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List of London Underground stations

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This list meets all the crieria for becomming featured:

  • It is complete - all currently open stations are listed, a separate List of closed London Underground stations exists and is clearly linked to.
  • It is acurate - the list is empircally verifiable by anyone in London and by referece to the external links.
  • The list is stable and uncontroversial - the criteria for inclusion are factualy and very easily defined, meaning there are no edit wars over inclusion. The only addition recently was an anon adding a station to the list that is actually in Philadelphia!
  • The list is useful in that it lists and links to all the stations of the London Underground - there are too many to inlcude as a section in another aritcle.
  • It is well structured and annotated - the stations are listed alphabetically and annotated with the lines (and branch where apropriate) that serve them.
  • The brief lead section is sufficient to define and summarise the list, and the table of contents includes all the headings and does not overwhelm.
  • The images add to the list in that they illustrate the diffent styles of stations on the underground, are not overwhelming and are all available under a free license (except Image:South Kensington station.jpg, which I have left a note on the uploader's talk page about the uploader has now added a GFDL tag to the image. Thryduulf 18:15, 1 December 2005 (UTC)). The only reason there is no image to illustrate the D section is that there is not one available (something I have noted on the UK Wikipedian's noticeboard, so I hope someone will do the honours and rectify this shortly). I beleive the captions are all good, but as I am the person who has written them all I cannot be objective about this.[reply]

Thryduulf 16:02, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - but shouldn't you put the title words in bold anyway? -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ | Esperanza 20:03, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • I'm not certain what you are asking here, the only logical thing to bold in the introduction is "list of currently-open stations on the London Underground and the Docklands Light Railway.", which at about 50% of the introduction seems a little too much imho. Thryduulf 09:25, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I would much prefer this to be presented in a table format. Looking at the talk page history I can see it was at one stage, and was changed to a list - but table formatting in Wikipedia has improved immensely since 2003. This would allow for better readability, and also potentially for added columns with additional information, such as year that the station opened and notes such as the one for Queensway. The lead is also pretty short - it could do, for example, with something on some stations being shared by mainlines. --OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 14:14, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • The repeated links to lines and zones distact from the station links. Susvolans ⇔ 10:51, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry, but I'm going to oppose. It is missing some useful links from talk which indicate the actual distance between stations and provides little more info than a category would. Personally I would prefer either expansion with opening years of stations and stuff, or simply sort by line instead of alphabetically. - Mgm|(talk) 11:10, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • The distance between stations would seriously overcomplicate the list in this format, as you'd need to note which station was adjacent to it. This would be better done on the individual line pages where the order is already given.
    • Sorting stations by line is already done on the pages about each line, where it fits better as many stations are on more than one line they would need multiple entries - making the list less useful. Thryduulf 12:38, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • I have to agree on this - so many of the Underground stations in central London are on more than one line that the list would be a mess if it were sorted by line - King's Cross St. Pancras tube station, for example, is on six line, and adjacent to eight stations (three lines run along on the same tracks here). I am a bit torn on table format - I think it the article is OK as it is, with the limited information that it presents, but if more information was added (such as date of opening, which would be useful) then I think a table would be better. And cells could be coloured with the colour of the line, which would make it prettier and possibly easier to read. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:45, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I can see your point. Scratched the oppose. - Mgm|(talk) 10:10, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
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