Talk:Redhill–Tonbridge line

message: Has anyone got a confirmation if the main stopping service has switched from Southeastern to Southern, as the infoboxes along this line don't reflect this. Pickle 14:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See new South Central franchise 84.71.229.251 (talk) 11:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TOC 

message: I link some book searches for each one here in case that helps people decide whether to support.  You can click on "News" for another data point, or "All" if you want to look at web results, polluted as they are with Wikipedia clones.  Mostly what they show is that there is no standard or proper name, and that in descriptive names the symmetric dash or "and" is usually more common than "to".  Add quotes, with or without "to", to find explicit counts of different terms if you like; the search doesn't care about punctuation such as dash or hyphen or nothing.  Dicklyon (talk) 03:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: :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. 
The result of the move request was: Closed by nom as WITHDRAWN/SNOW. Apparently there is no appetite for looking at these as a group, even though they all have exactly the same simple issue.  If anyone objects to the early close by nom, please just revert it within the next day or two. (non-admin closure) Dicklyon (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said in the closing statement, I withdrew that in favor of this much simpler question.  OK? Dicklyon (talk) 21:57, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:NCCAPS applies to capitalization of article titles in general.  MOS:CAPS applies to capitalization more generally, and talks about how to decide.  The question at this RM discussion is capitalization. I don't understand why there could be any question of whether those guidelines appear in deciding this, or why some rail fans seem so willing to just ignore them. Dicklyon (talk) 17:02, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is why the guidelines require your desired outcome. NCCAPS and MOS:CAPS contain numerous exceptions. You don't get to just jump in, sprinkle some Google Books links, shout NCCAPS, and act like that's a defensible argument. I suspect most editors participating here consider railway lines akin to institutions (MOS:INSTITUTIONS), and capitalize accordingly. Mackensen (talk) 18:19, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: These are all descriptive titles; sources don't cap them.  What else needs to be said?  Dicklyon (talk) 05:25, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: They are descriptive names that, in at least some cases, are likely to be the proper name as well. Where this is the case some instances of the string will be describing the route, and others will be using the proper name. Where the two differ this is obvious, e.g. "Tarka Line" vs. "Exeter-Barnstaple line", but when the proper name is descriptive it is impossible to know whether the proper name or a description is being used without looking at each mention in context. Thryduulf (talk) 13:32, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, I meant they are merely descriptive names, as evidenced by the fact that sources don't cap them. I haven't looked at the ones you mention that are not included in the present proposal.  Do you see any in this list that have evidence of being treated as proper names? Dicklyon (talk) 23:39, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

text: 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.
Since the multi-move was procedurally opposed, I'm starting over with just a single-article move here. Dicklyon (talk) 05:02, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 27 January 2017