Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 58

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Date	Process	Result
November 3, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed

U.S. Roads: State highways / Oklahoma Mid‑importance

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 58/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

I did a bit of copyediting to this article, and a few things came up during the review.

the abbreviation (SH-58) should be given in the first sentence
"the other connects US-270/281/SH-3/33" - connects to this road or connects this road to something?
what is a spur road? Is a wikilink available?
"concurrency" should be wikilinked
"which it switches places with (SH-8 previously running to the east of SH-58, and north of this, running to the west of SH-58)" - can this be rephrased so that it's easier to understand?
Does the interchange with I-40 come first, or does Hydro? This isn't clear.
The end of the southern description needs a reference, as does the entire northern description.
The dates in the history section should not be wikilinked
"No east–west highway existed here yet" - "here" should be replaced with a different word
What is a spur end?
A reference is needed at the end of the third paragraph of the "History" section as well as the end of the "SH-58A" section.
Reference 6 needs a publisher.
Any detail available about the route description should be added. The prose is a little choppy (and somewhat uninteresting in some places) because it is just a list of a road going from place to place with no explanation of what is around.

I am placing this nomination on hold to allow for these concerns to be addressed and/or discussed. Any question and/or comments can be left here, as I have placed this page on my watchlist. Best wishes, GaryColemanFan (talk) 22:45, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have fixed the majority of the concerns raised here; thanks for the review. Spur routes are routes which connect to a highway at only one end. In 1932, SH-58 ended in Helena, but didn't connect to a highway there, a "spur end" is the simplest way I could think of to describe it without having to be Captain Obvious ("there was no highway here at the time, so it didn't connect to any highway") or something else really awkward. Hopefully this has been remedied with a second link to spur route. With regard to the route description, SH-58 is in the western part of Oklahoma, which is quite empty and mostly flat; apart from detailing each and every stream the highway crosses over I'm not sure what else I could do for it, at least with regards to terrain. As for the dates, I was under the impression that while months and years shouldn't be linked, individual dates should be in order for the software to convert it to display according to the user's preferences. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 19:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanations. The wikilinks in the article make it easier to follow. Regarding the policy on wikilinks in dates, it changed a few months ago. The new policy is to not wikilink dates, as wikilinks are to be reserved for words/phrases that would improve a reader's understanding of the article. Because clicking on March 1 doesn't help a reader, it shouldn't be linked (you are correct, however, in that the wikilinks on dates were always intended to help with autoformatting...I'm not honestly sure what happened to that idea). At this point, the only remaining concern is the lack of a reference at the end of the third "History" paragraph. GaryColemanFan (talk) 02:15, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reference has been added, so all of my concerns have been addressed. I am promoting this article. Congratulations, and thanks for your hard work and quick responses. GaryColemanFan (talk) 05:41, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :) —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 05:46, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]