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Palo Alto station has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: April 8, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Palo Alto station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Palo Alto station was styled after a streamlined passenger train?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Palo Alto station.

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new name?[edit]

If we are going around renaming, I would suggest "Palo Alto Transit Center" given that this is more than a train station. --Erp (talk) 18:41, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is your proposed name the common name as per USSTATION? Regards, James (^talk/_contribs) 19:41, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would say yes. Certainly Palo Alto Transit Center is used by Marguerite and the VTA bus lines in their literature. The station refers only to the train part. I suspect a lot use transit centers because there are two Palo Alto train stations (California Avenue is also in Palo Alto [actually there are three with Stanford but most people would say Stanford is a 'stop' not a 'station' given there is no building, ticket machine, etc]) but only one transit center. Same for Mountain View. --Erp (talk) 20:11, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bus schedules are not reliable third-party sources. Regards, James (^talk/_contribs) 22:51, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Truflip99 (talk · contribs) 21:06, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I will be doing this review. --Truflip99 (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would take off one image from the Streamline section, that way you can remove the clearleft TPs. Too many photos for the length of the article.
- Done
The first Palo Alto station was opened in 1890 to serve the then-new Stanford University. -- then-new sounds odd, "then-newly established"
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Palo Alto station was opened in 1890 to serve the new Stanford University. -- "newly established" here as well
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it was enclosed in 1893 as a waiting room. -- "and became a waiting room" sounds better
- Done (with slightly different wording)
(previously used for the Los Gatos station, and later used as the Los Altos station) -- I'd clarify what this is referring to
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It was never locally popular, and calls came for its replacement as early as the 1920s. -- the station itself or the design?
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it consists two buildings connected -- "consists of", I think
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one north of the station building, and a pair flanking University Avenue -- comma not needed
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SP Peninsula Commute local service (renamed Caltrain in 1985) continued to stop. -- ... "here/at Palo Alto."
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It was closed on October 27, 2004 -- comma after date
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The bicycle station reopened on February 27, 2007 -- comma again
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from 2008 to 2009 -- upper case
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Caltrain constructed the $35 million Palo Alto Stations Improvement Project at Palo Alto and California Avenue stations. -- the Palo Alto...
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In 2013, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority proposed to relocate -- "proposed relocating"
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lengthy tunnel under the downtown area. -- lenthy --> long
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Dumbarton Express, SamTrans, VTA, and some Marguerite buses stop in a bus plaza located northwest of the station building (adjacent to the southbound platform), with some Marguerite buses instead stopping south of the station building. -- consider splitting
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ref 7: need access date as info subject to change
- Done Added access dates for a couple sources.

All I got. Good stuff. --Truflip99 (talk) 22:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review! I believe I've addressed everything. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:49, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sources[edit]

Just a listing of interesting links for mining. People should add if they know of any. --Erp (talk) 00:49, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

https://historysanjose.pastperfectonline.com/photo/B572D83B-F4AC-4352-AF06-056217272799 picture of the station circa 1910-1934.
Also at one time there were streetcars in Palo Alto Peninsular Railway (California). A nickname for one line was the Toonerville Trolley which ran from the station to Stanford University (1909-1929). Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture of one at the station end.

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 97198 (talk) 09:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Palo Alto station was designed to resemble a streamlined passenger train? Source: "This one-story streamlined Southern Pacific station personifies the tendency of the 1930s to style buildings in the imagery of transportation machinery, in this case the Streamline train." (link)

Reviewed: Church Avenue station (IND Culver Line)

Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:29, 8 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Article is plenty long enough, and passed GA on 8 April. The hook fact is interesting and appropriately cited inline. Spotchecks reveal no evidence of close para-phrasing or copyvio. Good to go. Harrias ^talk 09:54, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]