Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skellingthorpe railway station (Great Northern Railway)


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The result was redirect‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ to Lincolnshire loop line. The best P&G-related arguments below are for merge, with Sirfurboy's summation the most persuasive with sufficient support to be deemed a consensus. Daniel (talk) 21:44, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Skellingthorpe railway station (Great Northern Railway)

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Very shortlived railway station near a village in Lincolnshire, England. Information about it is already available in the Skellingthorpe and Skellingthorpe railway station (Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway) articles. Considering it's only sourced to a directory of dates and owners, a map, a blog and an eBay listing, I doubt very much this meets notability criteria. There's no automatic notability for railway stations/halts, as far as I'm aware. I'd suggest at best it's redirected to Skellingthorpe (unless the railway station(s) article is un-disambiguated). Sionk (talk) 15:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Transportation and England.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 15:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep The GNR and LD&ECR stations were not just different stations, they were on different lines. The GNR station was on the line between Lincoln and Gainsborough (which is still open); the LD&ECR station was on the line between Lincoln and Tuxford (which closed some years ago). -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:06, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * As I said in my opening remarks, there's no automatic notability for railway stations. Are you saying the article should be kept simply because the station existed? Sionk (talk) 21:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is a clique in this subject area which believes that train stations are automatically notable, despite the RfC that was held which explicitly showed a clear consensus that this is not the case. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:36, 17 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Skellingthorpe Lincolnshire loop line as an AtD if GNG is not satisfied. The only old newspaper coverage I've found is incidental and there needs to be additional sources providing WP:SIGCOV to pass the GNG. I have found a reference to a station of this name in 1852 in the Lincolnshire Chronicle, in respect of transportation of potatoes to London. It's presumably this one in the absence of another Skellingthorpe, and it does seem likely when the other stations on the line were opened in 1849 that this one was also; it could mean it was only a goods station not a passenger station before 1865. Rupples (talk) 23:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC) Amended. Rupples (talk) 23:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * An alternative redirect which links to a railway article rather than the village is Lincolnshire loop line. Rupples (talk) 05:08, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is probably not a railway station in the UK that doesn't have enough written about it to satisfy WP:GNG. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep, Likely to be documented on books/newspapers not online Garuda3 (talk) 08:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment. It would be helpful if sources are put up in this discussion e.g. names of books, magazines, journals where it's likely this station has coverage in order to assess whether GNG could be met. I'm willing to reassess but not on assertions of WP:MUSTBESOURCES with no supporting evidence. Rupples (talk) 18:47, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Redirect per nom, as none of the keep voters have shown any evidence of their purported sources which totally exist but we can't see. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 22:35, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * If we must redirect, Lincolnshire loop line would be much more suitable than Skellingthorpe. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 23:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree. Changing my recommendation. Rupples (talk) 23:54, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * @Sionk would you agree to change your suggested redirect target to Lincolnshire loop line? Rupples (talk) 00:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd be equally happy with a redirect to Lincolnshire loop line. The later replacement station on the LDEC railway seems much more pertinent to the village. The short-lived GNR station seems to be no more than a 'halt' Sionk (talk) 12:00, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lincolnshire loop line. We are 5 days in and no secondary sources have been presented to establish this meets GNG, and stations are not, by consensus, presumed notable in WP:NGEO (per WP:NTRAINSTATION). I did search too and found nothing appropriate. Arguments that sources should exist will not do at AfD. If they exist, the discussion is here for them to be presented. If they cannot be found, the page should be deleted. Redirect is a useful ATD, however - taking a reader to appropriate information about the line the station served. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:48, 18 January 2024 (UTC)


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