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Oppose, unless it actually says "(Hants)" on the sign. Otherwise, that form is merely inherited from BR's house style. On Wikipedia, we disambiguate placenames in full. As this is a location rather than a geological feature, arguably it should be
Whitchurch railway station, Hampshire with a comma.
81.111.114.131 (
talk) 15:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose, largely for the reasons the IP editor gives. (Hants) after Whitchurch is just the way National Rail (and the TOCs etc etc) use to differentiate stations and even they don't use it when it's not necessary (e.g.
this map and this
interactive map). As such I suggest we stick to normal wikipedia style. Personally I feel brackets is more appropriate as the article is about the structures at a site rather than an actual location but I'm not too bothered which is chosen.
Dpmuk (
talk) 09:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Requested move 2
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The result of the move request was: Moved.EdJohnston (
talk) 21:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)reply
This is a more
WP:COMMONNAME for the station than the wiki-creation of "Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire)".
Lamberhurst (
talk) 09:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The arguments in the previous requested move are closely aligned with my own thinking. We should use Wikipedia's style guidelines for naming Wikipedia articles. The name (Whitchurch) chosen by Network Rail may affect how we name the article, but the style (brackets, "Hants" instead of "Hampshire") shouldn't. See also the related move request at
Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk). — Mr. Stradivarius♪ talk ♪ 14:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: Per
WP:NATURAL, if the
WP:COMMONNAME incorporates a disambiguating term, this should be used in preference to the default parenthetical disambiguation at the end of an article name.
Lamberhurst (
talk) 16:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Parenthetical disambiguation should go at the end of the article name.
MRSC (
talk) 16:42, 23 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Support per Thryduulf. The objections by MRSC and Mr. Stradivarius are based on the false assumption that the parenthetical disambiguator in "Whitchurch (Hants) railway station" has been added by Wikipedia editors. In fact it is a a form of natural disambiguator, in that it is part of a widely-used name in the real world. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 08:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Oppose, unless it actually says "(Hants)" on the sign. Otherwise, that form is merely inherited from BR's house style. On Wikipedia, we disambiguate placenames in full. As this is a location rather than a geological feature, arguably it should be
Whitchurch railway station, Hampshire with a comma.
81.111.114.131 (
talk) 15:01, 18 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose, largely for the reasons the IP editor gives. (Hants) after Whitchurch is just the way National Rail (and the TOCs etc etc) use to differentiate stations and even they don't use it when it's not necessary (e.g.
this map and this
interactive map). As such I suggest we stick to normal wikipedia style. Personally I feel brackets is more appropriate as the article is about the structures at a site rather than an actual location but I'm not too bothered which is chosen.
Dpmuk (
talk) 09:59, 25 May 2010 (UTC)reply
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Requested move 2
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The result of the move request was: Moved.EdJohnston (
talk) 21:44, 9 March 2014 (UTC)reply
This is a more
WP:COMMONNAME for the station than the wiki-creation of "Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire)".
Lamberhurst (
talk) 09:46, 21 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The arguments in the previous requested move are closely aligned with my own thinking. We should use Wikipedia's style guidelines for naming Wikipedia articles. The name (Whitchurch) chosen by Network Rail may affect how we name the article, but the style (brackets, "Hants" instead of "Hampshire") shouldn't. See also the related move request at
Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk). — Mr. Stradivarius♪ talk ♪ 14:27, 22 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Comment: Per
WP:NATURAL, if the
WP:COMMONNAME incorporates a disambiguating term, this should be used in preference to the default parenthetical disambiguation at the end of an article name.
Lamberhurst (
talk) 16:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Parenthetical disambiguation should go at the end of the article name.
MRSC (
talk) 16:42, 23 February 2014 (UTC)reply
Support per Thryduulf. The objections by MRSC and Mr. Stradivarius are based on the false assumption that the parenthetical disambiguator in "Whitchurch (Hants) railway station" has been added by Wikipedia editors. In fact it is a a form of natural disambiguator, in that it is part of a widely-used name in the real world. --
BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
contribs) 08:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)reply
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