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The result was delete. I did briefly consider redirecting to Kalyan Junction railway station, but I think this is a fairly unlikely search term. Lankiveil ( speak to me) 01:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC) reply

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No evidence of notability. The only independent source in the article is not about this shed, but about an Electro shed established in 1928 (the Diesel shed is established in either 1967 (infobox) or 1987 (body of text). Prod removed without any improvement (which isn't necessary technically, but doesn't explain why the ProD was supposedly invalid and doesn't solve the problems of course). Fram ( talk) 08:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  Ivecos (t) 10:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  Ivecos (t) 10:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Kalyan is a major railway hub. We cover its facilities in other pages such as Kalyan#Transport, Kalyan Junction railway station and Loco Shed, Kalyan. This page should be kept for integration and development of this material per our editing policy. Deletion would not be appropriate because it would be disruptive. Andrew D. ( talk) 11:15, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
    • So no evidence that this is in any way a notable shed then? Kalyan#Transport is a two-line section without any information on this or other sheds, just that the station is important: this is not a reason to keep this article. Kalyan Junction railway station is a gem with indispensable information like "Waiting Rooms are available on platform Nos. 4 & 5 of with and without air condition. There is a separate 'ladies-only' waiting room on platform 4. Canteen is available on the long distance trains platform 4&5. snacks corners can be located on the entire length of the platforms." Yep, having more articles like this is what our editing policy proscribes. Loco Shed, Kalyan: should this article exist? Perhaps, but even then there is no reason that if we have one article on a perhaps notable shed, we suddenly have to keep articles on other non notable sheds as well. Nothing in your favourite WP:PRESERVE policy claims that pages should be kept "for integration and development" if the information is on a subject which lacks notability to start with. There is nothing "disruptive" about the deletion of this material, no other article would suddenly become deficient or unintelligible, there would be no gap in the coverage of notable subjects. Please support your "keep" with actually relevant arguments and policies, not the "I can use it for every page I like" PRESERVE shortcut. Fram ( talk) 11:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • That source obviously is not an independent source. Not everything that can be verified to exist (which is not under dispute) should be preserved, other arguments are needed as to why it should be included in enwiki. Fram ( talk) 12:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • It's a locomotive shed, it does what it is supposed to do. That's all that source demonstrates. That you find someone pointing out the fallacies and errors in your arguments "vexatious" is your problem, but the best way to decrease your annoyance would be to present better arguments, not make unsubstantiated claims. People get by now that you don't accept my view, but that doesn't change the fact that you haven't provided a single independent reliable source about this shed so far. Fram ( talk) 14:26, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • PRESERVE is about removing some information in an article or not, it doesn't deal with whether a subject should have a standalone article in the first place. Anyway, in WP:V, the other policy you quoted, we find "Base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Since this article is not based on such sources, it has no place on enwiki. This is, as you well know, what WP:N is about, but as you somehow need the link to an actual policy and not the probably most widely accepted or applied guideline on enwiki, you now have it straight from your own policy. Further down in WP:V we find "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." So my hoops are essentially the hoops you find in basic policies, not something I have invented. Fram ( talk) 15:30, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Fram is now resorting to an essay to prop up his argument and that's even weaker than a guideline. I remain content with my policy-based argument. We have a reasonable topic here and we should preserve the information about it as part of our coverage of the Indian railway system. My !vote stands. Andrew D. ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • My quotes come straight from the policy, and include a link to an essay (link already in that policy, not my addition). Apparently only your general pointers to policies are acceptable, but my policy quotes aren't? So no, I'm not "resorting to an essay", I give specific applicable policy quotes, not some vague pointers and claims that this article must be retained because "it as (sic) part of our coverage of the Indian railway system". Nearly every article that gets deleted is "part of coverage" of something, be it some music scene, all staff at a university, all people active in a sport, ... That doesn't stop us deleting such articles of course. This shed has not been shown to be a notable part of the Indian railway system as evidenced by independent sources, not just by your claims. Fram ( talk) 16:20, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • I am unmoved by Fram's wikilawyering. This is my !vote and Fram should please cease trying to badger me out of it. The topic seems quite respectable and it seems quite reasonable that we should keep it for further work. Deletion is not appropriate. Andrew D. ( talk) 17:04, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • If you don't like replies, stop replying, simple. But if you do reply, don't include false claims like "Fram is now resorting to an esay" when I gave you two quotes from a policy you brought up (in general) as supporting keep, when it actually favours deletion of such articles. Fram ( talk) 17:08, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • The replies are mainly tiresome for the others who have to wade through this. The essential point of WP:V is that we need reliable sources and we have those. WP:IS and WP:N are essays and guidelines which are inferior to our policies. My !vote stands. Andrew D. ( talk) 17:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 05:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
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  • Delete per Hagennos. Violates WP:NOTWEBHOST as it's trivial factoids and routine coverage that kind of verifies existence but does nothing to confer notability. Reyk YO! 09:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Keep very notable infrastructure. I reject the argument that because the substantial coverage is from the government it is insufficiently independent. The Library of Congress and National Register of Historic Places are run by the U.S. government and certainly have the ability to confer notability onna subject here. The Indian government documents covering this subject are more than adequate to establish notability. It's also not true that is hasn't received independent coverage.

