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Exactly where at Alewife? Is it near the old Aku Aku building? Or perhaps down CambridgePark Drive? Anyone have any insight? CaribDigita ( talk) 05:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Mike Christie ( talk · contribs) 14:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
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Images are appropriately tagged and sources are reliable. I'll review the article text later today. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I started by trying to understand the geography and I have questions; these aren't necessarily going to need changes to the article, but I need to understand what I'm reading before I can critique the article.
The above (which I would guess contains errors) took me a good hour, with the help of Google Maps and reading other Wikipedia articles, to figure out. There has to be a better way to present this information. I think part of the problem is probably that you know this material so well it's hard for you to see what's not obvious. If you don't add a clear map that explains all this, the article has to spend more time making this clear to the reader. Personally I think it would be almost impossible without a map, and a good map would make it very easy, but it's up to you. I'm going to delay reviewing the body of the article in full until we've had a chance to discuss this, since it could change the body of the article. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 18:26, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Some questions about the "Passenger service" section:
Reading through the rest of the article I have no other issues. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 00:39, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Passing. Re Willow Bridge: you could make it "further north at Willow Bridge Station (renamed 'North Somerville' in <date>)"; I think it's relevant to this article because the map has one name and the text the other name. But I won't hold up GA for that. Thanks for the addition legend in the caption; that's very helpful. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:46, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
Theleekycauldron (
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08:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 ( talk). Self-nominated at 14:34, 31 August 2022 (UTC).
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Exactly where at Alewife? Is it near the old Aku Aku building? Or perhaps down CambridgePark Drive? Anyone have any insight? CaribDigita ( talk) 05:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Mike Christie ( talk · contribs) 14:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I'll review this.
Mike Christie (
talk -
contribs -
library)
14:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Images are appropriately tagged and sources are reliable. I'll review the article text later today. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 15:04, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
I started by trying to understand the geography and I have questions; these aren't necessarily going to need changes to the article, but I need to understand what I'm reading before I can critique the article.
The above (which I would guess contains errors) took me a good hour, with the help of Google Maps and reading other Wikipedia articles, to figure out. There has to be a better way to present this information. I think part of the problem is probably that you know this material so well it's hard for you to see what's not obvious. If you don't add a clear map that explains all this, the article has to spend more time making this clear to the reader. Personally I think it would be almost impossible without a map, and a good map would make it very easy, but it's up to you. I'm going to delay reviewing the body of the article in full until we've had a chance to discuss this, since it could change the body of the article. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 18:26, 26 August 2022 (UTC)
Some questions about the "Passenger service" section:
Reading through the rest of the article I have no other issues. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 00:39, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
Passing. Re Willow Bridge: you could make it "further north at Willow Bridge Station (renamed 'North Somerville' in <date>)"; I think it's relevant to this article because the map has one name and the text the other name. But I won't hold up GA for that. Thanks for the addition legend in the caption; that's very helpful. Mike Christie ( talk - contribs - library) 01:46, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
Theleekycauldron (
talk)
08:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 ( talk). Self-nominated at 14:34, 31 August 2022 (UTC).