Talk:Saskatchewan Highway 2

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Good articleSaskatchewan Highway 2 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 6, 2009Good article nomineeNot listed
February 11, 2009Good article nomineeListed
Current status: Good article

Veterans Memorial Highway[edit]

The section of Highway 2 from Moose Jaw to Prince Albert has been designated Veterans Memorial Highway. Here is the link to the news story. Highway 2 Designated Veterans Memorial Highway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fishhead2100 (talk • contribs)

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Saskatchewan Highway 2/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
GA review (see here for criteria)

There are too many questions to be answered in the quality of the article. It has good sources and good information, but it's jumpy, unbalanced, and poorly constructed style-wise. Lets give it a copy-edit and balance the sections out. Add a history of the route as well. There is too much work to be allowed a hold, therefore, this article has been failed as a GA. Thank you for your efforts and good luck in your endeavors to improve the article

  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
  • Prose Issues:
    •  DoneDo we need to repeat "Saskatchewan" after every city? The highway focuses on that province, it is not necessary to be redundant.
    •  DoneParagraph 2 contains inconsistencies of how SK is abbreviated.
    •  DoneInterestingly? Please rewrite this to avoid POV issues and improve prose
    •  Done Km? Is this correct for announcing points on a road?
  • MOS Issues
    •  Done Extra Reading should be renamed as Further Reading and placed after References
    •  Done Remove the Mexican Highway 45 shield - Inline images are highly discouraged.
  • This article needs a thorough copy-edit
  • The Community List is too large and covers what the paragraphs and the infobox cover already, lets tone it down or remove it.
  • The infobox contains only the rural municipalities - kind of like counties - and major cities. So the community box contains the towns, villages, hamlets and cities. I have not included the ghost towns. It is the longest highway of Saskatchewan, so there are a lot of placenames on it. In 1926, there were placenames approximately every 6 miles apart, many of those are gone now as places became more centralized with the advent of vehicles after the industrial revolution. Will maybe see if there are any hamlets to remove. SriMesh | talk 05:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  1. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  2. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
    The subject seems to jump around a bit - it's mostly a description of the route, with some items that do not talk about the route itself, rather about cities, places, etc around the route.
  3. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
    Contains at least one Weasel word
  4. It is stable.
    No edit wars etc.:
  5. 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):
  •  DoneAlthough you requested permission, I still question the licensing of File:SaskatchewanHighway2Map.png. I doubt it can be released under GFDL....There is no problem with the permissions of this map and copyright, however as the article had a lot of images anyways, I removed it.SriMesh | talk 05:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  •  DoneInline images (the Mexican Federal route shield) clutter up and wreck the article's writing.
  • There are too many images in this article. Maybe due to the size of the article? Remove a few of these and use a Wikimedia Commons tag at the bottom of the article.
  •  DoneThe Infobox size is compromised by the multiple maps within it, lets move one of the maps out into article proper.
  1. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:
    Too many problems to warrent being able to hold for corrections, therefore I must fail this article.

Communities[edit]

Communities

Deleting some of these from the article proper. SriMesh | talk 06:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

references tag??[edit]

I have gone up and down the article looking for why the red error tag exists at the bottom of the page which says "Cite error: ref tags exist, but no references tag was found" I cannot find the missing tag.

Problems with this GAN[edit]

  • Second and subsequent words of headings are not capitalized.
  • I see a random nbsp; in the table.
  • I see random sentences instead of paragraphs in the history.
  • Intersections are south to north by default.
  • Why are you linking to Town? That is just a bad table design.
  • Add a |2 to the reflist template.
  • You have a red error message at the bottom.

Because of these problems, I am only giving half credit for this GA. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:11, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, except for the 4th bullet. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:26, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I mean that it isn't necessary in the heading. Town should not even be in the column - some colspan should be set up. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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