Talk:List of tunnels in the Alps

Suggest retitle to List of MAIN tunnels in the Alps, and reduce Austria section

The list states upfront that it's meant to be a list of the main tunnels, which is fine (a good idea etc). But retitling would make this even clearer for readers and further contributors. To support my suggestion, let me point out that the Austria section has an excellent but much-much-too-long list of tunnels, so many that they're listed as subsets region by region. This may appear useful, but the result (65 Austrian tunnels) is a list more than FOUR times as long as a separately linked List of tunnels in Austria article (which has just 15 in total!). I suggest the whole of the "Austria region-by-region" here should be copied into the separate "Tunnels in Austria" article, and then the Austria list here can/should be pared down to just the major and cross-border tunnels. Any objections, or any offers by a regional expert to take up the work? Pete Hobbs (talk) 17:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Ah! This list-article matches (approx.) the German page version, from which this list was probably translated. But the separate article "Tunnels in Austria" is quite different to the German version at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Tunneln_in_%C3%96sterreich. That German version has 88 (not 15) tunnels, all tabulated, and all with fuller info about locations, lengths etc. So the English version of "Tunnels in Austria" should copy the German tabulated list (in the same way that the English "Tunnels in Switzerland" has copied the German tabulated version), and then the Austrian part of this "List of tunnels in the Alps" can be simply shortened to the main tunnels only. And then retitled. Pete Hobbs (talk) 19:09, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Sounds sensible. Do crack on! Bermicourt (talk) 10:22, 22 October 2016 (UTC)