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Newton Lower Falls Branch has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: June 29, 2024. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Newton Lower Falls Branch appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Newton Lower Falls Branch.

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Nominator: Pi.1415926535 (talk · contribs) 06:18, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Steelkamp (talk · contribs) 04:45, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll take this review. Steelkamp (talk) 04:45, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article criteria

Well written

Lead

I think Massachusetts should be linked, as there are no sea of blue issues there.
- Done
21st-century proposals should be reworded to avoid starting a sentence with a figure.
- Done

Route

...in just five minutes. I would change to ...in five minutes as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch.
- Done

Early history

It had cost $39,050 to build. Recommend changing to It cost $39,050 to build.
- Done
What is the "Newton Circuit"?
- Done Added some wikilinks to clarify.
...while Lower Falls Branch service was reduced to Riverside–Lower Falls shuttle trains. I think this would be clearer as ...while Lower Falls Branch service was reduced to shuttle trains to Riverside.
- Done I prefer to say "between X and Y" rather than "to X" unless a service is unidirectional.

Electrification

The single electric railcar... Replace with A single electric railcar... because the railcar is not already mentioned.
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State legislature could link to Massachusetts General Court.
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Closure

Just to be clear, I recommend changing Newton–Framingham route to Newton–Framingham streetcar route.
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Service was reduced to 7+1⁄2 round trips at that time. Should that be Service was reduced to 7+1⁄2 round trips per day at that time.?
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Change "1950–1951" to "1950–51" for consistency with other dates in the article.
- Done
It included a deed restriction disallowed the right-of-way from being used as "a transportation, communication, electrical or other corridor or right of way". This should be changed to It included a deed restriction that disallowed the right-of-way from being used as "a transportation, communication, electrical or other corridor or right of way".
- Done

Rail trail and litigation

The STB initialism is not defined before being used.
- Done

Verifiable with no original research

References spotchecked: 12, 30, 34, 37, 59, 67, 68, 71. No issues found.

Broad in its coverage

Neutral

Stable

Illustrated, if possible

General

Do you know why the map link is below the categories? Is that a glitch?
- The "KML file" link created by {{Attached KML}}? That appears normally to me on both desktop Chrome and mobile Firefox. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, the KML link. For me, its below the categories at the bottom of the page on desktop Chrome and Firefox and mobile Safari. Steelkamp (talk) 02:14, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless of the above map glitch, I'm going to pass this review. Congratulations :) Steelkamp (talk) 02:14, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:16, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The "Ping-Pong" at Riverside station

... that the Newton Lower Falls Branch was operated with a single electric railcar (pictured) nicknamed the "Ping-Pong"?

Source: Boston Globe, April 6, 1909; Humphrey, Thomas J.; Clark, Norton D. (1986). Boston's Commuter Rail: Second Section. Boston Street Railway Association. ISBN 9780938315025.

ALT1: ... that the rails of the Newton Lower Falls Branch were removed, but it was never legally abandoned? Source: 2014 and 2017 court cases
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frances Darlington

Improved to Good Article status by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 60 past nominations.

Pi.1415926535 (talk) 06:22, 29 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:03, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]