Talk:Georgia State Route 92

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The author is correct in saying that this route is mostly rural. However, the heaviest travelled portion of 92 (Acworth to Woodstock to Roswell) is very suburban and developing rapidly.Swatson1978 08:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Future GA progress

I'll be taking on this article in an attempt to get it listed as a Good Article, hopefully the first such highway article from the state of Georgia. I'll be tracking my progress here for others to use as a template for other highway articles from the state. Imzadi 1979 → 10:00, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

In my first set of edits to the article, I've started to lay a foundation for what's next. Starting from the top and working down I've:

1. Fixed the citation to the GDOT report used to reference the length of the highway. It now works (the link was dead) and it has full citation information instead of being a bare link. I've listed the office that created the report as the author, supplied the date, title, formation (since this is a PDF), publisher, page numbers, archived url with archival date and my access date for the report.
2. Removed the list of cities in the junction list in the infobox. WP:USRD/STDS deprecated "major cities" lists from articles, and this was one in disguise. In the future, I will insert a proper summary junction list here based on the junction list section of the article when that is created.
3. Added the counties to the infobox.
4. Converted all references to highway designation names/numbers to proper formatting. This highway is named "State Route 92", which is abbreviated "SR 92". I added that abbreviation to the first sentence of the lead, which means that I no longer have to spell out "State Route" in other highway names throughout the rest of the article. As I revise the text of the lead, there will be a first mention of a US Route and an Interstate Highway there, meaning that they will each get the same treatment (full name on first mention of that type of highway, abbreviated afterwards).
5. Added non-breaking spaces between the numerical and alphabetical components of highway designations instead of plain spaces.
6. Supplied citations to both the paper GDOT map I have here, and Google Maps driving directions between the termini. As I expand the "Route description" section, I will use both to generate a description of the route the highway takes. I may add a citation to the Rand McNally road atlas if I need addition details supported.
7. Removed inappropriate boldface formatting. The road names do not have redirects that point here, nor should they. Bold text is rarely appropriate outside of the lead section at any rate.
8. Removed some WP:OVERLINKing in the History section.
9. Added the links to the portals.
10. Removed a dead pseudo=reference. It was a bare URL inserted in the middle of the text without any additional citation information. Since it went dead, and I have no idea what it was beyond the dead link, the best that I could do
11. Revived the dead external link, for now.

My game plan for moving forward is as follows:

1. Expand the RD section so that it actually describes the route the highway takes from south to north, including a lot of the details that have been put in the history section.
2. Add additional details about the landscapes (is it forests, swamps, farms, suburbs or some combination of the above?) through which this highway passes
   1. Hopefully I can add information about any special designations this highway might have, whether it is on the National Highway System (United States) or not, etc.
3. Scrap and rebuild the history section to be a chronological account of the highway. This section will be cited to newspaper articles and other media accounts as much as possible, but anything else will be cited to GDOT's map archive.
   1. When was it designated? That should be the first item up front after any notable predecessor roads.
   2. What was done to it in timeline order to produce the highway we have today? The by-county breakdown produces a disjointed summary of events which are best done as a timeline.
4. Build a junction list table that complies with MOS:RJL based on reliable sources.
5. Add a section about the former spur and connector routes, using {{infobox road small}}.
6. Identify better external links. The archived version of that website doesn't cover this highway in specific, and neither does its replacement. If I can't find better links, I will scrap the section.
7. Make sure each footnote added has full citation information so that a reader can locate the source through whatever means necessary.
   1. At a minimum, each link to external webpages should work so a reader can verify my work here.
   2. Each footnote needs to supply the author/cartographer who created the work, the date that it was published/last modified, the title of the work, the publisher of the work and the date that I accessed the source. If items have ISBN, ISSN or OCLC id numbers, those will be listed.
   3. If a source is online in PDF format, that needs to be indicated. If the source is behind a paywall or requires a subscription or registration to access, that also needs to be indicated. Both are potential restrictions on the ability of a reader to access the source, and they deserve the appropriate warning.
   4. I tend to pre-emptively archive freely available news articles through http://www.webcitation.org/ now. This allows us to "save" an article that anyone can read in the event that the publisher removes it from their website or places it behind a paywall. Most news articles are excluded from the Wayback Machine at archive.org, and even using webcitation is not a guarantee that the publisher will not request that that service remove it from archives.
8. Search online using http://images.google.com/ and the search functions at Flickr and Panoramio to identify photos for the article.
   1. First I will search only for images that already have licenses compatible with our media requirements.
   2. If there are none, I will widen the search to look for other possibilities on those sites. I've had some success asking Flickr users to relicense photos for use on Wikipedia.
   3. If that fails, I can always contact GDOT to see if they have any photos they'd allow us to use. If not, the article can still be listed as a Good Article without photographs, although it is nicer to have them.
9. Summarize the entire article into the lead section.
   1. Each prose section will get the appropriate number of sentences/paragraphs in the prose of the lead.
   2. The junction list section will be summarized into the infobox's junction list. Per WP:USRD/STDS, no more than 8–10 junctions will be listed, meaning Interstates and US Routes will be listed first and State Routes will be added to fill out the rest.
10. The last thing that I will do is let the text sit (probably while it's nominated) before I skim through to copy edit it. The GAN reviewer should find any items that need revision from a grammatical standpoint, but it's always good to let the text "rest" out of sight before doing it myself.

That should be all that's needed to get this article to GA status. More to come later. Imzadi 1979 → 11:18, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Ok, I double checked the mileage report, and added up the by-county total lengths for SR 92 to get the total length. Using that, I corrected the length in the infobox. Following the route of the highway on Google, I built a junction list, cross referencing with my paper map to determine the counties and locations as needed. I put 0.00 and 97.81 as the mileposts for the two termini (keeping the level of precision the same) since that reflects the length, but I need to look for a source to get the intermediate MPs. For the time being, I would bump the assessment to C-Class since there is a RD, a History and a JL section present, but that's being overly generous since the RD needs major expansion, and the history needs reorganization. So, I'll lower that assessment by a class and call this a start. Imzadi 1979 → 05:26, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Update for this morning's progress. I wrote a new route description based on the maps sources. I made some corrections and modifications to the junction list table, however that still needs mileposts and any appropriate control cities. Next up is the history rewrite. Imzadi 1979 → 11:48, 27 June 2012 (UTC)