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Ball Park (UTA station)

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I've listed this article for peer review because I would like some feedback on the prose and see if it may stand a chance at WP:FAC.

Thanks, Admrboltz (talk) 23:48, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Finetooth comments: The idea of doing an entire article on a single station is intriguing, and this station sounds interesting. However, the article in its present state would have no chance at FA. The prose needs a lot of work; the single image is unexciting; the map needs more detail, and the article is not comprehensive. Here are suggestions for improvement.

Infobox

• "highlighting the non revenue siding" - "Non" is not a word by itself. "non-revenue" would be OK. Also, what does "non-revenue siding" mean?
  • Siding wikilinked, non-revenue redirects to an airline specific article that is not helpful in this case sadly. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• It would be helpful to show the two TRAX lines on the map and perhaps the Spring Mobile Ballpark and the university.

Lead

• "The station was opened in 1999, and is operated by the Utah Transit Authority, servicing the Sandy/Salt Lake Line, with service to downtown Salt Lake City and to Sandy, as well as the Murray/Midvale/University Line, a line which provides service from Sandy to the University of Utah campus." - Too complex. Suggestion: "The station, which opened in 1999, is operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). It is a station on two lines, the Sandy/Salt Lake Line, with service to downtown Salt Lake City and Sandy, and the Murray/Midvale/University Line, with service from Sandy to the University of Utah campus." Or am I misunderstanding? Language in the "Services" section makes it sound as though the station might not be on two lines. I find this confusing. A route map of the whole system might help clarify.
  • There is one set of rail that serves two different routes - the Sandy/Salt Lake line continues north into town, where as the University line turns east between Courthouse and Library stations. But between Courthouse > EOL (sandy) both routes run concurrent on the same physical rail. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• "The station is located northwest of Spring Mobile Ballpark, and is located along 1300 South, a major east-west route through Salt Lake City." - Tighten to "The station is located northwest of Spring Mobile Ballpark along 1300 South, a major east-west route through Salt Lake City."
  • Done. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
• "Connections with local UTA buses are capable... " - I'm not sure what "capable" means in this context. Does it mean that buses stop at this station?
  • Yes, reworded.
• What is the meaning of People's Freeway? Providing context for the reader is almost always a good idea. Most readers know little or nothing about Salt Lake City.

History

• It would be helpful to include some of the history of the line. Readers from outside Utah are unlikely to know anything about the system.
• The existing History section consists of one paragraph with a lot of different ideas run together without logical connections. Perhaps each idea, if developed, could become a separate paragraph. That is to say, the sentence about the original opening could become a paragraph about the history of the line before the opening. The sentence about urban renewal could become a paragraph about the neighborhood and the station's relation to it. The sentence about the mural and the graffiti could be expanded to include details about each and about the training center. The sentence about Proposition 3 could become a paragraph about funding questions related to the station; it's not at all clear to an outsider what FrontRunner is or what it has to do with the station.

Services

• "Route 9, with termini at Ball Park TRAX and the University of Utah, route 248, with termini at 4800 West and Ball Park TRAX, and route 516, with termini in downtown Salt Lake and Ball Park TRAX." - This is not a complete sentence; it lacks a verb. The article could be improved by careful copyediting and proofreading.
  • Reworked that little section. I will go over the rest as well. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Image

• The one image is a little dark and doesn't show the mural or the station clearly. It should be possible to take a better one if you're handy with a digital camera.
  • Yeah, I can see what I can do. I only live a mile away from the station. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Would [1] this serve better? --Admrboltz (talk) 17:07, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I hope these few suggestions prove helpful. Finetooth (talk) 01:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)