Talk:Division station (CTA Logan Square branch)/GA1

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Reviewer: Steelkamp (talk · contribs) 09:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I will be reviewing this article. I aim to have the review complete within the next few days. If you would like to return the favour, I have Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Airport Central railway station/archive1 open right now. Steelkamp (talk) 09:08, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Good article criteria

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  Well written

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  • one of the several branches of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad. Change to one of several branches of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad.
    • Done.
  • including the Logan Square branch on which Division lay. This reads confusingly to me? Is there any way it can be reworded.
    • Decided that Division's presence wasn't needed in the first place.
  • and formally merged into the Chicago Rapid Transit Company (CRT) in 1924. Is this saying the Metropolitan merged into the CRT in 1924 or the Chicago Elevated Railways merged into the CRT?
    • The Metropolitan; I hope the body explains it well.
  • and indeed had built much of its structure under the assumption that locomotives would be used. Should that be steam locomotive? Diesel and electric locomotives exist.
    • I assumed that steam would be inferred given the opening of the sentence (and, AFAIK, diesel locomotives didn't really exist in the 1890s); that said, I've linked steam locomotive.
  • After the war ended, work resumed on the Dearborn subway and it opened at the midnight beginning Sunday, February 25, 1951. It's not explicitly stated that the Logan Square branch and Division station closed on February 25, 1951.
    • Looking at it again, the CTA had no interest in operating ... the old Logan Square elevated ... the Logan Square branch south of Damen would be closed after the subway opened might not imply an immediate closure of the old elevated, so I've tried to add something to that effect without being too clunky. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 17:27, 26 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
  • at the beginning of the year where ridership was recorded. What does this mean?

  Verifiable with no original research

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I'll check this tomorrow. Steelkamp (talk) 15:54, 27 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sourcing looks good, I'm glad there are newspaper and book refs and the the Chicago-L.org is kept to a minimum. Spot checks done on reference 6, 13, 18, 22, 38. No problems there.

  Broad in its coverage

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  • There's no location in infobox?
  • I think there is too much detail in the first paragraph of the body not relating to Division station. Why does the part about steam vs electric traction need to be in this article?
    • Trimmed.
  • I feel the same way about large parts of the Closure and demolition section. There's just so many sentences that don't really have anything to do with Division station and would suffice being in other articles. Can you remove some details?
    • Trimmed.
  • On January 9, 1903, Mary Burke, the station agent on duty, was robbed of $35 ($1,100 in 2021) by three men. Shortly thereafter, a former bill poster for the Metropolitan was arrested in connection with the robbery and confessed to it, but refused to name his accomplices. I don't think this is important enough to include.
The value stated for 2021 should be updated. The robber is stated to be an employee of 'the Metropolitan', by which I take it that he was a railway company employee — this could be clearer. Geof Sheppard (talk) 17:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
Well I received both opinions so I will pass the review as is and any further conversation about this can go on the talk page. Steelkamp (talk) 23:58, 28 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Neutral

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  Stable

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  Illustrated, if possible

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