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This article needs clarification or disambiguation. Currently it is linked to from "Quicksilver Messenger Service" as an album title. I do not know enough about wiki practices to do this myself, however. -Ben-San AZ
Thanks for the heads up; I whipped up a little disambiguation page at
Shady Grove. --
Golbez 17:14, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
I disagree, and here's why. The 1996 accident at Shady Grove was a fatal accident that exposed an alarming aspect of Metro's culture, where you follow the policy to the letter even if all parties involved know that an exception to the rule is necessary for fear of one's job. This article is on my to-do list, as I fully intend to expand it out to a full-length article, based on the NTSB's report on the accident. Give me a chance, please.
SchuminWeb (
Talk)
10:47, 10 January 2006 (UTC)reply
Well, if it's going to be expanded, then by all means go for it. I removed the merge notices, by the way. The significance of the train accident wasn't quite fully expressed in the article as it stands now, and I was curious why it wasn't merged into the main station article like the Woodly Park-Zoo accident had been. -
Hbdragon8823:06, 10 January 2006 (UTC)reply
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class.
BetacommandBot16:08, 9 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Requested move 23 December 2014
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. No further edits should be made to this section.
– Following the
move of the Green Line stations per the new
WP:USSTATION guideline, these stations should have
WP:NATURAL disambiguation (and eventually, consistency within the whole system). I think consensus there can be interpreted as a mandate to move them all, but for now, I thought this would be helpful for more pairs of eyes to check for possible naming conflicts. Note that Medical Center needs disambiguation. I think Metro Center is fine, but see
MetroCentre#Railway stations. If it needs further disambiguation, it would be
Metro Center (Washington, D.C.). --
BDD (
talk)
18:35, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Union Station is a mess for a name, Even though Metro itself uses (for ex.)"White Flint Station" on the pylon, I believe it uses "Union Station" on the pylons there. I googled wmata.com for "Union Station". I got 10k hits for "Union Station" and *four* hits for "union station station" (one for "Union station station page" from Capital Bikeshare, two for "Union Station station entrance" and *one* refering to "Union Station station" standalone. I support Union Station (WMATA) as the best of the bad choices for a name.
Naraht (
talk)
18:58, 23 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Problem:
User:Epicgenius has gone ahead and moved a bunch of these pages, and more, with capitalized "Station", citing the Greenbelt RM as reason, without waiting for the resolution of the case question or this RM discussion or others.
Dicklyon (
talk)
00:38, 5 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Oh. I did not know about this RM. Sorry. (By the way, I moved all the stations in the entire system, so someone may want to fix that. Thanks.)
Epicgenius (
talk)
12:22, 5 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Oh, well. May as well vote. I reluctantly support a standardisation of titles, including moving pages to use the "Station" suffix. However, just so you know, these renamings are all unnecessary.
Epicgenius (
talk)
14:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC)reply
@
BDD: Yeah, if it's a railway system spanning multiple states, but this is a metropolitan area rapid transit system, so Washington Metro comes to the reader's mind first.
Epicgenius (
talk)
14:13, 21 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Support per
WP:USSTATION. Adding station to the article title provides natural disambiguation, without the need for parenthetical disambiguation (in most cases) per
WP:NATURAL. Regarding capitalization, if "station" is not in the official name (and I do not think it is), then it should be lowercase. If "Station" is in the official station name, then it should be capitalized. Also, I added the disambiguating term "(Maryland)" for Wheaton and Forest Glen, and "(WMATA)" for Rockville as per the IP's concerns above. --
Scott Alter (
talk)
02:52, 6 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Support per nom with "Station" capitalized as the signs at the stations do. Would greatly prefer "Washington Metro" as a disambiguator to "WMATA" or "Virginia" which are far less helpful to readers seeking the correct article. (Yes, I know that other systems use the stations but their primary use is by Metro train and bus). —
AjaxSmack03:20, 23 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose the capitalized "Station" per the new USSTATION guidelines. See more comments at [Talk:Vienna_(WMATA_station)#Requested_move_23_December_2014]].
Dicklyon (
talk)
05:16, 23 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Support "station" (lower case). This is what
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (US stations) (currently) says it should be and WMATA doesn't use "Station" in the names
on their Web site. I think that "Station" isn't a part of the formal name, as it makes sense to say the names without it (as in "get off at Shady Grove"), that the names are really descriptive terms saying where they're at (as in "the station at Shady Grove") and that the stations aren't unique entities themselves but instead pieces of the overall rail system and of the neighborhoods they serve (see
proper name).
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