Talk:Welling Station

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. EdJohnston (talk) 04:54, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

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Welling Station → Welling Station, Alberta – I believe that this tiny community is not the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of "Welling Station", "Welling Station" should redirect to Welling station. 117Avenue (talk) 07:38, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Neither the railway station nor the hamlet is the primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:37, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Hwy43 (talk) 13:43, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose. We have articles on "Welling Station" and a station in Welling. This is a classic situation where capitalization provides all the disambiguation we need. (See WP:DISAMBIGUATION.) Dohn joe (talk) 17:25, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

So the station is never called "Welling Railway Station" or "Welling Station"? A hamlet is the primary topic? 117Avenue (talk) 04:05, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

From my search of Google Books, the Alberta hamlet outdraws the London railway station regardless of the capitalization. And when you factor in the capitalization, it's an even clearer case of primary topic. This is also a good case for WP:TWODABS. A hatnote pointing to the railway station should be sufficient to get everyone where they want to be as efficiently as possible. Dohn joe (talk) 15:22, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose superfluous disambiguation per Dohn joe and WP:TWODABS. ^walk victor falk ^talk 02:26, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
• Comment. Sorry, but whatever Wikipedia has decided to call them, railway stations are commonly capitalised in real life. The railway station in Welling would be commonly referred to as "Welling Station". The capitalisation is certainly not sufficient for disambiguation. -- Necrothesp (talk) 21:18, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

  Please see my comment above: in actual sources, the railway station is commonly lowercased - very few modern sources use caps. A look at the sources shows that "Welling Station" does indeed refer predominantly to the Alberta placename. Dohn joe (talk) 21:38, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose. Disambiguation is unnecessary. More than adequately dealt with by hatnotes. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:32, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

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