Talk:Orange Line (MBTA)/GA2

GA Reassessment

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This article is nowhere near meeting the current Good Article crtierion. It has several unreferenced and/or poorly referenced sections and does not go nearly deep enough to be a GA. I will be pinging the main editor(s) of this article and the reviewer of the May 2013 GAN, as it wasn't terribly long ago. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 22:00, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

I am pinging Pi.1415926535, a major contributor at MBTA articles and Designate, the reviewer. I'm not sure if he/she was new at the time, but this was an unacceptable review. There were "citation needed" tags throughout the article and sections that did not have any references. This should have made the GA nominee a quick-fail. I'll give both editors time to respond, but based on that alone, it's pretty clear this is nowhere near GA status. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 22:08, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Definitely not GA quality. It needs major work throughout, including a total overhaul of the history section, far better image selection (three mediocre historical photographs, one crappy shot I took, and a distant shot of rolling stock?), and so on. This is on my hit list to bump up in quality, and I may be able to do some things like image replacement now, but there's a lot of work that I might not be able to do any time soon. Delist. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:20, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

I concur. However, I'll give it a few more days to see if Designate will respond. Given that he hasn't edited in a month, the answer is probably not. I am very curious to figure out as to why he made such a shitty review (judging by the contents of the review, it is borderline POINTy). Either way, that was an unacceptable review and I'm amazed it took over a year and half for someone to discover how awful the review was. That said, thanks for the insight, Pi. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 01:25, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Given the low likelihood of the reviewer responding and the amount of problems this article has, I'm delisting. Sportsguy17 (T • C) 00:24, 6 March 2015 (UTC)