Talk:Business routes of U.S. Route 127 in Michigan/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mackensen (talk · contribs) 23:34, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Opening statement

Hello Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs), thanks for your work on this article. I hope to have comments for you shortly. Best, Mackensen (talk) 23:34, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments

Lead

1. There's a good deal of duplication in the sections below concerning the rebannering (?) of US 27 in 2002. Could this be summarized in the lead and then simply referred to below? It seems odd to have the same sentences about AASHTO and state's delay repeated between Lansing and Harrison. Also, since I have this question several times, why did MDOT delay until 2002?
2. "The business routes are all sections of highway that run through the central business districts of their respective towns that were formerly part of US Highway 127 (US 127) or its predecessor, US 27." This is a bit awkward, especially if you don't already know what a business route is. I think it would help to break this up--define business route, then explain that in this case the routes were all part of either US 127 or US 27.
3. Business loop and business route are used interchangeably throughout the article, but starting the second paragraph of the lead. If they're different then that difference should be explained. If they're not then the article should use "route" consistently.
4. "The 2002 extension of US 127 to replace US 27": this sounds like new construction, as opposed to a rebannering.

Numbering for easy reference and reply:

1. Each section is written to be a stand-alone article because each business route has a redirect that links directly to that section. If a reader is clicking on a link to U.S. Route 127 Business (Alma, Michigan), he or she would lose that bit of history that's only up in the lead.
2. Reworded that, hopefully that's sufficient.
3. The Bus. US 127 in Lansing was a business spur; it only connected to US 27 on one end. The others are or were business loops, connecting on both ends. "Business route" is the slightly more generic term that encompasses both loops and spurs, and it would also encompass the oddity of a situation like the one in Lansing where the child doesn't intersect its nominal parent.
4. Bus US 127 was extended to replace a section of US 27. Not all extensions, or truncations, would involve any form of construction, just renumbering. Imzadi 1979 → 02:02, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Jackson

• "downtown" should be preceded by a definite article.
• "Jackson was first bypassed on its eastern side around 1959 with a new US 127 freeway.": This is a little confusing; was US 127 a surface highway previously?
  • I added one definite article, but the other locations don't need one. Yes, it was just a surface highway previously, and still is south of Jackson. Imzadi 1979 → 02:05, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Mason

• Is the first paragraph describing the state of US 127 at the time of decommissioning? It's unclear.
• "The state bypassed Mason around 1946": with what? Does this mean that US 127 was re-routed away from Mason?
  • Yes, as is standard with decommissioned highways, the text describes the highway configurations at the time of decommissioning to avoid any anachronisms of referring to conditions that did not exist at the time said highway existed. Imzadi 1979 → 14:41, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Lansing

1. What's a trunkline?
2. "The through residential areas on the north side of Lansing.": there's at least one word missing here.
3. "Marked as Old US 27...Along the route of Bus. US 127...continues as just Old US 27.": I'm confused (and I shouldn't be, I've driven this often enough). Is this Bus. US 127 throughout, but signed as Old US 27, or is something else going on?
4. "At the time, US 27 was rerouted to follow the new freeway.": should be "at *that* time", otherwise it could imply that it had happened previously.
5. "truncated to end at": could be shortened to "truncated to"
6. "The reconfigured it into a business spur": who did?

Replies:

Re: #1: see the recent addition to the lead. The official name for our highway system is the "State Trunkline Highway System", and many road signs reference "state trunklines" or just "trunklines", making that a perfect additional word to use for variety in our articles in addition to "highway", and in these contexts, "business loop/spur".

Re: #3: "Old US 27" is the street name there, and an edit should have clarified that.

Re: #6: the state.

The other entries have had edits to clarify the text. Imzadi 1979 → 14:48, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

St. Johns

• The bypassing of St. Johns in 1998 caused much discussion about the possible economic impact. If there are sources this might be worth discussion.
  • Such discussion would be more germain though to the parent article, not this one. Imzadi 1979 → 14:49, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Ithaca

• When downtown is used by itself it needs a direct article.
• "An expressway through Gratiot County opened in late 1961": was it named or numbered beyond US 27?
  • Actually, no "downtown" does not need a direct article. As for the second point, that's answered by the second half of that compound sentence. Imzadi 1979 → 14:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Mt. Pleasant

• Bus US 27 should be bolded and rendered in sentence case to match the rest of the article.
  • Fixed. That was the old standardized abbreviation format, which has since been changed from "BUS" to "Bus." Imzadi 1979 → 14:57, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

References

• The referencing seems fine. Is it common practice within USROADS to summarize the character of a route from Google Maps? If so that's fine by me.
  • It's common for USRD articles to cite their route description sections, or the paragraphs in these articles, using both the official state highway map and the satellite view from Google or another online mapping service in a pair of adjacent citations. The first footnote establishes the official routing, and the latter sources the landscape details and some additional attributes that only appear a maps with a closer scale, like street names, that would not necessarily appear on the paper map or its insets. Imzadi 1979 → 14:55, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Images

• No images available? Admittedly they'd all be pretty boring.
  • None at this time, but in the future if some come available, they'd be added. Imzadi 1979 → 14:55, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Summary

I think this article is pretty close; if you could just clarify the points I've raised above I think we'll be good to go. Mackensen (talk) 00:18, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mackensen: I've replied above and finished the copy editing of the article. Imzadi 1979 → 15:24, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your responses. We're good here. I was just back in Michigan recently; if I'd thought about it I could have taken pictures for about half of the business routes. Ah well. Mackensen (talk) 01:21, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Assessment

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail: