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Good articleAlberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society 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.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
December 18, 2008Good article nomineeListed
January 14, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
October 9, 2013Peer reviewReviewed
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 5, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal forced the resignation of Alberta's first Premier, Alexander Cameron Rutherford?
Current status: Good article

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Regarding the removal of the {{story}} tag: I'm ok with your having removed the tag, but there are still issues in the article that I believe need to be addressed. The way the article is written now, a detailed step-by-step recounting of the events of the scandal, is not typical for an encyclopaedia and not reader-friendly; it's written in a way that the only reason to understand the article well is to sit down and read it start-to-finish, paying close attention the whole way. While this is, of course, the best way to read, one [unwritten] goal of articles on WP, as far as I know, is to be written in such a way that readers can jump around, or can skip down to the part they're interested in, or otherwise grab bits and pieces of information here and there; in other words, it shouldn't be necessary to read the article from start to finish. Perhaps {{story}} was not the most appropriate tag to use, but I do think the article needs cleanup and that that should be reflected somehow, through a tag, until the cleanup is completed. —Politizer talk/contribs 00:59, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]