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'...that constructing a station at that location would prevent express service from operating past Continental Avenue.' To an average reader this sentence may be hard to undertsand. There is no other mention of continental avenue and it is unclear if the sentence is related to the next sentence (which i believe is the explanation to the reasoning in the first sentence).
This will come under
WP:NOTGUIDE. Mentioning that there is a token booth can be encyclopedic but mentioning what time it is open is a guide, unless the operating hours has some significance which in this case I assume not.
1.02 editor (
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13:52, 18 September 2019 (UTC)reply
How do you want me to detail the former hours of the entrances and the booth? I think that is important to underscore the expansion and reduction of hours.--
Kew Gardens 613 (
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15:45, 18 September 2019 (UTC)reply
The article is already of quite good quality but there are still a few concerns that I have raised. I have put the article on hold while these are addressed.
1.02 editor (
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12:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Sorry for the delay but the article seems fine as of when i last looked through and all raised concerns have been resolved. Nice job with the articles in this topic. Passing.
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14:31, 25 September 2019 (UTC)reply
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ALT1:... that plans for the New York City Subway's Parsons Boulevard station were changed at the last minute due to uncertainty about plans for the remainder of the line? Source: LI Daily Press 1
ALT1a:... that plans for the Parsons Boulevard station were changed at the last minute due to uncertainty about plans for the remainder of the subway line it was located on? Source: LI Daily Press 1
The article gained GA status on 25 September, and is plenty long enough. Both hook facts are appropriately cited inline to reliable online sources. Spotchecks show no evidence of copyvio or close para-phrasing. Good to go.
Harriastalk10:32, 28 September 2019 (UTC)reply
This nomination was pulled from prep on October 29 when
Gatoclass, who was checking the prep set in preparation to moving it to a queue, was unable to
verify the hook. Gatoclass, is this still a problem? If so, which part of the ALT1 hook (which was the one promoted) is not verifiable? Thanks.
BlueMoonset (
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03:48, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Thank you
BlueMoonset, quite frankly I am astonished that I forgot to reopen this nomination, as I spent a lot of time going through the refs trying to extract the facts. As I recall, I didn't like either of the alts as I felt they were a misstatement of the sources, while the original hook was misleading because it implies the protests caused the delay, which they did not. However, I will now have to go back through the references again to recheck - my apologies for not following this up earlier.
Gatoclass (
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14:17, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Having looked this over again, I still can't see any support in the supplied sources for the statement that plans for Parson's Boulevard were changed at the last minute "because of uncertainty" about plans for the remainder of the line. The board simply decided to have Parson's Boulevard as the last express stop, there was also some uncertainty about how to complete the remainder of the line, but the two appear to be unrelated. Apart from that, the alt hooks quite frankly are pretty uninteresting anyway, and my objection to the original hook still stands. So I think a new hook will be required here.
Gatoclass (
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14:41, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Both are cited in the article. The first removes the implication that the station's specific construction was the cause of the delay. The second is a new tactic altogether (although ALT4 is sourced to an image citation, it is an official MTA document, otherwise this would be an offline source).
epicgenius (
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17:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I have trimmed ALT3 as I think the juxtaposition of the two facts just doesn't work (and delays in construction are not very interesting anyway), so that I can verify both ALT3 and ALT4. My apologies once again
Epicgenius for the initial failure to follow up on this, I spent quite a lot of time reviewing the article and making tweaks to it, somewhere amongst all that it must have slipped my mind that I hadn't actually reopened the nomination!
Gatoclass (
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10:33, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Hi, I came by to promote this, but I don't think either hook is interesting, and ALT4 should say "1988" instead of "1989". I think ALT4 could be salvaged with one additional factoid:
There is a missing url in reference 41. Also, I notice that the DYK nomination - or perhaps the GA above it? - appears to be incorrectly transcluded on this page, is there someone more familiar with the code than me who can fix it? Thanks,
Gatoclass (
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07:13, 31 October 2019 (UTC)reply