Talk:Airport and East Hills railway line, Sydney

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I suggest re-directing the separate articles back, the main article has been re-written and perfectly referenced, clearly no need for duplication. --Arnzy (talk • contribs) 23:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I just went over the main article and read over it, actually I'm re-directing it back now. JROBBO just recently did a major re-write and properly referenced the article --Arnzy (talk • contribs) 23:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Stations table

After being accused of being a vandal, I thought I'd raise this here. I think that the large station table on this and other Cityrail pages is too big and directory like for an encyclopaedia page. Would anyone read it? It seems a rehash of information that could easily be found on the official Cityrail website. Thoughts (with civility please)? Endarrt 01:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Most information on Wikipedia is a rehash of information that can be found elsewhere, that is why we reference articles. aliasd·U·T 14:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the stations table. In my view, Wikipedia is not a timetable. Wikipedia is generally viewed to be not a travel guide - what use is the table to anyone other than intending travellers? And the technical arcana (like ticketing codes) is irrelevant in an encyclopaedia context. TransitPolice 09:18, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

This table and its equivalents elsewhere were found to be fine for Wikipedia - and its equivalents elsewhere have been kept, including, might I say, in a Featured Article. This is staying. JRG 10:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

No, JRG. You can't just dictate that "this is staying". We'll discuss it. For now it can be removed as it is not referenced anywhere but in CityRail's own materials. TransitPolice 10:12, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

This table was fine on the Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra page, and was approved as a Featured Article, and User:Gareth Aus has kindly fixed all the other tables up for us. I'm happy to remove the dots like in the ESIRL page and write a separate section on the stopping patterns, but the rest of it is legitimate and acceptable content. JRG 11:03, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Separate East Hills line and Airport Link pages

See discussion at Talk:East Hills railway line, Sydney. TransitPolice 09:19, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

The Airport Line page has been merged due to a complete duplication of information. There is in fact nothing on that page that is not a duplication. The page therefore amounts to a POV content fork by Joestella, and as they are undesirable on Wikipedia, it should be deleted or merged into a suitable page. This is a justified redirect. The East Hills line, on the other hand is a justified separate page because of The Fulch's history additions, but we need to fix it up so it acts as a summary style subsidiary spinoff. JRG 22:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)