Template:Did you know nominations/Major Road Network

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:32, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Major Road Network[edit]

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~~... that the proposed Major Road Network would comprise just 4% of England's roads but carry 43% of traffic? "This MRN accounts for 4% of England’s road mileage and 43% of all traffic"~~

ALT1: ... that the proposed Major Road Network designation would comprise just 4% of England's roads but carry 43% of its traffic?
Reviewed: to follow

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 18:15, 5 February 2018 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

This hook sounds good, but I think we should clarify that this network is not made entirely of new roads. How about this? epicgenius (talk) 21:08, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that the proposed Major Road Network designation would comprise just 4% of England's roads but carry 43% of its traffic?

Hi epicgenius, thanks for your review. I am happy with the amended hook. I have now carried out a QPQ review at Template:Did you know nominations/Fagersta airspace surveillance tower - Dumelow (talk) 21:21, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response.

This is now good to go. epicgenius (talk) 21:23, 5 February 2018 (UTC)