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Reviewer: Floydian (talk · contribs) 20:45, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Lede
  • Canada is very big. Which highway, province or city did it connect to?
    • I added the nearest towns on either side of the border in the History section, including the province for the Canadian town. I do not think we need that level of detail in the Lede.  V 04:48, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The highway was rerouted to assume MT 34 in the early 1960s and was removed from the cross-state corridor, along which it was mostly replaced by US 287, in the mid-1960s." - this sentence is rather confusing.
Route description
  • An official map can't reference the descriptions of the surroundings. Add Google maps as a reference, and possibly something else for the tailings piles (no doubt there is some local news article describing them and the history behind them). Ref [6] seems like a candidate.
  • I feel too many sentences begin with "MT 287". YMMV.
    • I generally alternate MT 287 and "the highway" or "the route." If you notice any instances where consecutive sentences start with MT 287, I will fix them, but I think every other sentence is fine.  V 04:48, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • It may make sense to simply list the towns where it is known as Main Street rather than repeating that info at each applicable town along the route. Again, YMMV; both this and the above are up to you.
  • DO you figure all of those redlinks are potential articles? The church and the houses seem iffy... but I'm not in on the local history at all.
Other

Any images that you can add of this highway? Can you provide a map perhaps?

-- Overall, the history is very well referenced (though I say this having not completed a check of the refs themselves), and I have very few complaints. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pass the article meets the GA criteria as far as I'm concerned. I do recommend adding the province to the lede and using Google maps as a second source alongside the state road map, but I won't let either hold up the promotion. Great work! - Floydian τ ¢ 08:05, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]