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Hello All, I am currently looking for sources for the following pages relating to the Isle of Man railway system; Year of Railways, Isle of Man Railway stations, Isle of Man Railway level crossings and points of interest. I am loathe to nominate these articles for deletion based on how much information is in these articles but I cannot find any sources myself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Tooncool64 ( talk) 09:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pomona station (California)#Requested move 12 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 10:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of moves like this recently: British Rail DP1 British Rail Mark 1. These are, of course, incorrect anachronisms. The justification seems to be given as 'consistency'. Yet when did consistency override accuracy, WP:V etc. ?
@ Danners430: @ YorkshireExpat: @ Adumbrativus: Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:28, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Would you like to have free access to the full set of back issues of The Railway Magazine though the Wikipedia Library? If you are eligible for a Wikipedia Library account, please upvote this request.
Even if you already have access through some other means, your upvote will help to secure free access for other Wikimedia volunteers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dadar Central–Ratnagiri Passenger#Requested move 17 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 15:20, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
We have an article on the Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains and an entirely US-focused article on Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes. What we need is one article about electro-pneumatic brakes in general that covers the various varieties found worldwide, that could include the content of the existing articles. Eldomtom2 ( talk) 19:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Walden–Wallkill Rail Trail for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 ( talk) 01:10, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Southeastern (train operating company 2006–2021)#Requested move 16 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 13:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, editors! I would like to invite your comments in a discussion I've opened on the routes section found in the articles of Italian railway stations. You can join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Italy#Routes in railway station articles. Your expertise and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! IgnatiusofLondon ( talk) 20:35, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I boldly merged and redirected the disambig at South Eastern Railway to Southeast (disambiguation)#Rail transport as it was a near complete subset. However, now I'm wondering if I shouldn't have gone the other way and expanded the more specifically-titled page to become a set index of railways with "South East" or "South Eastern" (with various spacings) in their name? There are at least a couple of US and one Australian that are the "Something & South Eastern". I'll leave a note for the disambiguation project about this discussion. Thryduulf ( talk) 03:49, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the important formulas and examples in Minimum railway curve radius, first added here in October 2009, are unsourced or insufficiently sourced. Without reliable sources for the formulas, it is hard for me to tell if the formula was real or original research: if the latter was true then the factual accuracy of the entire article could be in doubt. -- Minoa ( talk) 23:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § Repeated and unexplained insertion of dubious content. Jc86035 ( talk) 14:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Maidstone line#Requested move 27 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 15:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Bergen Line has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 02:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
There is a discussion currently going on Talk:California High-Speed Rail#Clean-up and Harmonisation about potential revisions to the article, which has evolved in an often unorganized fashion over the years. Looking for editors experienced with rail articles who may be able to give some advice or even help out with the effort – particularly in terms of notability guidelines and what should and shouldn't be included. I will be a regular contributor to this project, but I've only edited a limited amount of rail articles in the past so I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs. Thank you, Shannon [ Talk ] 19:42, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
The Rio Grande 223 article has had several extensive edits with unsourced claims and marginally related tangents via User:DTParker1000 over the last few months. This included using an outdated restoration report by John Bush implying the locomotive's current restoration status in a August 2023 revision [1], an extensive off topic tangent written in a non-encyclopedic tone of voice about the history of the Rio Grande added in January 2024 along with an unsourced claim about the styles of restoration Ogden City is considering for the locomotive [2].
