Talk:Chicago station (CTA Logan Square branch)/GA1

Latest comment: 1 year ago by LunaEatsTuna in topic GA Review

GA Review

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Reviewer: LunaEatsTuna (talk · contribs) 02:26, 26 January 2023 (UTC)Reply


Copyvio check

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Earwig says good to go.

Files

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All images are relevant, high quality and copyright-free:

File:Chicago-Metropolitan-Station.png: valid public domain rationale;
File:1715-West-Chicago.jpg: CC0 1.0, uploaded to Commons by nominator (thanks!);
File:California CTA Blue Line Station.jpg: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Prose

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  • "The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad Company" – should company be capitalised?
    • As a proper noun, yes.
      • Noted.
  • Wikilink right of way.
    • Done.
  • "serve various parts of Chicago's west side" – wikilink Chicago.
  • "would come back to haunt the company" – reads rather unencyclopaedic; recommend rephrasing.
    • Rephrased.
  • "creating the "West-Northwest Route" that" – are the quotations necessary?
    • As a route that no longer exists and does not/should not have an article, I think so.
  • Forgive me as I am unfamiliar with the relevant policies—is the death of Sidor Bobel notable enough to be mentioned? Additionally, dedicating a section to this death might give it unbalanced notability IMO.
    • I originally added it for DYK purposes since I'd like a Four Award for this, but the commercial building should suffice for it. I still think it differentiates this station from its neighbors, but I'm open to removing it. If it's included, it doesn't belong in any other section IMO.
      • Well, are pedestrian train station-related deaths infrequent? The rarer they are the more notable including this would be in my view.
  • The sentence starting "The station house, made of red pressed brick" is quite long; could it be split into two? Relatedly:
    • Done
  • Is "specifically marked "Entrance" and "Exit"" noteworthy?
    • IIRC, Garfield mentions it. While he's not the definitive authority here (as we've discussed before), I still think it's worthy of comment.
  • "in response to a 1918 influenza outbreak" – does it happen to be the 1918 flu pandemic?
    • I highly suspect so, but Moffat doesn't expressly state as such.
      • Fair enough.
  • "Chicago Avenue had two streetcar lines;" – recommend replacing the semicolon with an en dash to avoid using it twice in this sentence.
    • Rephrased it another way.
  • I doubt there needs to be two paragraphs in Ridership; recommend merging into one.

Refs

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All sources used are either RS or used appropriately. Passes spotcheck—no concerns with refs 5, 9, 16, 25, 31, 37 or 49. Note that I could not find access to Moffat, but will assume good faith.

  • Recommend using Template:Cite map for ref 5. Also, mention the publisher.
  • In Works cited, change Archive.org to Internet Archive.

Other

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Short desc, WP:ALT text, coords, infobox, nav and cats good.

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