Talk:Railway semaphore signal

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[edit] Merger proposal

I suggest that both the Home signal and Distant signal articles be merged into this, relatively new, article on railway semaphore signals. Looking at all three articles, a considerable amount of repetition is apparent. I don't think there is sufficient material to justify separate articles for each. Whilst it is true that home signals and distant signals can exist in other than semaphore form (i.e. colour lights) these articles mainly describe the semaphore type and any additional information that would otherwise be lost could be incorporated into the Railway signal article. Signalhead (talk) 20:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

It is a pain - on one hand it is nice to link directly to the type of signal you are talking about in another article, but they you end up with small pages with not much. Perhaps a listing of 'major' redirects that editors can refer to when needing to link to the page. Linking to a section of a page directly is trouble prone, doing it via a redirect reduces the number of possible dodgy links. Wongm (talk) 09:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)