Talk:Ontario Highway 98
Ontario Highway 98 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: April 27, 2023. (Reviewed version). |
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Refs[edit]
Assumption:
- Highway 2A renumbered Highway 98 on March 18, 1939, as through highways were made to be numerical only on that day.[1]
- Extended through Kent County on April 30, 1941.[2]
Downloading:
- Kent County (Tilbury to Blenheim) on May 21, 1970.[3]
- Was supposed to be transfered to Essex County (Windsor to Tilbury) on June 1, 1970,[4]
but wasn't until April 1, 1971.[5] -- Floydian τ ¢ 01:41, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
References
- ^ Staff (March 18, 1939). "Changes Made on Highways: Get New Numbers - No. 2-A Becomes 98 Under New System". The Windsor Star. p. 6. Retrieved January 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1935. p. 48.
- ^ Staff (May 8, 1970). "Highway 98 Will Join Kent System". The Windsor Star. p. 5.
- ^ Staff (April 3, 1970). "Essex County Inherits 63 Miles". The Windsor Star. p. 16.
- ^ Staff (April 7, 1971). "DHO Turns Over Highway 98 - Essex County Road System Increased". The Windsor Star. p. 3.
GA Review[edit]
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- This review is transcluded from Talk:Ontario Highway 98/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Tayi Arajakate (talk · contribs) 11:11, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
- Hello Floydian, I'll be taking up this review and will present it to you shortly. I hope you'll find my feedback to be helpful. Tayi Arajakate Talk 11:11, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
- Floydian, I've completed the review and found some room for improvements, please see the comments listed below. The issues are however borderline, so consider the comments to be more suggestions than a necessity. Otherwise the article more or less meets the criteria so I'm going to go ahead and pass it. Tayi Arajakate Talk 23:35, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
Comments[edit]
- The article lead should contain the article title at some point, preferably in the first sentence.
- "Today it is known as Essex County Road 46 between Windsor and Tilbury, and Chatham-Kent Road 8 between Tilbury and Blenheim."
- The sentence should be re-worded to not use "today", a relative time reference; a specific date for when the name change occurred is preferable, or it should at least use an absolute term such as "As on [date], ...".
- In addition, it might be preferable to put the current name of the highway in the first paragraph if not the first sentence rather than at the end of the lead, especially since it consists of bolded words.
- "Today, the former route of Highway 98 is entirely urbanised to approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) east of the Highway 401 interchange."
- Another instance of a time relative reference, should be reworded. In fact, I think for this sentence it may not be necessary to state that it is "today", if the sentence is in simple present tense, that would be easily inferred. Alternatively, one could state something along the lines that "it has become urbanised", to imply that it wasn't always so, without the need for range or period to be found over which it became so.
- In the first paragraph of the road description section, one of the citations used is from google maps. It is alright as a source but a bit too much a primary instead of secondary one, a better source if available could be used to supplement it.
- "Continuing east, now as Middle Line, the route encountered the communities of Valetta, Stewart and Merlin before curving northeast."
- The redlink is somewhat arbitrary, one of the communities (Merlin) isn't redlink while another is. Valetta is also the name of other unrelated places. I'd suggest either removing it or creating a redirect (as with Stewart) to the district or municipality it is located it (unless of course if one makes an article for it).
- "Although the rest of the route which would later become Highway 2, from London to the Quebec boundary, was easily decided upon, the section west of London became a contentious local issue."
- "This arrangement would remain in place until the opening of the Ambassador Bridge on November 15, 1929,[13] which would result in several modifications to the highway network within Essex County."
- The sentence doesn't need to use the auxiliary "would", could simply be in simple past tense, i.e "...which resulted in..." or somethin along those lines.
- The in-citation for this sentence should be at the very end.
- "In 1939, the province instituted a change to its "numbering" policy in which lettered suffixes would only be used for short feeder routes and not for long distance routes."
Assessment[edit]
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