Talk:Union Depot (Grinnell, Iowa)

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Requested move 9 December 2018

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) –Ammarpad (talk) 04:39, 26 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad-Grinnell Passenger Station → Union Depot (Grinnell, Iowa) – Per WP:USSTATION; common name for this building. The current title is derived from building's listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It is doubtful that this is a WP:COMMONNAME for the building; it was certainly never called that during its lifetime, when it served both the Rock Island and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway. Grinnell Union Depot is given in the NRHP supporting documentation, as is Rock Island Lines Passenger Station (a descriptive name, not a proper name). The current occupant, The Peppertree at The Depot Crossing, refers generally to "The Depot", which would support Union Depot. Grinnell College uses both "Union Depot, Grinnell" and "Grinnell Union Depot" for its digital index pertaining to the structure. See also Arcadia Publishing's book on Grinnell, which refers to "Union Depot". Grinnell Union Depot would be an acceptable alternative; there is no consensus whether names such as these should be rendered as "X Union Depot" or "Union Depot (X)"; secondary sources are also inconsistent. Compare Chicago Union Station to Union Station (Los Angeles). Mackensen (talk) 22:38, 9 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 12:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Support. Kablammo (talk) 23:48, 9 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
Support per nom. NRHP listings are very often different from common names; better to use a common name. Also that hyphen should have been an en dash, unless there's an entity called Railroad-Grinnell. The nomination form actually says the historic name Rock Island Lines Passenger Station, and common name was Grinnell Union Depot; someone made up the current title by jamming some parts together with a hyphen. I see 15 others in Category:Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa that have place names jammed on the end with a hyphen, and I encourage nom to consider fixing those (one way or another) uncontroversial, so we don't waste a lot of ink discussing each. Dicklyon (talk) 16:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

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