Talk:Blue Pullmans

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This article is currently named in accordance the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways naming conventions for British rolling stock allocated a TOPS number. A proposal to change this convention and/or its scope is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Naming convention, where your comments would be welcome.

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Orphaned references in British Rail Classes 251 and 261

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of British Rail Classes 251 and 261's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Fox87-40":

• From British Rail Class 141: Fox 1987, p. 40
• From British Rail Class 120: Fox 1987, pp. 10–11, 26, 33

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 21:42, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 4 May 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Blue Pullmans buidhe 05:08, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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British Rail Classes 251 and 261 → Blue Pullman – The TOPS numbering scheme is designed to give consistency with other UK rail articles, but these sets never carried the TOPS numbers and are universally known as "blue Pullmans". So we are using a theoretical name that is largely unknown, for internal consistency and in defiance of WP:COMMONNAME Guy (help!) 22:42, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

• @JzG: since the article covers both classes and talks about them in plural, would Blue Pullmans be better per WP:PLURAL, articles on "groups or classes of specific things" and "groups of distinct entities that are nevertheless often considered together"? 62.165.200.11 (talk) 04:29, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

  Could be Guy (help!) 07:06, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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