Talk:Expo Phase 1 (Los Angeles Metro)

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Splitting-Out Project History Into Separate Articles

I have separated the article "Metro Expo Line (LACMTA)" into three articles: the original article (which becomes the main article), a new article covering Expo Phase 1, and a new article covering Expo Phase 2.

When I made this change tonight, the article was ranked "C" on the quality scale for train articles, and was in the "C" category for California articles. Even worse, the article had developed a reputation for advocacy and bias. It was overly long and, for the person interested in factual data, far to full of historical minutia to be useful.

By splitting the historical characteristics of the Expo Line from the less-controversial core information, I hope to both provide a resource that is easier for people to use, while simultaneously making it easier for contributors to avoid making non-neutral depictions of history.

By making these changes, I am attempting to follow the spirit and letter of the "be bold" directive. All three changes will require some additional editing over the coming days and weeks. I hope this is acceptable to everybody. Jcovarru (talk) 06:36, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this is working - too much repetition of information, nothing is really linking to it. Suggest merge these back to parent. Lexlex (talk) 16:36, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I concur, especially now that phase 1 is open. Way too much detail and undue weight given to minor squabbles and day-by-day recounting of activities. Not terribly encyclopedic, and undue weight considering this is a large, permanent infrastructure project, not some temporary event. Re-merging the articles is the only sensible thing to do. oknazevad (talk) 12:10, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Planned Move

Shortly, I plan to move the following pages, as follows:

  Metro Blue Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Blue Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Green Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Green Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Red Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Red Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Purple Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Purple Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Gold Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Gold Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Orange Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Orange Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Silver Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Silver Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Metro Expo Line (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Expo Line (Los Angeles Metro)
  Expo Phase 1 (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Expo Phase 1 (Los Angeles Metro)
  Expo Phase 2 (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Expo Phase 2 (Los Angeles Metro)
  Crenshaw Corridor (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Crenshaw Corridor (Los Angeles Metro)
  Regional Connector (LACMTA) --> moving to --> Regional Connector (Los Angeles Metro)

The purpose of this change is to replace a less-well-known, technical name ("LACMTA") with a very descriptive and very familar name "Los Angeles Metro". This will allow people who are unfamiliar with the acronym "LACMTA" to find information about the system in the Los Angeles area.

(BTW, "Los Angeles" in this case refers to "Los Angeles County", since the City of Los Angeles does not have any system called "Metro".)

Jcovarru (talk) 23:13, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]