Wikipedia:Peer review/Namma Metro/archive1

Namma Metro
This peer review discussion has been closed. Article is sufficiently comprehensive. Need suggestions for improvement, the immediate goal is a GA of course.

Thanks,  Lynch 7  18:11, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Finetooth comments: Thanks for your work on this article. I always find mass transit systems interesting. What follows is a short list of suggestions for further improvement, but it's not a complete line-by-line review. When you're done with other changes, you might consider seeking a complete copyedit from the people at WP:GOCE.


 * The lead should be expanded to be a summary of the whole article. My rule of thumb is to try to include in the lead at least a mention of each of the main text sections. WP:LEAD has details.


 * Some of the paragraphs in the article lack inline citations to reliable sources. Examples include the first two paragraphs of the History section, most of the Safety section, and so on. My rule of thumb is to include an inline citation for every set of statistics, every direct quotation, every unusual claim, and every paragraph. If one source supports a whole paragraph, the citation should go at the very end of the paragraph.


 * As with the conversions to US$ when dealing with money, I think you should give conversions for expressions like "more than 1 Crore people" and "about 2 lakhs passengers". Otherwise readers from outside India may not understand without clicking to other articles to see what these terms mean.


 * Should the second table in the Phase I section be centered since the other three tables are centered?


 * The metric measurements (km) in the first table of Phase I should include imperial conversions (mi) as well. Ditto for the table in Phase II and for constructions like "a span of 70 km" in the main text. Ditto for other places in other sections where either of these two situations arise.


 * Extremely short paragraphs and extremely short sections make an article look and feel choppy. It's usually better to expand or merge some of these to make larger paragraphs or sections. The Safety section, for example, consists of four extremely short subsections, but there are lots of other examples in this article.


 * Galleries are generally deprecated, although there are exceptions. In this case, I think you'd be better off trying to find room in the main text for the two images in the Gallery.


 * Merging some of the short subsections will have the desirable side effect of making sections big enough to accommodate images. It's best to avoid inserting images that overlap section boundaries or displace edit buttons. MOS:IMAGES has details.


 * Some of the citations, such as 3 and 27, are incomplete. Citations to web sources should include author, title, publisher, URL, publication date, and date of most recent access if all of those are known or can be found.


 * The link checker tool finds two dead URLs in the citations, here.

I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider commenting on any other article at WP:PR. I don't usually watch the PR archives or make follow-up comments. If my suggestions are unclear, please ping me on my talk page. Finetooth (talk) 23:02, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Please make sure that the existing text includes no copyright violations, plagiarism, or close paraphrasing. For more information on this please see Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-04-13/Dispatches. (This is a general warning given in view of previous problems that have risen over copyvios.)