Talk:K-61 (Kansas highway)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 06:16, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): 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):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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@420Traveler: Your prose needs a bit of fine-tuning. I can't see the forest sometimes through the trees of SHC resolutions and dollar amounts in the history section. However, you have all your facts right. Archive references; the last four from the Hutchinson News need citation information added. 7-day hold. Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:40, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Copy changes were made, and I took care of the remaining reference cleanup/archival. Passing. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:17, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Copy changes

Lead

• The highway travels mostly through rural areas, however does pass through South Hutchinson and Hutchinson where it intersects K-14, K-96, and US-50. K-61 is signed as a north–south but runs in southwest to northeast direction. Tweak to The highway travels mostly through rural areas; however, it does pass through South Hutchinson and Hutchinson, where it intersects K-14, K-96, and US-50. K-61 is signed as a north–south route but runs in a southwest to northeast direction.

Route description

• Join the first two sentences with a semicolon
• Join the two NHS sentences to reduce redundancy
• Commas around "on average"
• Add "the" before "small community of"
• Capitalize "Street" in "80th street"
• Add comma after Wolf Creek to balance the appositive
• Add a comma after "access westbound US-50" to join the two complete sentences
• Remove comma after "McNew Road"
• Add hyphen in "controlled-access highway"
• Comma after "Center Street"

History

• Add (SHC) by "State Highway Commission of Kansas" as this acronym is heavily used.
• Overuse of "In a resolution on..." sentence starters. Paragraph 2 suffers from this badly.
• "Mid April" should be "mid-April". This also happens with "mid February" later.
• "will be started" — change to past tense for a past event
• "It had supposed" — should be "It had been supposed"
• There are many monetary amounts and inflation calculations. Consider reducing their frequency; they may be excessive detail.
• Also too many sentences start with "By (year)", especially in the Hutchinson rerouting section.
• By 1975, the entire section of K-61 from US-50 north in Hutchinson was four-lanes. Remove hyphen in "four-lanes"
• The section of former K-61 from the new K-61 to US-81, and former section of US-81 from there north to US-56 became K-61 Spur. remove comma
• Very choppy: The city of McPherson complained about the removal of US-81 Alternate. Then in a resolution passed on March 29, 1967, it was approved to re-establish US-81 Alternate in McPherson. These sentences should be combined.
• Improvements section has several uses of "Fall (year)" which are against MOS:SEASONS.
• "p.m." and "pm" in the same sentence: pick one.
• "has been designated" should be "was designated".

Source spot checks

I have randomly selected 10 sources for spot checks.

• 16 Y Map verifies description of course through Arlington.
• 32 Y Bids for grading. For AP articles, consider adding |agency=Associated Press in the citation template.
• 34 Y Bid approval.
• 48 Y Opening date.
• 49 Y Verifies description of former routing.
• 53 Y Shows segment was not open in 1963.
• 60 Y Shows full segment was not four lanes until 1975.
• 63 Y I-35W construction plans.
• 77 Y Redesignation of US 81 Alt. as Bus. through McPherson.
• 81 Y October 2011 opening of route and Koss Construction as general contractor for both counties' portions.

References

• References 80 through 83 need full citation information—title, publication, etc. They appear to be Hutchinson News articles.
• Archive references using IABot.
• Earwig shows no issues.
• No image issues (not applicable).

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