The design of new commuter passenger train engines and paint jobs done at the facility as well as other maintenance and engineering projects done at this shed are often covered in Newspapers as well as news of the major trains kept there. FloridaArmy ( talk) 16:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply

    • Being included in the Library of Congress is not a sign of notability, they include every book, magazine, ... printed in the US and much more beyond. The National Register of Historic Places is not the owner or user of the buildings in the Register, they are an independent "award" (for lack of a better word) and thus they give notability to the places in the register. The Indian Government is the owner/user of this building, not an independent organisation like the NRHP is for the buildings. You may be right that there is independent coverage, but you need to provide some evidence of this. Simply claiming that such coverage exists is not sufficient. Fram ( talk) 09:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Delete and Redirect to Kalyan Junction railway station.Per persuasive argument by nominator.I searched Hindi dailies and there are nothing more than scant trivial mentions.And, AD, whilst it's good to see you back with shades of the bygone ARS-days, please stop having the false notion that your argument is policy-based, when almost-often they are to the contrary. Winged Blades Godric 17:42, 17 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Delete, not sensing any notability in this topic other than trivial mentions and railfan content. Ajf773 ( talk) 18:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC) reply
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.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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. I did briefly consider redirecting to Kalyan Junction railway station, but I think this is a fairly unlikely search term. Lankiveil ( speak to me) 01:13, 23 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Diesel Loco Shed, Kalyan (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log · Stats)
(Find sources:  Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

