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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was archived by FrB.TG via FACBot (talk) 9 January 2024 [1].

Changi Airport MRT station[edit]

Nominator(s): ZKang123 (talk) 07:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about Changi Airport station which serves Changi Airport. It is one of the most iconic stations on the Singapore MRT network. This is an old GA from 2020 and I've since worked to bring it to FA status, and after being copyedited, I decided to put this up for FAC. ZKang123 (talk) 07:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source review (not passed)[edit]

I found problems in all the references I've spot checked (selected at random other than the last one, which I checked as its phrasing seemed a bit off). I have concerns about the sourcing more broadly as a result.

  • Reference 6: The article says the study concluded that "the level of passenger traffic may be insufficient", but the source says it found that traffic "will not be sufficient", which seems more definitive
  • Reference 9: The article says that "the connection was unfeasible because workers preferred to commute to the airport by taxi", but I can't see where this is stated in the reference. It notes towards the end that travellers rather than workers preferred taxis as they needed to transport luggage. The reference also adds the proviso that the 1986 study found that the line wouldn't be viable in the next decade, not at all as the article implies.
    • Rewritten that it was the travellers' preference. I must have misread the two sources when writing this... Also wrote that the line would be unfeasible "in the immediate period".--ZKang123 (talk) 07:31, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reference 10: checks out, but this reflects only the Singapore Government's views. Why are the views of the MP who was advocating for the line referred to in this story not noted in the article? It would seem that they were correct given that construction of the line began only a few years after the government was claiming it wasn't viable. It seems a good idea for the article to cover this issue.
  • Reference 15: "After another feasibility study by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in March 1996, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced finalised plans for the 6.4-kilometre (4.0 mi) branch on 15 November 1996" - it would be much better to not use a primary source here, and I'm not sure this fully supports the statement: on page 4 he announced that the branch line would be built, not that the plans were finalised. The statement that the feasibility study was completed in March also isn't supported by the speech, which says it began in March and was completed shortly before the time of the speech in November.
    • Rewrote that he announced that the branch would be built. About the date... it's probably due to subsequent rewrites. I will drop the March 1996 part. Also, refs 16 and 17 follow up on the statements.--ZKang123 (talk) 07:31, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reference 36: "rail operator SMRT reported a crack in the crossing at Changi Airport MRT Station" is lightly paraphrased from the source.
  • The sources are all reliable, albeit with the usual proviso around the neutrality of the media in Singapore especially when covering the government or politics more broadly (see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 350#Reliability of The Straits Times for instance). The article would benefit from broader sourcing than the local media and government announcements if possible - for instance, have urban planners in other countries commented on the omission of a MRT station at the airport given that these have been common at major airports for a long time? Nick-D (talk) 05:19, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    • As I've noted back in the FAC of Woodleigh MRT, it would be difficult to find any outside commentary, but perhaps there should be for a rather prominent airport. I will get back on this if I found any.--ZKang123 (talk)
      • Google scholar yields no commentary of the lack of MRT access to the airport. Though only found another article on the technical commentary of the station construction and design,--ZKang123 (talk) 08:51, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for these changes. As the issues appeared on all the sources I reviewed, I remain concerned about the broader sourcing. This is especially the case as some of the Singapore MRT articles I reviewed for GANs have had similar issues. I'll leave it to other editors to consider this. Nick-D (talk) 23:57, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@FAC coordinators: I wish to withdraw this nomination, given it has yet to garner much consensus beyond a source review. I plan, however, to put up another article for FAC instead of this article.--ZKang123 (talk) 01:40, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll action the withdrawal. The usual two-week wait before another nomination will apply. FrB.TG (talk) 08:24, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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