Talk:S-train (Copenhagen): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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::::::: You are completely wrong. The '''lines''' are called Frederikssundbanen etc. The things that are named by letters are not '''lines''' but '''services'''. Services are ephemeral patterns that hold no or very little encyclopedic interest by themeselves. Trying to make articles about the service letters would be silly and useless - there is not anything interesting to say about them on their own. The sentence starting with "therefore" would have made more sense if it had actually been preceded by arguments why you think the services are interesting, but it is not. The sentences that actually do precede your "therefore" explain why the services in Copenhagen are '''uninteresting''' compared to those in London, but the fact that they have a reason to be uninteresting does not stop them from ''being'' uninteresting. The line to Frederikssund did open in 1879; and the fact that S-trains started running on it later does not change this. [[User:Henning Makholm|Henning Makholm]] 12:38, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

::::::: Let me just ask directly: Which possible '''benefit''' would it bring us to have articles about the service letters rather than about the actual lines? [[User:Henning Makholm|Henning Makholm]] 12:51, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

:::::::: Fair points. In the H article you would include what you would write in Frederikssund-banen and in C what would go in Frederikssund-banen and Klampenborg-banen. The only real benefit I see by doing it that way is line templates on the stations (e.g. "line H, previous station: example, next station: example" and "line C, previous station ..." etc.), and avoiding the confusion arising from the lines being called H and C on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:S-tog.gif service map], but Frederikssund-banen etc. in the articles. [[User:Ghent|Ghent]] 13:10, 27 May 2006 (UTC)