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Problematic edits to U.S. Route 141
editYour copy edit was reverted by another editor while I was in the process of reverting it myself. Several of your changes are problematic and warranted reversion. To wit:
- "north–south" → "north-south"; it had an en dash (–) and not a hyphen (-) for a reason. There is a semantical difference between the two punctuation marks.
- Removal of the non-breaking spaces is also an issue. Because we cannot predict where the lines will break on a reader's screen because there is a wide variety of screen sizes, font sizes, etc., we use non-breaking spaces in some places. We don't want the numerical portion of a highway's name abbreviation to appear on a separate line from the textual portion, so we insert
between the "US" and the "141", etc. - You claim to have edited to make the language more concise, yet you changed "about" to "approximately". In that context, they're equivalent, yet the former is shorter.
- Moving "As a bi-state highway," to the end of the sentence makes it an afterthought. It was written first to emphasize that point.
- "the segment through the Green Bay area" → "the Green Bay area segment" are roughly equal, but you forgot to hyphenate the now-compound adjective, "the Green Bay-area segment".
- "From the Green Bay suburb of Howard northward, including the entire length through Michigan," → "From the Green Bay suburb of Howard northward, including Michigan's entire length," is another case of shifting emphasis incorrectly and changing the meaning of the text.
- "a line of the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad (ELS)" → "the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad (ELS) line". ELS has multiple lines, yet your change implied they only have one. Also, you awkwardly interposed the abbreviation between the name (as an adjective) and the noun it is describing. In short, it was better before.
- "through mixed farm fields and forest" → "through diverse farm fields and forest" There is a mixture of farms and forest, not diverse farms. Again, the change degraded the text and changed the meaning.
- "through the communities of Amberg and Beecher" → "through Amberg and Beecher's communities". Ugh, just ugh.
- "exit the state of Wisconsin" → "exit Wisconsin state". More ugh: it's never called "Wisconsin state".
- "As originally proposed in 1925, several US Highways in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula were to be designated. However, the routings for two highways were different in Michigan in 1925 than on the final 1926 map." → "As initially proposed in 1925, several US Highways in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula were to be designated. However, the two highways' routings were different in Michigan in 1925 than on the final 1926 map." Again, changed meaning and degraded the quality of the text. Which two highways? (They haven't been introduced yet.) In the first sentence, we were talking about "several" and then suddenly we jump to two specific highways without clarification. Previously the prose worked to gradually narrow and introduce the subject at hand. It's about flow, and the changes disrupted that flow.
There are several more examples where the changes were either marginal improvements or deteriorations of the the prose. For these reasons, I support the wholesale reversion of your edits as they were made. Imzadi 1979 → 01:24, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I'm still learning, and I was using Grammarly. It suggested the changes. Thank you for your clarification. Dahadash251 (talk) 18:14, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
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