Talk:Great Northern Highway

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August 16, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed
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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Great Northern Highway is the longest highway in Australia?

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Untitled[edit]

Has the prose of a B-grade but no references. Orderinchaos78 02:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

C-grade it is, then. TRS-80 (talk) 18:53, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sealed?[edit]

The History section states (twice) that sealing of the Great Northern Highway marked the completion of sealing the entire national Highway 1 route. However the Highway 1 page states that large sections are still unsealed, specifically mentioning Queensland. --Gth-au (talk) 22:33, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a strange one. It did complete it, then they moved Highway 1. Specifically, it used to come along the Barkly Highway through Mt Isa and Cloncurry whereas now it takes a route much closer to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Orderinchaos 23:50, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Start point[edit]

this needs to include that it started at Great Eastern Hwy, the section that is now referred to as "Old Great Northern Hwy" Gnan garra 05:17, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a ref showing GNH starting from GEH:

"Plan To Control Traffic". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 22 August 1952. p. 20. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

- Evad37 (talk) 14:22, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perth–Darwin[edit]

The lead section includes "Perth–Darwin National Highway", but the rest of the article has "Perth Darwin" without the dash. It should probably be the same throughout. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done, dash removed from lead. - Evad37 [talk] 02:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Unresolved A-Class Review comments[edit]

Resolved

I'm copying the yet to be resolved comments from the ACR here as a worklist, so it's easy to find and I don't forget about them. - Evad37 [talk] 00:40, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

History

The Midland Junction Municipal Council - run-on sentence
- Split into into two sentences - Evad37 [talk] 09:02, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"with the sealed road ending just past the Wheatbelt town of Miling in 1950." - Do we know how the sealed road got there? (There may not be info on this, but I thought I would ask)
- Added an explanatory note which gives a little bit of info - Evad37 [talk] 08:57, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not sure if 1928/29 is formatted properly per MOSNUM - could you check? --Rs chen 7754 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    - Its in the WP:DATERANGE section of MOSNUM: " The slash notation (2005/06) may be used to signify a fiscal year or other special period, if that convention is used in reliable sources." - Evad37 [talk] 22:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
rather than the historical but slow cattle drives - not following why "historical" is mentioned here.
- Not really relevant - removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
However, the resources allocated to Great Northern Highway were needed just - don't need "just"
- Removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Same with "even just" later on
- Removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Newman was reached" - passive voice i
- Adjusted - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
eleven route corridors were investigated - by who?
- Added - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
$2.5 billion - there should be a nbsp here (and in similar places)
- Fixed this one, and a couple of others that I had missed - Evad37 [talk] 13:13, 16 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Take a look at MOSNUM - I'm seeing some inconsistencies where you spell out the number versus where you use the numerals.
- I've made some adjustments per MOS:NUMERAL - Evad37 [talk] 23:27, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Future

Is the first paragraph still up to date?
- This does need to be rewritten - there's now a Muchea to Wubin Stage 2 Upgrade project, and I'll have to check if there's other updates to include - Evad37 [talk] 23:27, 14 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Updated, but may need some copyedits - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This completes the review. --Rs chen 7754 21:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Rschen7754: Can you take another look when you get the chance? Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't have any issues except for the one noted above. --Rs chen 7754 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

new source[edit]

This will be of interest and additional information regarding the development of GNH "PATNE'S FIND". The Murchison Times And Day Dawn Gazette. Vol. 17, , no. 153. Western Australia. 15 August 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) the article discusses the construction of a new road between Paynes Find and Mount Magnet. Gnan garra 05:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]