Talk:Eau Claire Transit/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: SounderBruce (talk · contribs) 22:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Will review later. SounderBruce 22:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Review summary

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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Comments

Lead

• Watch for MOS:CAPS in the infobox
• Hubs do not need to be listed in the infobox
• "Mass transportation" is not a common American English phrase; I suggest using public transit or mass transit instead.
• "Comprised of" should be replaced; see these links for the reason why.

History

• The opening words are filler and should be replaced, e.g. "The earliest transit srevice in the city".
• "As well as the first in the country to heat trolley cars using electricity..." is a fragment that can be merged.
• Opening sentence of the second paragraph is very choppy.
• Citation 6 does not support anything specific to Eau Claire other than the city railway's establishment date of 1889, which is not even used in the article.
• "the city sold the network to an area investor and was operated as" implies the city was operated under the new name.
• What happened under the Eau Claire Transportation Company? The section only has one sentence covering the decades between the 1930s and mid-1970s.
• Is there a better establishment date for Eau Clair Transit?
• Beyond the transit center, what else has happened to the agency since the 1970s?

Routes

• The description of general route characteristics should come before the transit center.
• This entire section is cited to the route information book, which does not explicitly describe the service patterns. This feel like quite a bit of original research and should be removed.
• The core routes table should be removed per WP:NOTGUIDE.
• The UW routes can be listed as prose instead of a bullet-point list; much of the information can be consolidated into one paragraph.
• The express routes can be described without a list.

Eau Claire Transit Center

• "grant for the project" should be "grant to construct a replacement" or something similar that provides context to the sentence.
• "The new transit center began construction" should be reordered so that it doesn't imply that the transit center constructed itself.
• "temporary" should not be in quotations; I think it would be best to just remove this use entirely.
• "In order to provide a transfer facility during construction" can be dropped as well.
• "summer 2024" should be avoided per MOS:SEASON.
• "As well as first floor retail space, two stories of parking above, and three stories of housing on top." is another fragment.
• "meaning the rent will be considered affordable for those making between 80% - 120% of the median income in the county" can be shortened to "with rents considered affordable for households with 80 to 120 percent of the county's median income".
• The developer names don't really need to be mentioned, just their general descriptions will suffice.
• "will be complete" should be "scheduled to be completed"
• "must contribute" should be "is expected to contribute"
• "value of the project" should be "cost of the project"

Ridership

• Some prose is needed here, especially to put some numbers into context. Where does Eau Claire rank among Wisconsin systems?

Missing sections

• Some basic fare information, such as payment methods and reduced fare groups, should be mentioned.
• The lead mentions that the agency has 22 low-floored buses, but there is no fleet information at all in the body.
• No paratransit services are mentioned in the body. Are there other services (such as vanpools) offered?
• Information on the ownership, administration, operating base(s), budget, funding sources, employment numbers, and

Images

• The bus image barely shows the bus and needs to be cropped or replaced.

Citations and sources

• Citations that use a simple URL as their publisher need to be fixed.
• The Historical Society should not be listed just as a website, but as the publisher.
• Student-Transit seems to be a company website using a generic history blurb; try to find the actual source.
• VoiceMap doesn't seem like a reliable source given their opaque editorial standards; it seems most entries are user-generated, which violates WP:SOCIALMEDIA.
• Citations 21 through 30 need publisher, date, and access-date information.

Frankly, I don't think article is ready to be a GA, especially with the amount of basic information that is missing. I will put this on hold for a week and if no major progress is made, the nomination will be closed. SounderBruce 07:31, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.