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[edit] Notability
I'm not sure about the notability standards, since reporting marks have only been used since the early 20th century. Reporting marks seem to be assigned to any campany that is operating trains. Would it be reasonable to extend this back to the 19th century? Would it also be reasonable to include companies that stopped construction (South Pennsylvania Railroad, for instance) or were taken over by another company before beginning operations? In both cases, merging is obviously needed for some minor early lines. But would it be acceptable to simply say "any railroad that started construction work"? --NE2 21:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- The construction threshhold seems reasonable for inclusion. I've seen similar reasoning used on a couple of AfD keep votes in the past. The key here is that a company is notable enough to be recognized by an outside observer as a separate entity, so the start of construction would form the nexus between conceptual and concrete entities. Having an assigned reporting mark indicates that the company is recognized as a separate entity by an impartial outside party. Slambo (Speak) 21:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
