Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Michigan State Trunkline Highway System/archive1


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Not promoted - stale. No substantial efforts made to address issues presented within appropriate amount of time. --Rschen7754 19:44, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Michigan State Trunkline Highway System
review
 * Suggestion: Promote to A-Class
 * Nominator's comments: Not our standard sort of article, but still very important in terms of the state of Michigan. I'm hoping to get some feedback on this article, if there's anything else that should be included or expanded. In the end, this is the type of article that should go to FAC at some point.
 * Nominated by:  Imzadi 1979  →   05:49, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
 * First comment occurred: 01:29, 8 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Comments - I have some concerns with the article before I can support it for A-class:
 * 1) Maybe link decommissioned to Decommissioned highway instead of wiktionary.
 * 2) "Michigan is one of only two states that does this, the other one being Kansas.", from what I know Nebraska uses N-x to refer to their routes so there are technically three states that use this convention.
 * 3) Is it necessary to describe the other uses of the M-x convention?
 * 4) "two-lane highways in far-flung rural areas", perhaps use something better than far-flung like remote.
 * 5) Under the Highway systems section, it may help to elaborate on more of the details of what the I, US, and M highways are like, the section seems to only focus on the bannered routes. Perhaps discuss the numbering pattern, mileage in each system, and distribution of numbers. It would also help to split the State Trunkline Highways subsection into subsections describing the I, US, and M routes.
 * 6) Citation needed for "The highways names for special routes are formed by prefacing the parent highway with the type of special route. The full names are commonly abbreviated like other highways: Business Loop Interstate 196 (BL I-196), Business M-60 (BUS M-60) or Connector M-44 (CONN M-44)."
 * 7) Perhaps provide more details onto how the CDH's are numbered.
 * 8) Citation needed for "Other county systems are designated and maintained in each of the 83 counties and practices vary between using the pentagon marker to older square markers in black and white."
 * 9) "roads districts", is that what it is called and not road districts or roads district?
 * 10) "Michigan was the first state to complete a border-to-border Interstate Highway in 1960 with the completion of Interstate 94 in Michigan", sounds a little wordy in mentioning Michigan twice, try removing the "in Michigan" at the end of the sentence.
 * 11) The article seems to be missing more recent history of the highway system, is there some that can be added?
 * 12) Is it possible to add more road pictures to the article to illustrate examples of highways in Michigan?
 * 13) Reference 21 is a dead link.  Dough  48  72  01:29, 8 May 2011 (UTC)


 * What is the status on resolving Dough's comments? --Rschen7754 05:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm waiting on others' comments as well. As for the deadlink, MDOT fixed it so it works.  Imzadi 1979  →   05:37, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Preliminary review comparing with Iowa Primary Highway System:
 * The header "Usage" isn't clear, maybe replace it with something else.
 * Maybe the description of the numbering system should go with the description of the State Trunkline Highways?
 * Maybe include more information on funding in the 20th century?
 * More to come once the above issues are addressed. --Rschen7754 22:03, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Note If no substantial effort is made to address the issues above by the 29th of October, this ACR will be archived. --Rschen7754 20:11, 22 October 2011 (UTC)


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