Talk:Interstate 40 in North Carolina

Is this article good for an FA?

Does anybody think this article is good to be promoted to featured article status? I think it looks well-written, it has enough sources, and doesn't omit any major information. Let me know your thoughts about it. Thanks. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 09:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

I hope you take this in the kindly way it is offered, but I'm going to give you the same advice I gave you with Interstate 85 in North Carolina, except even more so since FA is going to be a lot pickier about this stuff than GA is: you need to go through each and every citation and verify that the source does indeed say what the article says. You need to be maniacal about this because your reviewers will be maniacal about checking it. Here's a couple of examples:

• I-40 travels through several diverse regions in North Carolina, including the Great Smoky and Black mountains of Western North Carolina, the rural Foothills , the suburban and urban Piedmont , and the farmlands of Eastern North Carolina . Annual average daily traffic along the Interstate varies, with it ranging from as little as 15,000 vehicles through Duplin and Pender counties, to as much as 192,000 through the Research Triangle region. [3]
  • The cited source says nothing about "Great Smokey and Black mountains", "rural Foothills", "farmland" etc. What it does talk about is traffic volumes broken down by exit ranges and identifies which counties those are in. Yes, Durham County is in the research triangle region, but the source you cited doesn't say that. And even if you added a WP:RS which said that Durham County was in research triangle, saying that the AADT was 192,000 in Research Triangle would be WP:SYNTH.
• The westbound lanes use a rock cut through Hurricane Mountain. A short distance after the tunnel is the North Carolina Welcome Center. Immediately afterward is Waterville Lake, where there are a few at-grade intersections in this location, used as service access for Walters Dam and the Harmon Den Wildlife Management Area . [8]
  • The cited source makes no mention of a "rock cut", the North Carolina Welcome Center, at-grade crossings, Harmon Den Wildlife Management Area, etc.

Please do not bring this to WP:FAC in its current state. It will not be a fun ride for the reviewers there, and it will not be a fun ride for you. My apologies if this sounds harsh, but I don't want to see you end up in another train wreck like what happened at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Interstate 85 in North Carolina/1. RoySmith (talk) 15:24, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

@RoySmith I didn't expect to bring it to FA, so I should have removed this thread. I removed the GA nominee template since I don't think the article even meets it at all, considering the lack of long paragraphs. I'm still quite sad from the I-85 article being delisted. NoobThreePointOh (talk) 18:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)