No evidence of notability. The only independent source in the article is not about this shed, but about an Electro shed established in 1928 (the Diesel shed is established in either 1967 (infobox) or 1987 (body of text). Prod removed without any improvement (which isn't necessary technically, but doesn't explain why the ProD was supposedly invalid and doesn't solve the problems of course). Fram ( talk) 08:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions.  Ivecos (t) 10:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions.  Ivecos (t) 10:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Keep Kalyan is a major railway hub. We cover its facilities in other pages such as Kalyan#Transport, Kalyan Junction railway station and Loco Shed, Kalyan. This page should be kept for integration and development of this material per our editing policy. Deletion would not be appropriate because it would be disruptive. Andrew D. ( talk) 11:15, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
    • So no evidence that this is in any way a notable shed then? Kalyan#Transport is a two-line section without any information on this or other sheds, just that the station is important: this is not a reason to keep this article. Kalyan Junction railway station is a gem with indispensable information like "Waiting Rooms are available on platform Nos. 4 & 5 of with and without air condition. There is a separate 'ladies-only' waiting room on platform 4. Canteen is available on the long distance trains platform 4&5. snacks corners can be located on the entire length of the platforms." Yep, having more articles like this is what our editing policy proscribes. Loco Shed, Kalyan: should this article exist? Perhaps, but even then there is no reason that if we have one article on a perhaps notable shed, we suddenly have to keep articles on other non notable sheds as well. Nothing in your favourite WP:PRESERVE policy claims that pages should be kept "for integration and development" if the information is on a subject which lacks notability to start with. There is nothing "disruptive" about the deletion of this material, no other article would suddenly become deficient or unintelligible, there would be no gap in the coverage of notable subjects. Please support your "keep" with actually relevant arguments and policies, not the "I can use it for every page I like" PRESERVE shortcut. Fram ( talk) 11:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • That source obviously is not an independent source. Not everything that can be verified to exist (which is not under dispute) should be preserved, other arguments are needed as to why it should be included in enwiki. Fram ( talk) 12:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • It's a locomotive shed, it does what it is supposed to do. That's all that source demonstrates. That you find someone pointing out the fallacies and errors in your arguments "vexatious" is your problem, but the best way to decrease your annoyance would be to present better arguments, not make unsubstantiated claims. People get by now that you don't accept my view, but that doesn't change the fact that you haven't provided a single independent reliable source about this shed so far. Fram ( talk) 14:26, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • PRESERVE is about removing some information in an article or not, it doesn't deal with whether a subject should have a standalone article in the first place. Anyway, in WP:V, the other policy you quoted, we find "Base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Since this article is not based on such sources, it has no place on enwiki. This is, as you well know, what WP:N is about, but as you somehow need the link to an actual policy and not the probably most widely accepted or applied guideline on enwiki, you now have it straight from your own policy. Further down in WP:V we find "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." So my hoops are essentially the hoops you find in basic policies, not something I have invented. Fram ( talk) 15:30, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Fram is now resorting to an essay to prop up his argument and that's even weaker than a guideline. I remain content with my policy-based argument. We have a reasonable topic here and we should preserve the information about it as part of our coverage of the Indian railway system. My !vote stands. Andrew D. ( talk) 16:12, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • My quotes come straight from the policy, and include a link to an essay (link already in that policy, not my addition). Apparently only your general pointers to policies are acceptable, but my policy quotes aren't? So no, I'm not "resorting to an essay", I give specific applicable policy quotes, not some vague pointers and claims that this article must be retained because "it as (sic) part of our coverage of the Indian railway system". Nearly every article that gets deleted is "part of coverage" of something, be it some music scene, all staff at a university, all people active in a sport, ... That doesn't stop us deleting such articles of course. This shed has not been shown to be a notable part of the Indian railway system as evidenced by independent sources, not just by your claims. Fram ( talk) 16:20, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • I am unmoved by Fram's wikilawyering. This is my !vote and Fram should please cease trying to badger me out of it. The topic seems quite respectable and it seems quite reasonable that we should keep it for further work. Deletion is not appropriate. Andrew D. ( talk) 17:04, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • If you don't like replies, stop replying, simple. But if you do reply, don't include false claims like "Fram is now resorting to an esay" when I gave you two quotes from a policy you brought up (in general) as supporting keep, when it actually favours deletion of such articles. Fram ( talk) 17:08, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • The replies are mainly tiresome for the others who have to wade through this. The essential point of WP:V is that we need reliable sources and we have those. WP:IS and WP:N are essays and guidelines which are inferior to our policies. My !vote stands. Andrew D. ( talk) 17:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 05:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 05:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Delete per Hagennos. Violates WP:NOTWEBHOST as it's trivial factoids and routine coverage that kind of verifies existence but does nothing to confer notability. Reyk YO! 09:03, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Keep very notable infrastructure. I reject the argument that because the substantial coverage is from the government it is insufficiently independent. The Library of Congress and National Register of Historic Places are run by the U.S. government and certainly have the ability to confer notability onna subject here. The Indian government documents covering this subject are more than adequate to establish notability. It's also not true that is hasn't received independent coverage.

The design of new commuter passenger train engines and paint jobs done at the facility as well as other maintenance and engineering projects done at this shed are often covered in Newspapers as well as news of the major trains kept there. FloridaArmy ( talk) 16:14, 16 January 2018 (UTC) reply

    • Being included in the Library of Congress is not a sign of notability, they include every book, magazine, ... printed in the US and much more beyond. The National Register of Historic Places is not the owner or user of the buildings in the Register, they are an independent "award" (for lack of a better word) and thus they give notability to the places in the register. The Indian Government is the owner/user of this building, not an independent organisation like the NRHP is for the buildings. You may be right that there is independent coverage, but you need to provide some evidence of this. Simply claiming that such coverage exists is not sufficient. Fram ( talk) 09:37, 17 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Delete and Redirect to Kalyan Junction railway station.Per persuasive argument by nominator.I searched Hindi dailies and there are nothing more than scant trivial mentions.And, AD, whilst it's good to see you back with shades of the bygone ARS-days, please stop having the false notion that your argument is policy-based, when almost-often they are to the contrary. Winged Blades Godric 17:42, 17 January 2018 (UTC) reply
  • Delete, not sensing any notability in this topic other than trivial mentions and railfan content. Ajf773 ( talk) 18:52, 22 January 2018 (UTC) reply
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.

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