Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 16, 2005

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"Indian Railways is the state-owned railway company of India having a complete monopoly over the country's rail transport. It has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 5 billion passengers and over 350 million tonnes of freight annually." is not gramatically correct. Also, the intro later uses "IR" without defining it. That's not good practice, no matter how obvious the abbreviation is.

I can't think of a perfect way to say it quickly, but

"Indian Railways is the state-owned railway company of India; it has a complete monopoly over the country's rail transport. Indian Railways (IR) has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 5 billion passengers and over 350 million tonnes of freight annually."

is at least acceptable. Please update. The Main Page is our face to the world. Superm401 | Talk 18:25, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]