Talk:Interstate 695 (Maryland)/GA1

I'm slightly familiar with this road, having driven over it in the past, although not recently. So that helps in reviewing this one.

First, its weaknesses. The prose could be better, particularly by breaking up some of the run-on sentences (the third one in the second graf under "History" is a beaut in that department). Had I been the writer, I would have used the "MD XXX" form on all references, not just the first, as I tend to in my own articles. But I'm aware there's no consensus within the roads projects yet on this, so I'll defer to the nominator here. I fixed a couple of stylistic errors (song titles always go in quotes), and "portions" takes a plural (as should "remains", I think). There are also a few redlinks that should either have articles created or be delinked until such time as they are.

But I don't find any of this fatal to its effectiveness as an encyclopedia article. Its structure and comprehensiveness tell me what I want to know, and what there is to know. Nor do any glaring unsourced statements pop out. So it's a good article.

Understand, however, that for the same reasons given above I would not support it in its present form for FA. Those will need to be addressed if that status is sought. Daniel Case (talk) 02:46, 8 August 2009 (UTC)