Talk:Chester Canal

Chester Canal has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
February 15, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed

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Merge with Chester Canal

This article was split from Chester Canal in an attempt to stimulate some more interest... Hmallett 22:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

I have assessed the article against the criteria for B-class.

Suitably referenced, with inline citations
Reasonable coverage - no obvious omissions or inaccuracies
Defined structure, with adequate lead
Reasonably well written for grammer and flow
Supporting materials - Infobox, map, images
Appropriately understandable

The following need adressing before it reaches B-class.

The lead does not summarise the article. Done
The Today section needs expanding and has no references. Done - expanded as Leisure era
The Route section needs expanding and has no references. Done
Some information on traffic is needed. Done - Traffic section added

I am therefore rating it as C-class for the moment. Bob1960evens (talk) 09:14, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All of the above issues have now been addressed, and I am rating the article as B-class. Bob1960evens (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Boat sizes

Does anyone know what restricts the size of boats on the Ellesmere to Nantwich section? The locks still appear to be over 14 ft wide, but the width of boats is currently quoted as 9 ft in Cumberlidge 2009. Is there a bridge / aqueduct / other feature somewhere which restricts the width? Bob1960evens (talk) 13:27, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Chester Canal/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Pyrotec (talk · contribs) 21:06, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I will review. Pyrotec (talk) 21:06, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Initial comments

I'm working my way through the article but its going to take another day, perhaps more, to complete this stage. The article is well referenced, well its mostly based on Canals of the West Midlands, so I would anticipate that the article makes GA this time round. Its certainly not a "quick fail" candidate.

As per usual, at this first stage of the review I'll only be reporting any "problems that need fixing". Pyrotec (talk) 14:17, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

History -
- First untitled subsection -

In general, this subsection is OK. However:

The second paragraph states that the canal was conceived as a broad canal, and it was intended to run from the Trent and Mersey canal and (presumably) the Dee, so was the Trent and Mersey canal a broad canal? I don't think this article has a statement on this.

Done The Trent and Mersey is actually narrow for the first three locks to the north of where the junction was eventually built, but was originally suitable for 14-ft barges after about half a mile. I have not yet found out if the junction as built was in the same location as planned 61 years earlier.

Its not too clear about "the solution adopted" at the Dee, in the third paragraph, presumably the basin and pair of single gates used "broad" not "narrow" gates?

Done Width of entrance added.

Thanks. Pyrotec (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- The impact of the Ellesmere Canal -

This subsection looks compliant (Note: I added a wiklink to the Ellesmere Canal as it was not linked).

- A new route to the south -

This subsection looks compliant.

- Part of the Shropshire Union -

This subsection looks compliant.

Leisure era -

This section looks compliant.

Traffic & Route -

... stopping for now. To be continued. Pyrotec (talk) 20:05, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

These two sections look to be compliant.

WP:Lead -

This section looks compliant.

Pyrotec (talk) 22:00, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Overall summary

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

An informative, comprehensive and well referenced article.

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. Has an appropriate reference section:

B. Citation to reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:
Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:

B. Images are provided if possible and are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:

I'm happy to be able to award this article GA-status. It appears to have the potential to progress through WP:FAC, but I would suggest that advantage of a WP:PR be taken before any decision to proceed with FAC is made. Pyrotec (talk) 22:00, 15 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Length of Canal

There is no length given for this canal in the Specifications box. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.185.92.26 (talk) 13:06, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"The Chester company [...] noticed that the 1796 Act failed to mention a connection with their canal"

Connection to which point of the Chester Canal? There would have been a connection in Chester. So does connection mean to the Chester Canal near Nantwich? (The actual connection that was built being the one at Hurleston Junction.) Zin92 (talk) 06:27, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]