Talk:Mississippi Highway 500

GA Review

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Reviewer: SounderBruce (talk · contribs) 03:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Will do later tonight or tomorrow. SounderBruce 03:38, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Comments

Lead

• Any reason the map using an orange highlight instead of a red one?

• No. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• The second sentence in the lead is quite short, I suggest merging it into the first part of the next sentence.

• Made a few changes. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "paved in asphalt"...should it be "with"?

• Fixed. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Route description

• Shouldn't the traffic count be placed after the route description?

• I've seen people ask me before to put it as the first thing in the section, so I'll leave it here. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• I suggest mentioning that MS 487 intersects MS 13 at the north end of Lena

• Added. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• Combine the Lyle Street and Ealy Road sentences

• Done. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "Large forest" is kind of strange, I suggest "forested area"

• Yeah, much better. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• Are all these little intersections that notable? This can be slimmed down a bit.

• I only mentioned the ones where the road travels in a different direction. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "Crosses a small bridge over Sweetwater Creek" should be "crosses Sweetwater Creek [on a small bridge]" (the last part is optional and wholly redundant)

• Done. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• An unincorporated area really can't have a "center", I suggest using the name Tuscola instead.

• Done. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "and beyond" to where?

• Added. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

History and the rest

• "helping with connecting Lena" → "helping connect Lena to MS 35"

• Changed. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• Being "published in the state map" isn't notable and shouldn't be attributed in this way

• Removed. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "The road was in the process of being paved" should be changed to "Paving of MS 500 began in 1961"

• Done. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• "and the remaining" should be "and the remainder" or "and the remaining segments"

• Changed to "remainder." Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• No need to add a reference in the Major intersections prose (also it gets spaced out by the template)

• Removed, but I think it's a bug in {{jcttop}}.

• References look good.
• I suggest removing the External links section if there's nothing to put there. SounderBruce 22:51, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

• Removed. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

@SounderBruce: All fixes made. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 23:07, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Looks good. Passing. SounderBruce 23:14, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Failed verification

I am generally very skeptical of articles such as this one which are based almost entirely on primary sources, but I recognize that the community sees this differently. That said, this citation does not support the statement "The route was designated around January 1960"; the source is merely speculative. This really should be fixed. Vanamonde (talk) 10:21, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Further: I don't see how the lay reader can verify "The segment near Lena was paved by 1967" from these two links: 1, 2, which are currently the only sources there. Vanamonde (talk) 10:28, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

The final sentence, likewise. Vanamonde (talk) 10:31, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I see that part now. But two failed verification tags remain, I'm afraid. Vanamonde (talk) 10:38, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Reworded in a way that is verifiable. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 16:39, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Vanamonde (talk) 16:48, 29 June 2018 (UTC)