Talk:Kowloon-Canton Railway

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Hong Kong To-do:
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  • Clean up all MTR station pages. They are literally all over the place. Two model pages are Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. They each describe a feature special to the station, Station layout, exit, and connections, as well as neighbouring stations and the station "box".
    • We will also need plenty of updated pictures (e.g. removing all KCR-related images except those on the KCR article). Check that all pages have basically the same language structure as Tsing Yi Station and Sheung Shui Station. Links to location maps are good too. (Should also perform these checks on Chinese Wikipedia.)
  • Clean-up pages that link with TVB, especially its series pages.
Kowloon-Canton Railway was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Reviewed version: May 28, 2006
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Would anyone able to fix the layout of the route map and its captions? I think it's so messy but I don't know how to fix it well. Thanks! Spring Dennis 15:40, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I guess I created the routemap too poorly. =( I'll try and recreate it again when I have the time. If you can create a better one yourself, feel free to replace the existing one! ;) - Mailer Diablo 11:22, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GA Failing

References, references, references. From what I can see, there is only one reference, and some websites, none of which are specified of where you got the information. I think you may have References and External Links confused. All fair-use images should have fair use rationales also. Please see WP:CITE and WP:FAIR, and good luck, Highway Rainbow Sneakers 10:13, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Note: Article was added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations.

[edit] Section removal

I've just removed a poorly created section titled "station numbers". There was absolutely no context to tell what the numbers meant. Are they the number of stations on the line or descriptive numbers for each station or what? The removed content is in the page history. Slambo (Speak) 13:32, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Looks like he wants to state the number of station on each line, as he did on the MTR article.--Kylohk 20:15, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

That was my guess, but it wasn't very clear at all from the text. Whatever the data really is, it needs to be explained better and referenced before it's put back in the article. Slambo (Speak) 11:05, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Station Names

Is there any particular reason why all the titles for KCR stations (and for that matter, MTR stations) are not called "~ Station"? Bourquie 6:01, 29 May 2006

Generally all of the first letter are written in capital letter officialy. In WP, some Wikipedian may consider that what they want to emphasize is the area around the station rather than the station itself, thus the "station" is in lower-case. -- Sameboat - 同舟 01:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

I think my question was misunderstood. I apologize for not making my point more clear.

What I wanted to ask is: Why is the word "Station" in "Mong Kok Station (KCR)" omitted in the article? This goes for all MTR and KCR East Rail/West Rail/Ma On Shan Rail/Light Rail Stations. Bourquie 12:48 30 May 2007

Then I think I cannot give it a good answer. The early topic creators seem to be leaving for a long period, except user:Instantnood. To make it more shocking, the railway station topics of Moscow Metro are also omitted the word Station. But their RU counterparts have clearly named the topic in the bracket (станция метро), meaning metro station. If you are really concerned, make a survey. -- Sameboat - 同舟 01:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

I personally don't know how to begin a survey. If you can start it for me, it'll greatly appreciated. Bourquie 6:17, 31 May 2007

Portal_talk:Trains#Naming_of_railway_station_article -- Sameboat - 同舟 23:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

When will the conversion from ~~車站 to ~~站 be finished on East Rail stations? Iianq 23:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

After the merge, but MTR may decide not to alter it, I guess. -- Sameboat - 同舟 23:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MTR-KCR merge

I've started a discussion on the MTR-KCR merge at WPHK (so we can have one consolidated discussion about it instead of having the same discussion across the few relevant articles). [1]. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)