Talk:Line 5 (Beijing Subway)

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Original Article Substantially Edited
I have heavily edited the original article because its information was badly out of date, and it contained inaccurate geography, incorrect verb tenses, irrelevant information, and failed to include relevant information.

Badly out of date information and incorrect grammar:

The article referred to Line 5 as follows: "Metro Line 5 is planned to be Beijing's first true north-south line." This sentence means that Line 5 is not yet in operation and is still at the planning stage. This is obviously not true, because it has been in operation for nearly 12 years.

The article said that: "In addition, the Line will serve the booming communities of Tiantongyuan in the north which lack any subway connection." Again, this is the wrong verb tense to use, because Line 5 has been running since 2007.

Inaccurate geography:

Line 5 does not pass "just east of the city center". In English, this implies that Line 5 does not have any stations in the city center. However, it passes directly through it. The central portion of Line 5 is extremely central. All Line 5 stations between Yonghegong and Chongwenmen are in the city center. The writer did not seem to understand the difference between the city center - a very large area - and the Forbidden City. Line 5 passes just east of the Forbidden City (approximately a kilometer east), which is very clearly in the city center.

The article refers to Tiantongyuan as "booming". It was booming in the 2000s, when most of it was built, but that was some time ago.

Failed to include relevant information:

Line 5 connects with numerous other lines which offer rapid, convenient commutes to important locations. Most of these lines did not exist when the writer wrote his article. Beijing's subway has changed enormously since 2007 and failing to include such details makes for a very old-looking article.

Included irrelevant information:

"After the start of construction, " said the original article, "house prices along the line began to rapidly grow. In a short period of 20 days after the opening, the surrounding housing prices along the subway line increased 23.3%, reaching nearly 20,000 yuan RMB per square metre."

What happened to real estate prices along Line 5's route in 2007 is totally irrelevant to readers in 2019. What readers do want, however, is accurate, readable information that tells them what Line 5 actually does. — Preceding unsigned comment added by James Brierley (talk • contribs) 15:16, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

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