Template:Did you know nominations/Yawkey (MBTA station)
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by — Maile (talk) 20:18, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
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Yawkey (MBTA station)
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An inbound MBTA train arrives at the new Yawkey station in March 2014.
- ... that because of a location on a tight curve, one of the side platforms at Yawkey Station (pictured) is located in between the tracks?
- Reviewed: Washington Monument
Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Nominated by Sportsguy17 (talk) at 14:09, 15 August 2015 (UTC).
- Question (not a review): In what sense is this a side platform rather than a single-sided island platform? —David Eppstein (talk) 18:21, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- This is less of something I can answer. I assumed that to be an island platform, it had to serve both sides, but I'm pinging Pi.1415926535 to see if he knows (he got the article to GA status). Sportsguy17 (T • C) 19:28, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
- The outbound platform was at no point intended to be an island platform - the curve is far too sharp to platform cars on it from the inbound track. I'd argue that's different from the others in your link, where they were formerly an island platform or intended to be. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
- @David Eppstein: Does this satisfy your query at all? Sportsguy17 (T • C) 14:34, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- Sure. I'm not sure either definition of platform type fits very well, actually, but you have to call it something. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:22, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
- I totally understand why you'd think that, but they intended for it to be a side platform (albeit that's the fun of this: it's such an unusual and perplexing design). Sportsguy17 (T • C) 15:20, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
- The outbound platform was at no point intended to be an island platform - the curve is far too sharp to platform cars on it from the inbound track. I'd argue that's different from the others in your link, where they were formerly an island platform or intended to be. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:57, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
@David Eppstein: @Pi.1415926535: Just wanted to make sure no one forgot about this. What's the deal with this DYK nomination as of right now? Sportsguy17 (T • C) 12:47, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
It still needs an actual review. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
Promoted to GA recently enough when nominated, long enough, meets DYK policy guidelines. Hook is interesting, short enough, and cited to a verifiable source. QPQ done. Image is taken by the article expander and uploaded to Commons. Good to go. sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 08:35, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