This article requires protected status to prevent future edits from veering off topic and into speculation about the locomotive's potential restoration. Xboxtravis7992 ( talk) 23:14, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
There are missing pages in the Keikyu retired rolling stock. These missing pages being the Keikyu 230, 400, and 500 Series. I also have concerns that the Keikyu website and the Keikyū Main Line websites aren't merged, since they are very similar. ThisUsernameThatIsNowTaken ( talk) 16:12, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Iarnród Éireann#Requested move 16 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. JuniperChill ( talk) 11:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Pages East Broad Top Railroad Mikado locomotives, East Broad Top 12 and East Broad Top 16 all carry significant WP:OVERLAP in their subjects. Would it make sense to merge the two individual locomotive articles into the larger article on the 6 EBT Mikados? I don't know if there is enough unique in the 12 and 16 articles to justify such overlap between pages. Xboxtravis7992 ( talk) 16:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I just disambiguated a few links to dab Seongnam station. On any other topic, this would have been a simple matter of replacing the links by piped links to Seongnam station (Incheon), taking a minute or two with DisamAssist or ten minutes manually. However, railway stations have to be special and different. They use arcane templates such as {{ stn}} and {{ Adjacent stations}}, which require the editor to unravel a complex web of templates and modules before they can attempt any sort of fix or improvement. Despite my longstanding interest in railways and many years' experience of disambiguation, templates and modules, I spent well over an hour disentangling these links and am still not sure I got everything right. I could have spent that time much more profitably fixing a hundred legible and transparent wikilinks on any non-rail topic. Although I am sure that everyone involved has acted in good faith, the casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the system was designed to make the articles as difficult as possible for anyone other than their owners to edit. I have never dared to replace the templates by legible links deliberately, and when I once did so accidentally (using a now-defunct tool which didn't show diffs clearly) the changes met with a hostile reception. I know you will never change your ways, but I do want you to understand that this project is unique in making its articles so inaccessible, and causes major problems to generalist editors, most of whom will just give up. Certes ( talk) 11:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi. regarding Great Train eXpress, I need some expert opinion on whether this is now considered as part of the Seoul subway system or not. This article is confusing, as it says the operator will be Seoul Metro which runs the traditional metro lines in Seoul and that GTX-A runs entirely in tunnel. So it is subway or not. Should it be featured in Seoul Metropolitan Subway article, or not? Thanks a lot. Xia talk to me 14:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I've started requests to merge Pennsylvania Lines LLC and New York Central Lines LLC into Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation, respectively. I have also proposed a merge of Regional railroad and List of U.S. Class II railroads. Editors are invited to comment on all three requests. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 21:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Capitol Limited (B&O train) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 00:22, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
California Southern Railroad has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 00:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
SR Lord Nelson class has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 02:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3 has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 02:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
See Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki train disaster and Rzepin train disaster. I did some c/e - they were described as facts where in fact they seem more like old fake news (CIA?) or urban legends. Do we have any categories better than Category:Unexplained phenomena? Note that other categories are for confirmed incidents (ex. Category:Railway accidents in 1952). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:04, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Please visit the discussion at Talk:People mover#Requested move 23 April 2024. – Dream out loud ( talk) 19:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Amagasaki derailment#Requested move 28 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 22:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject,
This WikiProject doesn't look active but if anyone does happen by, could you check out this article? We might be looking at a possible Merge discussion as a new editor is renaming the article a variation of another existing train article. Thanks if you can help. Liz Read! Talk! 17:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
At present, Railway nationalization has its first word in its name using the non-American word, whereas the second word uses the American spelling. The article also inconsistently switches between British and American English, notwithstanding the obvious need to use American English for discussion of North American railroads. Considering MOS:ENGVAR, any thoughts on how to standardise (or standardize) this article a bit? Fork99 ( talk) 11:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sydney R-Class Tram#Requested move 4 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 13:11, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ultra (rapid transit)#Requested move 29 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:20, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Currently, there is a discussion on Talk:Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line about the spelling of the title. I would like to request broader comments to discuss how to address the apparent lack of grammatical consistency in Japanese names when utilizing hyphens and capitalization.
For context, Japanese organizations do not have a consistent approach to handling hyphens and capitalization in place names. The same organization can have various iterations; for example, the Yokohama municipal government website uses "Shin Yokohama," "Shin-Yokohama," and "Shin-yokohama" on different occasions for translating "新横浜". [3] JR, the largest railway organization in Japan, consistently uses "Shin-(Capitalized stem)" in all of their "Shin-" station signage, [4] but this is not adhered to by other organizations such as Sotetsu, [5] Tokyu, [6] Yokohama Municipal Subway, [7] and the government department responsible for road signs, [8] which, in turn, use "Shin-(all lowercase stem)".
While other commenters prefer to follow JR's practice, I am in favor of replacing the hyphen with a space and keeping the proper name capitalized. My rationale is that "Shin," which means "New," is rarely followed by a hyphen in Anglophone countries such as "New York", "New Zealand", "New Cross", etc. JR's practice is unusual, no less than other Japanese organizations, if not ungrammatical in English. I fail to understand the rationale of making an exception for Japanese proper names, if the whole point is to adhere to English grammar and English naming convention.
Another issue is that if we should rename all Japanese railway line and station articles to use the lowercase "line" and "station", similar to UK railway articles. I know there was a consensus about the change to use the lowercase "line" and "station" but am unable to find the archived discussion and relevant policy page. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 02:07, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I have several questions related to Victorian station identifier codes, but please direct me to another place if one exists.
