Talk:Evergreen Line (Vancouver)

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We have not told people when the line will begin construction. As I recall, the project has been delayed a year, until September 2007, because a tunnel borer will become available then, and thus save one hundred million dollars. (205.250.167.76 18:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Disambiguation

This needs to become a disambiguation page for Evergreen Marine's Evergreen Line of container ships, which arguably is a better-known use of the term Evergreen Line. I propose moving this article to Evergreen Line (Vancouver, BC). Is this thing working? (talk) 22:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

No disrespect intended to User:Isthisthingworking, but this page should not have been moved without a proper discussion and formal move proposal. There are significantly more hits for the transit line; more to the point, there isn't even an article for the shipping line, so no disambiguation is required. A hatnote linking to Evergreen Marine at the top of the page would be more than adequate. --Ckatz^chat_spy 06:49, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hm, didn't think this would be controversial. Evergreen Line, the fleet, has a lot more notoriety worldwide (try a web search). Also the move was proposed here for ~2 weeks without any comment. Is this thing working? (talk) 07:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I did search on the term "Evergreen Line", and came up with results that favoured the transit line. However, my main concern is that there doesn't appear to be any need for a disambiguation page, given that no article titled "Evergreen Line (disambiguated title)" exists to require disambiguating. A note at the top of the page would be sufficient, would prevent us having to change pages, and would keep the naming consistent with other Vancouver transit articles. Thoughts? --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:16, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

FYI, I had placed a note at the "requested move" board asking to reverse this - however, given that discussion is now under way here, it has been pulled. Cheers. --Ckatz^chat_spy 09:24, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree that search results favor the transit line. Here are my findings. I searched for "evergreen line" in quotes (the phrase). Using Live Search (live.com) the top result is the shipping company and in the first page of results there were 5 hits for the fleet and 3 for the transit line (not counting this article and copies of it). Using Google, the top result is the shipping company and in the first page of results there were 5 hits for the fleet and 3 for the transit company. Again, I think that these are at least equal in relevance and should be treated so with the disambiguation page. Is this thing working? (talk) 18:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The problem is, there is no article about the Evergreen Line (shipping) that is being pushed aside by the transit line. If it was a case of Evergreen Line being about the transit line, while Evergreen Line (shipping) was for the ships, I could see the need for a disambiguation page. However, given that we only have one article using a variation of that title, it is more appropriate to use a hatnote at the top of the transit article. It doesn't change anything for readers looking for the shipping line, as they would have to make one additional click in either case, and it does eliminate an unnecessary extra click for the transit article. --Ckatz^chat_spy 18:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I know this thing just got moved, but I'm not sure that "Evergreen Line (Vancouver)" is the best name. Sure, it's in Metro Vancouver, but it's no where near Vancouver itself. It also doesn't say what it is, unlike the shipping article. How about something like Evergreen Line (Rapid Transit)? Greg Salter (talk) 18:38, 9 February 2008 (UTC)