Talk:List of locomotives
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The purpose of this article is to keep track of the current state of Wikipedia locomotive articles and provide a central jumping-off point to go to other locomotive lists. —Morven 23:34, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- As all of the information on this article is now available at Category:Locomotives, has this article's purpose become moot? There are a lot more locomotive articles now than are listed in this article. slambo 02:18, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, I see no need for this article anymore. It was introduced prior to categories being supported. —Morven 06:55, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
Note for the deletion discussion for this article see Talk:List of locomotives/delete -- Graham ☺ | Talk 16:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Okay, since the consensus was no consensus, what is the next evolutionary step for this article? Do we add in links to all of the other locomotive articles that are already online, or do we completely refactor the list? Does this list now become a superset of all of the other "List of ... locomotives" articles or do we make this a list of links to the various "List of ..." articles plus a list of otherwise unclassified locomotives? Do we concentrate this list on locomotive types or specific locomotives?
I would argue against making this list a list of all specific locomotives because such a list would be enormous when we look at named steam engines, for example. I've got a very long list at home that I've compiled of named steam locomotives that have operated on North American railroads. It is by no means complete. I can upload a sample of about a page worth of data to one of my talk pages, but just looking at North America, the list is quite extensive. UK railroads kept using locomotive names through dieselization and many diesel locomotives are also named, so such a list could potentially increase in length exponentially.
Anyway, just some thoughts... slambo 16:36, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
