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Wheatbelt "railway" or "railway line'"

We currently have:

• Category:Wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia
• Wheatbelt railway lines of Western Australia
• Agricultural railways of Western Australia
• Brookton to Corrigin railway
• Merredin to Narrogin railway line, which starts "Merredin to Narrogin railway was ..."
• York–Bruce Rock railway line

Note the inconsistent use of the word "line". WP:CONSISTENT and WP:TITLECON suggest that we should be consistent. Are they "railways" or "railway lines"? Mitch Ames (talk) 01:10, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

@Mitch Ames 'Railway lines' is better imo. They're not so much about the rails but the route. This follows how List of bus routes in Perth and Buses in Perth are named. FropFrop (talk) 23:59, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not seeing that distinction when I look at the articles, nor in the dictionary ([1], [2]). To me, the word "line" is generally redundant, and does not signify a route more than the rail track itself. Dicklyon (talk) 02:39, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

line - is the physical rails and alignment of the track, railway is the route (?) - however I did not reply to the initial enquiry of this topic due to the fact that I had created most of the items in question, and did not have an adequate explanation for the variant usages. Since creating the items, I have been in real life involved with a rail heritage (sic) archive, and plan to check the materials from the actual legislative source of the specific railway system that it is related to - I dont think that google or collins or us usage are necessarily of any specific help,(we do not have railroads here for instance, except in the state library subject catalogue that utilizes AACR and has in its system non local usage terminology) we are dealing with the western australian railway system, founded in the british system, with its own idiosyncracies - and if the cleanup continues through other states of australia there may well be anomolies rather than consistencies in terminology.JarrahTree 03:18, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Muirs Highway

Some input on Talk:Muirs Highway#Requested move 5 October 2024 in regard to whether the correct name is Muirs Highway or Muir Highway would be appreciated. I'm not quite sure myself! Calistemon (talk) 09:39, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

Yagan Mia - meaning

Input is sought at Talk:Wireless Hill Park § Yagan Mia - meaning. Mitch Ames (talk) 09:13, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

File:Mullaloo Beach.jpg

Can you identify thus beach?

An IP is claiming that File:Mullaloo Beach.jpg isn't actually the right location. The image is used here and on Wikidata. If incorrect it will need to be removed from usage and renamed on Commons. Commander Keane (talk) 05:40, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Looks like a shot from near the North Mullaloo Beach look out. Hack (talk) 07:29, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Clearly from there. The shape of the beach, the carpark in the distance, even the number of windows on the white flat roof house on the left match google maps exactly. The-Pope (talk) 16:03, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Recent change

A change in the main list of caves of sunny west oz has been moved, without discussion, fellow editors understanding of the change would be appreciated. List_of_karst_features_in_Western_Australia JarrahTree 01:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

I made this change based on the difference in scope between the lede and the list's name. Should have left a move summary, sorry.

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 01:47, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Moves like that should have had a notification here, simply out of courtesy. Also the terminology and explanation in the lead paragraph is not something that is slipped between. A list of caves is in reality different from a list of the karst features, and should be kept separate. JarrahTree 05:14, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Have you read the article in question? Genuinely asking, because I was simply retitling what was already present. I did not create a new list, the current one was mistitled and didn't match what the title said it was. If you have an issue with the content you are welcome to change it to only have caves in it, then revert the move.

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 05:30, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

I have been very aware of the list since it was first created:

13:24, 3 April 2007 Hesperian talk contribs  21,661 bytes +21,661  ←Created page with 'This is a list of caves in Western Australia'. It includes all named caves that occur in the Australian Speleological Federation Karst Index Database (KID)...

I would consider that the edits since 2007 and clarification of the karst features over time have made it a problematic list, in that it was created with claimed named caves, and it has evolved into identification of karst features... JarrahTree 05:41, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

I see! I'll take a look at it in the morning, it is quite late my time.

Kingsmasher678 (talk) 05:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

• It appears to me that this Karst(what ever that is) list is something that should be on Wikidata, return this to a list of named caves. Gnangarra 12:28, 4 November 2024 (UTC)