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Reviewer: Imzadi1979 ( talk · contribs) 07:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Some comments below the checklist will contain suggested changes that exceed what the GA criteria call for at a minimum, however I feel that they at least warrant consideration to improve the quality of the article or to bring it in line with how other Good Articles on state highways are formatted/written for greater consistency.
between the number and unit label, but it could produce better flowing prose. (The conversion templates are good at what they do, but well-written prose is even better.)The entire highway is in the [[Davis Mountains State Park]], [[Jeff Davis County, Texas|Jeff Davis County]].
This is your custom table note.|nocty=yes
to shut off the county column and |location=none
to shut off the location column.|state=TX |county=Jeff Davis
from jcttop (no longer needed) and the |location_special=
Davis Mountains State Park |lspan=3
from the first line of the table in jctint (also no longer needed).|adj=mid|-long
in the conversion template and drop the word "long" after it. This sentence construction is using the distance as an adjective to modify "suffixed route", and since the word long is used, it's part of the compound adjective and should be hyphenated in as well. (That's what the "mid" type does is allow you to insert the rest of the compound adjective into the middle of the conversion, so long as you specify it.)|nolink1=yes
to the {{
jct}} to unlink PR 3 in the table. Since it's linking to this same article, the servers render the link in boldface, but that's not something we want here.|link= no
option in the template for the second citation.) Certainly optional, and just food for thought.The numbers will correspond to the footnote numbers as they appeared when I reviewed the article.
|author= Staff
since this is a corporately authored work. I would also remove the link from the |work=
field because it actually breaks part of the citation template. The templates code metadata that outputs the information in a machine-readable format in the HTML coding that your web browser loads. By linking it like you did, you just told computer programs reading that metadata that the work, or the website name in this case, is [http://texascccparks.org/ The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression]
. (I've been known to separately link the chapters and overall book using {{
cite book}} for citations to online editions of books, but this is a plain website, so that's not needed at all.){{
cite journal}}
: Unknown parameter |month=
ignored (
help) which is coded as{{cite journal |last= Klepper |first= E. Dan |title= Sky Island |journal= Texas Parks & Wildlife |location= Austin, TX |publisher= [[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]] |month= October |year= 2006 |url= http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2006/oct/ed_1/ |accessdate=2009-12-14 |volume= 64 |issue= 10 |page= |issn= 0040-4586}}
|link= no
to the template. That way you aren't
WP:OVERLINKing publishers in the referencesFootnote 8 uses the "Month DD, YYYY" format for its access date while the others use YYYY-MM-DD, or the ISO style. Either works, and I clearly prefer the former, but you need to be consistent with which is in use. MOS:DATE prohibits ISO dates in prose with very few exceptions, but allows it for retrieval/access dates in references. The guideline even allows a mixed format use where the publication dates are in one format while the retrieval/access dates are ISO. The key is consistency, so either fn 8 needs to be switched, or the others do.
Park Road 3
or PR 3
, we should be using Park Road 3
or PR 3
. That way if the highway name or abbreviation is near the end of a line, the browser can't insert a line break between the two parts of the abbreviation. That way instead of:... Park Road 3A, also known as
you'd get something more like:
... Park Road 3A, also known as
or:
... Park Road 3A, also...
if that part of the prose was near the end of a line. Since our readers may be using a variety of browsers and monitor sizes, or even smartphones or tablets, we can't assume that something won't fall near the end of the line. Imzadi 1979 → 17:31, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
I believe that Fortguy and I have addressed all comments. If I am mistaken, please inform me. Thanks, - Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 05:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
|format= PDF
since it is a PDF file. (Not all readers will get the cute little PDF icon at the end of the link, so it's a good idea to indicate anytime we link to something that isn't a plain HTML page or one of the simple graphics formats like JPG or PNG.)Overall, everything looks good, and I'm pleased to promote this. I hope you found some value in my explanations of why I suggested changes rather than have a reviewer just tell you to change something. Imzadi 1979 → 07:10, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Imzadi1979 ( talk · contribs) 07:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Some comments below the checklist will contain suggested changes that exceed what the GA criteria call for at a minimum, however I feel that they at least warrant consideration to improve the quality of the article or to bring it in line with how other Good Articles on state highways are formatted/written for greater consistency.
between the number and unit label, but it could produce better flowing prose. (The conversion templates are good at what they do, but well-written prose is even better.)The entire highway is in the [[Davis Mountains State Park]], [[Jeff Davis County, Texas|Jeff Davis County]].
