Talk:Bras Basah MRT station/GA1

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 17:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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  • What is CC2 at the head of the infobox?
    • The station code--ZKang123 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      • I asked because it's not explained or referenced. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 07:01, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
        • Well it is used on official maps. See here. Should I have put it in the lead, or just left in the infobox (btw we have just removed station codes from the lead, I'm afraid.)--ZKang123 (talk) 12:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • What's WOHA?
  • "in Museum planning area" in the Museum Planning Area.
    •  Fixed
  • SOTA is defined but never used.
  • Consider linking "interchange" for non-experts.
  • "Marina Line" - capital L here for some reason, and does this actually exist?
  • World Architecture Festival has an article.
    •  Fixed
  • "The Contract 825 ..." no need for The here.
    •  Fixed
  • Image captions which aren't complete sentences should not have a full stop.
    •  Fixed
  • "S$343.94 million " could this be converted to something more common, e.g. US$ or Euro?
  • "The contract also includes " included.
  • " on 10 June 2002.[4] On 15 March 2003," repetitive prose.
    •  Fixed
  • "The station opened ..." avoid single-sentence paras.
    •  Fixed
  • Infobox, what's referencing the postal address?
    •  Fixed used street directory and yoursingaporemap.com
  • Infobox, what's DT21?
    • Station code for Bencoolen. Removed code as it's not necessary.--ZKang123 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Infobox, bus and taxi don't need to be capitalised.
    •  Fixed
  • ' 42 metres (138 ft)),[10" spare closing parenthesis there
    •  Fixed
  • the "deepest" and "longest escalator" records need context, i.e. deepest in the MRT?
    •  Fixed
  • ' allows improvement in ' -> improves.
    •  Fixed
  • "he ventilation shafts of the station also blended" replace "also" with "are".
    •  Fixed Used active instead of passive (blends into)--ZKang123 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "of view lines across" are "view lines" the same as "views"?
    •  Fixed Rephrased to "avoiding obstruction of the view across the site to the surrounding civic buildings"--ZKang123 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "civic buildings.[13][11]" ref order.
  • What is AIA?
    •  Fixed American Institute of Architects--ZKang123 (talk) 01:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "as part of the Art-in-Transit programme at the station" was this programme MRT-wide or just at this single station?
  • "The video also (re-)visits..." this whole sentence reads like a copy/paste from a travel blog.
  • Avoid SHOUTING in the refs.
    •  Fixed
  • numerical ranges in ref titles should be en-dash.
    •  Fixed

That's all I have on a first pass. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 17:13, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • "glass roof, which is the key feature of the station." glass isn't mentioned anywhere other than in this image caption, so if it's a "key feature" then I would expect it to be covered in the article too. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 07:04, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Fixed Changed glass roof to the reflective pool that's above the escalators. My oversight--ZKang123 (talk) 12:47, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Still some SHOUTING in the refs.
    •  Fixed
  • What's LTA?
  • Ref 12 needs an accessdate.

The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 20:07, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: are there other outstanding issues needed to be fixed?--ZKang123 (talk) 07:20, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, happy with the changes so promoting to GA, good work. The Rambling Man (Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 08:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!--ZKang123 (talk) 08:12, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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