Talk:Market Drayton railway station

RedRose64

Mr know it all is at it again. Dictating what should be present and that it should be up to his own view. 🤔🙄 JoshuaIsTheFalco (talk) 12:52, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

@JoshuaIsTheFalco: You wrote There have been calls to reopen the station but nothing has come to fruition as of these calls. - you need to understand that Wikipedia does not deal in speculation. Calls to reopen railway lines and stations happen every week (we all want our local station to be reopened, even though it closed fifty years ago), there are far too many such calls to mention. Sometimes, MPs or councillors will promise such reopenings when an election approaches, with no intention of ever putting the plan into action.

Very few of these calls become even feasibility studies; not many of those become consultation documents; end still fewer become proposals that seek approval for funding. Even then, the money might not be available. This means that a tiny proportion of "calls to reopen" will come to pass, and of those that do, years can happen between the call and the approval, and still more years will elapse before an actual opening occurs. On the way, it may be found that there is not enough money available, or not enough potential traffic. Any of these can cause the scheme to be cancelled.

There is no deadline: be patient, and once plans have been approved and money has been allocated, then and only then should the proposal be described. Even so, it is better to wait until construction is actually under way. Finally: WP:Comment on content, not on the contributor. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:17, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

And so on pages like Saltney station. Some put up from a 2011 Chronicle. The station could reopen but nothing has happened since this proposal. That's speculation but nothing has been done about it. Same goes for the stations at Middlewood and Closed Warwickshire stations. They have council based speculation but are still accepted. Yet those for Market Drayton Brownhills and Ashby De La Zouch are not reliable. Also I didn't attack you on here. Mr know it all is a reference to someone who knows everything. And dictating means changing it to what I only see aimed at me as a. Crystal ball user. JoshuaIsTheFalco (talk) 23:46, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

That is what we call a WP:OTHERCONTENT argument. Just because speculation exists on those other pages does not mean that it also belongs on this one: it means that nobody has yet done anything about it yet. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 12:49, 4 November 2019 (UTC)