Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ballymoney railway station

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 of the debate was Keep. Deathphoenix ʕ 17:49, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ballymoney railway station

Non-notable one-sentence-only content. It can be merged into Ballymoney, for example. --romanm (talk) 20:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Merge per above. --Osbus 21:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This article is part of a series of articles on railway stations on that line. It would not make sense to merge it to the article on the locality. It's unfortunate that this is essentially a placeholder article until more is written, but it is part of a larger organizational structure.--Pharos 04:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment: So, this is not an article, it's a placeholder. And there are other similar, um, placeholders that make an organizational structure. IMHO this means that the whole idea of series on every railway station on this line is wrong, since there is nothing notable that can be said about most of them (only Belfast Central railway station has a decent stub). IMHO, their list says it all; ie. it lists the stations. --romanm (talk) 06:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Every station on the London Underground has an article. Every station on many other railway lines have articles so why can't these ones? Ben W Bell 10:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Railway station. Hawkestone 20:18, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment: By taking a risk of stating the obvious, this is the complete content of the so-called Ballymoney railway station "article":

Ballymoney railway station serves Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

What's there to keep? --romanm (talk) 21:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or merge! --AndrejJ 06:35, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge (if possible; otherwise delete). --EuroVelo 07:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment: Even better thought: encompass the stations into some reasonable and usable table with nearby stations next to each other. Only such table/list article has some functionality. --EuroVelo 07:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. As has been mentioned above this is simply one of a much larger collection of articles for all UK (GB and NI) railway stations which is nearing completion. Yes it doesn't have much on at the moment but if this were to be deleted purely for not having much content presently then there's literally hundreds of others in a similar state. Again repeating the above, this is at the moment more of a place holder upon which people can expand. I think that the problem is more than no one has yet taken the time to expand and include detailed information about the railways of Northern Ireland as is slowly happening with the system on Great Britain. Just check out some of the more than 1000 UK railway stations and plenty have been expanded to include useful facts about current services, locations, management, history etc. Just because this one hasn't been expanded yet doesn't mean that it won't be in future once someone with the right knowledge comes along. For the time-being all UK station articles are waiting for just that expansion, after all the 1 millionth Wiki article, Jordanhill railway station, was about a UK railway station and that was expanded upon hugely once people were aware of it and researched information. --Achmelvic 17:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• Merge per above. One sentence does not a Wikipedia article make. B.Wind 15:23, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Railway station. Always room for expansion and it is stupid to remove only one station from a line. See the surrounding stations. I am annoyed by this constant uneven application of policy by nominators. SM247 00:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment: See the surrounding stations. True! There are more articles to delete: Cullybackey railway station, Coleraine railway station, ... up to Londonderry railway station which survived an Articles for Deletion debate. --AndrejJ 04:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This is stupid to delete. There are articles on stations around the world, no matter how lage and small and also there are quite a few WikiProjects aiming to include them all. Meaning of encyclopedia: "A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field..." (Dictionary.com). Railway stations are one of many aspects of railways generally. Simply south
• Speedy Keep per SM247 and Simply south. --Arnzy ^{(whats up?)} 11:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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.