Talk:Reedham railway station (Norfolk)

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Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. EdJohnston (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Reedham railway station (Norfolk) → Reedham (Norfolk) railway station – This station is referred to as Reedham (Norfolk) by Network Rail as well as the train operating company which serves it:

This is a more WP:COMMONNAME for the station than the wiki-creation of "Reedham railway station (Norfolk)". Lamberhurst (talk) 10:05, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. We usually put disambiguation brackets at the end of article names, not in the middle. This isn't stated explicitly in WP:NCDAB, but I've never seen disambiguation done in the way proposed, so for consistency I think we should stick with the current article name. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:21, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
See also the related move request at Talk:Whitchurch railway station (Hampshire)#Requested move 2. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:29, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Per WP:NATURAL, if the WP:COMMONNAME incorporates a disambiguating term, this should be used in preference to the default parenthetical disambiguation at the end of an article name. Lamberhurst (talk) 16:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Parenthetical disambiguation should go at the end of the article name. MRSC (talk) 16:43, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Wikipedia's disambiguation goes at the end of the name, but this is not Wikipedia's disambiguation it is Network Rail's (or possibly National Rail's?) that coincidentally also uses parentheses. The common name of the station is "Reedham" but that is ambiguous so we look to the official name, "Reedham (Norfolk)". Thryduulf (talk) 20:00, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Thryduulf. The common name "Reedham" is ambiguous, so the we fall back to the second-most widely used name, which is unambiguous. MRSC and others make an objection which applies to disambiguators added by Wikipedia, but this one is not a Wikipedia invention. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:41, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per WP:NATURAL and Thryduulf's rationale at above. -=# Amos E Wolfe ^talk #=- 20:00, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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.