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Bowling Green 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: April 9, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Bowling Green station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a new platform was built at the Bowling Green station in Manhattan after it became overcrowded just four years after opening?

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I'm hoping no one minds (I apologize if they do), but I have merged the content from Bowling Green IRT Control House into this article. I do not think we need a separate article on a piece of a subway station; though I do understand that it is historic. (BTW, its photo "1" on nycsubay.org; it looks like they did the Bowling Green station first and the entry was the first thing they came to) Jason McHuff (talk) 08:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, good move. Marc Shepherd (talk) 14:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The photo is outdated; there is a big glass canopy over that subway entrance now. noktulo (talk) 02:32, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA nomination

@Kew Gardens 613: I think we should remove the GA nomination template for now. I'm still finding plenty of unsourced content, which would be a quick fail. epicgenius (talk) 01:44, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

--@Epicgenius: I strongly agree.-- Happypillsjr ✉ 03:17, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: I tend to nominate articles that "technically" aren't ready because of the extreme backlog of reviewing GAs. On average, it takes about 7 to 12 months to get to articles I nominate, so I do a bunch at once. By the time it would get to this article, I would have dealt with this issues. By nominating it now, it allows it to go through the process more quickly. I nominated this article because I knew I already had found a lot of sources on the renovation of the station in the 1970s and on the renovation in 1909 for the shuttle track, in addition to having sources for the track and station layout. I would not have nominated that if I did not have source information. I just added a lot of it, and there is more to come. I still wish I could find more information about the 1910 and 1960s platform extensions, other than the fact they occurred. Thanks for your work to improve the article in the last few days, including expanding the lead. Stay well. --Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 14:11, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Kew Gardens 613: That's reasonable. Thank you a lot for finding the sources. These are very helpful, and I think the page is ready for GA now. I raised the issue because, in my recent experience, my most recent GAs were reviewed relatively quickly, within a month or two of me nominating them. Thanks again for the additions, and stay healthy. epicgenius (talk) 15:00, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery

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Can the "Image gallery" section be removed if the images are scattered or even reduced in number? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:48, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Another Believer, I have now done this. epicgenius (talk) 16:12, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Epicgenius, Thank you! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:21, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 03:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Bowling Green station headhouse

... that a new platform was built at the Bowling Green station after it became overcrowded just four years after opening? Source: p. 194
- ALT1:~~... that Bowling Green was closed and renovated to allow the Bowling Green station to be expanded?~~ Source: New York Affairs. In the WP article, it is the last sentence of the second paragraph.
- ALT2:... that the Bowling Green station had a brick and stone entrance building (pictured) because it was an important station? Source: NYCL

Reviewed: Joel McClintock

Improved to Good Article status by Kew Gardens 613 (talk) and Epicgenius (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 16:44, 13 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and long enough. The image is appropriately licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. I have struck ALT1 as being of little interest to non New York dwellers and prefer the original hook as the image looks rather like a garden shed at thumbnail size. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]