Talk:County Route 612 (Middlesex County, New Jersey)

County Route 612 (Middlesex County, New Jersey) was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 17, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

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GA review[edit]

GA review (see here for criteria)

Just a few MOS issues and references that need formatting.

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS):
Needs to conform to WP:LEAD
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
References need to be verifiable, giving enough bibliographic information that readers can easily find the information.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars etc.:
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):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Comments

Per WP:LEAD, the lead section should summarize the article itself, and not contain any information that isn't in the main body of the article. Currently, the lead has information that isn't contained in the body of the article.
Your references to web sites need at least title of the page, publisher, and last access date. Ideally they'd have author and any other bibliographic information also. I suggest using {{cite web}} for them, it makes it much easier to keep the format consistent.
Your last reference is a newspaper, which needs date of publication, etc. I suggest using {{cite news}} to cite it.
The map from 1947 you're using can be just cited as a map, you can use {{cite map}} for this.

I've put the article on hold for seven days to allow folks to address the issues I've brought up. Feel free to contact me on my talk page, or here with any concerns, and let me know one of those places when the issues have been addressed. If I may suggest that you strike out, check mark, or otherwise mark the items I've detailed, that will make it possible for me to see what's been addressed, and you can keep track of what's been done and what still needs to be worked on. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Matchaponix Ave. vs. Matchaponix Road[edit]

I think some people may have referred to Matchaponix Avenue as Matchaponix Road in the newspapers. This would've been of little consequence, had the name "Matchaponix Road" not already been spoken for by another road, a bit further to the south/ southeast than the Avenue. As a result, when I heard of the wreck that killed Jacklyn Gavares, a 15-year-old cheerleader, I read of how "Gavares was riding in the back seat of the Jetta that had just backed out of the driveway of a home on Spotswood-Englishtown Road when Bebert slammed into the vehicle from behind at about 8:45 p.m., authorities said" (New Jersey Star Ledger, November 5, 2008) and "Bebert ran from his pickup through a wooded area to a house on Matchaponix Road in Monroe, where he had been staying recently, Sewitch said. Officers arrested him at the house shortly before midnight, Sewitch said" (ibid.) "Bebert" was the man accused of drunk driving in the accident and "Sewitch" is the Assistant Prosecutor of Middlesex County, NJ. As Google Maps shows, Matchaponix Avenue and Matchaponix Road are two separate entities [1], and it would've actually been easier to run to somewhere on the Avenue from Spotswood Englishtown Road than it is to run to somewhere on the (Matchaponix) Road.

I suspect that the paper was referring to the Avenue when it said the Road. A minor nitpick, to be sure, but I felt I had to get it in the open. 204.52.215.107 (talk) 17:43, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]