MyWiki:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Interstate 82

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Withdrawing due to lack of reviews. SounderBruce 03:18, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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Interstate 82

{{Wikipedia:Featured article tools|1=Interstate 82}} Interstate 82 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) review

Suggestion: Promote to A-Class

Nominator's comments: Took a sledgehammer to this one and brought it up to a level I feel is nearly ready for FAC. I'll be adding a few more photos and touch-ups here and there while I still have access to local newspaper archives. Otherwise, this is the first of several Interstate articles I plan to send to ACR and FAC, so I'd love to hear feedback that I can apply to the other articles.

Nominated by: SounderBruce 23:01, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Review by Rschen7754

Extended content

• I do plan to look at this when I get a chance. --Rschen7754 03:18, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
• Source 16 is missing the paper name. --Rschen7754 03:02, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Lead

• I-82 travels concurrently with U.S. Route 97 (US 97) between Ellensburg and Union Gap, south of Yakima; and US 12 from Yakima to the Tri-Cities - a semicolon needs to separate independent clauses, and the latter part is a dependent clause.
• Yakima and Columbia rivers - Yakima River should be linked as that is the first instance of it.

Route description

• is part... is a part - use a different word.
• It also has two child state highways in Washington; - should be a colon as it sets up a list
• quietest - maybe, but I don't think decibels are what are being measured here.
• intersects with State Route 821 (SR 821) - you can just say SR 821 here
• I am not sure that readers would get the significance of mentioning Snoqualmie here.
• under the Rattlesnake Hills - under doesn't seem like the right word here. --Rschen7754 05:17, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
  • @Rschen7754: Thanks for the review. I've addressed all your points and made what I feel to be appropriate changes. SounderBruce 06:52, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
• a cross-state highway that follows the Columbia River westward to Vancouver and crosses railroad tracks that carry Amtrak's Empire Builder passenger trains - what does, SR 14 or I-82? A comma might help if it is the latter.

History

• Several sections of Interstate 82 - I-82?
• In 1913, at the suggestion of good roads advocates, It established - lowercase it
• and planned roads - needs a bit more explanation and/or wikilink
• In 1923, the state government - Washington? --Rschen7754 23:33, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
  • All fixed. SounderBruce 07:45, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
• The 26-mile (42 km) section between Ellensburg and Yakima was funded earlier than scheduled with money diverted from stalled freeway projects in the Seattle area and construction began in October 1968 - I generally don't comment much about commas since people have different styles, but here I feel they would really improve readability.
• The $35 million freeway project costing equivalent to $163 million in 2016 dollars - parentheses would shorten this.
  • You added the parentheses, but I think you can also remove "costing". --Rschen7754 06:18, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
• Later on... you have the verbs required, constructed, and facilitated, with the subject of project. The first verb is okay. The second and third seem to not be so great of a match.
• in late Augus
• It was at this point that I noticed that a lot of the newspaper articles are missing publishers. I'm not a FAC sourcing expert but I get the feeling that this may be a problem. --Rschen7754 05:53, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
  • I'm now realizing that the GOCE copyedit was really rushed and seems to have left a lot of weird artifacts that I need to comb through now. As for the newspaper citations, I have not generally had issues with FAC reviewers needing publishers for all but the most obscure of local papers; I think the papers predominantly used here are big enough to not need that kind of information. SounderBruce 06:15, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

• I couldn't find any other issues, so support. --Rschen7754 05:00, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

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