Talk:Nara Line

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  • Nara Line (JR) → Nara Line —(Discuss)
  • Nara Line (Kintetsu) → Kintetsu Nara Line —(Discuss)— To make way for redirecting Nara Line to Nara Line (JR) owned and operated by West Japan Railway. Kintetsu Nara Line may be better to redirect to Nara line (Kintetsu) since the subject name Kintetsu Nara Line is not an official name. —KU Talk 05:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I have a question about your proposal. Which titles should be articles, which titles should be redirects, and which title should be a disambiguation page?

Also, I recommend that you discuss the proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains in Japan so more people can help make the decision.

Fg2 11:47, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Fg2, I think current naming conventions on railway lines in Japan is quite confusing. As you may know, there exist two Nara Lines, operated by distinctive private railway companies since the privatisation of JNR. Although two lines are disambiguated by adding Kintetsu before the line name, however, it quite do not make sense why JR do not precede the line name. Would you explain why? The current naming convention seems to favor JR especially. I understand you as the page creator do not feel comfortable for the page moving proposal. However, it would be nice you understand and cooperated with the moving and creating better disambiguation conventions. —KU Talk 01:45, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi KU, I reverted the changes you made because they interrupt the edit history. If you had moved Nara Line to JR Nara Line, the edit history would have been preserved. By instead creating a new article named JR Nara Line and copying and pasting the text of the existing article into it, you separate the text from its history. Personally, I don't object to renaming Nara Line as JR Nara Line (or West Japan Railway Company Nara Line or whatever the Trains in Japan community recommends). But it should be done by renaming ("moving" in Wikipedia language) instead of copying and pasting into a new article. Also, thanks for listing it on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains in Japan. I'll make a short comment there. Fg2 01:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)