Talk:Charing Cross railway station

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] Requested move

'Charing Cross' is not the official name for the station, and is a minority station in Glasgow, Scotland. chrismjc 00:14, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

It was suggested that this article should be renamed Charing Cross Station (London). The vote is shown below:

  • Oppose. Primary topic disambiguation is emminently suitable here. James F. (talk) 00:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
    Anyway, if we were going to rename it at all, it would be "London Charing Cross station" (not ... railway station, as the tube part isn't called that at all, even if the overground bit sometimes is). James F. (talk) 01:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose - the London station is massively more well known than the Glasgow one, it's at the correct place right now. -- Joolz 01:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • If you mention Charing Cross, chances are you're talking about the one in London. There is no need for this to be moved. I definitely don't think that every train station deserves an article. Talrias (t | e | c) 01:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose --Philip Baird Shearer 10:44, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Agree with James F. - Primary topic disambiguation seems appropriate here. It might also be an idea to mention the Glasgow station at the foot of the page. -- Solipsist 13:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. – AxSkov (T) 02:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it to be moved. violet/riga (t) 19:40, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] distances in London

I was of the view that all distances in London are measured from St Pauls. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.43.107.41 (talk • contribs) 13:44, 10 December 2005.

No, I believe they are measured from the Eleanor cross. You can find a little more on the article at milestone. -- Solipsist 15:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oops - page move

I didn't realise i had to discuss this first. As you know, i have moved Charing Cross railway station to its new location. The original Charing Cross railway station page is now a disambiguation page. Simply south 20:20, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Im not that fussed, but IMHO "Charing Cross" is "Charing Cross London". IIRC is there not somehting on station naming policy that if two stations ahve the same name but one is insignificant and the other of great importantce it should be the mian one (Example IIRC was reading and reading west) ... ???? Pickle 07:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I think that's not really such a good example (reading and reading west) as it is clear from the name they are seperate stations. However, this move involved renaming because both stations had exactly the same name. The London and Glasgow things were just added to distinguish in location between the two. I will possibly check policy out. Simply south 09:52, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
This move was pointless. If there are only two articles with the same name you do not have to dab each in the title. This page needs to be moved back. No dab page is needed. MRSC 16:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The article has been moved back

I have moved the article back to Charing Cross railway station. Normally, I would have relisted the move request because the proper procedure given at Wikipedia:Requested moves was not followed. A move notice was not put at the top of the talk page and a clear place for discussion and voting was not made. However, I moved the article back because the move goes against naming conventions. When there are two articles with the same name and one is more notable than the other, the more notable one should have the name and there should be a link to the other article at the top of the page. I suggest that the mover read Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). -- Kjkolb 20:49, 1 September 2006 (UTC)