Talk:Saint Paul Union Depot

message: "sometimes referred to as SPUD" -> really? Is there a source for this? Having lived here for well over a decade, I've never heard it referenced by that name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.98.249.59 (talk) 21:04, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember that usage, and Amtrak also uses it, at their Great American Stations site..  Regards, Kablammo (talk) 15:48, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Amtrak has now edited this page to remove the "SPUD" reference.  Kablammo (talk) 15:18, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: SPUD?

message: The name of this article has been "Saint Paul Union Depot".  A textual edit yesterday changing the name in the lede had the following edit summary:  Building is only known as Union Depot. No longer St. Paul Union Depot.  Shortly thereafter another editor did a page move to "Union Depot (Saint Paul).
I have restored the name of the article to Saint Paul Union Depot, which was the status quo prior to the page move.  
The question is whether the article should be named "Saint Paul Union Depot" or "Union Depot (Saint Paul).
::I have notified the following Wikiprojects of this discussion:  Trains, Stations, and Minnesota .  Kablammo (talk) 02:09, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a perpetual question with USA stations, which User:Mackensen/Naming conventions (US stations) hopes to address. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:11, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I received the following message from , which I am copying here for wider currency, together with my reply:
According to an OTRS ticket from a representative of the municipality, the Union Depot at St Paul is not called the Saint Paul Unioon Depot, but the Union Depot. Therefore MoS says Union Depot (Saint Paul) is the correct name. Guy (Help!) 13:48, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

text: WP:COMMONNAME says that the most common usage is preferred.  While I do not doubt that the facility now prefers to be called "Union Depot" (as indicated by User:Uniondepot here), that is neither the historic nor the most common usage.  To expand upon the examples given in the article talk page:  John Diers' book "St. Paul Union Depot", published in the last few months, uses the name "St. Paul Union Depot" in the text of the Acknowledgment page, on pages xi, xi, xiii, xviii, xix, xx, xxxvi in the Prologue, pages 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 in the first chapter, and throughout the rest of the book.  There are (or were) other "Union Depots" Minnesota, the name "Union Depot" was part of the names of stations in Saint Paul, Duluth, Mankato, and Owatonna, and for now-demolished stations in Minneapolis, Stillwater, Taopi, and Waseca. Mr. Diers has served on the Metropolitan Transit Commission in the Twin Cities for 25 years, on the board of the Minnesota Transportation Museum, and the editorial board of the Ramsey County Historical Society.  Kablammo (talk) 16:13, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of article

message: Wikipedia, ever-prescient, is asserting that Amtrak has returned to Union Depot, even thought the first Amtrak train scheduled to stop there is running over five hours late, and is becalmed somewhere west of Hawley.  It is reasonable to expect the train will eventually wander in sometime this afternoon (if congestion and the BNSF allow it), which will then make Wikipedia's assertion correct. But that claim is cited to a five-week-old news report announcing the expected return, rather than a report documenting the actual event. 
It would be better to await an event before announcing that it has already occurred, and to cite it to a source.  Kablammo (talk) 12:36, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I had assumed that the eastbound train would be the first to Union Depot, but according to the Union Depot website, the eastbound train will stop at Midway; the first Amtrak service to Union Depot will be the westbound Empire Builder the evening of May 7. Consequently service will not begin until the evening of May 7. Kablammo (talk) 14:07, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Return to Union Depot 

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thread_title:  External links modified