort (Holla) 00:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Fairly useless as an article, and for its purposes, it seems to be redundant to List of Amtrak stations. The links aren't to stations, but to pages about the cities themselves.  Click on San Diego and you'll get the article about San Diego, California.  The title notwithstanding, it looks like the intent was to list only those cities that a passenger might stop at while zooming on a high speed line. List of Amtrak stations could be edited to reflect that info, or someone could write an article about the individual high speed lines themselves, since the intent was to show the stops in order.  Having 50 individual categories is of only limited use in this instance, but I have to agree with NortyNort that a list that tried to name 'em all would be a big project.  If there are high-speed passenger lines not already mentioned on the Amtrak list, I can see linking articles about those other lines to that list.  However, this looks like what may have seemed like a good idea at the time.  Mandsford 16:16, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment for high speed rail there is an article already - High-speed rail in the United States. I have no issue with it being turned into a redirect. -- Eraserhead1 &lt;talk&gt; 17:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete; the scope of the article seems to limit itself to "major" stations, which would, as Mandsford said, almost be redundant in light of the Amtrak article. It also seems to be limited to passenger trains, with a focus on the western United States. If the scope was in greater detail, with mention of (and perhaps links to pages on) stations throughout the US, there would be something here worth preserving, but I just don't see a lot that is. Kansan (talk) 17:19, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep This topic is a useful place to put existing and proposed railway stations (in line order), particularly high speed lines. For consistency and shortness, the name of similar topics should be Railway stations in Cameroon rather than List of railway stations in Cameroon.    Tabletop (talk) 00:55, 19 October 2010 (UTC)


 * See: Railway stations by country.


 * Delete Such a list, if complete, would be impossibly long, and even the author says so. It would be tantamount to a directory. In any case, it is no aide to navigation, which is considered to be a function of lists. I do not oppose there being lists of manageable lengths of rail stations in a particular smaller jurisdiction, or a list of such lists, as either would aide navigation. Sebwite (talk) 22:10, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep There is a great deal of potential to this article and if complete, branch sub-articles because it would be huge. There are numerous locations that were created by the railroads existence in various parts of the country, many that are not common to the large cities list.  Smaller stop names do not conform to city names or other geographical references.  I admit, this is currently poorly done, but there is zero potential for this list to be useful if you just delete it.  Nobody will see it, nobody will contribute to it, it will have a black mark against ever being created in the future.    Deletion is an entirely negative solution to a relevant subject. OsamaPJ (talk) 00:10, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete As the first sentence admits, creating this is an unmanageable task. I believe that in US they are called "Railroads", not railways (a British term).  The presnet list is not a list of stations, but of cities that (allegedly) have stations.  The list thus does not even comply with the title.  Articles on the US are usually split by state, so that List of railroad stations in Virginia might be a viable article, but it should be a list of stations (which have or should ahve articles), not merely a list of cities.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as pointless and unmanageable. I would have said "merge" but there's nothing that would survive a merge into a parent article on railways in the USA (which is not linked from here) and the list is shorter than on some articles about individual amtrak routes (which are also unlinked from here). The current list is actually a list of cities, and almost wholly incomplete. If you want a long list of stations perhaps a category would be better - it would certainly be easier to keep current & accurate. Referring to Railway stations by country hardly helps, as many of those have even worse problems than Railway stations in the United States. If somebody were really willing and able to write and maintain a meaningful list of railway stations in the United States, I would happily say keep, but I think that is not the case. bobrayner (talk) 21:12, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm not sure what the purpose of having this article would be. Actually including every railway station in the United States would make the article both unmanageable and too large to be of much use (List of Amtrak stations is already quite large, and adding a bunch of commuter rail and rapid transit stations would make this a monstrosity). Listing major stations only is impossible without a consistent and useful standard of what a "major" station is, which probably doesn't exist (using ridership, for example, would result in a list consisting mostly of rapid transit/commuter rail stations and leave out systems which don't track ridership). It also shouldn't be an index of smaller lists of railway stations; this would make it redundant to List of railway stations, which is already more of an index (albeit a poor one for the US), and this function is better served by categories anyway. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 00:03, 24 October 2010 (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.