Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/Interstate 37

Interstate 37

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Interstate 37 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) review

Suggestion: Demote from A-Class

Nominator's comments: Prior review: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Interstate 37

This article passed our ACR in April 2008. Besides the obvious problem with the deadlinks and the missing mileposts, the history section is almost entirely sourced to the National Bridge Inventory, which only tells us when the bridges were built. This would fail at FAC under "comprehensive" and as such should not remain at A-Class within USRD. Unfortunately, since this would require entirely re-researching the article, and because the original nominator has left, I don't think we can fix this.

Nominated by: Rschen7754 20:09, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

First comment occurred: 20:13, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Review by TCN7JM

I'll go ahead and take a look at this one in a little while. TCN7JM 20:13, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Keep in mind that this is just a cursory look and that there are most definitely more concerns to be addressed by other reviewers.

I will be fixing TCN7JM's issues. –Fredddie™ 01:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Lead

1. What is the point of writing out "U.S. 281" and then abbreviating it as "US 281"? You have to write out the full name of the highway first.

   Fixed. –Fredddie™

2. "The highway's southern terminus is located in Corpus Christi at US 181 and SH 35, and heads north to San Antonio, where it ends at I-35." - By the way this sentence is written, it seems like the southern terminus heads north and ends at I-35.

   Fixed. –Fredddie™

Route description

1. General comment: What's up with all the whitespace at the bottom of this section? Can't the pictures be somewhere else?

   Gone. –Fredddie™

2. The second sentence doesn't make much sense. It reads like a run-on and should probably be split. Mention that the route connects to Brownsville and McAllen via US 281 and US 77 in the second sentence.

   Not sure how to fix this one. –Fredddie™

   I attempted to fix it myself. Somebody should check it, though. TCN7JM 02:27, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

3. Same with the last sentence in the first paragraph. It would read better as two split sentences.

   Fixed. –Fredddie™

4. Ugh, the repetition. Use different nouns to portray I-37. "I-37" is used way too often.

   Took out a few. –Fredddie™

5. As with other good content, the "<verb>ing" phrases need to go.

   How's that? –Fredddie™

6. I think it's worth mentioning what types of interchanges these are. Just saying the highway intersects SH 358 doesn't give the reader enough of a mental picture. This doesn't need to be done for all the intersections, but at least a few.
7. This is a really short RD overall for a 143-mile route. Consider adding a few more details to make it a paragraph or two longer.

   You should have started out with this one. I would have rewritten the whole thing. –Fredddie™ 02:24, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

   You're right. I don't know what I was thinking. TCN7JM 02:27, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

History

1. I feel like we don't need five or six citations for one statement. I think any more than three is overdoing it.
2. " In 1971, I-37 reached FM 888 and service to the city of Mathis." - What exactly does this mean?

Major intersections

1. Obvious missing mileposts are obvious. What I'm wondering is: Why are mileposts available for the first few exits but not any of the others?

That's it for my short look. These are just general fixes. Others are going to scrutinize this article a little more. TCN7JM 00:45, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

• Remove - Nobody's trying to fix this and it has so many problems that it shouldn't remain at A-Class. TCN7JM 23:53, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

A Texas contributor's Comments

I will go ahead and try to fix this, since I am one of the main Texas contributors. I was planning to fix this in the future, but I guess I need to get around to it now. Luckily, I already had already gathered a few sources to expand the history section. - Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 20:41, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• 30 day notice being left. --Rschen7754 23:45, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

• Demote. The list of things to fix is long while the list of people willing to fix them is short if it exists at all. –Fredddie™ 23:53, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
• Demote per Fredddie - basically the entire rewriting of the history is what concerns me. --Rschen7754 23:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
• Demote - Needs a lot of work and no one interested in working on it. Dough4872 00:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

• There is a clear agreement to demote this article from A class status. --Guerillero | My Talk 00:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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