Talk:GWR Star Class
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[edit] Merge?
Merge with Star class locomotive? — Catherine\talk 21:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- (This is an old suggestion, but) No, it's a different group of engines altogether. Moonraker12 12:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Regarding the wikification of the list of individual locomotives
Linking the names in the list to articles that are not about locomotives at all , but which just happen to have the same name as the locomotives, is confusing and unhelpful. The list of names of locomotives should either be linked to articles about the locomotives, or not linked at all. I favour the first of those two options. I see no reason why we shouldn't aim to have a separate article for each locomotive. There are already articles about individual locomotives - see, for example, Evening Star (locomotive), (evidently a different, later Evening Star). GrahamN 23:26, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I agree; I've come across this on other pages, and posed the same question.Moonraker12 12:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
- I believe that there are times when people (such as myself) wonder where a name comes from, hence the explanation at the bottom of the locomotive's section. In wiki these things get linked to the page explaining the concept...
- I agree; I've come across this on other pages, and posed the same question.Moonraker12 12:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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- A locomotive should only have a page where it is notable in itself. North Star might qualify here but the vast majority of locomotives do not as they were just one of a class; they are only of interest when compared with similar locomotives, hence their being grouped by class. If you come across any where it is not clear that this link is not pointing to the locomotive then please re-word it so that the mistake cannot be made. Geof Sheppard 12:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
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