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Did you know... that disagreement over the relocation of a nursery during construction of the Washington Metro's Anacostia station required an Act of Congress to resolve?

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Longer platform?

Why does the Anacostia station have a 'longer platform' as stated in the article? The watertable/295 do not make any sense to me as reasons for a longer platform. 295 might lead to a shorter platform (though 8 car trains would limit that option), and I can't figure how a high water table would shorten it. The station does look wider, however, perhaps that's what is meant? Even so, I'm still curious how a high water table or 295 lead to this widening. Rmeskill 19:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Ambiguous wording

"...due to complaints of the higher cost of transferring to Metrorail by Southeast D.C. residents and also of crime in Anacostia by Prince George's County residents."

Were the Prince George's County residents the ones complaining about the crime or the ones responsible for it? StaticElectric (talk) 08:56, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The ones complaining; they'd have to take the bus to Anacostia and then transfer to the subway, and were afraid of that. --NE2 09:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Go for featured?

Looking over this article, has anyone considered trying to go for Featured with this one? SchuminWeb (Talk) 21:30, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think it is too long to be encyclopedic? I fear that's the article's biggest drawback. It's a great article (but then, I'm biased) and very complete, but I fear it's too detailed. - Tim1965 (talk) 00:09, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It should at least go for good article, then it'll get some more attention from other parts of Wikipedia. Geoking66_talk 02:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  Detailed is good. We should nominate it for Good Article. SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:06, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support going for GA. I will help with improvements once it's nominated. - Tim1965 (talk) 02:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redlinks have been eliminated from the article (by writing those articles). - Tim1965 (talk) 01:02, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Art

We should really be linking to the WMATA page about it rather than Flickr)

you're killing me. the wmata page is already a ref, and its copyright status is unclear. the flickr have cc licenses, (even if NC,ND) and better pictures. Slowking4: 7@1|x 14:25, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's really the same issue in both places. Both are derivative works of the original copyrighted artwork, and so the copyright situation is the same for both instances (i.e. the CC license is likely invalid due to the images' status as a derivative work). Would feel far more comfortable using the official sources. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:40, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

no the cc is on the photo, not the derivative, and you don't have a cc on the wmata photos. i don't know why you feel more comfortable with "official" wmata site, if the derivative status is the same? the post office official postion didn't help them in court about the Korean War Veterans Memorial. (and we're just linking to them anyway) Slowking4: 7@1|x 20:34, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notable places nearby

What's a "notable place"? And what does "nearby" mean? I'm all for helping to make people aware of what is near a Metro station. But we don't want to run afoul of WP:NOTADVERTISING or WP:LINKFARM.

Furthermore, of the 21 stations on the Green Line, just a third of them have "Notable Places Nearby" sections. (The stations are: Suitland (WMATA station), Waterfront (WMATA station), L'Enfant Plaza (WMATA station), Archives (WMATA station), Gallery Place (WMATA station), U Street (WMATA station), and Prince George's Plaza (WMATA station).) But almost all stations have a "Location" section. It seems to me that "Notable Places Nearby" is trivia; if the place is really notable, then it should be discussed in the text in the "Location" section. Right? Wrong?

I am also concerned that "notable" for Wikipedia is not the same as being notable in an article of this type. For example, the Smithsonian station is going to have a long list of "notable" places nearby. But West Hyattsville? Probably not. Nonetheless, notably could be established for a number of businesses, historic sites, and geographic locations near West Hyattsville, and Wikipedia articles generated about them which meet Wikipedia's standard for notability. But is that the same as the rationale for including those in an article about a Metro station? It seems to me, at first glance, that the rationale for including mention of a nearby notable place in a Metro station article is much different, or else we run afoul of the first two guidelines mention above.

I'd ike to hear what comments others have. - Tim1965 (talk) 16:32, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Reorganize and improve heading heirarchy?

There's a lot of information here. But the most helpful information for people that are going there is completely buried - things like parking and daily operations. I just made crime a top level heading since people care about that. In general, for such a long article it should have more headings to index/divide it up. Mulehoss (talk) 05:53, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]