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Featured articleState Route 74 (New York–Vermont) is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
Good topic starState Route 74 (New York–Vermont) is part of the State highways in Essex County, New York series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.
Main Page trophyThis article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 29, 2019.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 8, 2008Good article nomineeListed
September 5, 2008Featured article candidateNot promoted
November 17, 2008WikiProject A-class reviewNot approved
January 20, 2009Featured article candidatePromoted
July 17, 2009Featured topic candidatePromoted
Current status: Featured article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:New York State Route 74/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.


GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
    "Both were then supplanted by New York State Route 73, which remained intact until it was truncated to US 9 and Route 74, which was once used in Western New York, was moved onto this routing." - split this sentence. "56 merges in soon after." - better to have CR 56; it's more formal, and state routes are usually called Route X in prose. "12 miles" should be converted to kilometers.
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
    Some things (Fort Ticonderoga, seasonal ferry) are mentioned in the intro without being explained in the body of the article. Is this area a city? Rural? Suburban?
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
    Could use an image, but not necessary. Heck, an image of Ticonderoga would suffice until one of the road is found.
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:
    Rob (talk) 04:16, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
How does it look now? I tried solving all your problems.Mitch32(UP) 10:14, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
You got a few... if you could add information from [1] to the article, it's needed. —Rob (talk) 20:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Not really a reliable source, its missing needed information and its not clear who is publishing the information. Please reply.Mitch32(UP) 18:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The LCTC page makes no mention of the Ticonederoga ferry... is that page wrong, or this page? —Rob (talk) 22:02, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Error on my part - I changed it using your ref, but I don't like using it.Mitch32(UP) 22:11, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
All right... it's worth investigating further, especially if that webpage ends up being the company's official page. —Rob (talk) 17:42, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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A few questions:

  • Could the two sections for the ferry be merged?
These were seperated in its failed A-class review.Mitch32(Go Syracuse) 23:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is it possible to make the image in the early history section a little smaller? It's slightly overwhelming to the rest of the section.
  • How is Blue Ridge Road related to the history section?
  • The "Changes from 1935 after" section would be better as "Changes from 1935 onward", IMO.
  • Per MoS, images should alternate from left to right. Currently, there is a wall of images on the right side.

I'll take a look at the prose soon. Already, I can tell that the article is much improved since its FAC. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 23:43, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All others removed and/or done.Mitch32(Go Syracuse) 23:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete citations

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Several citations are incomplete in the article. Map citations are missing correct authorship attribution, they're missing scale indications, publication locations and in-map locations. For the latter, not every map has grid sections, but if they do, they need to be indicated just as we need to list a page number for a book.

As for book citations, at least one is missing a page number, and several are missing publication locations. ISBN or OCLC numbers (preferably both if possible) should be added to citations to aid readers searching for the sources in libraries. Clicking through to Google Books and then "find in a library" brings up the WorldCat record for a source, enabling us to look up missing information quickly, and add it to a footnote.

In short, removing the tags doesn't remove the issue: there are several incomplete citations that should be filled out. Imzadi 1979  19:38, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]


What is encyclopedic about this road? 2A01:CB08:634:DA00:896E:5DC7:F528:5DBC (talk) 03:18, 29 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That, like every other state highway in the U.S., and every other public highway elsewhere in the world (not limited to those with national-level designations; we have plenty of articles on Canadian provincial highways as well, a few of which have also been featured on the Main Page), it is part of the public transportation infrastructure, built and maintained with the public's tax dollars, much like public rail networks and airports. Daniel Case (talk) 16:25, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]