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267:- needs sourcing, obviously. It might be encyclopedic in the sense that it would be eligible for an Encyclopedia of Rail? In which case it would have a place in Knowledge (XXG). Not everything here has to be suitable for Britannica! If not suitable for here, would there be a home for it in Wikibooks, which does accept manual-like material? 285:
Not any encyclopedia of rail I've seen; this is purely instruction manual material. I actually have some CSX signal manuals, and this looks exactly like them. That itself may be a problem; there may be copyright issues, though it's mostly basic information and simple diagrams that may not meet the
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via significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources, then every internal system of rules or signals, basically every employee handbook of every major company and organization would be eligible for an article. Certainly the rulebook of every railroad in history as it related to
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signalling would be equally eligible for an article (Such as historic Illinois Central: Five long whistle sounds, followed by ten short whistle sounds: Flagman for train number 10 may return from the North. Etc, on and on.). That said, it is a very nice looking article.
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as a listing of signals used internally by a private company, and less encyclopedic than, say highway signs, or other signals used by the general public. If the present signal system of this railroad is encyclopedic without satisfying the
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threshold for copyright eligibility. Regardless, this isn't material for or from an encyclopedia. The fact that there's no other articles with carrier-specific signal rules tells me that there's agreement on that.
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I'm happy to take your word for it. I can't see how this would be a copyvio (I think you're right re threshold). I suspect this belongs as a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Ambivalent, but think through transwiki options before deletion
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