Talk:Corrour railway station/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Ritchie333 (talk · contribs) 12:18, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Well you reviewed my GA, so I think it's only fair I review yours. I love the West Highland line and want to travel on it again next spring / summer, ideally via the Caledonian Sleeper. Anyway, my initial concern is that some paragraphs don't have inline citations, which will need to be fixed. Otherwise, I'll read through the article and get back to you soon. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  12:18, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Which paragraphs specifically need more citations? Pkbwcgs (talk) 12:30, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've tagged them to make them obvious. I'm also concerned you have not contributed much to the article; Good article nominations/Instructions says "Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article on the article talk page prior to a nomination.", which in this case would be and . Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)  16:03, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Me? With 14 edits in all? Oooo -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:57, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

From a quick spin of the article, I have found numerous unsourced claims, and claims that are not in the citations given. The article needs a thorough fact check before it can be considered a GA. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:44, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello, all. Perhaps I should put my hand up as I have contributed much of the article. I am a novice in editing and do not understand many technical things like templates: please bear with me and update them for me. I welcome an independent review, as I did feel somewhat in the dark.


 * I have made a number of edits addressing some of the points made in the review. I give below observations on some remaining points. Exbrum (talk) 16:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

History: Corrour was a post town
My citation has been marked "failed verification". I have checked this and the citation is correct and does verify the statement. If you go to the link then select "Inverness-shire" (which the article states is the county in which Corrour was) you get a list of all the post offices and post towns in the county. Corrour is listed as a post town and the relevant dates are given. When I made this edit I did not give the link direct to the "Inverness-shire" subsidiary page because it is important that a reader first goes to the main page (to which I did give a link) then reads the “Terminology” subsidiary page. Without this preliminary work the county pages are unintelligible. In particular, the "Terminology" page explains that because the "CORROUR" entry has the place name in block capitals this means it was a post town. I have tried not to go overboard with citations, but have no objection to the main page, the "Terminology" page and the "Inverness-shire" pages all being individually cited if this solves the problem.

The three links are as follows.

Main page: https://sites.google.com/site/ukpostofficesbycounty/home/scotland.

Terminology page https://sites.google.com/site/ukpostofficesbycounty/home/terminology

Inverness-shire page: https://79f21e9d-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/ukpostofficesbycounty/home/scotland/Inverness-shire.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7coSMN2PxMvIJ40wyEfQ4xX98Qnt8kQEL0ErpaP2voRODqp7jw-CZIo_6qshMNwiQjoAOce_IdJvya2t9-3FS2jqxBJsNrJK9UAlWamfQjvQJaL6HEPQf5t0E0Cc33V3-zslpT9e8RhH89wSHKiT2nHJX7Za0f1GBxEyp8Spr66Qfa6cPgpHu3uTCHSA0nDw0cl85VkoJyihQ-y9FwJ_yeUzQlKYyv1ClrLWP4xmWDNUvF7kFriJef_MA2cdRoijbcUNRR4i&attredirects=0

Exbrum (talk) 16:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

No-one has commented so I have expanded the citation slightly and removed the tag. Exbrum (talk) 08:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

My edit was promptly reverted on the ground that "don't leave search instructions - link the *actual* web page that supports the content". I had already explained, above, the problem with that approach: the *actual* web page is written in shorthand and unintelligible unless you also follow my "search instructions". So the "failed verification" tag returned. I have been pondering how to get round this problem when suddenly salvation appeared. The Post Office listing has recently undergone a substantial upgrade and one improvement is that the existence of a Post Town is now indicated in the main entry, so no longer has to be deduced from the entry name being in block capitals. I have therefore been bold, changed the citation to the Inverness-shire page of the listing and removed the "failed verification" tag. I hope this is OK with everyone. If not please could you contribute to this so far one-sided discussion on the Talk Page.

If through ignorance I have not used the correct template for the citation, could someone please fix it for me. Exbrum (talk) 10:55, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

P.S. I did try to edit the existing template, but could not get it to work. Exbrum (talk) 11:08, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

History: Fersit
I see that this has been marked "fact" and "citation required". It is certainly a fact that there was a temporary station at Fersit, and this is recorded in the Wikipedia article for Fersit Halt railway station to which I gave a link. It is also mentioned in the Wikipedia article on the West Highland Railway. Does it need a citation? It is also a fact that Fersit is a little south of Tulloch. This is a geographical fact. If it helps I can insert a reference to an OS map. I inserted the mileage because another editor had inserted the original mention of Fersit but in such a way as to suggest it was near Corrour. I did wonder if mention of Fersit had no place in an article on Corrour, but on balance left it in as it is interesting to know the adjacent stations even if they no longer exist.

Exbrum (talk) 16:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Signalling: RETB controlled from Banavie
I have no knowledge of signalling and cannot help here. I hope someone can provide a citation; indeed this whole section is uncited.

Exbrum (talk) 16:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Cultural references
Paul Merton: I do not understand if this is a still a dead link or not. If it is, I am sorry but I have no knowledge of Paul Merton and cannot suggest a remedy.

Similarly, I have no knowledge of Harry Potter and am unable to supply a citation.

Exbrum (talk) 16:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)