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Title

WikiProject Station

Scope

This WikiProject aims to provide a standard format for station-related articles. Naming convention is excluded. Consult Misplaced Pages:Naming convention (station) instead. Consult Misplaced Pages:Wikiproject Railways for rail line and railway format.

Parentage

The parent of this project is WikiProject:WikiProject Transport.

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Participants

• Taku
• Ilyanep
• Golbez

Naming

Note: There exists a link above to naming format for stations, but is this really necessary if we have a specific Misplaced Pages for stations?

I propose stations be named "(Station Name) (System) station". Examples: "Metro Center Washington Metro station", "Charing Cross London Underground station".

All stations should contain the (system) station portion, because while most stations are unique enough that they will only mean the station, enough will need disambiguation as to make a standard useful. Examples would be Vienna, Pentagon and Rockville in the Washington, DC system. If we will need names like "Rockville Washington Metro station" and "Vienna Washington Metro station", but "Foggy Bottom-GWU" and "Tenleytown-AU" are sufficient, then we should probably append (system) station to all names, and use redirects. "Metro Center" would consist of a redirect to "Metro Center Washington Metro station".

Comments?

Structure

The lead paragraph should include the name of the station as it appears on the system map, and not a short-hand name, those can be mentioned later. It should also mention the system, the city or area, and the line the station lies on, and, if notable, the location on that line.

The next information should be the area served by the station, and major establishments and attractions near it. A list of lesser but still notable places should be supplied later. The date service began should probably be here.

A table should exist, displaying the line (or lines) and the next (or previous) station on that line, with a link to the appropriate line. The stations should move west-to-east, north-to-south, and clockwise.

Template

''']''' is a ] station in ] on the ].  (Notable information here, like if it's a terminus or changeover station)
It is located at (address/intersection).  (Other notable locations here, like proximity to a university or sports venue).  Service began ].
==Notable Places Nearby==
*List of places that people going to this station may be interested in knowing about
The table should go below the rest, since I think this kind of information is more appropriately rendered horizontally on the bottom, rather than vertically on the side.  
Table not prepared yet.