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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 The Rambling Man 08:17, 3 November 2010 [1].

List of MBTA Commuter Rail stations[edit]

List of MBTA Commuter Rail stations (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

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Nominator(s): Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:50, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I feel that it is accurate, complete, and meets all of the FL criteria. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 15:50, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment—no dab links, no dead external links. Ucucha 23:29, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment All the PDF refs need to have format=PDF; empty cells should have emdash—Chris!c/t 20:33, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Done. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 22:21, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • Looks quite good. But I will wait until someone reviews the prose before declaring my support.—Chris!c/t 23:12, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support—Chris!c/t 04:55, 20 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from The Rambling Man (talk) 15:36, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comments - quick run
  • No bold links per MOS please.
  • First sentence has one too many "and is.." clauses.
  • "Currently" - perhaps add some context e.g. As of October 2010...
  • Image captions are not complete sentences so don't need periods.
  • Wheelchair symbol should be explained here.
  • On the first sort of Zone in Safari after sorting City/neighbourhood, the 1's and the 1A's mix up.
  • Chelsea (as a random inspection) has a disabled ramp and a mobile lift, amongst other thing, but it doesn't have a wheelchair symbol in this list. What's the deal?

The Rambling Man (talk) 19:53, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Links: unbolded text
    • First sentence: split into two
    • Currently: reworded to exclude the word
    • Captions: periods removed
    • Wheelchair symbol: now explained in table's column description
    • Sorting: Firefox sorts the 1s and 1As separate, but shows the 1s first. 1A is the cheapest, but I don't know how I would be able to fix the sorting so 1A would appear first.
    • Chelsea: That is the accessibility symbol key you are seeing. If the station is handicap accessible, then the wheelchair symbol will be inline with the title as seen here. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 23:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Resolved comments from Ruslik_Zero 15:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*Comments:
    1. I would want to know the total length of the railways.
    2. Amtrak, which also deals with this problem, suggests that passengers use a taxi to get from North Station to South Station. This is off-topic. Of course, it is possible to travel by taxi from any point to any point.

Ruslik_Zero 18:48, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How would I tie railway length information into the article? It is a list of stations, so I'm not sure where such information would go. It is definitely something that could be added to MBTA Commuter Rail though. As for Amtrak, that was existing when I started to bring the article up to FL standards. I decided to leave it because even though there is a rapid transit connection, the agency outright suggests a specific way to travel between the two termini. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 19:10, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking over what you said. Would you like another table like "Stations per line" that would have columns for line, number of stations, and length of line? Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 19:18, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No need to provide so many details. I only meant that you can write "There are currently 132 stations on 12 lines having the total length of NNN km ...". As to taxi, Wikipedia is not a travel guide. Ruslik_Zero 18:15, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 22:24, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Now this article satisfies FL criteria. Ruslik_Zero 15:48, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - It looks to meet the requirements. Afro (Talk) 17:28, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Courcelles 22:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
*Comments
"but travel can be made possible by transferring" ->but travel is made possible by transferring.
Stations, section... why not use a more traditional key, rather than this bolded mash of words?
Line column, why are they all purple, instead of usign colours that match the map?
If 1A is further in than 1, shouldn't zone 1A sort before zone 1?
Lesser known newspapers, (refs 5, 6, 10, and 11) need publisher and location added to citations.

Courcelles 18:43, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Changed wording to what you suggested.
  • Could you show me an example of a more traditional key? I'd like to use it as a guide.
  • The colors on the map are there to help distinguish the routes. All Commuter Rail lines are purple.
  • As I said above, I have no idea how to force the zone column to sort differently.
  • Use the {{Sort}} template, make zone 1a {{sort|01|1a}}, 1, {{sort|02|1}}, 2 {{sort|03|2}}... It's a hack, but it will work. Courcelles 21:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Added more description to newspaper references.
Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 20:58, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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