Talk:North Carolina Highway 114

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:North Carolina Highway 114/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: 420Traveler (talk · contribs) 22:54, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Review

• Will be reviewing soon. -420Traveler (talk) 23:02, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Review part 1/2

• Add references to established date in infobox
• Add information about what happened to NC 10 in intro and history section
• In lead Add comma after "1976", and add "since" after "unchanged"

Route description

• NC 114 begins at change to "NC 114's southern terminus is at" since it starts at both ends
• continues westward as add "past I-40" after "westward"
• re-order reference 1 and 3 at end of first paragraph so it looks like ".[1][3]"
• Intersecting US 70 in an area with several retail stores, the highway picks up the name South Main Street. It continues northwest along South Main Street through a residential area south of Drexel.... Would, "The highway reaches US 70 in an area with several retail stores, where it picks up the name South Main Street. The roadway continues northwest through a residential area south of Drexel" sound better so that South Main Street isn't repeated so close?
• The northern terminus of NC 114 is located at Oakland Avenue, 154 feet (47 m) north of the at-grade crossing. Would "The highway reaches its northern terminus at Oakland Avenue, 154 feet (47 m) north of the at-grade crossing." sound better?

History

• Add information about what happened to NC 10
• I think US 64 was dual with US 70 at one time?

Junctions

• I would change "Junctions" subsection to "Major Intersections" since not all Junctions are listed
• You don't have to, but I think the picture would look better in the Route description section
• Add interchange type to notes for I-40

Comments

• @Ncchild: Will add remaining comments soon. -420Traveler (talk) 00:24, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

  @420Traveler I added all of the edits suggested. For the US 64/NC 10 notes, I tried my best for that to flow well, but if you have any suggestions or think otherwise let me know. Ncchild (talk) 13:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

  @Ncchild: looks good so far, just one question before I make a small suggestion for the flow: do you know when US-64 was first extended along US-70? -420Traveler (talk) 02:34, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

  @420Traveler It was by 1933. I've yet to find a 1932 map (with highway numbers) and it doesn't show up on the 1931 version. Ncchild (talk) 02:38, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

  @Ncchild: one other thing, where was NC 10 truncated to? -420Traveler (talk) 23:08, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

  @420Traveler Sorry about the delay, it was truncated on both sides. On the western side (the side NC 114 lies on) it was truncated to NC 73 (modern NC 16) in Newton. On the eastern side it was truncated to US 64/US 70 in Catawba. Ncchild (talk) 13:32, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

• • @Ncchild: Here is a suggestion to make the history section flow better: NC 114 was established between 1929 and 1930 by the North Carolina State Highway Commission. It first appeared on official North Carolina state highway maps in 1930. At the time of establishment, its southern terminus was located at an intersection with US 70 and NC 10 south of Drexel. It travelled north along it's modern-day routing, ending at Oakland Avenue in Drexel. NC 114 was a hard surface paved road beginning at the time of establishment. US 64 was extended east [from where?] along US 70 by 1933. By 1935, NC 10 was truncated to NC 73 (modern NC 16) in Newton, ending the concurrency with US 64 and US 70 and its connection with NC 114. NC 114 was extended south along Drexel Road to its current southern terminus at I-40 in 1976. In 1988, US 64 was re-routed [between what towns and along what routes?]. Since being extended south to I-40, the road's designation has not been changed. Just fill in the missing info I put in brackets. -420Traveler (talk) 16:43, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

    @420Traveler Should be done, the only thing that might be *slightly* questionable is where I said "from Tennessee". It was extended into NC in 1933 and I couldn't find a TN map from that era. Also the Tennessee US 64 wiki page wasn't much help, nor was Google. Other than that, it should be good. Ncchild (talk) 02:14, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

  • • @Ncchild: looks good just a few more things: add link to US 64 in history section, add 2022 map as reference to last sentence in history section, add info about us 64 into lead. Also I'm not sure how North Carolina classifies towns, but in Major intersections section can a location be added to first row for I-40? Here are some newspaper articles that may help for the extension of US64:[1][2][3][4][5][6] -420Traveler (talk) 01:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

      @420Traveler Everything should be fixed by now, thank you so much for the newspaper articles! As for the I-40 junction in major intersections, North Carolina does not incorporate all its land into townships like several other states do. Therefore, while the intersection would have a Valdese "address" it isn't within the town of Valdese. I was under the assumption we don't note it unless it's actually in the town but I could be wrong. Ncchild (talk) 15:12, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

      • @Ncchild: OK sounds good, everything looks great, passing now. Also I will look up how you go about getting a newspapers.com account. Mine is free and payed for by Wikipedia. I'll let you know. -420Traveler (talk) 16:52, 6 June 2022 (UTC)