Talk:Community Transit/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Dough4872 (talk · contribs) 02:03, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
I would split the sentence "The buses ran for 16 hours a day, charging a base fare of 20 cents;[22] among the most popular lines was Route R14, accounting for 21 percent of system ridership in the first three months, running from the Edmonds waterfront to Lynnwood and the Boeing Everett Factory." at the semicolon since it's quite long and deals with two different points.

Done

"Wi-Fi" is supposed to be capitalized.

Done
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Is there a way a source column can be added or sources added to the headers to the bus fleet table to verify the information?
It will take a while to gather all of the data. Community Transit, unlike other PTBAs/transit authorities, does not include a standard bus roster in its state-required 5-year transit development plan. I've requested one several times and will likely need to use a FOIA request in order to obtain it (and even then, citing that would be a pain).

Would it be acceptable to slim down the table a bit (leaving only an image, model/make, years, fleet numbers, fuel type and notes) to conform with the information presented in the ref? Sounder Bruce 19:07, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As long as all that information can be verified to references that is fine. The engine and transmission details are a little excess to the purpose of this article. Dough4872 15:25, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
In the lead you mention that Community Transit serves Snohomish County excluding Everett. Who operates the transit system in Everett? I would think this should be mentioned somewhere in the lead.

Done

Might want to explain what a public transportation benefit area is since it's a redlink.

It's explained in the first sentence of the history section. Redlink will disappear once the article is up, since it's still only a draft.

"SCPTBA Public Transit began operating in the cities of Brier, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Marysville, Mountlake Terrace, Snohomish and Woodway on October 4", should indicate this is in 1976 since you jump around a little bit in the first paragraph.

Done

"The buses ran for 16 hours a day, charging a base fare of 20 cents", might want to add an inflation conversion here.

Done

I would make sure to go through the article and add inflation conversions for other historical prices.

Done

Can a table be added for the vans in the vanpool fleet and the paratransit minibuses? You summarize the entire fleet above the table but only have the table covering the buses.

Again, this would be hard to obtain and verify, even moreso than buses that have regular press coverage for fleet additions (in the form of newspaper articles as well as press releases from manufacturers).
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

I will place the article on hold for some fixes to be made. Dough4872 02:43, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now that the source for the table has been added, I will pass the article. Dough4872 00:17, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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