Wikipedia:Featured article review/MTR/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article review. Please do not modify it. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page or at Wikipedia talk:Featured article review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was kept 18:36, 9 May 2008.

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MTR

previous FAR

The English version of the article MTR refers to the whole MTR network after the merger with KCR network (while Chinese version have both former MTR network before merger and current MTR network). However, some of the information of KCR network was failed to be presented in the article. For example, the history of British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which is now part of MTR network, is missing. (The history of the whole MTR network should start from 1900s instead of 1960s.) -- MTRKCR (talk) 11:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

In my opinion, pre-merger KCR history do not belong to the MTR and so just a mentioning in the article with the main page template linked to the KCR article would be adequate. If your opinion prevails as the consensus, we could add in content from the KCR article and find references for it. --:Raphaelmak: [talk] [contribs] 12:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I suppose pre-merger KCR history may not belong to the MTR Corporation, but it does belong to part of MTR network's history, as KCR network is part of MTR network now. -- MTRKCR (talk) 12:15, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it is obvious that the pre-merger KCR network now belongs to the MTR network, and of course the history section of the MTR article must deal with the history of the MTR network. But in my opinion, since there was no such thing as MTR when the present-day East Rail Line came into operation (1911), it would be somehow illogical to include such early histories of the KCR-BS in the MTR history section. Nor was the KCR-BS (or today's ERL) part of the MTR network until 2007. The history section of the MTR, at a given point within the section, should deal with the situation, or what had happened, to the MTR network at the time described by that point, not dealing with what had happened to the present complete MTR network at that time described. So KCR network history might not be worthy of a detailed inclusion in the MTR article (though there is no problem in merely mentioning it). Any history section of articles here on Wikipedia, in my opinion, should talk about the history of the subject in relation to the definition of the subject at the time the section has progressed to. --:Raphaelmak: [talk] [contribs] 12:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

KCR lines are on lease, ownership not transferred. If we merge everything now, are we going to split up the article if the lease terminates tomorrow? Pre-merger history should go to KCR article up to the point of merger, perhaps just brief facts (say ERL was the oldest railway line) for the MTR article. And why is this issue on FARC rather than the talkpages? - Mailer Diablo 17:57, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I think there is sufficient material to retain a separate article on the pre-merger KCR and only a brief mention is necessary in this article, which should concentrate on the history of the network since its inception in the 1960s. DrKiernan (talk) 10:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Given that none of the criteria are found not met by the article (the nominator has the responsibility to cite and justify the points not met), and per the above arguments, I think that FAR is not the place for such a discussion and therefore the nomination should be closed. --:Raphaelmak: [talk] [contribs] 11:33, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

(Nevertheless!) Please complete the nomination by following the instructions at the top of WP:FAR to notify significant contributors and relevant WikiProjects, and post the notifications back to the top of this FAR. Thanks!--RegentsPark (talk) 17:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Somewhat belatedly, I am going to follow Raphael and DrK and keep this one. This is essentially a split/merge debate that can be taken care of on article talk. The balance of comments seem to suggest that the separate KCR article can handle the material in question. No other criteria concerns were raised. Marskell (talk) 18:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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