Talk:Virginia State Route 16

Virginia State Route 16 was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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
October 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
October 22, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Notes on additions:

Smyth

16.09 minus a bit at the south end south of US 11

1928 3.80 south from Marion
1930 4.00 south to at/near Sugar Grove
1930-31 6.20 south to SR 12

Adds up.

16.50 north of US 11

1928 3.80 north from Marion
1931 1.90 north
1932 3.00? north
1933 3.80 to SR 42
1934 1.30 to SR 42
1936 2.90 to Tazewell County

Adds up.

Tazewell

13.06 south of US 19/460 Bus.

1932 4.78 south from US 19/460 Bus.
1937 2.15 north from Smyth County
1938 6.15 Smyth County to at/near Griggers

Adds up.

--NE2 22:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Failed GA[edit]

I have reviewed the good article nomination for this article. I am failing it for not meeting the criteria of good articles.

The concerns I have deal with the 1st criteria that the GA should be well-written. My concern is that it does not meet point c of that criteria:

(c) it follows the Wikipedia Manual of Style including the list guideline.

There is a lot of wikilinked terms in there and a lot of them are red. Please consider removing some of the excessive wikifying found in the article. Also, links only need to be wikified once in an article. Stony Ridge, for example, is wikified (and a redlink) twice in the same sentence. Mouth of Wilson is wikified 3 times and exists in the article at 2 other times without being wikified.

My other concern goes with the 2nd GA criteria of verifiability and factually accurate. I have no doubt that this is accurate, my concern is with the actual citation for the article. Some of the links that are used as reference appear for a few different citations. It would be more appropriate to use a <ref name="WHATEVER" /> for these instances. Then you can tag any subsuquent occurances of the same reference with just that reference name and it will show up appropriately in the references list. See WP:CITE for more information on that.

Those are just some of the concerns. Good luck in improving this article. Metros232 19:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Back of the Dragon into Virginia State Route 16[edit]

Back of the Dragon is a section of Virginia State Route 16. The latter article is not so long as to require splitting the otherwise redundant topics. Imzadi 1979 → 03:27, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 18:47, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]