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Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

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This article has a few problems:

  • The "Station facilities, amenities and services", "Fares and tickets" and "Architecture and art on the MRT" sections have only 2 references. FAs need more references.
  • "The current MRT network" section has a huge whitespace and no text, only images. Move the images somewhere else.
  • The lead section is weak. For example, these two sentences: "While this figure pales in comparison to the bus network's 2.785 million, it was a 76% increase on 1995 (0.760 million), while the bus network saw an 8.1% drop in ridership in the same period. This trend is expected to continue as current policies promote the expansion of the rail network at the expense of bus services, which are withdrawn or reduced to avoid duplication of services." And this one: "These operators also run bus and taxi services, thus ensuring that there is a full integration of public transport services." Why are
  • Why is there a section named "Safety on the MRT" and a section named "Security on the MRT"? Can you make these two sections into one section?
  • The section names are too long.
  • Some references, for example 6, 34 and 43 have formatting problems.
  • The green and yellow logo, the image of the farecard and the image of the ez-link card has no fair use rationale. And why is the image of the sign placed in the References section?

--Kaypoh 10:46, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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    • please complete your question re: lead.
    • i don't think the length of the section names are too long.
    • wouldn't combining "safety on mrt" and "security on mrt" result in a long section name?
    • re: ref formatting, do you mean to say they lack retrieve dates? Chensiyuan 15:58, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I remember the Manual of Style has one section which says that you don't repeat the article name in every section. For example, "History", not "History of the MRT". The Manual of Style also says that references must be put after a full stop or comma with no space in between. And the FAR is on hold because SandyGeorgia thinks I have too many FARs. --Kaypoh 16:02, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • ok then, so you refer to redundancy. i'd look into it. Chensiyuan 16:04, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • "history of the mrt" changed to "history". for the others, i'm not sure if removing "mrt" may compromise intended meaning. i'd leave it to the principal editors of this article. Chensiyuan 16:06, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed from FAR and closed because nominator had four noms at once. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:08, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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