Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Washington Metro stations/archive1
- 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 Scorpion0422 23:34, 13 June 2009 [1].
- Nominator(s): Geraldk (talk) 22:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Featured list candidates/List of Washington Metro stations/archive1
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The first time I've nominated a transportation list, so be gentle. Note that there's been a debate about including the row of images on the right. Reviewer input on that issue would be helpful. Should they be there? Geraldk (talk) 22:54, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Chrishomingtang
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—Chris! ct 02:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support —Chris! ct 06:48, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
CommentsSupport from Hassocks5489.
A pleasing and attractively designed list. I am close to being able to support.
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Thanks for your work on this list. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 12:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- And thanks for the excellent and thorough review. I've made all the corrections you suggest. As to the codes, I was also intrigued by them. I'm a local and rider of the system and had never known there were codes for the stations until I started working on this list (they were there when I started). The only place I've been able to find the codes is on the track shcematic used as a reference, I searched pretty hard to find something on the WMATA website and couldn't. So I assume they're an engineering or maintenance-related identification system used for internal operations only, but have no proof of that. Geraldk (talk) 13:40, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for working on the above so quickly. I am now at home and can confirm the images and table layouts are fine on the much higher resolution I use here; and I accept your rationale for the codes mystery. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 17:18, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Just a few comments here, but on first glance, the list is extremely pleasing aesthetically and does an excellent job of conveying information in an efficient style.
Hope these comments help. KV5 (Talk • Phils) 02:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Strong Support from KV5 (Talk • Phils) 12:35, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You've got a lot of dash problems in the table. Whenever the separated elements have internal spaces (e.g. Addison Road–Seat Pleasant), then there should be spaces around the dashes. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Even if the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority doesn't use spaces around the dashes in the station names? Geraldk (talk) 14:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I think correcting the dashes and avoiding ambiguity is more important than staying true to the names. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. Geraldk (talk) 15:37, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I think correcting the dashes and avoiding ambiguity is more important than staying true to the names. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm a column with the residential area to which station pertains should be listed also. Say somebody travels to Washington, and knows that he is in the town/residential area X, he should be able to easily find in this list if that X has a metro station. Nergaal (talk) 18:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't understand what you mean. The stations are nearly all named after neighborhoods, towns, or geographical features of one kind or another. I could link it to more local jurisdictions (i.e. Montgomery and Prince George's County, Maryland instead of just Maryland) but those are fairly large jurisdictions and would have a number of stations in each. If we did it by city (according to the postal service), we'd still have the problem of every DC station being in Washington, DC, since it is one, large, 800,000 person postal city. Geraldk (talk) 21:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, listing "neighborhoods served" could be original research, unless specified by a source. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:51, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 20:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)
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Sources look good. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:08, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from SRE.K.A.L.24
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Comment - It would be nice if you could talk more about the history of the lines and stations, like in List of Vancouver SkyTrain stations. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 23:20, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Support Nice job on the list. -- [[SRE.K.A.L.|L.A.K.ERS]] 21:35, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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