Talk:B-train

Move? (2009)

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The result of the move request was no consensus to move.-- Aervanath (talk) 06:29, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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• B-Train → B-Double — Needs to be moved over a redirect. B-Double is the far more common term, easily verified using Google or similar; note many of the B-Train hits on Google are not related to our article's topic. — Ben (talk) 20:22, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• Not uncontroversial, should probably be discussed first. Parsecboy (talk) 20:59, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• I don't feel anyone could reasonably disagree with the move (per the above instructions), so I listed it here. It's interesting that you say it's controversial though. I presume you don't personally feel it's controversial (though correct me if I'm wrong), you just feel it isn't as simple as a spelling error or some such. With that in mind, if the redirect didn't exist, I would have been bold and made the move. Is your above comment implying that would be wrong in some way? Ben (talk) 21:31, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
• The article says that "Although known as a B-Train in many countries, this particular twin trailer combination is also known by the term Interlink in Southern Africa and as a B-Double in Australia.". Is this just a matter of the variant of English used? Also, I think the correct capitalization of the title would be either B-train or B-double, since it's a common noun. See B-double wiktionary entry (which, by the way, specifies that the word is used in Australia only) and the capitalization guideline. Jafeluv (talk) 09:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
• Merge into road train where 80-90% of this information is already found. Mangoe (talk) 14:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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Requested move 21 October 2016

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The result of the move request was: Closing to move to B-train. I've been involved only in a clarification of the page B train and have otherwise not been involved in the discussion. A move to "B-train" does have rough consensus, per the explicit oppose !vote and a subsequent comment supporting simply lowercasing the "T" in train, and the fact that the nominator mentioend that this is not a discussion about the hyphen, and that the original intent implied by the post was to lowercase the "T" per MOS. Anyone with questions, please ping. Thanks (non-admin closure) — Andy W. (talk) 23:20, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

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B-Train → B train – mos and https://www.shipnorthamerica.com/htmfiles/glossary/gloss_truck_btrain.html – Espoo (talk) 21:52, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). — Andy W. (talk) 04:59, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• The current proposed target redirects to B Train. Anything to do about this dab page? — Andy W. (talk) 22:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

  •  comment this topic is not listed on the disambiguation page. As the disambiguation page exists at the base name, it suggests this isn't the primary topic, so this should move to B train (trucking) and the current name should point to the disambiguation page -- 65.94.171.217 (talk) 04:18, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

I fixed the disambiguation page so it links to B-Train instead of road train. --Scott Davis ^Talk 05:45, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Oppose. The hyphen is important to clarify that this is a truck, not a train. I did several Google searches for heavy transport infrastructure in my state, looking to see what kinds of trucks it specified. I got a mixture of B-Double and B-double from government sources, sometimes in the same document (and not as titles), as well as a few B Double with context. They are never B-trains in Australia. A road train has at least two full trailers joined by a dolly. B-doubles and B-triples display signs at the back "LONG VEHICLE". Road trains display "ROAD TRAIN", even though a B-triple is only 1.5m shorter than a double road train. --Scott Davis ^Talk 05:39, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

• This is not a discussion of whether or not to use a hyphen! The technical request is to write the lemma without capitalization, as required by our MOS. According to WP:ENGVAR, both the spelling with and without hyphen is correct. We can move the article to either spelling as long as the other is mentioned at the beginning of the article. --Espoo (talk) 11:49, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

• Support B-train, but not the dropping of hyphen, which seems to be always used. Dicklyon (talk) 23:02, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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