Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Interstate Highways in Texas


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

The list was promoted 15:21, 6 March 2008.

List of Interstate Highways in Texas
I think this list meets all the FL criteria, it is well sourced with several images. --Holderca1talk 15:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Nice list, but because of the images, the table columns are too narrow and the rows too long, which makes the table harder to read. Since there is only few pictures, I suggest you put the best one (or the most significant highway) in the lead, and the rest below the table (or just remove them). Eklipse00 (talk) 17:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I am working on having a map created to put in the lead, I will try putting them below the table to see how that looks. --Holderca1talk 17:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Images have been moved to below the table. --Holderca1talk 18:33, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Support. Good improvements; the lead, in particular, is much stronger—and more interesting—now. MeegsC | Talk 16:37, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment – the lengths are expressed (mostly) with three digits of precision, which seems inappropriate to me. It's often difficult to determine where a highway really starts and ends when you look at ramp mergers etc., so I would think a precision of 0.1 mile/km is sufficient.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:50, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The lengths are all the official lengths from the Texas Department of Transportation. I suppose I can make them less precise though.  --Holderca1talk 19:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, no, if they are sourced that way, I'd keep them that way. It just looked to me like a computation issue at first glance.  — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Support - All concerns have been addressed, looks like a good list. Well done. -- Matthew | talk | Contribs 00:47, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks for your help. --Holderca1talk 00:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Support - looks much better than when it started, great work. The Rambling Man (talk) 11:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ Major concern, easily fixed: The list should be renamed to List of Interstate Highways in Texas. (An "interstate" is not actually a noun, even though it is used that way informally.) Note that this would be consistent with List of Interstate Highways in Florida, which is the only existing state-specific list of Interstate highways that I found. --Orlady (talk) 15:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually created both of these lists and I would argue that the Florida list should be renamed. Several dictionaries say it is a noun without "highways" attached.   --Holderca1talk 16:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe I'm just an old-fashioned girl for believing that "interstate" is an adjective meaning "between or among two or more states," but I happen to think that "interstates" is U.S.-specific informal usage that should be avoided in an encyclopedia. Please consider the need to make article names comprehensible for speakers of English who don't happen to be Americans. --Orlady (talk) 16:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The problem you run into though is that several of the items on the list aren't "interstate highways" going by the dictionary definition of the adjective "interstate." For example, Interstate 27, Interstate 37, Interstate 45, and all of the auxiliary routes never leave the state.  --Holderca1talk 16:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * After seeing List of Interstate Highways, I have reconsidered for the sake of consistency and any ambiguity that may arise to move the article. --Holderca1talk 16:50, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Good resolution. Most definitions of "Interstate highway" say that the term applies to any of the highways in the Interstate Highway System (also described as the interconnected system of highways connecting the 48 contiguous states). Thus, "Interstate Highway" is a valid term for the topics in the list article. --Orlady (talk) 16:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Support. Thanks for your patience with my comments. --Orlady (talk) 22:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks for your help!  --Holderca1talk 02:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
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