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Interstate 94 in Michigan

This uninvolved editor deems the conditions for promotion as met, and hereby promotes this article to A-Class. -happy5214 02:05, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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{{Wikipedia:Featured article tools|1=Interstate 94 in Michigan}} Interstate 94 in Michigan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) review

Suggestion: Promote to A-Class

Nominator's comments: This is the last of Michigan's primary Interstates to be promoted up from GA and part of a drive to promote the Interstate Highways in Michigan topic from GT to FT status.

Nominated by: Imzadi 1979 → 20:33, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

First comment occurred: 22:55, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Review by Fredddie

Comments by Fredddie

It's been a while since I've reviewed something so here goes. –Fredddie™ 22:55, 19 July 2016 (UTC) Infobox and lead That's a very nice map. Ref 1 does not directly support the claim that I-94 was designated in 1959. It talks about the system needing approval from the feds, but it doesn't say it actually was approved. The two sentences in the first lead paragraph talking about the path through Michigan don't really flow. You seem to go across the state, but then you come back to the west. Separately, the highway doesn't terminate on the bridge to Canada, the I-94 designation does. Route description I don't like the NHS sentence because I don't think it adds anything to an article, but I'm not going to fight it. Some flow issues in the AADT sentence. I don't really like how the semicoloned part reads with the whole. Immediately east of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron? Isn't that Canada? I think "...and parallels the Lake Michigan shoreline about three miles (4.8 km) inland." fits better in the next sentence What is the Red Arrow Highway? Just an access road to Red Arrow? It sounds more important than it probably is. I-94/US 31, is that singular or plural? I always treat overlaps as a plural. Are the charter townships worth mentioning? For someone not familiar with Michigan, it's hard enough to find the cities let alone townships. Check how many times you use the word cross. There are a few too close together. Likewise, I know Jackson is in Jackson County, but some of it can be reworded. "South of Willow Run, I-94 parallels Belleville Lake. East of the lake, it intersects I-275..." more repetition Bridges inspired by Super Bowl XL? That link is dead so I can't read about that. The paragraph about Detroit proper seems...abrupt. I'll defer to another reviewer to see if this is really an issue. It took me a bit to see it. The I-69 junction really doesn't pop out to the reader. History I'm a big proponent of section mini-leads. The first section kind of serves that purpose, so I don't know if the header is necessary. In the Since completion section, "A decade later, ..." makes it sound like the two sentences are related. The rest of the sections look fine to me. –Fredddie™ 01:26, 20 July 2016 (UTC) @Imzadi1979: --Rschen7754 19:08, 14 August 2016 (UTC) Replies: Infobox and lead Well, that's a compliment to the cartographer I'll have to pass along. ;-) Swapped it out. Fixed, I think. Fixed. More to come... Imzadi 1979 → 02:20, 15 August 2016 (UTC) Route description Let's see what others say, and go from there. Revised. Fixed. Flipped. Added an aside for the origins of the name I always try to treat them as singular since it's one highway in that location with two names, like a person with a double-barrelled name, not two separate roadways. They tend to have their own identities in urbanized areas and less so in rural ones, so in this case I think the few bear mention. Pared down. And also pared down. Tweaked. Link resurrected. I'm open to suggestions on what we could add there I"m not sure what to add here for that "pop". @Fredddie: that should be the first pass on all of your comments. Imzadi 1979 → 07:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC) History I'm mixed on that. Shall we pass this along to others to weigh in for now? Already fixed earlier. Imzadi 1979 → 07:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support. Nothing that we may have disagreed upon is enough to hold up this review. I will note for posterity, though, that for concurrencies, I always say "the two highways go..." or "US X and US Y pass through...". Thus it's appropriate then to consider them a plural. –Fredddie™ 17:18, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Review by Dough4872

Review by Dough4872

I will review this article. Dough4872 01:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

@Dough4872: ping. –Fredddie™ 01:59, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Here is my review:

