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I'd like to have a standard set of indicators for what importance this project should place on what articles. This is my draft proposal, very open to suggestions, and based roughly on what User:Whoop whoop pull up and I have been adding. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 15:31, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Top importance (aiming for GA or featured status for all):
The three downtown commuter rail terminals, the seven downtown transfer stations, Providence Station, and perhaps a small number of high-use stations like Harvard and Ruggles.
Existing terminal commuter rail, subway, and Silver Line stations, plus some other important stations, as High importance, but other existing stations as Mid importance
Minor former branches as Mid importance, minor former stations as Low importance
I definitely see where you're coming from, but the issue with that is that you get down the rabbit hole of what "important" and "minor" mean. It's better to have one base standard that covers all the cases, and a handful (subway to subway transfers are an obvious case) get higher importance, rather than arbitrarily pushing some to a lower improtance. Terminal stations don't also necessarily mean a lot; Bowdoin, Forge Park/495, Wickford Junction, and Oak Grove are all less important than the penultimate station on their lines.
Encyclopedias should serve their users first; it doesn't matter if we have a great collection of data if it's not useful or important to anyone. During the short-lived article feedback experiment, it became very clear that most readers were looking at current service information about stations - so that should be a focus of the project. Even the least interesting present-day stations - even if they'll never go beyond C-class - should be high importance for that sake. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:49, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be ok to create a MBTA Commuter Rail day trips page
Hi! I'm interested in creating a new page on Wikipedia to list day trip destinations that are accessible on the commuter rail. Examples would be Salem, Crane Beach, Providence, CapeFlyer, Ski Train, Bike Train, Ayer rail trail, and many more. I think it would be great for people in Boston interested in making a local day trip using the T, and could help increase ridership on off peak MBTA trains that are mostly empty.
Do you think this would be ok to create? If so, do you have a suggested title of the page? Some possibilities are:
@Enginemen: I've removed the logos you added to the infoboxes for the various lines. I appreciate your effort to add them, but I think it's better without them for two reasons:
All of them take up valuable real estate in the infobox. The purpose of infoboxes is to summarize the most important information in an article - see MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. Adding the logos pushes all the other information downwards. I don't see a contextless logo as providing any useful information that's not already given by the photograph and/or the infobox title.
Many of the logos you added aren't official logos. Files like File:MBTA Providence-Stoughton icon.png are intended for navigation on Wikivoyage; they're not from the MBTA and shouldn't be placed in an infobox where readers expect an official logo.