Talk:Q20 and Q44 buses

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Reviewer: Dom497 (talk · contribs) 02:50, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Does the image associated with the "Incidents" add any value to the article? An image of the actual accident would be much better.
- The only images I could find were not freely licensed. This shows the site and the damage to the building. Sorry. epicgenius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - Please update the caption of the image to mention that it shows the damage to the building. I would have never guessed thats what the scaffolding was.--Dom497 (talk) 12:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - Done. epicgenius (talk) 15:23, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
      - I still don't think its clear that the scaffolding is there because of the crash. Maybe something like: "The scaffolding on the building was put in place as a result of the crash."--Dom497 (talk) 19:47, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        I clarified it. Is it better now? epicgenius (talk) 19:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
        
        Yep! Looks good! --Dom497 (talk) 15:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Traveling west along Archer Avenue, it passes the Jamaica Center station of the Archer Avenue subway and its Bus Terminal." - "Bus Terminal" shouldn't be capitalized.
- Done.
"At the Sutphin Boulevard subway station and Jamaica Long Island Rail Road and Airtrain JFK station..." - One to many "and"'s.
- Done.
"The Q50 meanwhile turns east to follow the Bx5..." - What is Bx5?
- Another bus route, but I reworded anyway. Too many details about the Q50. epicgenius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Prior to 1999, the Q44 ran entirely local between Jamaica, Queens and West Farms, Bronx, and was the only bus service along Main Street in Queens" - Might just be me but the multiple "and"'s throw off the flow of the sentence.
- Done.
"On February 15, 1932, North Shore Bus Company began operating a bus service to replace the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch,[5][12][13] labeled "Q35" - Move refs 5, 12, and 13 to the end of the sentence since they are so close to it. (This is more of suggestion and not a requirement).
- I split these up into 2 sentences.
"...this is the routing of the current Q25 bus in the area. It then ran east along 14th Avenue before following the current Q76 and Q15 routes to Whitestone." - Needs a reference.
- Done.
Could the infobox be edited to remove the need of the "Q20B operates weekdays only" note?
- Done.
Refs 5 and 18 don't seem reliable.
- I trusted ref 18 a little more because there is a team of several authors. Anyway, I replaced them both. epicgenius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would recommend archiving ref 71 (or linking to an already archived version) as it looks like it could become a deadlink in the near future.
- Done. epicgenius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

--Dom497 (talk) 02:58, 16 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! Passing!--Dom497 (talk) 15:03, 18 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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