The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 00:06, 23 June 2008 [1].
I just stumbled across this article after visiting the railway on holiday with my son, who's a big steam fan, and taking a picture which I thought could be added to WP. When I saw the quality of the article (and the existing pictures, which were much better than mine!) and that it had narrowly missed out on FA once before, I thought I'd give it a helping hand so have gone through and given it a pretty ruthless copy edit, which I think now brings it up to FA standard. I await your comments...... ChrisTheDude ( talk) 20:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Co-nominators: User:Tivedshambo and User:Gwernol. reply
SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply
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Gary King ( talk) 22:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC) reply
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Support I peer reviewed this and just reread it (and just peer reviewed the related List of stations and halts on the Talyllyn Railway). I find it to meet the FA criteria. My only comment is that there are slight discrepancies between the distances in the list and those in this article. Is the line 7.35 miles (11.83 km) long (per the list table) or 7.25 miles (11.67 km) per the lead of this article? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Support COI - I did the GA review for this article. It appears to have been significantly improved since then. Three minor points: 8,000 tons has no conversion, 4,000 tonnes is a different unit and no conversion, and there are too many howevers for my taste. Pob lwc, y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn jimfbleak ( talk) 05:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Question about images Could you provide more details for the source "Talyllyn Century, by J.I.C. Boyd" that is listed on many of the image pages? Is this a book? If so, could you please list the publication information, etc.? Also, the license listed for all of these Boyd images is "PD" because the life of the author plus seventy years has expired. However, since the author is unknown on all of them and since for a few of them it is unfortunately mathematically possible that the person could have lived long enough that the seventy years are not up, I don't think this license can be used for all of them. (I am slowly learning all of the ins and outs of these rules, so please correct me if I am wrong.)
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Can you use the the "published before 1923" license for some of these? Please note that I'm not trying to strip the article of images - I'm just trying to find the right licenses for them. :) Awadewit ( talk) 14:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Leaning towards support I've now read the article and it is well-written, interesting, and comprehensive. There were so many fascinating tidbits weaved through the article and everything was explained very well. I just have one question:
I will change to "support" just as soon as we finish up all of the image issues above. Awadewit ( talk) 15:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply
The article was promoted by User:SandyGeorgia 00:06, 23 June 2008 [1].
I just stumbled across this article after visiting the railway on holiday with my son, who's a big steam fan, and taking a picture which I thought could be added to WP. When I saw the quality of the article (and the existing pictures, which were much better than mine!) and that it had narrowly missed out on FA once before, I thought I'd give it a helping hand so have gone through and given it a pretty ruthless copy edit, which I think now brings it up to FA standard. I await your comments...... ChrisTheDude ( talk) 20:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Co-nominators: User:Tivedshambo and User:Gwernol. reply
SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 23:21, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Nominators who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article prior to nomination.
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Gary King ( talk) 22:31, 11 June 2008 (UTC) reply
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Support I peer reviewed this and just reread it (and just peer reviewed the related List of stations and halts on the Talyllyn Railway). I find it to meet the FA criteria. My only comment is that there are slight discrepancies between the distances in the list and those in this article. Is the line 7.35 miles (11.83 km) long (per the list table) or 7.25 miles (11.67 km) per the lead of this article? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:48, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Support COI - I did the GA review for this article. It appears to have been significantly improved since then. Three minor points: 8,000 tons has no conversion, 4,000 tonnes is a different unit and no conversion, and there are too many howevers for my taste. Pob lwc, y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn jimfbleak ( talk) 05:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Question about images Could you provide more details for the source "Talyllyn Century, by J.I.C. Boyd" that is listed on many of the image pages? Is this a book? If so, could you please list the publication information, etc.? Also, the license listed for all of these Boyd images is "PD" because the life of the author plus seventy years has expired. However, since the author is unknown on all of them and since for a few of them it is unfortunately mathematically possible that the person could have lived long enough that the seventy years are not up, I don't think this license can be used for all of them. (I am slowly learning all of the ins and outs of these rules, so please correct me if I am wrong.)
Awadewit (
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13:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
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Can you use the the "published before 1923" license for some of these? Please note that I'm not trying to strip the article of images - I'm just trying to find the right licenses for them. :) Awadewit ( talk) 14:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply
Leaning towards support I've now read the article and it is well-written, interesting, and comprehensive. There were so many fascinating tidbits weaved through the article and everything was explained very well. I just have one question:
I will change to "support" just as soon as we finish up all of the image issues above. Awadewit ( talk) 15:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC) reply