This is your custom table note.|nocty=yes
to shut off the county column and |location=none
to shut off the location column.|state=TX |county=Jeff Davis
from jcttop (no longer needed) and the |location_special=
Davis Mountains State Park |lspan=3
from the first line of the table in jctint (also no longer needed).|adj=mid|-long
in the conversion template and drop the word "long" after it. This sentence construction is using the distance as an adjective to modify "suffixed route", and since the word long is used, it's part of the compound adjective and should be hyphenated in as well. (That's what the "mid" type does is allow you to insert the rest of the compound adjective into the middle of the conversion, so long as you specify it.)|nolink1=yes
to the {{
jct}} to unlink PR 3 in the table. Since it's linking to this same article, the servers render the link in boldface, but that's not something we want here.|link= no
option in the template for the second citation.) Certainly optional, and just food for thought.The numbers will correspond to the footnote numbers as they appeared when I reviewed the article.
|author= Staff
since this is a corporately authored work. I would also remove the link from the |work=
field because it actually breaks part of the citation template. The templates code metadata that outputs the information in a machine-readable format in the HTML coding that your web browser loads. By linking it like you did, you just told computer programs reading that metadata that the work, or the website name in this case, is [http://texascccparks.org/ The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression]
. (I've been known to separately link the chapters and overall book using {{
cite book}} for citations to online editions of books, but this is a plain website, so that's not needed at all.){{
cite journal}}
: Unknown parameter |month=
ignored (
help) which is coded as{{cite journal |last= Klepper |first= E. Dan |title= Sky Island |journal= Texas Parks & Wildlife |location= Austin, TX |publisher= [[Texas Parks and Wildlife Department]] |month= October |year= 2006 |url= http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2006/oct/ed_1/ |accessdate=2009-12-14 |volume= 64 |issue= 10 |page= |issn= 0040-4586}}
|link= no
to the template. That way you aren't
WP:OVERLINKing publishers in the referencesFootnote 8 uses the "Month DD, YYYY" format for its access date while the others use YYYY-MM-DD, or the ISO style. Either works, and I clearly prefer the former, but you need to be consistent with which is in use. MOS:DATE prohibits ISO dates in prose with very few exceptions, but allows it for retrieval/access dates in references. The guideline even allows a mixed format use where the publication dates are in one format while the retrieval/access dates are ISO. The key is consistency, so either fn 8 needs to be switched, or the others do.
Park Road 3
or PR 3
, we should be using Park Road 3
or PR 3
. That way if the highway name or abbreviation is near the end of a line, the browser can't insert a line break between the two parts of the abbreviation. That way instead of:... Park Road 3A, also known as
you'd get something more like:
... Park Road 3A, also known as
or:
... Park Road 3A, also...
if that part of the prose was near the end of a line. Since our readers may be using a variety of browsers and monitor sizes, or even smartphones or tablets, we can't assume that something won't fall near the end of the line. Imzadi 1979 → 17:31, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
I believe that Fortguy and I have addressed all comments. If I am mistaken, please inform me. Thanks, - Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 05:16, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
|format= PDF
since it is a PDF file. (Not all readers will get the cute little PDF icon at the end of the link, so it's a good idea to indicate anytime we link to something that isn't a plain HTML page or one of the simple graphics formats like JPG or PNG.)Overall, everything looks good, and I'm pleased to promote this. I hope you found some value in my explanations of why I suggested changes rather than have a reviewer just tell you to change something. Imzadi 1979 → 07:10, 6 June 2012 (UTC)