Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 696/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Ian Rose 07:13, 25 October 2012.

Interstate 696

 * Nominator(s):  Imzadi 1979  →   04:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I am nominating this for featured article because it has another one of the more unique histories for a highway in Michigan. At the time construction of this 20 mi freeway started, James Blanchard was in high school. When it was completed, he was the sitting Governor of Michigan. I-696 has some unique design features that overcame the opposition to the construction of the central section, which you can learn about when you read and review the article.  Imzadi 1979  →   04:32, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support per my review at WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Interstate 696. --Rschen7754 04:34, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Images:
 * File:Mixing Bowl Interchange (Novi, Michigan).png needs to be made a lot clearer. What is this USGS image? Where is it from? If the user says he or she put it into the public domain, does that imply they made changes? Otherwise it would be in the public domain, not placed in it, and a US government tag would apply, not PD-self.
 * File:Detroit, Michigan 1955 Yellow Book.jpg needs a mroe informative description, it's all a bit messy.
 * File:I696-1988.JPG: the top licence is superfluous.
 * Otherwise fine. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 10:30, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The first uses a USGS orthophoto as the base image, and then annotations in the form of highway markers were added on top of it. The base map is PD-USgov as a USGS publication, and Stratosphere released this edited/annotated version into the public domain as well.
 * I implemented information,
 * Removed the extraneous license which didn't impact its status.  Imzadi 1979  →   22:51, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe that it is a USGS image, but it still needs a source: a website or book or dataset or something. Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 21:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
 * is retired/inactive, but accoring to a search at http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/, the imagery is from dataset ID: [200204_detroit_mi_0x3000m_utm_clr.  Imzadi 1979  →   22:16, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Support - Per my review at ACR.  Dough 48  72  15:15, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Support per my review at ACR. –Fredddie™ 16:32, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Delegate note -- Hi Imzadi, correct me if I'm wrong but looks to me like it's been over a year since one of your noms had a source spotcheck for accuracy and avoidance of close paraphrasing, in which case about time for another... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:26, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I'll do the spotcheck, it might take me a while though. Plan to look at 5 sources; with 33 sources and some of those being maps that should be plenty. --Rschen7754 19:26, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Source 5: (DFP: Speed limit) no plagiarism, additional source added.
 * Source 15: (Recommended interstate MDOT) Wound up being a map, so no plagiarism, and the 98 line is approximate to the I-696 line in the map above.
 * Source 22: (I-94 I-75 Argus) slight rewording done, no plagiarism.
 * Source 26: (Lathrup Argus) verifiable, no plagiarism.
 * Source 30: (MI Const MCB) slight rewording done, no plagiarism.
 * Spotcheck done. --Rschen7754 02:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Tks Rschen. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:03, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment—a bot was run on the article to check dashes. The one hyphen it changed to an en dash was not correct. The one MDOT source uses chapter-based pagination, so page B1-17 is actually the 17th page of chapter B1, not a page range.  Imzadi 1979  →   01:40, 23 October 2012 (UTC)


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