User talk:Rosssamantha

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Hello, Rosssamantha, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to M-185 (Michigan highway). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!  Imzadi 1979  →   03:44, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

M-185 edits
M-185 (Michigan highway) has been rated as one of Wikipedia's Featured Articles (FA). FAs have a bronze star visible in their upper corners and have been judged by a community review process to be "among Wikipedia's finest work". There are certain standards that all articles are supposed to follow, but that FAs especially have to follow. Self-published sources are not normally allowed as sources on our articles unless they meet certain requirements. Those requirements have not been judged to have been met by Christopher Bessert and his website, Michigan Highways. This isn't to besmirch his reputation, just that the site doesn't meet the requirements we have to follow. As such, I've removed part of your additions to the M-185 article because retention of those additions could eventually mean delisting the article as an FA.

FAs also have to be consistent in application of our Manual of Style (MOS). The article uses the standard American date order (Month DD, YYYY) in citations, yet you had used the DDD Month YYYY order for the access dates. (MOS:DATEUNIFY) Additionally, we normally don't use citations in the lead section of an article because any information in the lead should be present in the body of the article with any accompanying citations there. (MOS:LEADCITE) We also have to be careful in adding content that we aren't cutting off previously existing sentences from their supporting footnotes. In the article, there were two consecutive sentence cited to the book by Hutchins, but in adding the sentence about the police department, the new content severed the link between the first sentence and the footnote at the end of the second sentence. I've inserted a link to that footnote at the end of the one sentence, so once again it's cited to a verifiable source (WP:V). Lastly, the passage about the resurfacing concerns events in 2016, yet you had adding it between passages about events in 2002 and 2005, disrupting the otherwise chronological flow of that whole history section.

I've made a pair of edits to remove and improve the content you added so that the article will continue to exemplify its status as "Wikipedia's finest work".  Imzadi 1979  →   04:12, 19 March 2018 (UTC)