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Avonmouth railway station has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: October 18, 2015. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Avonmouth railway station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 November 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Avonmouth railway station (pictured) was developed from a halt for the construction workers of the Avonmouth Docks, built in 1868?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Avonmouth railway station.

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Orphaned references in Avonmouth railway station

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Avonmouth railway station's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "maggsbprp":

From Shirehampton railway station: Maggs, Colin (1975). The Bristol Port Railway and Pier. The Oakwood Press. pp. 3–7, 10–12, 15–18, 23–24, 47–51.
From Montpelier railway station: Maggs, Colin (1975). The Bristol Port Railway and Pier. The Oakwood Press. pp. 13, 19, 37–39, 47–51.
From Sea Mills railway station: Maggs, Colin (1975). The Bristol Port Railway and Pier. The Oakwood Press. pp. 3–7, 12, 15–18, 23–24, 47–51.
From Clifton Down railway station: Maggs, Colin (1975). The Bristol Port Railway and Pier. The Oakwood Press.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Avonmouth railway station/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: FallingGravity (talk · contribs) 07:58, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FallingGravity, thanks very much fore reviewing this. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:26, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well written ✗ Fail
- "The BPRP ran in to trouble" → "The BPRP ran into trouble"
  Done. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- "Ove the course of the war" → "Over(?) the course of the war"
  Done. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- "Service levels had decreased slightly by 1955 to 28 from Bristol" Minor nitpick, but at first it seems like the service levels decreased by 1955.
  Done. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- "The last remaining station building, the old parcels office, is threatened with demolition." Who or what is threatening the building with demolition?
  That's very nitpicky (my hero!), but done. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- "declined an option" Where did this option come from?
  It was part of the original contract. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  I have now amended this in all articles that use that text. -mattbuck (Talk) 10:55, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Verifiable
- Just looking at the references, there are a lot of errors, mostly external links in work parameters. Also the hidden categories say there's some Extra text in some of the references.
  I think that's new, I've been using external links in the work parameter for years and it hasn't been a problem before. I've seen Rodw removing some from other articles, I'll remove these. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:19, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- There also seems to be a problem with <ref name=bids>.
  Hm, not sure how I missed that. Fixed. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:26, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Ref #8 is currently a dead link.
  Typo in the url. Fixed. -mattbuck (Talk) 19:25, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Images ✓ Pass
- They look good and I didn't see anything wrong with the licenses.
Broad and Neutral ✓ Pass
- I don't see any problems and it's a pretty extensive article on the subject.
Closing remarks
- Sorry this took a little while to close. Almost all concerns I've found that would hinder GA status have been resolved by nominator. I'm not really an expert on the subject but I think this article does the station some justice. FallingGravity (talk) 15:18, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  FallingGravity, your efforts are much appreciated. My thanks. -mattbuck (Talk) 15:23, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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