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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by User:Scorpion0422 00:19, 26 November 2008 [1].

List of Santa Clara VTA Light Rail stations

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I am nominating this list because I think it fulfills the FL criteria.—Chris! ct 19:03, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:52, 15 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]
Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

  • "Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail is a light rail transit system serving the Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California." "serving"-->that serves.
  • "The system is operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, who oversees public transit services in the county." "who"-->which.
  • "In 1988 and 1990, the system extended south of Civic Center toward Downtown San Jose and Tamien station." Shouldn't it be "was extended"?
  • "In December 1999, the system underwent another extension with the completion of the Tasman West section, began services to Mountain View." "began services to Mountain View" needs a connector.
  • "The system extended to I-880/Milpitas in 2001 and to Hostetter station in 2004 as part of the Tasman East extension. " Needs a "was" before "extended".
  • "The system currently operated 62 stations. 38 stations are served by the Mountain View – Winchester line, 36 are served by the Alum Rock – Santa Teresa line, and 3 are served by the Ohlone/Chynoweth–Almaden line."-->The system currently operated 62 stations, of which 38 stations are served by the Mountain View – Winchester line, 36 are served by the Alum Rock – Santa Teresa line, and 3 are served by the Ohlone/Chynoweth–Almaden line.
  • "Six are located in Sunnyvale while five are in Mountain View." "while"-->and, add "stations" after "six". Dabomb87 (talk) 18:18, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Done all —Chris! ct 19:08, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment

Looks pretty good - Comments

  • The first two sentences are slightly difficult to read with their repetitions of "Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority" - there is a third "Santa Clara" too. You also have "light rail" twice close together in the first sentence. Perhaps you could have some other facts (e.g. total system length) as a second sentence to break it up a bit.
  • The system history summary is pretty good but what does jar is describing a new extension as being built "toward X station". To me it gives the impression that the station was sitting there waiting for the light rail tracks to be built to it. I think that simply replacing "toward" by "to" would work.
  • "The system currently operated 62 stations" - should be "operates" or more simply "has" as I am not sure that a system can operate things.
  • In the table I don't think that the "Lines" column should be sortable as quite a lot of cells contain more than one element.
  • It would be nice if, in the photograph captions, the station depicted was linked to. I am not sure that "station platform" and "tramway tracks" need to be linked. The latter one is especially confusing as the system is described as "light rail" and not a tramway. The phraseology "the X station" also seems strange to me but I think that this is more of an AmEng thing.

Boissière (talk) 21:47, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done—Chris! ct 02:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looks Good - Support Boissière (talk) 21:46, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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