Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central station
I think deciding what to do with this Central station page is connected with the wider question of how to treat the proper names of railway stations. It is unclear to me what purpose the Central station page currently serves, other than being used as an attempt to push "Central station" as a new English-language term meaning something like ''the main station in a city, whether or not it is actually called that outside Wikipedia or whether it is actually central; and for certain stations in the benighted lands on the wrong side of Dover the name which Wikipedia should use instead of the  found in -language reliable ''. Take the opening phrase "In many countries, a central station is generally the primary railway station in a large town or city", which gives no source, and doesn't reflect UK or Irish or US or French or German practice (whereabouts is it true?). Or look at the hoops someone is jumping though to try to define "Hauptbahnhof" as meaning Central station (perhaps Wikipedians have never been to Karslruhe or Vienna? And why aren't we renaming anything else with a German name, only the Hauptbahnhofs - why not a Tempelhof as well?) with the circular arguments between the station articles which have been renamed and this one. Meanwhile, other people are using this article to point out that such an agenda does not actually reflect the non-Wikipedia real world as it stands. A "list of stations named Central" is fundamentally incompatible with a "list of the main stations in various places" (see Brussels, Liverpool, Exeter, Prague etc, not to mention the Paris, London, Moscow etc question). This page has become part of the same debate
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Stance: comment
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