Talk:New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway/GA1

GA Reassessment

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GA Sweeps: Delisted

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I believe the article currently has multiple issues that need to be addressed, and as a result, I have delisted the article. Although a few inline citations are present, there are multiple sections that lack citations throughout the article. I have left additional comments below that can be used for improving the article to return it to GA status. Add additional citations from a variety of sources to provide a balanced representation of the information present. Perhaps sources can be pulled from the main articles linked to within the article. Look to books, magazines, newspaper articles, other websites, etc. Although the article has been delisted, the article can be return to GA status by addressing the below points. Once sources are added and cleanup is done, I recommend renominating the article at WP:GAN. If you need assistance with any of these issues, please contact me on my talk page and I'll do my best to help you out. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:22, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Needs inline citations:

1. The entire "Route" section is unsourced. The citation tag has been there since October 2008.
2. The vast majority of the "History" section is also unsourced. Go through each paragraph and cite any statement that is likely to be questioned by a reader who knows nothing of the topic.
3. "Because there are no customers between these two points, the NYS&W announced in February 2007 that it intends to abandon this section of the Utica Branch, the railroad's first abandonment in well over three decades." Tagged since February 2007.

Other issues:

1. This isn't required for GA, but I tagged multiple images to be moved over to Wikimedia Commons. If you have a profile there, consider moving them over so that other language Wikipedias can benefit from the images.
2. File:NYSW2481.jpg, File:NYSW1002.jpg, and File:NYSW238.jpg need to state fair use rationales for why they should be included in this article.
3. The inline citations need consistent formatting to include the title, author, date, access date, etc. Consider using the citation templates at WP:CITET to make formatting easier.
4. Since the article is lacking citations, consider using the sites listed in the references section for sourcing statements.
5. For an article of this length, the lead should be two paragraphs. Try and touch on all of the sections to best summarize the article. Look to WP:LEAD for guidelines.
6. There are multiple single sentences in the article. To improve the flow of the article, either expand on these or incorporate them into other paragraphs.
7. "The railroad filed for federal reorganization due to bankruptcy on June 1, 1937." Full dates should no longer be wikilinked, make sure to fix any other occurrences within the article.
8. In the history section see if some of the subsections can be combined, some are too brief to need to stand alone.
9. "Three were later wrecked[7][8][9], and the remaining two..." Inline citations go directly after the punctuation, make sure to fix all occurrences.
10. Try and develop the modeling section further if possible.
11. The "Miscellany" section should be incorporated into the main text of the article. Otherwise it may appear to be a trivia section, which you should try to avoid per WP:TRIVIA.