Talk:Shady Grove (Washington Metro)

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This article needs clarification or disambiguation. Currently it is linked to from "Quicksilver Messenger Service" as an album title. I do not know enough about wiki practices to do this myself, however. -Ben-San AZ

Thanks for the heads up; I whipped up a little disambiguation page at Shady Grove. --Golbez 17:14, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] merge proposal

I find the 1996 Gaithersburg Metrorail Accident to be ridiculously short. It is only two paragraphs long and that is likely to get as large as it is now. I propose merging that artilce into this one, just like how it was done with the 2004 accident at Woodley Park-Zoo. I mean, we don't have a Woodley Park-Zoo Revenue Train Accident, do we? Hbdragon88 02:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, and here's why. The 1996 accident at Shady Grove was a fatal accident that exposed an alarming aspect of Metro's culture, where you follow the policy to the letter even if all parties involved know that an exception to the rule is necessary for fear of one's job. This article is on my to-do list, as I fully intend to expand it out to a full-length article, based on the NTSB's report on the accident. Give me a chance, please. SchuminWeb (Talk) 10:47, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, if it's going to be expanded, then by all means go for it. I removed the merge notices, by the way. The significance of the train accident wasn't quite fully expressed in the article as it stands now, and I was curious why it wasn't merged into the main station article like the Woodly Park-Zoo accident had been. - Hbdragon88 23:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. You've also provided good inspiration for me to re-read up on the incident so as to write a good, strong article on it. SchuminWeb (Talk) 23:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

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