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Union Station Merge

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All of the entries in Union station#Union Stations in North America are duplicated here on the dab page and it is pointless to list them twice. Should there be no objections I will merge the entries in the aforementioned article section into the dab page and remove the article section entirely. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 18:44, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

New York City's Penn Station

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Isn't NYC Penn Station really a "Union Station"? After all, it serves trains from Amtrak, LIRR and NJT.

user:mnw2000 06:47, 8 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe. 'Union station' means serving multiple tenant railroads. This station only served multiple railroads during World War I. From the 1920s to the opening of the 1960s, the first incarnation of the station served the Pennsylvania Railroad, plus it served the trains of a guest railroad, the Lehigh Valley Railroad.Dogru144 (talk) 01:38, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 August 2019

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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 discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Clearly no agreement below for the page move. (closed by non-admin page mover) Steven Crossin Help resolve disputes! 08:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]



Union StationUnion Station (disambiguation) – Per WP:DABNAME, this page should have the "(disambiguation)" tag. Eventhorizon51 (talk) 04:45, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Application of WP:DIFFCAPS to disambiguation pages

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The wording of the section at WP:DIFFCAPS suggests that the policy applies "When a spelling variant indicates a distinct topic". It says nothing about whether capitalization can be the sole distinguishing factor between a particular topic and a disambiguation page with a nearly identical expression. So,... it's a little up in the air and, after having looked into it a bit more, I've found that at best, Wikipedia tends to lean towards having the "(disambiguation)" tag even when distinguishing between generic concepts and proper names. There seem to be some disambiguation pages distinguished by only a capital letter (ex. Freezer Burn), but if we really were to follow the rule that user Station1 (and the rest of the discussion here so far) are suggesting, here are just a handful of all the pages that would have to be renamed:

I personally disagree with all of these, and I don't think WP:DIFFCAPS should apply to disambiguation pages the same way it applies to content pages. However, I am very curious to see what the community thinks. Perhaps there is a discussion to be had about naming policies here. Eventhorizon51 (talk) 21:59, 14 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Union station in NJ town is completely irrelevant

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The definition of union station is to a train station used by more than one railroad company, line, or service provider. Unfortunately, an editor is posting a station at a town named "Union" as sufficient for including that station on this list.Dogru144 (talk) 04:28, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This page is not only a list of Union stations – it is disambiguation page for things known as "union station". The station in Union, New Jersey, is known as "Union station" and should be included here. olderwiser 05:19, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The above is at variance with the following: "Union station, a train station used by more than one railroad company, line, or service provider"Dogru144 (talk) 04:23, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That definition is applicable to that type of rail stations described at the article union station, but this is a disambiguation page of things known as " union station", not a list of rail stations of a particular type. olderwiser 10:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]