Talk:Fairfield Metro station

Fairfield Metro
Fairfield Metro
	The Metro-North Fairfield Metro station
General information
Location	61 Constant Comment Way; Fairfield, Connecticut
Line(s)	Northeast Corridor
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	'Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority: 5, 7
Construction
Parking	1,500
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	18
History
Opened	December 5, 2011
Electrified	12.5 kV AC overhead catenary
Passengers
2018	2,215
Rank	29 of 124
Services

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Proposed Update to Infobox[edit]

Note that the 124 includes both East and West divisions of Metro North. The citation is on the rank, with the passenger count and year of the data being implied as from the same source.

Here's the proposed update like what we've been doing over on the LIRR pages. Lent (talk) 08:28, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.

Several comments:

Is that document online / publicly available? We shouldn't be using an internal-only document.
It should be specified that it's average weekday boardings.
I'm not a fan of the ranking. It adds length to the infobox without providing actually important information.

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pi.1415926535: I got it from a FOIA request and uploaded it to Google Drive. The links are also here--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:35, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not comfortable using a FOIA'd internal document hosted on a personal account as a source. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:54, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is an official document. I don't know what your issue with using it is.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 19:32, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP:RS requires that sources be published; I do not believe that an internal document obtained only by FOIA meets that standard. Having the document hosted on a personal account, where it could be modified by someone other than the creator, is also a problem. (That is not to say that I have any lack of trust in you, merely that such personal hosting is almost never okay.) This needs to be reviewed on WP:RSN before adding it to any articles. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:13, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here are screenshots of the email from the MTA with the attachments.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 21:31, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That does not solve any of the issues I raised. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Distinguish?[edit]

I added a Distinguish template (With Fairfield station (Metro-North)) Today. But it was removed. I really don't see why, These are two stations that have a quite similar name. Even more so, the titles of the two articles are also very similiar and easy to mix up. I think that the distinguish tag is needed, what do you think?--Kieran207 talk 01:47, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

{{distinguish}} is for when readers have misspelled their desired title, and the error would be apparent by simply displaying the alternative term without further explanation. That really isn't the case here. I don't think the names are confusable enough to warrant a hatnote anyway, especially since the other station is already linked in the infobox anyway. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 03:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[mta2018-1] METRO-NORTH 2018 WEEKDAY STATION BOARDINGS. Market Analysis/Fare Policy Group:OPERATIONS PLANNING AND ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT:Metro-North Railroad. April 2019. p. 6.

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