U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Hagerstown–Frederick, Maryland) has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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I assessed start because is missing the history section. Dave ( talk) 04:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC) reply

The junction list in this article needs attention, as it has several issues that are not up to WP:ELG standards. -- LJ ( talk) 10:56, 16 February 2009 (UTC) reply

This review is transcluded from Talk:U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Hagerstown–Frederick, Maryland)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Rschen7754 ( talk · contribs) 06:55, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b ( MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c ( OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

   Map needs a caption.

   Caption added.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Route description

• US 40 Alternate begins as Baltimore Street at its intersection with Potomac Street, which is one-way southbound, - which street is the one-way?
• Baltimore Street continues west as a city street toward the Hagerstown City Park. Baltimore Street runs east–west two blocks south of US 40, which comprises a one-way pair of Washington Street eastbound and Franklin Street westbound. - combine
  • These two concerns seemed somewhat contradictory. I revised the two or three involved sentences. Let me know if that works or if I should do something else with the passage.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply
• The highway passes under Interstate 70 (I-70) (Eisenhower Memorial Highway) with no access and intersects Poffenberger Road, which leads west to the historic home Valentia. - try to avoid double parentheses
  • I moved the first reference to I-70 to the Lead to eliminate the double parentheses.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply
• The alternate routes continues southeast as Boonsboro Pike and starts to ascend South Mountain. - subject/verb agreement
  • I made the noun singular.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply
• At the base of the mountain, the alternate route temporarily expands to a four-lane divided highway through its half-diamond interchange with I-70 (Eisenhower Memorial Highway), - don't need to say Eisenhower again
  • I removed the mention of the highway name.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

History

• Might want to consider dividing into two sections.
  • Done. If you can suggest any improvements to the section titles, go ahead.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply
• The Baltimore and Fredericktown and National turnpikes remained in operation in 1898 and in 1909 when the Maryland State Highway Administration (MDSRC) designated the road between Frederick and Hagerstown for improvement as one of the original state roads. - poor sentence structure
  • I split the sentence into two sentences, one to conclude the first section and the second to commence the second section.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Major intersections

• "I-70 Exit 49" in notes column should have lowercase e.
  • I think the capitalization of "Exit" here is proper as it refers to a specific exit.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply
    • But it's not a proper noun, and thus it should not be capitalized. This is what all the other USRD FAs use. -- Rs chen 7754 06:27, 17 June 2012 (UTC) reply
      • I lowercased Exit.  V C  21:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC) reply

FAC note

• This article has no third-party sources, which will be a problem if you plan to take it further.

Hold - Should be a pass once these are completed. -- Rs chen 7754 07:35, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your review, Rschen.  V C  19:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Everything else good, just have the capitalization issue. -- Rs chen 7754 06:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC) reply

I plan to pass this, just got back and catching up. Ping me if I forget. -- Rs chen 7754 09:29, 22 June 2012 (UTC) reply