Talk:Eastern Railway (Western Australia)

Requested move 1 July 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Jenks24 (talk) 15:16, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Eastern Railway (Western Australia) → Eastern Railway, Western Australia – bring in line with other similar articles, refer to Category:Railway lines in Western Australia for other examples. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 09:00, 8 July 2015 (UTC) Coorwrold (talk) 04:58, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

• Note: I closed this as moved, but following some discussion on my talk page I have undone that and relisted it for another week. The proposer, Coorwrold, has been blocked as a sockpuppet. Jenks24 (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

@Coorwrold: to link a category, put a colon in front of "Category", like this: [[:Category:Railway lines]] – Wbm1058 (talk) 12:55, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

? Huh? - Coorwrold, if you bothered to look is a blocked sock. JarrahTree 13:27, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

JarrahTree, there's no reason to get bent out of shape over this. Just chill. I'll look into adjustments to allow relist signatures to be added after the proposer's signature, if you can drop your "attitude". I'm not going to waste my time researching sockpuppets. Wbm1058 (talk) 14:09, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

you missed the point. The comment above yours says the editor was a sockpuppet, then you add a ping, there is no attitude or heat or chill, it is simply pointing out that it is not a good example to work out the link issue, you should try something where there is a live editor, not a blocked sock. have a good weekend, whatever youre up to JarrahTree 14:35, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

• oppose all the other articles in the category that require DAB use the current naming of foo(WA), so changing this would be going out of step with every other article..... on a technical matter this discussion was started by a sockpuppet who was manipulating WP using 100's of accounts as I pointed out already the nomination is based on the actions of that perpetrator the discussion should be closed with no changes taking place as has been the accepted practice in such situations. Gnangarra 23:57, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Invalid

This needs to be re-opened,

1. Coowrold has been blocked as a sock
2. George Ho's attempt by inserting a sign inside coowrolds post is confusing

Coowrold is not a valid authority on the structure of the railway system or the various namings JarrahTree 09:34, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

George Ho's relisting comment is unfortunately how relists are done at RM, it's to do with the bot reading the timestamp. I agree it does look confusing. Note I've had to do the same thing to relist it again. Jenks24 (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

That is outright dumb, even more so when the first signature proposer is a banned sock

if that is created by a bot, then the bot needs to be re-designed or closed JarrahTree 23:26, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

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Merger proposal

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The result of this discussion was complicated; thanks to @JarrahTree for expanding the article. Therefore, as the original proposer, I take back my proposal and not merged. Fork99 (talk) 15:40, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

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Since Windmill Hill Cutting seems to be reliant on one source, is a stub, and likely lacks notability, I propose merging it into the main article Eastern Railway (Western Australia). As far as I'm aware, no other railway cutting articles exist anywhere else in Australia, and I've only seen articles for notable bridges and tunnels. Fork99 (talk) 10:16, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Support. I can't imagine any way this cutting is notable. There can't be very many sources on it. Steelkamp (talk) 10:18, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Ahhh, sprung chuckens one and all. At the time of creation it was a very big 'token' deepest cutting in oz - and every railway enthusiast alive in the late 60s and early 70s wanted to have taken a photo of something in the cutting. Judgements are always useful way to try to assert notability (or lack of it), the wheatbelt of western australia is alive with such features, where at the time they seemed important, however the meaning and context is not something subsequently easily found 'online'. JarrahTree 05:19, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

There are many inclines, cuttings, and embankments in the australian railway world that have been given names and appellations by drivers and railway people in general, just because there is a paucity does not mean there is not room on wikipedia for such items - it is the editor with access to materials that is the short answer as to why articles do not exist. JarrahTree 05:25, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Closer examination of online sources like the RIM digitised material at state library of western australia show the 1960s railway administrators and engineers fascination with big holes... https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/search~S2?/Xrailways+institute+magazine&searchscope=2&SORT=DZ/Xrailways+institute+magazine&searchscope=2&SORT=DZ&SUBKEY=railways+institute+magazine/1%2C8%2C8%2CB/frameset&FF=Xrailways+institute+magazine&searchscope=2&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C JarrahTree 11:51, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

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