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Ulster and Delaware Railroad

Self-Nom. This article was made last year, and has steadily risen up from being a rubbish pile. This article is very detailed, and every contributor that has come by to contribute to the article has done an amazing job at contributing to it. It includes a lot about the railroad's history, and one could learn a great deal about the railroad if they read the article. That is, if they wanted to :). Kschwerdt514 11:16, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, unbold all of the stations and such (all but the title in the first sentence). zafiroblue05 | Talk 23:37, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. Referencing is insufficient, and Zafiroblue is right, the bold text is really distracting. RyanG e rbil10 (Drop on in!) 00:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Only four references are given for an article of quite significant length. The topic is fairly specific, so the number may be explained, but there are no footnotes, and no inline citations, as required for Featured Articles. It is no longer sufficient to just list the references works used in sourcing an article, but citations must be made within the article to show which published works are referencing which specific facts within the article. That's what meant by "referencing is insufficient." I hope that was helpful, RyanG e rbil10 (Drop on in!) 01:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object. The run-on sentences need to be fixed before this article should be featured. I've done a little work, but it needs more. RussNelson 03:46, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object - per above plus it's not til the middle of the 4th paragraph that we have a year so we even begin to know when this occurred. Rlevse 13:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Friendly object since the nominator has done a lot for Catskills-themed articles. I fixed a problem with the reference formatting that was keeping most of the article from showing up, but ... more work needs to be done in that department and I will try to clean up some of the prose problems others have noted (to which I would add some places where the tone needs to be more encyclopedic). Some more research could be done ... I don't know if it's really relevant, but it's a neat bit of trivia that, since the Grand Hotel straddled the Ulster/Delaware county line, the bar used to be moved back and forth in the hotel when one county or the other had a fit of temperance fever and went dry. Daniel Case 03:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it should really go to peer review first. Daniel Case 03:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is now a red cite error showing up. Now that I've read it in more detail, I agree with Daniel that it should go to PR first; but I do think the potential for FA is there. Rlevse 11:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment All problems about the article are fixed. Thank you for reading this update --Kschwerdt514 05:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]