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UK railway stations - A to UK railway stations - Y[edit]

More railway lists, referenced to Multimap and LiveDepartureBoards. I list this not so much in anticipation of Featured status, but to borrow eyeballs to garner suggestions for improvements. Note that A has now been hacked to a new format, whilst Y is still in the older format --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:12, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • First, there aren't any references. This is the type of list that can be comprehensive, so you need to have references that verify that that is the case. Second, there are alot of red links, which make the list generally less useful. Also, if it's available, some sort of volume information would be interesting – how many passengers/day, etc. --Spangineer (háblame) 23:48, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Every station is referenced to LiveDepartureBoards which confirms its existence & shows train movements, and to multimap which shows location. What other refs do you imagine? Agreed that volume of trains / passengers would be nice to have, but I don't know a source. Redlinks await a wiki article (no, really!) but the /list/ is nevertheless complete. You did spur me on to add a new column of external links, but I'm not happy with their anchors - a repeat of the station codes. --Tagishsimon (talk)
  • Couldn't we find a better organizational pattern than alphabetical, which doesn't inform the reader about anything? How about by region or something? --Dmcdevit 00:07, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks. Alpha is handy when you want to find a station. I don't know which county/region Achanalt railway station is, but I know its first letter. It might be that a column for county would be handy, then I'd get to know such things. County? Region? Which? Agreed that additional pages listing by country or region would be interesting. --Tagishsimon (talk)
  • Object. The Featured list criteria states that "A useful list must be composed of a large majority of links to existing articles (blue links)." I don't think it can be argued that these lists meet that criteria. While the large number of external links make these more useful than most lists would be with that many red links, Wikipedia is not a web directory. Moreover, saying that "I list this not so much in anticipation of Featured status, but to borrow eyeballs to garner suggestions for improvements" suggests that you know that this page is not the appropriate place. Take them to peer review. OpenToppedBus - Talk 11:23, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Object. The featured list criteria require a list to be useful. I'm willing to be persuaded, but I don't see the use of these lists, especially as I can go straight to National Rail's online departure boards to find it (and in that context, providing real-time train information, the list is useful - at least to anyone looking for a train in Great Britain), jguk 13:41, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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