Talk:Edens Landing railway station

Requested move 12 November 2023

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 (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 13:11, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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Eden's Landing railway station → Edens Landing railway station – Is spelled "Edens Landing station" according to Translink and Queensland Rail. Steelkamp (talk) 08:25, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

• Support: A quick search suggests this is the WP:COMMONNAME. YorkshireExpat (talk) 17:03, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

  Some years ago, the Queensland Government standardised the presentation of place names in Queensland. Under the current rules, no possessive apostrophes are allowed, so what was formerly Eden's Landing is now Edens Landing. So as far as the title of this article is concerned, I would support the removal of the apostrophe. But conversely if this was a now-closed railway station that was always known with the apostrophe in its name, then I'd say leave the apostrophe in. Kerry (talk) 03:45, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

  @Kerry Raymond: I assume that that would be a similar case to Victor Harbor vs "Victor Harbour railway station"? Notwithstanding that there's no article on that station. Fork99 (talk) 09:39, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

  Well, that is in South Australia, so outside my expertise on place naming. But the whole concept of "correct spelling" is relatively recent and tends to gather momentum as the ability to read and write becomes the norm. Prior to that the aim was to get people to be able to read and write rather than worry too much about how people wrote. Victor Harbor was settled in mid 1800s so well before universal literacy so I would imagine there was no particularly standardised way of spelling Harbor/Harbour at that time. Kerry (talk) 10:31, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

  I understand that the SA govt used American naval charts in the 19th century, so various locations use the Harbor spelling. Not ignorance.--Grahame (talk) 03:37, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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