Talk:Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station

Rollout date: 2015 or 2018?

A very interesting event happened during the spring and summer of 2010. On May 20, York Region released a news article on their web site. (See http://www.yorkregion.com/news/local/article/818877--major-transit-delay ). It contained the sentence "The expanded Spadina subway should open three years later in 2018." Several days later, instead of issuing a separate news release identifying their error in reporting, the York Region webmaster altered the text to change the year to 2015. The date of the article's posting was never modified, nor is there any explicit mention on that page of the alteration. Before the correction occurred, a provincial politician copied the article onto his web site here: http://petershurman.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=331&Itemid=61 .

Not only was this correction badly handled, the revision on the York Region site was badly executed. The phrase, "Three years later," is still there in that sentence, and there is no explanation added as to how that can legitimately follow the previous sentence that also refers to 2015.

I attended a public meeting convened by York Region Transit in June. There, I tracked down a YRT worker who told me he was the Subway project manager for YRT. I referred to this article and he told me he had seen it and the 2018 reference. He told me he had contacted York Region to issue a correction.

Unfortunately, after reading this article, I went to many other related Wikipedia articles to "correct" the date. I hope I can find them all and undo it.

The moral of this story is: don't used unreliable sources as your references. The York Region web site is an unreliable source.

--jstreutker (talk) 03:34, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Name

OK guys. You were so quick to change the name - but I had to find the reference that should have been included. There will be more official announcements to come. Now do some f'ing cleanup. This is oh so messy now! Secondarywaltz (talk) 04:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

I thought the TTC was pushing for just "Vaughan Centre" ... it seems to be in flux so why don't we leave well enough alone until the official decision is made? After all we havent changed Downsview stations article to "Sheppard West" which is what it will likely be changed to!eja2k 07:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Didn't you didn't read the reference I added? The article name change done here, in Wikipedia, was approved yesterday by the Toronto Transit Commission. I had to check out if the move was valid, because the editors who boldly made the changes had not given any reason. The names of the two stations in Vaughan are final, but the four in Toronto have yet to be officially approved by the Commissioners. As I said above - there will be official announcements to come. We could always wait until the trains are running and edit this in the past tense :) Secondarywaltz (talk) 16:35, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Subway infrastructure in the vicinity captions

Having had this reverted a couple of times now, I am bringing this to talk per WP:BRD, rather than engage in an edit war with @Transportfan70. My rationale in edits that were undone here was in the spirit of MOS:CAPSUCCINCT and keeping these long captions relevant and brief.

The edit summary for the reversion states "Comment highlights the reason those pics are there in the first place", no doubt referring to the footer of "Photos taken in 2018, several months after the station opened. Note the clean tunnels still free of accumulated deposits." Frankly, the cleanliness of the tunnels walls is irrelevant here. The "reason" for having these photos in this section is to show nearby infrastructure, not how clean they may or may not be.

Secondly, ""Southbound side" clarifies the side the track corresponds to in a through station" when this isn't a through station is another issue. "Northbound" and "southbound" have meaning south of the station, but a train can only enter either tail track by traveling northbound, and can only depart either tail track (and the station) by traveling southbound. Calling that tail track the "west" one, compared to the other, is plenty accurate on its own.

Echoedmyron (talk) 15:10, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

The cleanliness of the tunnel walls is of interest, because it highlights the newness of the station at the time the pictures were taken which would certainly be significant as the station ages. Transportfan70 (talk) 21:38, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Agree with Echoedmyron that the clean comment is irrelevant and unnecessary. —Joeyconnick (talk) 00:00, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Ugh! I was expecting to be backed up on this one. New station = clean tunnels; trackwork more clear and photogenic, not to mention having future historic value. If I lose this one, maybe after they become grimy later? Transportfan70 (talk) 16:23, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Nobody's talking about removing any photos... we're talking about whether a note specifically saying "hey these tunnels are clean" is necessary. —Joeyconnick (talk) 20:25, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

I'm not expecting the photos to be removed, but the caption is where the historic interest comes into play. Transportfan70 (talk) 16:51, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

The caption is nonsense and having two images (or any) to illustrate "subway infrastructure in the vicinity" is also unnecessary. If anyone cares to notice that the tunnels look cleaner than presently, they can just reference the date of the image as to why. —Northwest (talk) 00:43, 30 November 2022 (UTC)