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Interior Photo of San Jose Diridon

I uploaded the image above to the Wikimedia Commons, and I'm wondering whether it would be worth including it in the Diridon Station article, and how best to do so. // Internet Esquire (talk) 17:33, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I have just assessed this article as Start Class. I think that it wouldn't take a great deal of work for this article to become C Class though. The boss 1998 (talk) 16:39, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Google

It's odd that there's no mention of the Diridon-related plans of Google described here in WP. Would the "Future" section of this article be a place to at least mention the planning? Dicklyon (talk) 06:03, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Pi.3... removed my aerial as a "vanity image". I think it's useful for showing some context for the station. Maybe more so in relation to future plans than to what's in the article about the station itself, I agree. Dicklyon (talk) 06:25, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's a great photo, and it very well may be useful if there was room for it in the article and if it was used to supplement prose. Currently, placing it in the very short Future section of the article (which is already mostly parallel to the track layout) causes it to protrude into the References section, which reduces the number of columns and adds significant whitespace. There is no logical connection between the current prose and this image; if you add a sentence or three about the Google development and caption the image appropriately, then the image would be more valuable to readers. And "vanity image" may have been overstating it a bit; however, I find it very frustrating when users repeatedly insert their own photos without due consideration for how they fit into the article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:39, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not going to add content about Google due to my COI from working for them; but someone else can. As for fit and whitespace, that seems like an odd consideration to put a lot of weight on, when everyone's setup formats differently. In particular, extending into the refs section, causing fewer columns and white space, is a complete non-problem. Dicklyon (talk) 16:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you wish to suggest prose and references here, I'll be more than happy to check and add it per the usual COI process. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:40, 12 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to suggest prose, but here's a recent local news story: [1]; and an older one: [2]. Dicklyon (talk) 00:10, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox photo

@Cristiano Tomás: I don't think that File:Southern Pacific Depot, 65 Cahill St., San Jose, CA 9-30-2012 1-21-02 PM.JPG is a good choice for the infobox image. It is awkwardly cropped - the crown and canopy are cut off at right, the wing at left, and the lamp post at top - and there's a bit of foliage at top. Additionally, the entire right wing is not visible. The existing photo, File:San Jose Diridon station, November 2019.JPG, is unobstructed, shows the complete station, and reflects its symmetry. If there is some need for a sunlit photo - which I don't think is essential - then File:USA-San Jose-Diridon Station-5.jpg would be a far better alternative to the image you have been adding. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The old photo was better. Also agree that a sunlit picture isn't essential. RickyCourtney (talk) 20:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bike facilities

Caltrain upgraded the facilities to include elockers. Recommend an addition to that section.

https://www.caltrain.com/rider-information/bicycles/bike-parking-options-station Nawledge (talk) 21:29, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Image help ==
-Hi, I found this image [[:Image:Southern Pacific Depot 1909.jpg]] which at first I thought was for this station, but the SP Depot was constructed in 1935, so that image must be for something else, maybe for the older station that the newer station replaced? Any ideas? Thanks. <span style="font-family:Verdana; ">'''[[User:Howcheng|<span style="color:#33C;">howcheng</span>]]'''  <small>{[[User talk:Howcheng|chat]]}</small></span> 00:34, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
-Howcheng,  that looks more like the Santa Clara Depot, completed in 1863 -   http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/santaclara/scd.htm [[User:Grey3k|Grey3k]] ([[User talk:Grey3k|talk]]) 20:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
-: Grey3k, I disagree with your apprisal of that image. The building depicted has a high gable roofed [[transept]] perpendicular to the length of the station house and tracks just like the San José Market Street Station and unlike [[Santa Clara Station (California)|Santa Clara Station]].  For a web page with a couple of other old photos of the San Jose Market Street Station, along with photos of a modeller's attempts to recreate it, please see [http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/marketst.html this page from Robert Bowdidge].   An interesting aspect of the postcard image that Howcheng mentions is the caption that reads "3510 The Southern Pacific Broad Gauge Depot, San Jose, California." since the SP only operated standard gauge and a few narrow gauge lines in the Bay area (former logging railroads in the Santa Cruz mountains), perhaps the term "Broad Gauge" was applied and intended to distinguish the subject of that image from the other narrow gauge stations in and around San José that Southern Pacific also operated at the time.  At any rate it does seem to be the San José Market Street Station and trainshed, not Santa Clara. [[Special:Contributions/76.102.49.27|76.102.49.27]] ([[User talk:76.102.49.27|talk]]) 11:12, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
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 :Agreed. The old photo was better. Also agree that a sunlit picture isn't essential. [[User:RickyCourtney|RickyCourtney]] ([[User talk:RickyCourtney|talk]]) 20:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
+== Bike facilities ==
+Caltrain upgraded the facilities to include elockers. Recommend an addition to that section.
+https://www.caltrain.com/rider-information/bicycles/bike-parking-options-station [[User:Nawledge|Nawledge]] ([[User talk:Nawledge|talk]]) 21:29, 28 March 2024 (UTC)