Talk:West Ham station/GA1

Summary

• Please note that you are completely fine to disagree with my suggestions and I wouldn't fail the GAN for it. I like to suggest anything I think would benefit the article.
• The boring stuff:
  • You have 68.1% authorship, and Who Wrote That? shows you clearly wrote most the prose, so it's in your right to nominate the article
  • Both and seem to have copyvioed the article, so Earwig gives very high scores. It is fairly obviously not the other way round. Seeing as they don't credit Wikipedia they may need a passive–aggressive email sending to them.
  • Nominator has a history of 22 GAs and only good work on Wikipedia, so I have no concerns about giving benefit of the doubt to unverifiable sources
  • No edit wars or similar affecting the article.
  • Oldid 1352354375 used.

Lede

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History

• "their works football team" – wikilink Works team  Not done I did consider this but there were a lot of links in this sentence. MRSC (talk) 04:23, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
• "via the Bow-Bromley curve" --> "via the Bow–Bromley curve"  Done
• "The North London Railway was already running a daily service to Plaistow via the Bow-Bromley curve since 18 May 1869 and when West Ham opened it called there." – there are some tense issues here; it should be "The North London Railway had already been running a daily service to Plaistow via the Bow–Bromley curve since 18 May 1869, and when West Ham opened, it began calling there".  Done
• "In 1905 they switched to the southern platforms. – this needs a bit of explaining as there has been no previous mention of northern and southern platforms.  Done Equally, it is never said when the line was actually quadrupled so I can't tell whether the switch involves putting tracks in the second set or just a pathing change.  Done
• "with an eight trains per hour service between Barking and Hammersmith" --> "an eight-trains-per-hour service"  Done
• Technically the link to "West Ham station attack" should be using {{main article}} not {{see also}}.  Done
• "nine people were injured here" --> "nine people were injured" / "nine people were injured at the station", as it's not here.  Done

Design

• "The pair of 600 feet (180 m) island platforms were identical with 200 feet (61 m) canopies" – both convert templates need adjective=on here.  Done
• Correct cite order is [32][44][46] not [46][44][32]  Done
• "Transport for London (TfL)" – TfL isn't reused so it's not needed but if you want to keep it anyway that's fine  Done
• IanVisits isn't a great source for GA. I would pair it with to show it has been reported elsewhere.  Done

Location

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Services

• "of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six continue to Richmond and three to Wimbledon. – this is inconsistent, it should either be "of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six continue to Richmond, and three continue to Wimbledon", or "of which six continue to Ealing Broadway, six to Richmond, and three to Wimbledon".  Done

Images

• All photos are correctly licensed and captioned

Source spotchecks

• I used (10n–1) and (10n), 4<n<6: 39 40 49 50 59 60
• 39: "On this Day 15 March, 1976: Tube driver shot dead" – verified
• 40: "Hero Tube driver who sacrificed life fighting off terrorist in forgotten bombing" – verified; this could be set to |url-status=live if you want  Done
• 49: "Andrew Saint · Diary: The Jubilee Line Extension" – verified, including that quote is verbatim
• 50: "East meets west" – verified
• 59: "A first look at where West Ham station’s new entrance will be built" – verified, but see above comment about source integrity for this one.  Done
• 60: " Kay 2013, p. 214." – benefit of the doubt
• Extra comment: Kay 2010 (volume III) is unused so can be removed.  Done

Verdict

• On hold – I am impressed by your writing as usual: this, Barking, and Whitechapel are surely the three hardest on the eastern District Line.

@JacobTheRox: Thanks for another great review. I've incorporated pretty much all your points. If you ever decide to do every station on a line, I definitely recommend starting with the smaller ones so the more complex stations are less daunting. MRSC (talk) 05:21, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

 Pass. I started a review of Barking tube station but haven't got around to finishing it yet. Hopefully I can tomorrow. JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 15:59, 7 May 2026 (UTC)