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

The list was not promoted by Giants2008 21:22, 11 June 2012 [1].

Interstate Highways in Alaska[edit]

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Nominator(s): Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 07:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because, after improving this list and comparing it to List of Interstate Highways in Texas, a similar article of Featured List quality, I feel that this list has fully covered the topic and deserves to be a featured list. - Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 07:20, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comments—I made several changes to the article which were necessary to be up to the level of writing needed. For the benefit of the nominator, I'll detail the changes here with my rationales.

  1. I added the formal title of the national system to the infobox.
  2. I unlinked U.S. state and linked Alaska. The latter is much more valuable to the reader.
  3. The department does not include "Ak" in their abbreviation, nor does anyone else. (The postal abbreviation for Alaska uses a capital "K" while the Associated Press, which uses the older, more traditional abbreviations, would not abbreviate the state name at all.)
  4. I merged the two sentences about the length and number of highways, which are both short, together for better flow.
  5. Interstate as an adjective or shorthand for the highways of the "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways" is always capitalized. The word interstate when not capitalized means that a highway crosses state lines, which is not the case here. When used together, the word highway should also be capitalized to emphasize this distinction. For this reason, I capitalized all of the lower-case usages.
  6. The system wasn't created in 1976; that occurred in the 1950s. Rather, the system was expanded to the state that year.
  7. There weren't non-breaking spaces between the words and numerical components of the legal citation. Should "Title 23" fall near the end of the line, the number could have been separated from the word; MOS:NUM advises against that by requiring non-breaking spaces.
  8. Also, the article never specified what it was Title 23 of. I fixed that oversight. (It's the U.S. Code, by the way.)
  9. There wasn't a link to our article on Interstate Highway standards, another oversight.
  10. The direct quotation to the legislation was missing a footnote. All direct quotations need citations.

Having said all of that, I wonder if this list has enough items to justify standing alone as its own article. It might be possible to merge this content into List of Alaska Routes as a section without making that article too long. I'll leave it to other reviewers to comment about that, but this means that the article may or may not meet criterion 3b of the Featured List criteria. Imzadi 1979 → 08:39, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the recent addition of the individual maps takes up a lot of individual width in the table to little benefit since all four highways are included on the map in the infobox. Because of this recent addition, the "Highway names" column is now one-word wide, displaying roughly similar to: 

Glenn
Highway,
Richardson
Highway,
Tok Cut-
Off, Alaska
Highway

on my display. My web browser is set at a width that approximates a printed sheet of paper, and we can't assume that all users a) have wide-screen displays, or b) use them at full width. The pace of recent changes to the article is pushing what I'd expect of a "stable" article brought to FLC. Others may disagree, but I personally would expect a nominator to "finalize" how s/he wanted to set up the article before starting the nomination, and then make only changes after the nomination in response to the reviewers' comments, barring minor typo corrects and the like. I await the comments of other reviewers on the criterion 3b issue, and I'm prepared to oppose on that basis. Imzadi 1979 → 22:25, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment hmm, well four items in a table which would easily fit into the parent article (List of Alaska Routes). It's an oppose on 3b for me. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:37, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose on the same basis as The Rambling Man: the list does not have the scope of a stand-alone list and all current content could easily be included in List of Alaska Routes. Perhaps there is sufficient to write about the Interstate system in Alaska, but that would be an article, not a list. Arsenikk (talk) 15:52, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose on criteria 3b. This can easily be covered in List of Alaska Routes. Dough4872 21:26, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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