Thanks! Nyttend ( talk) 02:02, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gulf & Atlantic Railways#Requested move 8 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:18, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Hello All, I am currently looking for sources for the following pages relating to the Isle of Man railway system; Year of Railways, Isle of Man Railway stations, Isle of Man Railway level crossings and points of interest. I am loathe to nominate these articles for deletion based on how much information is in these articles but I cannot find any sources myself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Tooncool64 ( talk) 09:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pomona station (California)#Requested move 12 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 10:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
I'm seeing a lot of moves like this recently: British Rail DP1 British Rail Mark 1. These are, of course, incorrect anachronisms. The justification seems to be given as 'consistency'. Yet when did consistency override accuracy, WP:V etc. ?
@ Danners430: @ YorkshireExpat: @ Adumbrativus: Andy Dingley ( talk) 14:28, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
Would you like to have free access to the full set of back issues of The Railway Magazine though the Wikipedia Library? If you are eligible for a Wikipedia Library account, please upvote this request.
Even if you already have access through some other means, your upvote will help to secure free access for other Wikimedia volunteers. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dadar Central–Ratnagiri Passenger#Requested move 17 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Warm Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 15:20, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
We have an article on the Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains and an entirely US-focused article on Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes. What we need is one article about electro-pneumatic brakes in general that covers the various varieties found worldwide, that could include the content of the existing articles. Eldomtom2 ( talk) 19:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
I have nominated Walden–Wallkill Rail Trail for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 ( talk) 01:10, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Southeastern (train operating company 2006–2021)#Requested move 16 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 13:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
Greetings, editors! I would like to invite your comments in a discussion I've opened on the routes section found in the articles of Italian railway stations. You can join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Italy#Routes in railway station articles. Your expertise and thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! IgnatiusofLondon ( talk) 20:35, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
I boldly merged and redirected the disambig at South Eastern Railway to Southeast (disambiguation)#Rail transport as it was a near complete subset. However, now I'm wondering if I shouldn't have gone the other way and expanded the more specifically-titled page to become a set index of railways with "South East" or "South Eastern" (with various spacings) in their name? There are at least a couple of US and one Australian that are the "Something & South Eastern". I'll leave a note for the disambiguation project about this discussion. Thryduulf ( talk) 03:49, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the important formulas and examples in Minimum railway curve radius, first added here in October 2009, are unsourced or insufficiently sourced. Without reliable sources for the formulas, it is hard for me to tell if the formula was real or original research: if the latter was true then the factual accuracy of the entire article could be in doubt. -- Minoa ( talk) 23:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents § Repeated and unexplained insertion of dubious content. Jc86035 ( talk) 14:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Maidstone line#Requested move 27 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces ( talk) 15:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Bergen Line has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 ( talk) 02:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
There is a discussion currently going on Talk:California High-Speed Rail#Clean-up and Harmonisation about potential revisions to the article, which has evolved in an often unorganized fashion over the years. Looking for editors experienced with rail articles who may be able to give some advice or even help out with the effort – particularly in terms of notability guidelines and what should and shouldn't be included. I will be a regular contributor to this project, but I've only edited a limited amount of rail articles in the past so I'm not familiar with all the ins and outs. Thank you, Shannon [ Talk ] 19:42, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
The Rio Grande 223 article has had several extensive edits with unsourced claims and marginally related tangents via User:DTParker1000 over the last few months. This included using an outdated restoration report by John Bush implying the locomotive's current restoration status in a August 2023 revision [1], an extensive off topic tangent written in a non-encyclopedic tone of voice about the history of the Rio Grande added in January 2024 along with an unsourced claim about the styles of restoration Ogden City is considering for the locomotive [2].
