Talk:Southern Railway zone/GA1

GA Review

Unsuccessful. RoySmith (talk) 03:37, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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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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