Talk:M-28 (Michigan highway)/Archive 1

A-Class
Promoted to A-Class following this debate. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 21:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Copyeditor's thoughts
In addition to the small changes that I made directly, I have three suggestions for further improvement. Finetooth (talk) 18:25, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The quoted phrase in the "Historic bridges" section, "with corbeled bulkheads and six panels recessed in the concrete spandrel walls" includes two words that many readers will not understand. The Manual of Style advises against linking words like "corbel" or "spandrel" within the quote itself, but I'd suggest including a brief explanation of these terms in a separate sentence or perhaps paraphrasing instead of quoting so that direct links would be acceptable.
 * The licensing for Image:Seney Stretch1.jpg looks odd to me. The original on Flickr may be protected from being used by Wikipedia.
 * The lead might include a brief mention (three or four words added to an existing sentence) of the historic bridges.


 * The image was specifically relicensed to be added to this article. The Flickr tool at Commons confirmed that it was available to use and uploaded it. I've added the bridges reference to the lead and a sentence following the quote. Any suggestions or does that wording pass muster? Imzadi1979 (talk) 00:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The wording looks fine, and you've taken care of the image question. The article reads well. Finetooth (talk) 02:00, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to remove date-autoformatting
[From User_talk:Imzadi1979

Dear contributors

MOSNUM no longer encourages date autoformatting, having evolved over the past year or so from the mandatory to the optional after much discussion there and elsewhere of the disadvantages of the system. Related to this, MOSNUM prescribes From rules for raw date-formatting, irrespective of whether or not dates are autoformatted. MOSLINK and CONTEXT are consistent with this.

There are at least six disadvantages in using date-autoformatting, which I've capped here:

Removal has generally been met with positive responses by editors. If anyone objects to my proposal to free the dates of autoformatting in the main text in a day or two on a trial basis (using a script), please say so below. The original input formatting would be seen by all WPians, not just the huge number of visitors; it would be plain, unobtrusive text, which would give greater prominence to the high-value links.

Critically, since I’m an FAC reviewer, I want to state in unequivocal terms that whether or not contributors object to this proposal will have absolutely no bearing on my review or declaration at FAC. I’m proposing the action because FAC is an influential process, not because nominators might feel under obligation—they shouldn’t. Tony  (talk)  02:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * My preference is to leave alone. There are exactly four dates that would be changed, one of which is in the infobox. The rest are in citations that would not be changed which would require a lot of manual editing. I don't think the four links removed would impact the appearance of under or over linking. Imzadi1979 (talk) 06:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Unique passing sign?
In the section M-28 (Michigan highway), the caption reads "A unique passing sign on M-28 westbound near McMillan". What makes the sign unique? Is it the one with two down arrows and one up arrow? This kind of sign exists elsewhere and so is not particularly unique. It might do to reword like "Westbound on M-28 near McMillan". Chris857 (talk) 02:46, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * At the time the photo was taken and added to this article, that style sign was not in common usage, and I think it's still not common. We can change the caption though. Where else is MDOT using this sign, btw?  Imzadi 1979  →   22:14, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't remember where I've seen them, but I took a raodtrip this summer from Michigan to Flordia, so it could be almost anywhere. It may be that the sign is rare or uncommon, but I like the wording you changed it to. Chris857 (talk) 00:45, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

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