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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Sarastro1 via FACBot (talk) 22:48, 24 January 2019 [1].

Washington State Route 522[edit]

Nominator(s): SounderBruce 07:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This highway is among the oldest and most congested in the Seattle area, transforming from a city street to a countryside freeway. At one time, it was named one of the nation's most dangerous highways, and has since been rebuilt to prevent head-on collisions that were once common in the 1980s and 1990s. This article passed GAN last year and went through a project A-Class review that was accepted. SounderBruce 07:42, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - I reviewed this article at ACR and feel that it meets the FA criteria. Dough4872 18:49, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per my review at the ACR. An image review was done at that time. --Rschen7754 19:23, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Source review - spotchecks not done

  • FN7: no need to repeat Google. Same with FN14
    • The repeat of "Google" is baked into the template. FN14 fixed.
  • be consistent in when you include publisher locations
    • Dropped from citations.
  • Be consistent in whether report titles are italicized
    • Not sure which reports are italicized here. All citations using {{cite report}} are unitalicized.
  • FN24: source gives a different publication date. Same with FN90
    • Both use dates from the newspaper copy, rather than the website.
  • FN29: title doesn't match source
    • Fixed.
  • Fn57 has an error message. Same with FN49, 46, 43, 41, 31. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:27, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- this one has petered out quickly; I'll add it to the FAC urgents list and perhaps you can try and scare up another couple of reviews, but if we don't see some action soon I'll have to archive. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 10:09, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CommentsSupport (having stumbled here from my own FAC)

  • State Route 522 (SR 522) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, serving the Seattle metropolitan area. - maybe it's just me, but I think it would work better to have "...Washington that serves..." instead of the gerund "serving". Minor, but because it's the opening sentence I wanted to leave it up to you.
    • It definitely sounds better, and eliminates a troublesome comma.
  • Its western half is primarily an arterial street, named Lake City Way and Bothell Way, following the northern shore of Lake Washington - Could you link arterial street? Also, the prose could be improved here, namely the Lake Washington part. It feels awkward. Something like "where it follows" would work better.
    • Tried to work around it without changing things too much.
  • Why is "Red Brick Road" in quotations?
    • Removed.
  • You use "pass"/"passing" in three consecutive sentences in "Route description". Any chance you could change one of them?
    • Changed all three to make the paragraph flow a bit better.
  • "It continues moving north and east with sharp turns that are parallel to the Eastside Rail Corridor" - could you improve the wording in this part? I think I get it, but I'm a little confused.
    • Cut out the directions.
  • " In 2016, WSDOT calculated that 96,000 vehicles used SR 522 at its interchange with I-405 and 12,000 vehicles used it at its eastern terminus in Monroe, the highest and lowest counts along the highway, respectively." - are there any more recent estimates?
    • WSDOT no longer publishes AADT data in the cited format. The new interface makes it harder to find high/low data points, and doesn't seem to have a major difference in traffic counts.
  • Who called the road "finest pieces of road to be found anywhere in the United States".
    • The Times, according to The Times.
  • in a "Boulevard Blowout" - again, since it's in quotes, I have to ask, who said it?
    • It was the name of the event.
  • costing $5.3 million (equivalent to $32 million in 2016 dollars) - why not 2019 USD? For that matter, I don't think the inflation is even required.
    • The template generates figures that are automatically updated based on new sources. It can be left to run indefinitely with little maintenance.
  • $180 million (equivalent to $278 million in 2016 dollars)[56] in funding was allocated to a five-stage widening project by the state government in 1993 - since this is the history section and years are important, could you rewrite this part so you mention 1993 a lot sooner? Again, the inflation isn't too important here. It's fine that it's consistent, but it's not like $278 million was spent.
    • Re-ordered the sentence.

All in all, typically good road article, one that just needs a bit more work before I can support. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:05, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurricanehink: Thanks for the review. I've responded to your comments, but I would like to keep the inflation figures. SounderBruce 06:58, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks so much for the quick reply. I'm happy to support now. That works fine with the inflation figures. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 19:19, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Comments by Sturmvogel_66[edit]

  • Waves at Bruce
  • It would be nice if the map showed Monroe, though I understand that that may not be possible to get done quickly.
  • Lake Forest Park.[7][8] Within Lake Forest Park, SR 522 Compressing the excerpt, but it might be useful to change the second mention of the city/town to something like "Within that city/town" to avoid close conjunctionitis.
  • Not sure that the link to stairstep is useful considering it doesn't even mention this usage. I think that moving north and east with sharp turns suffices to describe the pattern.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:08, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Sturmvogel 66: I was able to cleanup the map labels in Inkscape and fix those two items in the Route description section. Thanks for stepping in to review this. SounderBruce 05:02, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Image review[edit]

Coordinator note: I think I'd still like a little more commentary on this, so maybe we could squeeze one more review from somewhere? Sarastro (talk) 22:26, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

On it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:22, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have read through a couple of times and made a couple of changes - overall looks fine. I can't see any outstanding prose-clangers. Happy to support on comprehensiveness and prose. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:22, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SN54129[edit]

  • MOS:SANDWICH issue between the lead and first image.
  • Images on the left shouldn't be on the first line below the header; the way around this is either to move them to the right (where they can be on the first line) or to move them further down the section.
    Nice article this; I wouldn't have thought a road could be so interesting! ;) ——SerialNumber54129 20:00, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comment: I think we've had a good range of views now, and I will be promoting this shortly. Serial Number 54129 seems to have only minor concerns, which can be dealt with after promotion, and any further issues can be discussed on the talk page. Sarastro (talk) 22:48, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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