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The result was withdrawn by nominator; excellent rationale provided for keep that I hadn't thought of. //roux   16:53, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Larkana Railway Station[edit]

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Under WP:NOT, really. Wikipedia is not a timetable, and this article is just not encyclopedic. roux   13:34, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep, with a clear need for improvements to the article. Since pretty much every railway station, extant and extinct, in the United Kingdom (and I expect other western countries too) is included in Wikipedia, it seems like there's something not quite right about discounting one from Pakistan which in fact has quite a lot of information. I realise as I write this that my argument is almost a question of whether all the UK ones are notable! So to put it another way, railway stations are fundamentally important to the development of their surrounding communities, so I'd say this article's subject is notable in the context of the Larkana region. – Kieran T ^(talk) 14:44, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't considered that. I may well withdraw, pending other comments. //roux   14:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - I agree with the comments made by Kieran T. The article needs a major revamp but there are 100s of railway stations on wikipedia which have not been deleted. (most do seem to be from the UK though, so we must have alot of train fans here :) BritishWatcher (talk) 15:16, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete for lack of content (Speedy A3). If we remove the disputed time-table like content, we're left with a substub that says "the station is located in X and as a booking office." (it's obviously staffed, otherwise a booking office doesn't make sense). And really, having a booking office is not something worthy to note in an article. Pakistani stations can be written about, see Lahore Railway Station, but this one doesn't offer anything. - Mgm|^(talk) 15:28, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - railway stations have long been accepted as being notable; this page should be expanded not deleted. I also have no problem with the 'Services' section. If its good enough for London King's Cross railway station#Services its good enough for here. TerriersFan (talk) 16:44, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.