Talk:Baker Street and Waterloo Railway/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: ---Dough4872 17:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC) Comments: I am placing the article on hold. ---Dough4872 17:20, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) Can an infobox be added to the article, as standard with most railroad company articles?
 * One could be added, but I don't think they are necessary. The reason there isn't one here is that it allows the route map to be larger for legibility than it would be in an infobox. I am following the pattern of City and South London Railway, Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway and Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, all featured articles.
 * 1) Citations are not supposed to be in the lead unless that information is unique.
 * Note 1 is included to explain the term tube railway and note 2 is to confirm the route length. Both are unique to the lead section.
 * 1) Citation needed for "For the BS&WR and the rest, and others that came later, much of the remainder of the decade saw a struggle to find finance in an uninterested market."
 * Done. Moved ref 12 to end of paragraph as it covers both issues.
 * 1) "speculator Whitaker Wright", delink "speculator" to avoid having two touching wikilinks.
 * Whilst guidance is to avoid adjacent links which might be construed as a single link. I think it is important to have a link to the technical term speculation and I don't think that "speculator Whitaker Wright" would be read as if it was a single link. I have looked at rephrasing this, but the best alternative "...operated by Whitaker Wright, a mining speculator, and chaired..." is not as good.
 * 1) In the "New Cross & Waterloo Railway bill, 1898" section, combine the short paragraphs together.
 * I have combined two that are linkable but the others should stay separate as they deal with different matters.
 * 1) "Gloucester terrace", I think "terrace" should be capitalized here.
 * It should. Done.
 * 1) Combine the last paragraph of the "Minor changes, 1902–1904" with the preceding paragraph.
 * Although the last paragraph is short it deals with a separate matter to the previous one so should be separate.
 * 1) "the Thames" sounds colliqual, use "River Thames".
 * Done.
 * 1) Citations needed for bulleted list of stations.
 * Done.
 * 1) Citation needed for "The W&CR was the only tube railway that did not participate in the arrangement as it was owned by the mainline L&SWR."
 * Done.
 * 1) The sentence "The new route, ran 890 metres (2,900 ft), in a tight curve from Edgware Road station, initially heading south before turning to the north-west so that the tunnels ended pointing in a more practical direction for a future extension." sounds awkward.
 * Rephrased.
 * 1) Combine the sentences "In 1913, the Lord Mayor of London announced a proposal for the Bakerloo Tube to be extended to The Crystal Palace via Camberwell Green, Dulwich and Sydenham Hill. Nothing was done to implement the plan."
 * Done.
 * 1) In sentence "In 1914, works were carried out to provide larger ticket halls and install escalators at Oxford Circus, Embankment and Baker Street.", "works were" should be "work was".
 * OK.
 * 1) Citation needed for "However, competition from numerous small bus companies during the early 1920s eroded the profitability of the LGOC and had a negative impact on the profitability of the whole UERL group."
 * Done.
 * 1) Are any old pictures of the railroad available?
 * There are loads on the London Transport Museum site but as most of these have been in a private collection until recently, the copyright status is not clear. I have added a link to these. --DavidCane (talk) 23:46, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I will pass the article. ---Dough4872 16:25, 16 November 2009 (UTC)