Talk:Eagle Farm Racecourse and Ascot railway station

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It'd be great if this could be split up - it feels a bit unnecessary to have a separate article to our two existing ones just because the QHR merges them. The Drover's Wife (talk) 07:12, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, but it's not the best use of my time right now. There are a number of issues when there is a QHR entry and a pre-existing Wikipedia article. That's why I left these ones to Phase 2; the reward for finishing Phase 1 is having to tackle Phase 2 :-( The problem is that the QHR entry is, by its very nature, focussed on the built environment. This focus doesn't sit well with the pre-existing articles, which, in most cases, tend to focus on the current function, and in most cases the current function is more likely to be the information a reader is seeking. To bung in a lot of QHR text into a short current-function article would tend to "unbalance" the article. If the pre-existing article is largely historic in nature (a common situation with historic houses and churches that write about their establishment but little about their current function), it's more likely to be possible to merge the pre-existing article with the QHR content. If the pre-existing article is high on current use and has infoboxes/navboxes etc related to current use (e.g. schools, railway stations), I plan to go with two articles, one called Blah blah blah (the current-use article) and the other called Blah blah blah Building (or something along those lines) for the QHR material and make sure they link to one another (often using a hatnote to disambiguate their respective purposes). The Eagle Farm Racecourse and Ascot railway station is a doubly messy situation, where it overlaps two pre-existing articles and one is a railway station. So I take the view that I do what *I* can do, which is write a QHR-based article, link it, add photos etc, put in the cross-links to the pre-existing articles and then move on. With now about 1730 articles on the QHR, I can't afford to let myself get too hung up on any particular topic. I just flag any issues in my spreadsheet so I know about it, but I don't let it derail the current activity (which is adding photos to QHR articles without photos and having a first pass at dealing with pre-existing topics). Second pass on pre-existing topics is for a later phase. I have to eat the elephant one small bite at a time. Or to put it another way, feel free ... Kerry (talk) 08:40, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Point taken. Fair enough. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)