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before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! VanTucky 23:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, your timing is perfect. I've been working on the article Interstate 70 in Utah for a few months now. It just passed the GA review, with the reviewer noted it had a lot of grammar and punctuation errors for a GA article. So I've been going through the article cleaning it. But your two pics are an awesome addition, might just help it pass the A class review =-) Thank you. If you don't mind I'm going to categorize your pics so they will also show up on the commons link on that article.Davemeistermoab (talk) 16:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, I'm a relative newbie. This was my first attempt to get an article to Good Article status. I'm amazed it passed 1st try. The next step is the A class review, then the FA class review. As I was dinged for my grammar in the GA review, I'm sure they won't cut me any more slack on that point=-). So any cleanup you can offer would be most welcome. There were also concerns about relying too much on a single source for the Transcontinental railroad section. There are more sources out there, I just need to do more research.
Another concern brought up in the GA review was the wikilinks to articles that didn't exist. I suspect at least start class articles will have to be created at a minimum for Pavant Mountains, Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway and Utah State Route 72. I can probably get away with just delinking to the others (westwater, I 70 business in Green River and Salina).
One thing I'm surprised I didn't get dinged for is not having a source for the claim of "108 miles between Green River and Salina, the longest distance without motorist services in the Interstate highway system". This is an easy claim to source, except for the number. Unofficial sources vary between 104 and 112 miles. I think the difference is, are we measuring between the centers of the two cities, the edges of the cities, or the freeway exits. I have pictures of old signs say 110 miles. I've debated using these. I know that's not correct anymore, but at least I've got an irrefutable source for that number. But I'm sure I better find an official source for at least some number before the FA or A review. Davemeistermoab (talk) 16:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
You asked me for opinions on several articles; I've left comments on their individual talk pages. Keep in mind that I'm not an admin or anything, but I've imparted whatever wisdom I could give. Your articles are excellent for the most part - I made some adjustments myself to fix formatting, grammar, little things like that, but otherwise I've left the rest up to you. Duncan1800 (talk) 22:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I did notice that and have been meaning to thank you. My apologies I have not done so until now. Thanks for your help in getting I-70 in Utah to FA status. I am going to work on articles for SR72 and Utah Department of Transportation (as the owner of the highway, they need to be mentioned).
Other sources that that I used for the page Utah Scenic Byways (which I-70 in Utah should link to, thanks for reminding me =-) ): http://www.utah.com/ (Utah Office of Tourism, state government agency) - And I know they have a page dedicated to the Dinosaur Diamond, but I don't know how good it is. Then http://www.byways.org/ (Federal Highway Administration). They also have an entry for Dinosaur Diamond highway.
http://www.coloradobyways.org/Main.cfm Colorado DOT's byways page
Thanks.
Davemeistermoab (talk) 18:28, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Regarding your comment here, I somewhat agree with you. The article might not satisfy all GA criteria, but now I have put it there, I find it very difficult to withdraw its nomination. The feedback from a reviewer will be most helpful in determining what the article needs (perhaps listing for a peer review would've been better). Like yourself, this was one of the first articles I searched for on WP, I would like to have it on the mainpage as an FA, but it needs a lot of working to reach that status. Its GAN is a first step though. I am Ergo sum sure it will make it there. :)
Thanks!
Λua∫Wise (Operibus anteire) 13:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
You're welcome. I meant to add that your nice clear pic could go in the wikimedia gallery in the article Plumbago auriculata if you wanted to. Cheers Julia Rossi (talk) 23:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
You're right, some of these trucking articles are a bit of a mess. Hopefully the project will get it organised. I'm thinking of going on that as a semi-participant.
I don't drive trucks in Australia, athough I wouldn't mind trying it. I actually work as a Part's Interpreter in a Western Star dealership here, thats how I have my knowledge. I also used to work at the Caterpillar Delaer's On-Highway truck workshop here too. I think if I lived in the US I would definately give trucking a go, but it's not so desirable here.
You have every right to question! The reason I failed it outright can be found Wikipedia:Reviewing_good_articles#How_to_review_an_article. While the article didn't have {{fact}} tags, I could have added them in the places I mentioned in my assessment. I chose not to because cleanup tags are annoying. I would never submit an article to GAN if it had unreferenced material in it. As you can see, it's the first thing editors look for in a high quality article. Meow. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 11:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I think I'm beginning to agree with you about this place. How can an encyclopedia deny people sharing knowledge on the basis that I can't find a two-bit probably-fake internet link to back me up. Just becuase I can find a webpage that says aliens exist, does that mean there should be an article saying that? I mean I could meet the requirement for verification, but ooh,hang on, our common sense says that that isn't correct. It's bordering on ridiculous. The rules about citing sources only allow you to cite a website it seems, where there are far more sources than that out there. I agree that it's too incoBsistent and subjective.
Further to that, whether an article is given GA status is based on one persons opinion. That system is fundamentally flawed, it should be a vote of at least 5 people. End rant. Whitfan (talk) 06:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
Tis a shame indeed; the width of the picture is without question, but people will gripe still because the height of the picture has not been increased in order to allow greater view of the detail close-up.--Pericles of AthensTalk 23:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
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Sorry, I've been busy. :-) I left updated comments on Talk:Hours of service, however. —Rob (talk) 15:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
ErgoSum, Thanks again for your help. It looks like you've been busy both on and off wikipedia. I-70 in Utah is one pass vote shy of passing the A class review. So hopefully anyday now that will be over. I've been told I will need to include construction costs and traffic counts for it to pass FA. So I'm looking into that now. Hope all is going well for you. Sounds like you had some trouble? Did somebody really deny your GA because internet sources are preferred to printed sources? That's BS. printed sources are perfectly good. I'd challenge the review (there is a process for that) if that was the most substantive reason for denying the GA. Let me know if I can help. I figure I owe you one for your help in the I-70 articles.Davemeistermoab (talk) 03:06, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey ErgoSum!
I finally got why you were bothered so much about the way I mentioned rape in the first paragraph. I couldn't see it it right away. I added the sentence about rape there because it was a (partial) correction of the sentence before it, and it never occurred to me to also think about why that sentence was the second sentence of the article.
You caught two factual errors and one sylistic error in two paragraphs! Pretty good shooting!
I posted in the incest discussion group, and will try again with a new edit.
Thanks! SeattleJoe (talk) 23:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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