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'''Proposal''': to replaceShould the historical proposal at [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations)]] be replaced with ana up-to-dateshort updated naming convention guideline that provides a high-level description of the current typical approach taken to naming Wikipedia articles for stations, and links to the established more detailed region-specific station naming conventions, alongand thedescribes linestheir points of thecommonality? following[[User:Tomiĉo|Tomiĉo]] draft([[User talk:Tomiĉo|talk]]) 22:20, 7 August 2025 (UTC)}}

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'''Proposal''': to replace the historical proposal at [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations)]] with an up-to-date naming convention guideline that provides a high-level description of the current typical approach taken to naming Wikipedia articles for stations, and links to the established more detailed region-specific station naming conventions, along the lines of the following draft:

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<nowiki>{{Subcat guideline|naming convention|Stations|WP:NCSTATION}}</nowiki>

This guideline describes Wikipedia's conventions for naming articles about stations. See [[Wikipedia:Article titles]] for the overarching article naming policy. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations|WikiProject Stations]] for more guidance on writing articles about stations.

This guideline provides general guidance applicable to stations project-wide. More detailed, region-specific guidance can be found in subsidiary guidelines, which are listed at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations/Station names|WikiProject Stations/Station names]].

<nowiki>== Naming convention ==</nowiki><br />

Stations are typically named after places, people, buildings and other things. Therefore, in most instances, a station will not be the primary topic for its most concise, most common name. To resolve this, stations should generally be [[WP:NATDIS|naturally disambiguated]] from their namesakes. This should be formatted as <Title Case Base Name> <lower case disambiguator>. For example, the primary topic for "Lugano" is the [[Lugano|town in Ticino]], so the article for the station is located at [[Lugano railway station]].

<nowiki>=== Choice of disambiguator ===</nowiki><br />

The word or words used as the lowercase disambiguator can vary both regionally and based on the type of station. Most commonly, it is either "railway station" or simply "station", though there may be circumstances where more specific disambiguators are called for. More detailed guidance on which disambiguator should be used in a specific circumstance should be taken from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations/Station names|regional station naming conventions]].

<nowiki>=== Disambiguation between stations ===</nowiki><br />

While the above method is suitable for titling most station articles, it may not provide adequate disambiguation when multiple stations share the same base name. Instruction should be taken from the [[WP:DAB|disambiguation guideline]] and the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations/Station names|regional station naming conventions]] to address this where necessary. For example, additional leading natural disambiguation may be appropriate, such as with [[London Victoria station]] and [[Manchester Victoria station]], or parenthetical disambiguation may be preferable, such as with [[Victoria railway station (Ireland)]] or [[Victoria station (British Columbia)]].

<nowiki>== See also ==</nowiki><br />

* [[Wikipedia:Article titles]]

* [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation]]

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations]]

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations/Station names]]

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*'''Support as proposer''': The page [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations)]] is twenty years old and was never adopted as a guideline, having long since been superseded by region-specific naming conventions such as [[WP:UKSTATION]] and [[WP:USSTATION]], among others. These regional naming conventions, by comparison, are generally well-established and have been successful in creating a consistent approach to disambiguation format and the like within their respective areas. While they have some differences in terminology, at their heart they all share a common pattern of natural disambiguation.

:However, these regional naming conventions are not always intuitive to find, and their relationship to one another is not necessarily clear. The obvious landing point for editors looking for a stations naming convention is at the page in question [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations)]], and yet landing there one finds a long-abandoned proposal based on pre-emptive parenthetical disambiguation that now falls foul of the [[WP:TITLE]] policy. I believe it would be much more useful if there were to be a straightforward guideline that links to the regional naming conventions and describes their points of commonality there instead. I note that this outcome has previously been suggested on this talk page, and this RfC aims to implement it. [[User:Tomiĉo|Tomiĉo]] ([[User talk:Tomiĉo|talk]]) 10:15, 7 August 2025 (UTC)}}

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