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The Signpost: 01 October 2012

The Signpost: 08 October 2012

Feedback

I've been looking at your contributions, and it's good that you're destubbing Georgia articles. One thing I'm noticing is repetition in the route descriptions; it makes the prose a bit dry. I saw one of your articles where three sentences in a row began with "The route". A good rule is to never begin two sentences in a paragraph the same way. --Rschen7754 06:58, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for some -- finally -- positive feedback/criticism. Is there any possible solutions to this issue? The only ways that I know to do this is to use "SR XXX", "it", or "the route". If you could suggest some alternatives, then I could implement them into my future edits. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 12:23, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Well, the cheap fix is "the highway", "the road", etc. But the better solution is to vary the sentence structure; one simple example is "In (location), SR xx ...". Some examples are in the RD in California State Route 78, a FA. --Rschen7754 17:51, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Not just the FAs, but we have nearly 2000 articles that are at least B-Class. Study them and you'll get the hang of it. –Fredddie™ 03:33, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Article categories and userboxes

In short, don't put userboxes in categories designed for articles. That way user pages aren't being mixed with articles. You placed {{User:HTUK/Userboxes/AYBS1}} and {{User:HTUK/Userboxes/AYBS2}} into Category:Are You Being Served?. You could have created a Category:Wikipedians who like Are You Being Served? similar to the extant Category:Wikipedians who like Law & Order. That would have kept the user pages separate from the articles. Imzadi 1979 → 03:30, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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USRD article importances

When in doubt, give it Mid importance. –Fredddie™ 22:01, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

We don't have a set formula, but at one time, it was discussed that NHS components would get bumped up a class... lists are bumped a class higher than what is listed. Since CRs are low, a list of them would be mid, and most state highways are mid, so a list of them is high, and any systems are top. I dunno if we're still doing things that way, but I assess most new state highways as mid and any new CRs as low. *shrugs* Imzadi 1979 → 04:13, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

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