Template:Did you know nominations/Louisiana Highway 31

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Miyagawa (talk) 13:25, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Louisiana Highway 175

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• ... that Louisiana Highway 31 (shield pictured) meets with or intersects with eighteen roads, two of which are either U.S. Routes or Interstate Highways, and that it is responsible for running at seven cities in three parishes?

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Expanded by DudeWithAFeud (talk) at 05:32, 6 October 2013 (UTC).

• The article was recently expanded sufficiently (201B → 1678B). The nominator has no DYK credits as far as I know, so he needs to note if he's claiming the exemption from QPQ reviewing.
• Getting those items out of the way, this article fails to meet criteria for promotion as a DYK hook. The hook is not cited to a reliable source. The only citation is to a self-published source, and it does not verify all of the information in the hook.

  I cleaned up some of the prose, but this article needs a copy edit before it could be featured as a DYK. The verb choices alone are problematic.

  Additionally, the article is missing a basic level of historical content, and by basic, I mean even listing when the designation was assigned. As such, I'm invoking the Croughton-London rule in calling this a stub.

• Additionally, the hook, as nominated, is also poorly worded. Highways are not "responsible" for such things, let alone whatever "running at seven cities in three parishes" is supposed to mean. When a road "meets with" another one, it "intersects" it, so that bit is redundant. The worst item is that the hook is just boring, and I'm an editor that specializes in writing about highways!
• The hook is also over the 200-character limit.
• There is also an issue with the image as nominated. I always suggest that a DYK hook about a highway use a photo of the road instead of the graphic version of the highway's reassurance marker (aka the "shield"). In this case, that graphic's description page says that it was created by a Wikipedian and released into the public domain. This is just not the case because it is creation of an agency of the State of Louisiana. There is an audit on-going to correct these issues, but Louisiana hasn't be researched yet to be properly corrected and attributed.
• I'm declining this nomination for the reasons above. Imzadi 1979 → 08:09, 7 October 2013 (UTC)