# Talk:Red Line (Washington Metro)

It says that Maryland was added for the time with the extension to Shady Grove in December 1984, but it lists several Maryland stations at earlier times, including Grovesnor in August 1984 and Silver Spring in February 1978. That doesn't make any sense.
138.88.184.122 00:33, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed this, moving the contradictory passage elsewhere.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Can someone please fix the red line map that is provided in this article?  The fact that it is not at all at scale and in fact draws weird and inaccurate boundary lines (i.e. the District line) should be remedied.

Information on various articles state that Shady Grove, Rockville, White Flint, and Grosvenor opened a month before Tenleytown-AU, Friendship Heights, Bethesda, and Medical Center and that Twinbrook opened four months after its neighboring stations were opened. I don't understand how that would work. --Jnelson09 (talk) 20:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Article is looking quite good, but was missing mention of the 2004 Woodley Park accident, so I added text from the main Washington Metro article about that and added two photos.  I think some additional non-accident photos could be nice too, but no sure what. Cheers. --Aude (talk) 03:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I believe that if we are going to discuss accidents like this, we should also discuss the 1996 collision at Shady Grove to complete our discussion of Red Line accidents.  The accident pictures, however, I think are a little overkill in this context, since we've used the same photos elsewhere, and since it's a general article about the Red Line.  Otherwise, just by looking at the pictures, one would almost think that the Red Line is where all the accidents happen.  I agree that some non-accident photos would be a good idea.  Let me see what I have in my archives, and I'll post a few new ones up.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:14, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Red Line (Washington Metro)/GA3. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:30, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality: 

B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists: 

Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources: 
Retrieval dates are year-month-day, other are month-day, year. Pick one and standardize on it. Cite #4 should be pages, with an n-dash.
Standardized on month-day, year. Added ndash to fn 4. Racepacket (talk) 04:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary: 

C. No original research: 

Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects: 
History section needs to be enlarged. What areas was the Red Line designed to serve? When did construction begin, etc.?
The first lead paragraph explains that it links Montgomery county to downtown DC. I will expand the history and have added two system maps. Racepacket (talk) 04:34, 6 March 2011 (UTC) I added sentence re: groundbreaking for Red Line construction. Racepacket (talk) 04:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
B. Focused: 

Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias: 

Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc: 

Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: 
Needs a map showing the line's route. Listing the stations doesn't tell how it fits into the system.
The first lead paragraph explains that it links Montgomery county to downtown DC. I will expand the history and have added two system maps. There is also a map in the infobox with a show/hide switch.  Racepacket (talk) 04:34, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: 

Overall:
Pass or Fail: 

As indicated on the reviewer's talk page, I am working to address the concerns noted. Thanks for the review. Racepacket (talk) 04:23, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Good work.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I know that transit maps are often simplified for usability, but I don't think a single station, track, or landmark location is spacially correct on this privately made one. The National Mall does not slant down at a 30-degree incline, for example. Greenbelt is not due east of Fort Totten, not by a long shot. The red line does not look like that at all.
More importantly, this is not the official map provided by WMATA, the transit agency that runs the DC Metro. My personal feelings about this atrocious map aside, pages about the DC Metro that include a map should include the official, widely used map. 71.206.30.104 (talk) 15:29, 21 August 2024 (UTC)