1. I count 11 junctions in the infobox, whatever is the least important junction of those should be removed.
2. In the sentence "I-94 enters Michigan south of New Buffalo", you should indicate that the road enters the state from Indiana.
3. In the route description, you should mention how many lanes wide the sections of I-94 are and where it widens or narrows. I notice you give an overview of lane counts in the mini-lead but it would help to provide more details in the main prose of the route description.
4. I notice you overuse "I-94" a lot in the route description. You might want to vary the wording a bit.
5. The sentences "I-94 continues eastward out of the eastern Kalamazoo suburbs. It parallels the Kalamazoo River through the Galesburg area" should be combined.
6. "Before crossing into Calhoun County on the east side of Battle Creek", wouldn't this be the west side?
7. The sentence "Next to the Lakeview Square Mall, I-94 meets its own auxiliary Interstate in Michigan: I-194." sounds weird. Did you mean only instead of own?
8. "The freeway runs north of a racetrack complex in Chelsea next to the M-52 interchange.", what is the name of the racetrack complex?
9. "South of that city, the freeway also carries US 12 and crosses the Huron River north of its entry into Ford Lake.", is Ford Lake a town or a lake? Just wondering because it would be weird for a highway to "enter" a lake.
10. "I-94 used the Gateway Bridge over the single-point interchange at US 24 (Telegraph Road) in Taylor;", does it still use this bridge? If so that should be in present tense.
11. " From there, it runs roughly parallel to the St. Clair River. I-94 runs along the western edge of residential areas for Marysville and Port Huron as it continues northward.", you use the verb "runs" in two consecutive sentences.
12. In the sentence "At the international boundary at the center of the river, the I-94 designation jointly terminates with I-69.", you should mention what the road becomes in Canada.
13. "One of these, the St. Joseph Trail, followed the path of the modern I-94.", how much of present-day I-94's path did it follow?
14. "and the former routing through downtown on Michigan Avenue became a Business US 12 (Bus. US 12)", I don't see the "a" before Business US 12 as really necessary.
15. "On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed after attempting to take off from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, killing all but one passenger, Cecilia Cichan, upon exploding at an overpass at Middlebelt Road", is it really necessary to mention the name of the sole survivor of the crash?
16. "The project was slated to be completed in 2015.", do we know if the project was completed in 2015?
17. Should we be using the closed color for an intersection designated to serve military vehicles only? Dough4872 03:45, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

All of the above have had edits applied except two. I don't think we need to specify exact places where the lane counts change when the general gist of how wide is already in the mini lead. The driveway there is closed to regular traffic, but it could be the incomplete light red color. Imzadi 1979 → 03:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

@Dough4872: I'm not adding the lane count changes. Interstate 75 in Michigan does the same as this article, noting the basics in its RD mini-lead, and that should be sufficient for this article too. Imzadi 1979 → 06:19, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

• Support - I will support the article for A-class. I still would prefer for the lane count changes to be added in the route description, though I will let it slide with the summary mention in the mini-lead. Dough4872 00:09, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Inactivity

• Note: The review has been suspended for being inactive for 30 days and having outstanding comments. It may be reactivated at any time in the next 6 months. --Rschen7754 07:16, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
• Reply—and I'm reactivating it now. Imzadi 1979 → 07:53, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
• @Fredddie, Dough4872, and Rschen7754: since this isn't garnering a lot of attention, any thoughts on whether or not this review can be closed and jump right to FAC? Maybe someone can at least do an image review and quick source review to have that done before FAC? Imzadi 1979 → 13:46, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
  • I believe that a spotcheck is technically required as well - it is required once a year for every editor, and it has been a year since we have done one (for any editor) at ACR. Note that it could be done for I-675 first, it doesn't have to be for this particular ACR. Or, we could drop the requirement altogether. --Rschen7754 03:28, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Image review by Dough4872

1. File:I-94.svg - PD-MUTCD
2. File:I-94 MI map.svg - CC-BY-3.0, GFDL, has GIS data
3. File:Non Interchange Signage with Mileage Signage.jpg - PD-self
4. File:Interstate 94 & U.S. 23 interchange.JPG - CC-BY-3.0
5. File:Interstate 94 Landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County International Airport, Romulus, Michigan (14017169320).jpg - CC-BY-SA-2.0
6. File:Interstate 94 MI at Exit 271.jpg - CC-BY-SA-2.0
7. File:Michigan's Indian trails.png - PD US not renewed, image from 1959
8. File:Interstate Highway plan June 27, 1958 (MI).jpg - PD US no notice, image from 1958
9. File:Uniroyal tire1.jpg - CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated, GFDL
10. File:NW255 crashsite.jpg - PD-US-NTSB
11. File:Edsel Bryant Ford.jpg - PD-US-1923, image from 1921
12. File:James G. O'Hara.jpg - PD-USGov-Congress
13. File:Interstate 194 Michigan.jpg - CC-BY-SA-2.0
14. Captions look fine. Dough4872 01:22, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Source review by Rschen7754

• Refs 52, 89, 73, 75 are dead.
• 86 - perhaps the location should be added?
• Also, for the map scales, sometimes you surround it in brackets, sometimes you don't.
• Michigan Department of State Highways linked twice. --Rschen7754 18:55, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Map scales are bracketed if they were obtained from library catalog records and not from the cited maps themselves, in keeping with standard citation practices. n 86 doesn't need the location as it's contained in the title of the cited newspaper.

As for the supposedly dead links, n52 links to a clipping, n73 still links to the target, although I just pre-emptively archived it, and n75 was flipped to its archive. I'll do some more pre-emptive archiving today. Imzadi 1979 → 19:20, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

 Done and ready to close. --Rschen7754 19:26, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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