Talk:Hamm (Westf) Hauptbahnhof

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Category 2 station - one of about 60 in Germany. These are either important junctions for long-distance traffic or offer connections to large airports.

GA failed

Despite the article being well-written, I had to fail it due to a lack of inline citations. I will go through the article section-by-section:

Infobox

Overall quality: Very Good Y

• In the lead, the station is called "Hamm (Westfalen)", but is only called "Hamm (Westf)" in the infobox. I assume that this is a simple typo and can be fixed easily.

Lead

Overall quality: Very Good, but needs citations

• Can you explain why the station has two names?
• Provide a citation stating that the station featured one of Europe's largest marshalling yards.

History

Overall quality: Good, but needs citations

• The section needs lots of citations, as there are a lot of statements of fact which need verification.
• "However, this did not provide real relief, and therefore the station area underwent major reconstruction starting in 1911 and finishing no sooner than 1929."

"No sooner" than 1929? An exact year would help here, as it sounds as if you are unsure.

• "The old station building, which was built as an island platform, was torn down and superseded by the current building, the construction of which was finished by 1920."

Was it finished in 1920 or in 1919 or before? Again, an exact year would be helpful.

• Wikilink "hump yard" to Classification yard, as I had no idea what that meant until I typed "hump yard" into the search box.
• Wikilink Paderborn to Paderborn instead of Paderborn Hauptbahnhof, as the sentence is refering to the town/city and not to the rail station, which does not yet have an article.
• "The mail station, which even had its own hump, has been completely closed due to the abolition of mail trains."

Was a law passed banning mail trains? Unless this is so, then the sentence should be reworded to reflect the "discontinuation" of mail train service. Also, if you could provide the year that mail trains were stopped, it might make a neat addition to the article.

• As a minor quibble, the section doesn't quite flow as well as I'd like it to. There are a lot of short sentences which would flow much better if they were expanded or merged into other sentences.

The station building

Overall quality: Needs work, needs citations

• The section title should be "Station building", as headings with the word "the" are not ideal as per WP:MSH.
• "It is a prime example for the historism building style" should be reworded to "It is an example of the historism building style", which will eliminate some peacock terms.
• "The building sustained damage of parts of the roof" should be "The building sustained damage to parts of the roof".
• Spelling error: "glas"
• "This, however, was regarded as typical 1980s camp as early as the mid-1990s"

Reword this to avoid using weasel words.

Operational usage

Overall quality: Needs work, needs citations

• The section in general is a little bit too "listy", in terms of prose. Some of this information might change frequently, and may thus be better served with an external link to the information.
• "Chemist" should be wikilinked, as in North America the term is not well known and is instead referred to as a "Pharmacy".

References

Overall quality: Needs work

• The size of the citation text must be smaller. To accomplish this (after inline citations have been added), insert:

which will convert the references to the proper text size.

External lins

Overall quality: Good

• Does the railway station have an official website? If so, then it should be linked to.
• The DB AG box below the links is a little bit bulky. Is there a way to consolidate it or somehow make it smaller?

Phew! That took a bit longer than I thought it would. Anyways, while I can't pass the article because of the aforementioned lack of citations, I have at least given you a few things to work on. Hope this helps, Green451 01:57, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

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1. I think the lead needs to be a little longer to properly summarise the article.
2. Most of the History section is uncited, almost all of the Trains section, and all of the Station building section.
3. "Over the years, Hamm prospered and grew quite notably due to its newfound role as a railway town." Does that mean that Hamm's growth was notable? In what way was it notable?
4. The Trains section consists entirely of very short paragraphs which need to be merged.
5. "The marshalling yard nowadays operates at only 10% of its original 10,000 wagon per day capacity." When is "nowadays"? 2008?
6. "Local car parks have 800 bays, with another 200 to be added in a newly-built car park at the western exit." To be added when? Are they already there now?

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 14:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

No 3) Over the years... In fact Hamm was by the end of the Napoleonic Area a small city like Dortmund an other towns of the Ruhrarea (about 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants) and lost its status as the Prussian Provinzcapital (County of Mark). Due to the building of the Railway and to the establishment of several Steelwiremills like the Westfälische Drahtindustrie Hamm started to grow again an became a city of Steelers and railway employees the two main industries of the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. This wasn't changed until the incorporation of neighbouring towns like Heessen and Bockum-Hövel and the muncipalities Herringen and Pelkum in 1975. The great coalmines were situated in those parts of the now greater Hamm. Hamm origianally ment only the old city founded by counts of Mark and some "Feldmark" named fields around it. To give an example of ist grotwh Hamm had in 1819 4,657 inhabitants 1840 there were 4,151 and after the railtrach reached Hamm it changed rapidly 1858 there were 10,022 inhabitants another ten years later in 1867 16,000 and 1880 20,800 and on the 1st of December 1900 31,371. At the start of the war 1939 Hamm had reached 59,000 inhabitants and was still growing and still the main industries were the railway and the Steel. See also de:

• History of the City [1],

• Hamm[2],

• Population [3].

I hope it will help to understand this mentioned section better.

No 5) Maybe we can get some answers from the DB!? email: oeffentlichkeitsarbeit@bahn.de The german Wiki give the following Information, after the privatization of the Bundesbahn (today Deutsche Bahn AG) two railway control centers, Hro and Vmo, were closed and the marshalling yard now operates with a tenth of its capacity.

No 6) Allready added, must have been in 2007 or 2006 at the western entrance to the station, with, as far as I know, two storeys. (Groundlevel+1)

I hope that this few informations will help you. if you've got further question please contact me in the german wikiprojekt, you will find an interwikilink here:--Gabriel-Royce (talk) 12:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

• As these issues remain outstanding this article has now been delisted. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 02:18, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

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