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List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines[edit]

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I'm trying preparing the list for WP:FL, and see if it is anywhere near the criteria (and if so, make it conform more to it). Any and all constructive suggestions are welcome. —kur ykh 22:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: This is interesting and obviously has had a lot of work put into it, but I think it needs more work before it meets WP:WIAFL. Here are some suggestions for improvement.

I am pretty sure list articles no longer have to start with "This is a list..." (although they used to). A model article is useful for ideas and examples to follow, see WP:FL. While there do not seem to be any FLs of transit routes, there are several of stations, such as List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations
Per the MOS, the article should have at least one image - perhaps a cable car, a bus, and a Muni Metro light rail train?
The biggest problem I see with the article is a near complete lack of references - the article needs inline citations as well as external refs. My rule of thumb is that every quote, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
There is one thing under references, but it needs more information. Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
Any reason why the list is not sortable?
Since the format of the tables is the same (same columns) in almost all cases, the tables should be set to be the column same widths for a more uniform appearance.
Any chance of a map of SF so those unfamiliar with the city have some idea of the major locations refered to?
Avoid one sentence paragraphs (like the first one in the lead) by merging them with others or perhaps expanding them.
Last sentence in lead has a plural subject and a singular verb (IIRC), try printing this out and reading it out loud slowly to see if there are other placves that need to be polished a bit.

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 11:59, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]