Talk:List of rail trails
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Many of the links here are external only links. Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. I for one, think that this should only have internal links. --rogerd 01:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Rogerd; however; before removing the external links we should may pages for each of the trails in question. They could just be stubs with the one external link on each page. --Ray 12:49, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I too agree. I also feel that links should only go to articles about the trail in question. Not to articles about railroads that the trail runs on, or rivers that they run next to. --Cranor 15:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think it is valuable to have a list of all the rail trails. Having only external links for many of them may not be best, but its not like they're links to fan sites, which is what the policy is ment to discourage. Also I think its time for the W Va list to get moved to its own article, unless the idea is to list every rail trail here.
[edit] List of trails without articles
I just added a bunch of trails from the rail-to-trails website which probably don't currently have articles on Wikipedia. Is this article intended to be a list of all trails or just those with articles on Wikipedia? Michael A. White 00:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- I did the same thing with trails in Minnesota earlier today. As long as the trails used to be part of a railroad, I'd say it's fine. It might spur people to write articles about those trails, in fact. I don't know if there's a notability standard for trails, but I'd probably omit something like a one-mile trail around a city park. On the other hand, anything that's named and has a significant enough length probably deserves mention. --Elkman 04:04, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rail Trail infobox?
Has anyone considered a rail trail infobox? It could have things like name, image, start point, end point, length, etc. --Michael WhiteTยทC 00:32, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
