Talk:K-61 (Kansas highway)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 06:16, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Your prose needs a bit of fine-tuning. I can't see the forest sometimes through the trees of SHC resolutions and dollar amounts in the history section. However, you have all your facts right. Archive references; the last four from the Hutchinson News need citation information added. 7-day hold. Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:40, 31 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Copy changes were made, and I took care of the remaining reference cleanup/archival. Passing. Sammi Brie  (she/her • t • c) 01:17, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Lead

 * The highway travels mostly through rural areas, however does pass through South Hutchinson and Hutchinson where it intersects K-14, K-96, and US-50. K-61 is signed as a north–south but runs in southwest to northeast direction. Tweak to The highway travels mostly through rural areas; however, it does pass through South Hutchinson and Hutchinson, where it intersects K-14, K-96, and US-50. K-61 is signed as a north–south route but runs in a southwest to northeast direction.

Route description

 * Join the first two sentences with a semicolon
 * Join the two NHS sentences to reduce redundancy
 * Commas around "on average"
 * Add "the" before "small community of"
 * Capitalize "Street" in "80th street"
 * Add comma after Wolf Creek to balance the appositive
 * Add a comma after "access westbound US-50" to join the two complete sentences
 * Remove comma after "McNew Road"
 * Add hyphen in "controlled-access highway"
 * Comma after "Center Street"

History

 * Add (SHC) by "State Highway Commission of Kansas" as this acronym is heavily used.
 * Overuse of "In a resolution on..." sentence starters. Paragraph 2 suffers from this badly.
 * "Mid April" should be "mid-April". This also happens with "mid February" later.
 * "will be started" — change to past tense for a past event
 * "It had supposed" — should be "It had been supposed"
 * There are many monetary amounts and inflation calculations. Consider reducing their frequency; they may be excessive detail.
 * Also too many sentences start with "By (year)", especially in the Hutchinson rerouting section.
 * By 1975, the entire section of K-61 from US-50 north in Hutchinson was four-lanes. Remove hyphen in "four-lanes"
 * The section of former K-61 from the new K-61 to US-81, and former section of US-81 from there north to US-56 became K-61 Spur. remove comma
 * Very choppy: The city of McPherson complained about the removal of US-81 Alternate. Then in a resolution passed on March 29, 1967, it was approved to re-establish US-81 Alternate in McPherson. These sentences should be combined.
 * Improvements section has several uses of "Fall (year)" which are against MOS:SEASONS.
 * "p.m." and "pm" in the same sentence: pick one.
 * "has been designated" should be "was designated".

Source spot checks
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 * 16 ✅ Map verifies description of course through Arlington.
 * 32 ✅ Bids for grading. For AP articles, consider adding Associated Press in the citation template.
 * 34 ✅ Bid approval.
 * 48 ✅ Opening date.
 * 49 ✅ Verifies description of former routing.
 * 53 ✅ Shows segment was not open in 1963.
 * 60 ✅ Shows full segment was not four lanes until 1975.
 * 63 ✅ I-35W construction plans.
 * 77 ✅ Redesignation of US 81 Alt. as Bus. through McPherson.
 * 81 ✅ October 2011 opening of route and Koss Construction as general contractor for both counties' portions.