Talk:NCAT Pavement Test Track

New article to-do list
The main criteria from School and university projects/Dr. Aaij's Freshman comp for a new article are:
 * ✅ Longer than 1500 characters, excluding citations and infoboxes (from DYK rules). Meets criterion at 6240 characters.
 * Linked from several other articles. Still needs to be done (check Special:WhatLinksHere/NCAT Pavement Test Track).
 * Added a link from Road surface. PleaseStand (talk) 01:04, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Belongs to a category. Done by me (PleaseStand).
 * Sources are cited. Yes. However, author names are missing on the following sources: (See the article's References section for the page numbers.)
 * Wall Street Journal
 * Civil Engineering
 * Alabama Roadbuilder - that is not in the current list
 * Montgomery Advertiser
 * International Society for Asphalt Pavements Reporter
 * Asphalt Contractor
 * Bicycling Magazine
 * World Highways
 * Engineering News-Record
 * Fleet Maintenance and Technology
 * Hot Mix Asphalt Technology
 * ✅ Has an introductory paragraph. Done by me (PleaseStand) as part of reorganization and editing.
 * ✅ Not a copyright problem or a plagiarized article.
 * On plagiarism: Some parts of the original article were originally copy-and-pasted from online sources, one of which was written in a promotional manner for obtaining funding. (I had to edit these parts.) Yes, for the purpose of academic ethics, this copy-and-pasting is considered plagiarism. The article, however, does cite sources and need not be removed from Wikipedia.
 * On copyright: Although some parts of the old version of the article were copy-and-pasted, the current text of the article is not a copyright problem. Only short excerpts were ever used in the original article, all of which I (PleaseStand) rewrote.

To User:Bradallenpowell: if you can provide the missing citation information and you cannot figure out how to do so yourself, please add the author's name and the article title to the list above and I will add it for you. PleaseStand (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * PleaseStand, you have done excellent work. Thank you. Dr Aaij (talk) 19:29, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

I have done the strikeouts above because Dr pda added some of the information. PleaseStand (talk) 20:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Free photo request
Just in case anyone is watching this, I sent a request for a free photo of the track to Buzz Powell (buzz@auburn.edu). PleaseStand (talk) 11:42, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Copyright problem revisited
Looking back at this article two years later, I regret that I did not just tag it for speedy deletion, as it was easy for me to identify copied sentences in the Findings section. Therefore, I have stubbed this article to the bare minimum of text needed to establish notability. Please do not restore any text I have removed unless you are completely sure it is not copied from anywhere. PleaseStand (talk) 04:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
 * List of sources from old version of article PleaseStand (talk) 05:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)