Talk:Queensland Rail/Archives/2018

List of Commissioners/CEOs - is this noteworthy?

I am looking at this recent addition to the page and am wondering how relevant this really is? Is it notable in itself to warrant prominent inclusion? Happy to be educated here, but a list like this seems to load the page up with detail that may not be necessary. Would it make its own noteworthy page?

That is a good point you raise - thanks. The page beforehand was rather scant (about 10 lines of partial information previously), but yes, a fair amount of detail now appears. Fairly new to the Wikipedia editing sphere, so unsure how to go about creating a linked page. If a fellow Wikipedian wishes to set one up & drag & drop the info in - I'm all for it. Could possibly be extended in that case with brief (known) biographical info for each office bearer. Newspaper articles of the day also listed previous Chief Engineers as well, so the article could very well stand on its own. MartyM80 (talk) 12:18, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Any organisation with 150+ years of history is going to have had a lot of leaders, but this really is just a list of names with only 2 of the more than 30 having their own articles. Inclined to agree on it lacking noteworthiness, and think best not to include. Would be more beneficial to expand on the influence the bigger players had, much like William Webb on the South Australian Railways article, than just a list of who sat in a chair. Jongratas (talk) 02:53, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

This is covered by the redlink policy. The question is not whether they do have articles but whether they could have articles (that is, would pass our notability rules). "In general, a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a title that could plausibly sustain an article". Some railway commissioners clearly do have articles so I think "plausibly sustain" applies to others. If it was a list of railway cleaners, I think we might think differently. Certainly the current one would pass WP:GNG judging by this google search. As for Maloney who someone has removed the redlink appears to be get a lot of coverage, see [1], so I'd expect he'd pass WP:GNG. I would expect all are notable or at least plausibly so. Kerry (talk) 05:44, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

As for putting them in a separate article, yes, you probably could. But given you both seem fairly new users, I'm inclined to suggest you don't. Any article with a long history will have many people contribute to it over time. Or to put it another way, hacking it about may upset a lot of people. My advice to newcomers is to focus on adding useful new content (with citations) rather than removing or making drastic changes. Over time your judgement about deleting material or doing reorganisations will improve. We have a truckload of policies (you see a couple above). It pays to know your policies before doing anything. And if you need help, you can ask me or ask at Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board where the locals hang out. Kerry (talk) 06:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)