Talk:Virginia State Route 7 Business (Purcellville)

Change detail
I made the following changes for the following reasons. Now the article just needs to be expanded. The RD section is a sentence fragment that should be a paragraph at least. This paragraph can be cited to the current paper VDOT map and a set of driving directions on Google Maps. A junction list can be created using the information from the VDOT report already cited in the article. Those two sections would make this a Start-Class article. Add a history section cited to reliable sources like old VDOT maps or old newspaper articles (try http://news.google.com and their archives search function, for example) and this would be a C- or B-Class article depending on the quality of the writing and sourcing.  Imzadi 1979  →   17:03, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Business routes don't get the browser in their infoboxes. It's just been USRD practice not to do it.
 * 2) I expanded out the reference from a bare URL to a full citation. For the reasons why, see WP:Linkrot. Also, I used a citation template because it keeps the formatting consistent.
 * 3) I removed the roadway names in the infobox. Space is constrained there, but when the full junction list table is created, that is an appropriate detail to include. Also, that detail should be found in the route description when written.
 * 4) I dropped the "Virginia" from the boldface name in the first sentence per WP:USSH. I added the abbreviation afterwards in parentheses, boldfacing it per MOS:BOLD.
 * 5) A link to "U.S. state" is unneeded. Direct your readers to the article on "Virginia", and if they still need clarification, that article will link them to "U.S. state". In short, the most specific link is best, and less-specific links are not.
 * 6) Convert is your friend. Also, the footnote should go at the end of the sentence or clause being cited, not the specific statistic. (In this case, the footnote also cites the location, not just the length.)
 * 7) Jct uses "SR #", and so should the text of the article for consistency.
 * 8) Spell out the abbreviations for roadway name suffixes like "Street" and "Highway".
 * 9) Excessive boldfacing looks bad. If those terms aren't used for redirects, then they really don't need to be in bold. In otherwords, unless Loudon Street or Loudon Street (Purcelville, Virginia) redirects to this article (and I don't think that such a redirect is needed), then the term doesn't need to be in bold here. Ditto the other names.
 * 10) Other changes to the text were made just so it would flow a bit better without unnecessary repetition of words.
 * 11) References belong in their own section with a heading. USRD seems to prefer "References" although there is no exact rule to call it that.
 * I'm starting to make a junction list right now, thanks. By the way, what are "citation templates"? Philroc (talk) 22:31, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Help:Citation Style 1 documents one of our in-house styles for citing sources. That style uses various templates like cite web (for webpages), cite book (for books), or cite map (for maps) that can be used to consistently format citations. There is another in-house style (Citation Style 2) that is very similar, and editors are free to manually format APA, MLA or other type citations as they wish. (Personally, I stick to CS1 because the templates make it so much easier.)  Imzadi 1979  →   23:04, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Basic fix to the junction list table
Ok, as promised in my edit summary, I'm going to detail the why for my last edit to fix the junction list. Now, one final thing for full MOS:RJL compliance: the county column needs to be removed. Since all of the junctions are in the same county, that section of the Manual of Style says to omit the column and replace it with a note above the table. That can be done like this.  Imzadi 1979  →   23:19, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 1) Each row of the table is a separate VAint transclusion. Each one has to be started with  and then ended with   after the last parameter for that row, in this case the notes.
 * 2) For locations and counties, just supply the name, not a full link. VAint will make the link for you.
 * 3) The Round Hill location only needs to span two rows, not 3, and the county only needs to span 4, not 5, based on what was there.
 * Um, there was another junction between the two SR 7 junctions with SR 713 (Main St.). Can you fix that? Philroc (talk) 10:44, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I can add it, but it wasn't there before.  Imzadi 1979  →   18:39, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Aw, whatever, I already added it. Philroc (talk) 18:58, 30 September 2013 (UTC)