Talk:U.S. Route 34 in Iowa

GA Review

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Reviewer: Courcelles (talk · contribs) 07:23, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

• I'll get to this over the weekend. Courcelles (talk) 07:23, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

• "between the East Nishnabotna River and Red Oak High School" Relevance? I'm sure this road passes lots of high schools...?
  • You're right. The intersection is effectively the northwest corner of the town, so I changed it to reflect that.
• "due-east" or "due east"? Pick one?
  • I probably started out using the adjectival form and then changed it later. Fixed.
• Are 34 and the 169 concurrent for a stretch? The prose could make that clearer.
  • First sentence of the Central Iowa section talks about them being concurrent.
• "Iowa's busiest Amtrak station lies a few blocks to the north along US 69." Not sure how relevant this is, given it is on another road, and needs an "as of" anyways since your citation is six years old.
  • Probably more for a US 69 article if I ever get to it.
• "the mainline US 34 bypasses the city to the south and a business route continues along the same vector." The same vector? It also bypasses the city to the south?
  • Ha! Fixed.
• "The four routes briefly travel together to form the eastern edge of the city." Maybe "at the eastern..." rather than "to form the"
  • Edited.
• "For over 100 years, the US 34 corridor has served travelers across southern Iowa." Sounds like a travel guide or a promotional brochure, not an encyclopaedia.
  • Y Fair enough, but how would I word it? The length of time is what I want to convey more than anything else in the sentence.
    • I'd go with something like "What is now the US 34 corridor has been used, under various names, for over 100 years" Courcelles (talk) 16:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
• Seeing a lot of currency updates that you've cited. It'd be easier, more accurate, etc. to use Template:Inflation rather than citing websites that'll have to be updated.
  • Y I don't follow. I got the dollar amounts from newspaper articles and then used the Inflation template. Did I miss a few?
• "the road crossed the CB&Q" Maybe I'm an idiot, but the acronym CB&Q doesn't appear anywhere else in the article?
  • I forgot the ampersand when I first defined it in the Blue Grass Route section.
• "Support for the system was unanimous in Iowa" Really? Not one single person in the state disagreed?
  • Reworded to give it some scope.
• "which over 5000" 5,000
  • Typically, I don't use a comma for four digits, but I see Template:Convert does.
• "The new path of US 34 was to take a more northerly route than Albia Road into the city and then follow the new southern bank of the river. US 63 was to be relocated at the same time. That highway was to be rerouted to the eastern side of the John Deere plant along the bank of the river and meet up with the new US 34 road." Why are we talking in the future tense here?
  • Aha. I suppose I was talking about the road construction plans from the 1950s while the river was being diverted when I didn't need to be doing so.
• "via the eastbound on ramp" Why is on ramp in italics here?
  • Oops. I also reworded it so I didn't use temporarily so close together.
• "crews were working on the laying road base and paving." We don't need that "the"?
  • Removed.
• "The Iowa law led to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act." Add "in 1990" or something.
  • Got it.
• "The road study organized in 1958 recommended that the Iowa Highway Commission create a freeway system not to exceed 2,000 miles (3,200 km) in length." We were just told this two sections above, including the exact mileage.
  • Reworded. Hopefully it reminds the reader instead of repeating it, which was my intent.
• "that celebrated the opening the Fairfield bypass" Missing an "of" here.
  • Added.
• "Upon entering and exiting the state, US 34 crosses a major river — the" No spaced emdashes.
  • I need to read the MoS closer, thanks.
• "In 2007, the bridge was sold to the City of Plattsmouth for $1 (equivalent to $1.16 in 2016). " And sometimes the inflation adjustments just are pointless...
  • Removed.
• "Though a new US 34 bridge would mean that heavy truck traffic could be moved off of the Plattsmouth Bridge.[82]" Sentence fragment
  • Tacked it onto the previous sentence.
• Does the new bridge on the Nebraska side have a name?
  • Not from what I can tell. The bridge doesn't yet have an article, either. List of crossings of the Missouri River calls it the "US 34 Missouri River Bridge", so I went with that.
• What makes measuring-worth a reliable source, anyway?
  • That's a better question for the Inflation template maintainers. Previously, we've used US-NGDPPC for inflating the cost of capital projects, but that's been deprecated for US-GDP.

More later... Courcelles (talk) 07:36, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

I believe I've answered what you've questioned so far. I marked the two points on which I wanted additional input. –Fredddie™ 14:20, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Looks like the inflation templates have changed recently, I thought you were using manual conversions and sourcing them. Okay, let me read through one more time. Courcelles (talk) 04:29, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

• Not seeing anything to prevent this being promoted to GA status, so, done. Courcelles (talk) 05:10, 30 January 2018 (UTC)