Talk:Ohio State Route 161

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This article needs a section on points of interest along route 161 and a section on junctions. --DatraxMada 13:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll do junctions. Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 15:00, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

The history section doesn't quite make sense and doesn't match my memory or old maps. From the eastern junction of I-270 to Big Walnut Creek (including the Sunbury Rd interchange) OH-161 has been a freeway since before the 90s. When the New Albany Bypass was completed, (1997 according to article) the road was already a freeway from I-270 to two miles east of New Albany, but the article says this was accomplished as a separate upgrade in 2000. I think there might have been a time when a short stretch of OH-161 on the west end of the bypass (what is now the Little Turtle Way interchange) wasn't completed as a freeway yet, but I wouldn't have considered the bypass itself completed under these conditions, and I'm sure it didn't last three years. (It should be noted that I have found at least one contradiction on John Simpson's site: http://pages.prodigy.net/john.simpson/highways/rr1926.html seems to imply that OH-1 never existed after 1926, but http://pages.prodigy.net/john.simpson/highways/071.html presents some information on OH-1's routing in the 60s.) ODOT's SLD's identify the bypass section with the year 1993, which I think is the year the project started. So I think the history point for the year 2000 should be removed -- but I don't know this with enough certainty to do it myself.Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 00:05, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Screw it, I'm merging the 1997 and 2000 history points. The New Albany Bypass was never anything but a freeway.  Vid the Kid - Does this font make me look fat? 14:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Suggested fixes

 * 1) Here's how things are done concerning abbreviations. Basically, you write out "State Route 161" and then put ("SR 161"), with the parentheses. Then, for all other state routes, you can just refer to them as "SR ###". This is also true for highways of other types such as Interstates, U.S. Routes, and County Routes.✅
 * 2) The KML template should use title,inline. Right now, it isn't shown in the title, which differs from most if not all other USRD articles (except for in New York, but that's another story).✅
 * 3) "Ohio's Capital" - Why is "Capital" capitalized? (Heh...capital is capital-ized...I'm a nerd.)✅
 * 4) A USRD lead, at least for minor state routes such as this one, almost always includes two paragraphs. The first one has the basic stuff: The route's name, mileage, location, etc. This paragraph summarizes the route description. The second paragraph should state when the route was established and all that good stuff. That paragraph summarizes the history.✅
 * 5) Onto the history. If you play your cards correctly in the lead with the abbreviations, like I mentioned in comment #1, you should be able to lower the section's amount of fluff significantly by abbreviating all the state routes.✅
 * 6) Generally speaking, a highway should not be referred to only by its number, as you do many times within the article. Wikipedia has a very formal tone, so you should always refer to it by its official abbreviation, in this case "SR 161".✅
 * 7) Using the same place name twice in rapid succession generally doesn't read well. One phrase I'm referring to in particular is, "a concurrency from 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Dublin to Dublin". The second usage of "Dublin" could probably use a different noun like "the city itself" or something similar.✅
 * 8) You know how I mentioned abbreviations above? Well, you can do the same thing with departments of transportation. When you mention the Ohio Department of Transportation in the lead, you can add the abbreviation in parentheses, then you can refer to it therein as ODOT.✅

More to come later. T C  N7 JM  03:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)