Talk:Folkestone Harbour railway station/GA1

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 09:20, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

• Opening sentence is rather "and ... and ... and ..."

Split into two sentences

• No mention of England or France here, perhaps the non-European readers could benefit from that.

Hmm, not sure, simply because the comparable St Pancras railway station and Ashford International railway station (which both serve international services) don't mention England or France either.

• What's a "branch line"?

Linked

• Consider linking viaduct as jargon.
• "and Venice-Simplon Orient Express" our article italicises this.

So it does

• Hythe is mentioned in the infobox and the category but nowhere in the prose.

  This is one of those awkward things. Template:Infobox station says "Country administrative subdivisions", which is currently Folkestone and Hythe District; however this has never existed concurrently with the station, so it is factually incorrect. I can change the infobox to say "Folkestone, Kent"; no idea what to do about the category as I tend to avoid those for fear of awakening the category dramah gods. What can you advise? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:19, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

  This is one of those things that was severely affected by the merger of {{Infobox UK disused station}} two years ago. Previously, we had two parameters |locale= and |borough=, the former being for the name of the locality in which the station was situated; the latter for the name of the present-day local authority in which the station was situated, see Special:PermaLink/953135311#Example. The merger into infobox station has led to a messy situation where different articles use different conventions. The category should similarly reflect the present-day local authority. Folkestone and Hythe District is one of twelve districts into which Kent is presently divided, see Subdivisions of England#Hierarchical list of regions, counties and districts. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:45, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

• Be consistent with relinking after the lead, e.g. you linked 1 in 32 there but not in the prose, yet SER gets relinked etc.

Done

• Link for groyne?

Done

• "at Folkestone East.[7] The" already linked (as "main station")

Fixed

• " It moved in " the goods shed moved spontaneously, or it was moved?

Typo, should have been "was moved"

• LCDR is abbreviated but the abb is never used.

It is, but LCDR is often seen in related railway articles, so I think it might still be useful for the reader

• Could relink Calais and Boulogne for consistent approach to relinking...

Certainly

• "of £436,000." can this be inflated to modern times please?

Done, though I'd like to know if Template:Inflation can be worked to say "£49.8 million as of 2021" instead of what's now there

• "from Queenborough to " context for where this was?

Clarified; at the moment Port of Queenborough is a redlink, but this could be a suitable article for the encyclopedia

• "shortage of steamers" link?

Linked

• Could link in Railway electrification in Great Britain.
• "the Venice-Simplon Orient Express (VSOE) began" italics. Actually, no, use the VSOE abbreviation....! And again later...

Done

• "from Victoria to Paris via Ashford" link Vic and Ash.

Done (also linked Paris to Gare du Nord, which although not directly in the source is not, I believe, "information challenged or likely to be challenged")

• "Grade II listed" link.

Done

• "line. Network Rail decided" link.

Didn't think Network Rail was notable, but of course it is

• "objected by" objected to by?

Fixed

• "by DB Schenker, the" who??

Clarified

• "future UKIP leader" expand per our article title on first use.

Done

• " the Department for Transport published" overlinked.

Done (fixed earlier when I ran a duplicate links script)

• " £3.5 million" non-breaking space before million.

Done (also, might it be useful to have a template, so this is done consistently)

• "the Customs House" link?

Linked, also converted to lower case as this is merely an instance of a customs house, not a specific one

• "stalls.[21]The" space after ref.

Tweaked

• "no definitive plans of what to do with the land" ->"no definitive plans for the land"

Changed to "plans for development" which is tighter

• What's a "platelayer"?
• I would add a {{clear}} at the bottom of the Incidents section to stop the images crushing the reference columns.

Done, I was hoping to find some more incidents, but nothing leapt out in sources

• Ref 32 really needs work on the content of the template!

Replaced with a better source

• "No. 46 - Kent" en-dash. Same for last two sources.

I don't know how to do this, sorry

• "Folkestone Harbour station information from kentrail.co.uk" previously this was .org.uk and not italics. Consistency.

There's no need to have a link here, it's being used as source, albeit sparingly for basic detail like dates and features, where I haven't found a good book source

• First ext link is 404.
• As is the third one.
• Is the last ext link the same info as linked in ref 25? If so, not needed.

I've reviewed all the external links - they're all either dead or out of date (the Remembrance Line's last update is indefinite suspension of operations because of COVID in 2020, and because the line has been removed and the station is almost certainly never going to reopen, it's raison d'être has gone.

• The 1960 closure isn't captured in the categories.

I've simplified the categories; "open 1849" and "closed 2014" will suffice

• "2009 disestablishments in England" despite the fact it wasn't closed until 2014?

See above

That's all I have. Cheers. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 16:12, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Okay, I've gone through all the issues now, can you take another look? Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 08:46, 28 June 2022 (UTC)