Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Peer review/Brighton Bypass/Archive 1

Brighton Bypass
I am looking for comments on how I can I improve this article further. I also would appreciate comments on how to improve my specific writing style in road articles in an attempt to improve their status. Wiki ian 09:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Review by Admrboltz (talk)

 * Lead
 * The lead should not be cited, unless you are introducing controversial or statistical facts. The only thing that should be cited there is the $164 million cost (note the addition of a non breaking space between 164 and million).
 * Cites should not come until a comma or full stop, not mid sentence.
 * 9.5 km should be wrapped in the convert template (e.g. " long federally funded...")
 * History
 * "Northern ports." decap northern.
 * "great strain on a Highway" decap highway
 * "In 2007, the Lennon government " - who is Lennon? John Lennon?
 * Construction
 * nbsp between number and million
 * "Construction commenced in April 2009 - A month early." - incorrect use of hyphen. Maybe something like "Construction of the bypass started a month early in April 2009."
 * "During May 2010, Lara Giddings Announced the opening of Glenstone Road." caps
 * "Bridge was planned to have a continues span over the Jordan river levee, " - a continuous span and JRL should be capped.
 * "The minister of Heritage," - caps
 * Exits
 * The exit list should follow the general guidelines from the Manual of Style - Road Junction Lists.
 * The roundabout icon is unneeded, but once you switch to a RJL compliant exit list, it can be noted in the "notes" field that the interchange is a roundabout.
 * Distances should be cited.
 * References
 * Overlinking is present in the references. ABC News only needs to be wikilinked once.
 * "Appendix 3 Investigation of Practical and Feasible Alternative Options" is a dead link, which seems to be used multiple times, check to see if its just moved...
 * Drop Category:2012 establishments as we don't know if the road will be completed in time.
 * Images
 * File:Australian National Route 1.svg - I am leary about that image description. There really should be a proper tag on it... but thats not your worry.

As far as general writing style, I would suggest checking out some of the United States Roads WikiProject's Featured Articles, or some international Good Articles, such as A3 (Croatia). Let me know if I can be of more help. Either hit me up on my talk page or, respond here as I will watch this page.