Talk:New Harmony Toll Bridge

New Harmony Toll Bridge has been listed as one of the Art and architecture 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
Date	Process	Result
January 31, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 24, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the New Harmony Toll Bridge, which opened in 1930, is owned by the only remaining joint state toll bridge commission chartered by the U.S. Congress?

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Drive by comment[edit]

This article should use both the current infobox and {{Infobox bridge}} - see how to use them togeather on an article such as Benton City – Kiona Bridge. --Admrboltz (talk) 17:23, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bridge Closing Update[edit]

Today, it was announced that the bridge will be closed permanently. I added a paragraph mentioning this, as well as a link to a local news article. I didn't change any of the rest of the article, although eventually the tenses should probably be changed, e.g. the bridge "carried" 900 vehicles a day, instead of "carries" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.215.87 (talk) 23:41, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:New Harmony Toll Bridge/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Admrboltz (talk) 20:10, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
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[edit]

Article should use a combination of the current infobox and {{infobox bridge}}, see Benton City – Kiona Bridge for an example. - done (although infobox is not a GA criteria).
The way your noting pages in line is incorrect. I would suggest moving the NHRP reference to a "works cited" then cite page numbers inside ref tags. - done
"The bridge receives an average of $30,000 per month in tolls and has $22,000 per month in expenses." - wordy -fixed
"The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007." - why? - expanded
Since you are using the NHRP app as a reference, no need to duplicate it in the External links section. - removed
Things that should be included:
- this suggests that the bridge is needing to be totally replaced - says $2 million in work needed in 2001, and replacement eventually.
- the NBI considers the bridge Structurally Deficient. - added
- this indicates that they were proposing to de-toll the bridge. - I saw that one too, but the states did not want to pick up the maintenance responsibility in 2001, so it never happened.
- The article could really use some images, either of the toll booth or the bridge its self.

I could not find any images on commons. All images on Flickr were copyrighted.

Thank you for your review. I have left comments under each item. Racepacket (talk)

I will now pass the article. --Admrboltz (talk) 17:57, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]