Talk:Stillwell Avenue

Stillwell Avenue
Stillwell Avenue
	Coordinates: 26°36′41″S 179°2′1″E / 26.61139°S 179.03361°E

Stillwell Avenue was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 12, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 9, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the Stillwell Avenue/Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station?

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GA Status[edit]

The article has been assessed as a Fail.

The assessment is, as follows :

1) The article is far too short to even be considered for GA Status. Familiarise yourself with the requirements of the GA Criteria. You will note that Point 3 of the GA Criteria requires an article to be broad in coverage which this article singularly fails to do. I note that the article was created on 5 November 2007 and nominated for GA status on 7 November 2007. It is far too short and a sufficient period of time, say, six months, should have been left before a GA nomination was made in order to allow editors to reflect, ruminate on and source the article. As it is, the article is, basically, start class.

2) Rigelmann Boardwalk, Scarangella Park, James J. Byrne are all non-existent links.

3) The Lead is inadequate and needs to be expanded. Read Wikipedia:Notability, Stillwell Avenue should be included on Wikipedia, why ? The Lead needs to make the case for notability, Read WP:Lead.

4) The geographical co-ordinates, giving latitude and longitude should be included in the Infobox, something like :

I have made up the co-ordinates but you need to enter the right ones.

5) Street description is written in bad English and is tedious. It needs a total rewrite. What notable buildings are there on Stillwell Avenue ? Which famous people have lived there ? What events take place there ? parades ? etc.

6) The original cost of building Stillwell Avenue is given as $331,500. Give and reference the inflation adjusted figure for the modern day equivalent.

7) Why is 13 November 2006 wiki-linked ? Remove link and rewrite as there is no need for a date in the article as it will be available in the reference.

8) Name the architect. The New York Sun story is dated November 2006 - a year ago. What has happened to the plans since then ? The section needs to be expanded and detailled.

9) Give references for the claims that the "largest rapid transit terminal" is situated on Stillwell Avenue and that it is "most energy efficient".

10) Write a new section the traffic congestion on Stillwell Avenue, this would bring together the need for public transport.

The article needs a lot of work before it can be re-nominated.

Tovojolo 00:36, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, a road cannot have one coordinate. It's a road, how can it have one location on earth? --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, articles can have red links... --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dates need to be linked for date format preferences to work properly. That's a sitewide standard. —Scott5114 ↗ 01:57, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In terms of length, there is no length requirement; the article just needs to be comprehensive. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GAR[edit]

Good article reassessment. —JA10 Talk • Contribs 02:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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