Wikipedia:Peer review/Interstate Highway System/archive1

Interstate Highway System
Pretty good article with some references, but the criticism section needs expanding. This could easily get to FA or at least good with some work. Any specific suggestions would be much appreciated; I'm new to peer reviews. Simpsnut14 22:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It looks pretty decent. A few comments:
 * In the third paragraph, please clarify that by "XX" you mean a numerical identifier. Otherwise a reader foreign to the U.S. might take that text literally.
 * "Most long-distance journeys of less than 300 miles (500 km), whether for vacation or business, use the interstate highway system at some point." Do you have a source for this?
 * The last sentence, second paragraph of the "History" section has some italicized text. Could you start the sentence with "The publication" so that it is clear from the start that this refers to a publication, rather than emphasizing the text?
 * Typo: "transportaion"
 * It is usually requested that the trivia section be worked into the main text or dropped.
 * Thanks! &mdash; RJH (talk) 15:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)


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 * I advocate metric conversions to round numbers in articles like this one. An example of numbers that are not round: "70 to 80 mph (112 km/h to 129 km/h) speed limits." This could be rounded at least to 110 to 130, and other speeds similarly. I don't take the purpose of the article to give legal advice ("you may legally travel 130 km/hr") but rather to give readers who drive highways with metric signs the nearest equivalent that they might encounter (they're unlikely to find a sign that says "Speed Limit 112 km/hr"). Of course, where original numbers have more digits (e.g. 36 inches), it makes sense for metric equivalents to have a similar number of digits. Fg2 15:37, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


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Some comments from a quick read: Of course many of these are rather simple to fix, and I could just as easily sofixit.
 * It needs a lot more history - I should be able to help with this.
 * The bit about exit numbers really shouldn't be here, as most states number exits on all freeways.
 * Make sure Interstate Highway is always capitalized - an interstate highway is simply a highway in multiple states.
 * The trivia could be incorporated easily in the other sections.
 * The criticism section could be expanded and rescoped to cover its effects - positive and negative.
 * See also could be trimmed a bit.

Mind commenting on Peer review/United States Numbered Highways/archive1? --SPUI (T - C) 18:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)