This article requires protected status to prevent future edits from veering off topic and into speculation about the locomotive's potential restoration. Xboxtravis7992 ( talk) 23:14, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
There are missing pages in the Keikyu retired rolling stock. These missing pages being the Keikyu 230, 400, and 500 Series. I also have concerns that the Keikyu website and the Keikyū Main Line websites aren't merged, since they are very similar. ThisUsernameThatIsNowTaken ( talk) 16:12, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Iarnród Éireann#Requested move 16 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. JuniperChill ( talk) 11:48, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Pages East Broad Top Railroad Mikado locomotives, East Broad Top 12 and East Broad Top 16 all carry significant WP:OVERLAP in their subjects. Would it make sense to merge the two individual locomotive articles into the larger article on the 6 EBT Mikados? I don't know if there is enough unique in the 12 and 16 articles to justify such overlap between pages. Xboxtravis7992 ( talk) 16:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
I just disambiguated a few links to dab Seongnam station. On any other topic, this would have been a simple matter of replacing the links by piped links to Seongnam station (Incheon), taking a minute or two with DisamAssist or ten minutes manually. However, railway stations have to be special and different. They use arcane templates such as {{ stn}} and {{ Adjacent stations}}, which require the editor to unravel a complex web of templates and modules before they can attempt any sort of fix or improvement. Despite my longstanding interest in railways and many years' experience of disambiguation, templates and modules, I spent well over an hour disentangling these links and am still not sure I got everything right. I could have spent that time much more profitably fixing a hundred legible and transparent wikilinks on any non-rail topic. Although I am sure that everyone involved has acted in good faith, the casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the system was designed to make the articles as difficult as possible for anyone other than their owners to edit. I have never dared to replace the templates by legible links deliberately, and when I once did so accidentally (using a now-defunct tool which didn't show diffs clearly) the changes met with a hostile reception. I know you will never change your ways, but I do want you to understand that this project is unique in making its articles so inaccessible, and causes major problems to generalist editors, most of whom will just give up. Certes ( talk) 11:21, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi. regarding Great Train eXpress, I need some expert opinion on whether this is now considered as part of the Seoul subway system or not. This article is confusing, as it says the operator will be Seoul Metro which runs the traditional metro lines in Seoul and that GTX-A runs entirely in tunnel. So it is subway or not. Should it be featured in Seoul Metropolitan Subway article, or not? Thanks a lot. Xia talk to me 14:37, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I've started requests to merge Pennsylvania Lines LLC and New York Central Lines LLC into Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation, respectively. I have also proposed a merge of Regional railroad and List of U.S. Class II railroads. Editors are invited to comment on all three requests. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 21:29, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Capitol Limited (B&O train) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 00:22, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
California Southern Railroad has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 00:48, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
SR Lord Nelson class has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 02:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3 has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 02:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
See Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki train disaster and Rzepin train disaster. I did some c/e - they were described as facts where in fact they seem more like old fake news (CIA?) or urban legends. Do we have any categories better than Category:Unexplained phenomena? Note that other categories are for confirmed incidents (ex. Category:Railway accidents in 1952). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:04, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
Please visit the discussion at Talk:People mover#Requested move 23 April 2024. – Dream out loud ( talk) 19:09, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Amagasaki derailment#Requested move 28 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 22:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject,
This WikiProject doesn't look active but if anyone does happen by, could you check out this article? We might be looking at a possible Merge discussion as a new editor is renaming the article a variation of another existing train article. Thanks if you can help. Liz Read! Talk! 17:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
At present, Railway nationalization has its first word in its name using the non-American word, whereas the second word uses the American spelling. The article also inconsistently switches between British and American English, notwithstanding the obvious need to use American English for discussion of North American railroads. Considering MOS:ENGVAR, any thoughts on how to standardise (or standardize) this article a bit? Fork99 ( talk) 11:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sydney R-Class Tram#Requested move 4 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 13:11, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Ultra (rapid transit)#Requested move 29 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:20, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Currently, there is a discussion on Talk:Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line about the spelling of the title. I would like to request broader comments to discuss how to address the apparent lack of grammatical consistency in Japanese names when utilizing hyphens and capitalization.
For context, Japanese organizations do not have a consistent approach to handling hyphens and capitalization in place names. The same organization can have various iterations; for example, the Yokohama municipal government website uses "Shin Yokohama," "Shin-Yokohama," and "Shin-yokohama" on different occasions for translating "新横浜". [3] JR, the largest railway organization in Japan, consistently uses "Shin-(Capitalized stem)" in all of their "Shin-" station signage, [4] but this is not adhered to by other organizations such as Sotetsu, [5] Tokyu, [6] Yokohama Municipal Subway, [7] and the government department responsible for road signs, [8] which, in turn, use "Shin-(all lowercase stem)".
While other commenters prefer to follow JR's practice, I am in favor of replacing the hyphen with a space and keeping the proper name capitalized. My rationale is that "Shin," which means "New," is rarely followed by a hyphen in Anglophone countries such as "New York", "New Zealand", "New Cross", etc. JR's practice is unusual, no less than other Japanese organizations, if not ungrammatical in English. I fail to understand the rationale of making an exception for Japanese proper names, if the whole point is to adhere to English grammar and English naming convention.
Another issue is that if we should rename all Japanese railway line and station articles to use the lowercase "line" and "station", similar to UK railway articles. I know there was a consensus about the change to use the lowercase "line" and "station" but am unable to find the archived discussion and relevant policy page. -- Sameboat - 同舟 ( talk · contri.) 02:07, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I have several questions related to Victorian station identifier codes, but please direct me to another place if one exists.
Thanks! Nyttend ( talk) 02:02, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gulf & Atlantic Railways#Requested move 8 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:18, 16 May 2024 (UTC)