Talk:European route E751/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) 21:37, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Did a major copyedit. You left out a lot of "the" and a lot of commas; there were a few typos, and i.e. is an abbreviation that shouldn't be in there. Usually we say tolls, not toll. Also, ENC should not be italicized. Also note the changes I've made to the junction list notes. I've noticed that you have a lot of GANs - it would probably be a good idea to go through and add them so that the reviewer doesn't have to.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
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):
It looks like the map is from OpenStreetMap. If so, then you need to note that in the tagging.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

Other issues

As of September 2011, the E751 comprises two toll roads—the A9 and the A8 motorways in Croatian part of the route. - unclear what this means.

That's a clumsy sentence where I'm trying to say that the E751 comprises two tolled sections signposted as A8 and A9 and that the two are in Croatia.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is UNECE?

That's United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - I'll expand that to full name.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since the first section of the Istrian Y, comprising the A9 motorway and the A8 motorway and constituting the bulk of the E751 route, started in 1976, with the first section opening in 1981, by the time the E751 was defined, there were no high performance road routes available in Istria. - restructure
What is a parclo interchange?

Parclo is short for Partial cloverleaf interchange - I'll expand that to full name.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The map is indeed an Open Street Map with the E751 highlighted on the map. Sourcing and categories are changed now.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:28, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'll take a closer look at the prose, but since I'm not a native speaker of English I'll try to enlist a copyeditor as well.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:29, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the copyedit.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:53, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing

Where's the length coming from?
What is source 7? It doesn't look like a RS to me, but as I can't read Croatian, I could be wrong.
Same with 16.

Source #7 an article published with the Croatian Geographic Society, established as a professional association in 1897. Unfortunately, its website is in Croatian only. Source #16 is a news portal maintained by Raiffeisen Consulting Ltd a part of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank Group.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On hold - good article, just needs some work. You have the standard 7 days to fix the article. --Rs chen 7754 23:33, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing this article. I'll try to address your concerns right away.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:14, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll copyedit the article. If this is your priority, ping my tomorrow if I forget. --Sp33dyphil © • © 23:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copyedit done. I'm willing to be receive further jobs from the nominator. --Sp33dyphil © • © 08:17, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are all the issues addressed? --Rs chen 7754 19:29, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've expanded the acronyms/abbreviations and clarified a couple of messed up sentences, and asked GOCE for further help in respect of the prose. User:Sp33dyphil was kind enough to copyedit the article and point out a couple of issues that needed clarification - those are addressed now too. The sources you asked about (Geographic Society and Raiffeisen portal) are subject to considerable editorial control and reliable. The latter regularly carries articles published elsewhere - and this one was originally published in Novi list daily newspaper as indicated just below the title. Does that require an additional parameter in the cite template? I have also retagged the map image to clearly indicate the source (OSM) - I believe the tag is proper now.--Tomobe03 (talk) 20:49, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Novi list article carried in its entirety by the Raiffeisen portal (limun.hr) is available to paid subscribers of Novi list or as a part (the beginning) of the article to everyone else - that's the reason I opted for this source instead of Novi list directly.--Tomobe03 (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take another look later tonight, but I do see that you're still missing a source for the length. --Rs chen 7754 22:53, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Referenced legislation explicitly cites only the D510 length (out of all the E751 segments). The A8 and the A9 lengths are listed by their operator here (quoted as B8 and B9 though - old markings). The D21 section length is unfortunately impossible to source from a similar document and the same applies to Slovenian G-roads lengths. To go around this, the length was taken off from the map per Wikipedia:Using maps and similar sources in wikipedia articles following the route defined and sourced in reference #17.--Tomobe03 (talk) 00:07, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, but you need to cite both sources. --Rs chen 7754 08:01, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, point taken and

Done. I listed those, and finally changed total length to include not only distance from the starting to the ending terminus of the road (as defined by the UNECE) but all three arms of the route. I'm not really sure which to chose, now I'm leaning to the latter, but please let me know if you think otherwise.--Tomobe03 (talk) 12:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Second review

In the first paragraph of the RD there's a lot of sentences starting with "The". Can we vary the sentence structure a bit?
Otherwise everything looks good - should be a pass once this is resolved. --Rs chen 7754 22:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll get those right away. Thanks for the pointer.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:23, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, the paragraph reads better this way.--Tomobe03 (talk) 22:31, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Passing as soon as I can take care of the paperwork. Good job! --Rs chen 7754 22:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]