Talk:Southern Railway zone

Latest comment: 3 months ago by RoySmith in topic GA Review

Comment edit

The quality of the article to be very much improved with more satistical data.

Map edit

The article would be improved by the addition of a map showing the rail lines in zone 7. --Bejnar (talk) 22:07, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Timeline and key events edit

There is a section for timeline and key events. I am not sure if all of these need to be categorized as key events. I think removing it would be a good idea, need someone to check it out. --LokeshRavindranathan 11:31, 14 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Manmadurai-Rameswaram Rail Track To Become 1st Green Corridor edit

Could this news item be mentioned either in this article or a new one about the Manmadurai-Rameswaram rail line? Manmadurai-Rameswaram Rail Track To Become 1st Green Corridor http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/manmadurai-rameswaram-rail-track-to-become-1st-green-corridor-1404068 Eastmain (talkcontribs) 06:44, 9 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

GA Review edit

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Southern Railway zone/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: RoySmith (talk · contribs) 03:37, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply


There are many unreliable sources. FIBIS is a wiki, i.e. WP:UGC. indiarailinfo.com looks like some kind of railfan hobby site, i.e. also UGC. At the bottom of the page is says, "YOU are responsible for independently confirming the validity of information through other sources." which doesn't sound like a WP:RS to me. IRFCA is also a railfan site which describes itself as "a web-based forum". If it was just one or two references, it might be possible to sort that out during the course of a review but it looks like fully one third of the references fall into this category. This is contrary to WP:GACR 2b: "reliable sources".

From a stylistic point of view, I'm concerned about the heavy use of tables. They make up about half the total content of the article, which is contrary to WP:GACR 1b: "it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for ... list incorporation."

Either of the above is probably sufficient to invoke WP:GAFAIL item 1: "It is a long way from meeting any one of the six good article criteria" by itself. Between the two, there's no question. My apologies if this sounds harsh, but I wanted to make it clear what issues need to be resolved before this can be resubmitted for another review. RoySmith (talk) 03:37, 4 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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