[talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

[Luke Woolley]

Doesn't happen too often on OSM, unlike Wikipedia, but i've found myself in an edit war with another user and I would like some opinions.

There are two railway stations in outer eastern Melbourne, Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully. These stations have in the past been named Fern Tree Gully and Upper Fern Tree Gully.

I've been changing the names for a while now to the one word version because it's the current public spelling of the station. It's used in newspapers, the Metlink (official melbourne public transport) website, virtually any signage or publication uses the one word version. I feel that this version is warranted on OSM in terms of it being what the station is publicly know as at this point in time, and to help with searching (and any future implementation of OSM data for journey planning)

Another user has been changing the station names to the two word version. Their explanation is that because the stations were officially named in the two word fashion a while back. In recent times, the name changed back to the one word version in all known publications and signage, but was not officially changed back. (http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Ferntree-Gully and http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/location/Upper-Ferntree-Gully)

So any opinions as to how I should go about this?
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