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Requested move 9 March 2022

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to "Railway porter". There was a clear consensus to move the page away from the former title and I've determined "railway porter" is the best option per WP:NOGOODOPTIONS. I realize WP:RETAIN has been raised as an issue, but I would note the article (except for the title) already uses British spellings and that the usage of railway tends to be more widespread than railroad. (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 18:09, 15 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]



Porter (railroad)Porter (rail) – The universal international term is "railway", not "railroad", which is generally restricted to North America. But "rail" conveniently covers both of these without being specific to speakers of any variety of English per MOS:COMMONALITY and is just as commonly understood and appropriate. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. ---CX Zoom(he/him) (let's talk|contribs) 14:56, 21 March 2022 (UTC)— Relisting. Turnagra (talk) 19:46, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Moving it to "rail" from "railroad" would still violate WP:RETAIN. At least the alternate proposal to move it to Railway porter, while it would violate WP:RETAIN, would be supported by WP:NATURALDISAMBIGUATION. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rough consensus to move, but to what title?

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Hi all, I saw this in WP Trains article alerts, and while there appears to be a rough consensus to move from the present title, there's no consensus as to what title to move to. Rather than just closing this as no consensus, we should try and find consensus for a specific term. The following names have been proposed:

  • Porter (rail)
  • Railway porter
  • Railroad porter
  • Porter (train employee)
  • Porter (rail employee)
  • Porter (train station employee)

Personally I think any of the first three would be acceptable. Pinging @Necrothesp: @Zxcvbnm: @Crouch, Swale: @Rreagan007: @65.92.246.142:Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:28, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.