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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 04:37, 12 December 2015 [1].

Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge

Nominator(s): West Virginian (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article details the history and architecture of a historic Whipple truss bridge on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia. This article recently underwent an extensive peer review. I am nominating this article, as I feel it meets the Featured Article criteria. I look forward to your comments and suggestions, and I will be very appreciative of any guidance than can be offered to improve the quality of this article. Thanks! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. As always, feel free to revert my copyediting. - Dank (push to talk) 21:13, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dank, thank you for your edits and for your support; both are very appreciated! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Comments~~ - taking a look now. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:49, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~formerly known as South Branch Bridge and Romney Bridge,~~ ~~- to my ears, "or" sounds more natural than "and" here~~

Added or per your recommendation! Thank you for the suggestion! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

''The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is the oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge in West Virginia, and is the oldest extant metal truss bridge in the state. - should be able to rewrite so we just have one mention of "West Virginia" or "state"

I've modified the sentence as follows: "The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is West Virginia's oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge and its oldest extant metal truss bridge." Let me know if this works better! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~The Whipple truss bridge replaced an 1838 wooden covered bridge~~ ~~- does it refer to the Capon Lake or the larger bridge?~~

I've added "larger" to differentiate between the South Branch Bridge and the Capon Lake Bridge. This of course was in reference to the first larger construction of the bridge. -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The first four paras of the body of text all start with, "The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge....." - you wanna mix it up a little.

Thank you for catching the repetition! I've changed some instances of "Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge" to "bridge." Let me know if you see anything else that requires tweaking! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did mean more like this, but only one of the paras lends itself to this. I think it is diversified enough now anyway. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Otherwise~~ looking good/on target.....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cas Liber, thank you for your kind words and thoughtful suggestions. I've addressed them all, so please let me know if you have any outstanding issues or concerns with the article. Thanks! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support on comprehensiveness and prose. A nice read. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cas Liber, thank you for your review, and for your support! -- West Virginian (talk) 23:57, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:31, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nikkimaria, thank you for engaging in an image review for this article! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:43, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Rodw: A few questions from someone who knows nothing of the engineering involved or the geography of this part of the world:

~~Any reason why Hampshire County, West Virginia is linked from the infobox and 1st para of the body but not in the text of the lead.~~

Hampshire County has been wiki-linked per your suggestion. Thanks for the catch! -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I assumed Capon Lake was a body of water until I found it is an Unincorporated area, perhaps this could be clearer on 1st mention (but I'm not sure how) and I wonder why it is Capon not "Cacapon" (but that may be incidental for this article).

Capon is just a shorter form of Cacapon; and the two are used interchangeably when referring to the river. Capon Lake refers to the river's lake-like formation near the bridge and from that formation, the unincorporated area has taken its name. In the first paragraph of the lede, I have added: "...thus connecting the unincorporated communities of Capon Springs with Capon Lake." Will this suffice? Thank you for raising this question. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Should Baker Mountain (West Virginia) be wikilinked in Geography and setting?~~

This has been wiki-linked. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the section on South Branch Bridge do we need to be told that T. B. White and Sons was also known as Penn Bridge and Machine Works as this has been covered in the previous section? It is repeated again as a direct quote in the next paragraph.

I've removed "Penn Bridge and Machine Works" per your suggestion. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Refs 29 & 30 "Some dates..." & "The new Rt..." seem to have "HistoricHampshire.org" twice - once italicised and once not italicised - any reason?~~

That is a template issue more than anything. I've modified it so that the name only appears once. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Munske, Roberta R.; Kerns, Wilmer L., eds. (2004). Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754–2004. Romney, West Virginia: The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee. ISBN 978-0-9715738-2-6. OCLC 55983178" is included in the bibliography but I can see where it is used as a reference.

I hope these comments make sense.— Rod ^talk 15:45, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the Munske reference. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rod, thank you tremendously for engaging in this review and for sharing your suggestions here. Please let me know if I need to make any further corrections or additions. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. All my issues have been addressed therefore I can support as meeting the criteria.— Rod ^talk 18:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rod, thank you so much for your support, and thank you again for your thoughtful suggestions! -- West Virginian (talk) 22:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I peer reviewed this article previously and found it extremely comprehensive and well-written. The fact that it is also on an obscure, local topic makes it much more interesting and is the kind of article that makes Wikipedia great. Niagara ^{Don't give up the ship} 02:12, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Niagara, thank you again for the peer review, and for your kind words and support here. -- West Virginian (talk) 14:32, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- Has there been a source review for reliability/formatting? If not, pls request one at the top of WT:FAC. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:38, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Source review All sources seem of encyclopedic quality and are properly and consistently cited, except as follows:

The two final sources in the biblio, from the WV Road Commission, have the same OCLC.

Wehwalt, the two final sources are issues of the same serial, Annual Report of the State Road Commission of West Virginia -- West Virginian (talk) 11:37, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"in", "its" and "from" in the titles of the various works in the biblio, are capitalized and probably should be lower case. You are inconsistent with "from", actually.--Wehwalt (talk) 10:04, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wehwalt, I've modified the titles to conform to your suggestion. Please let me know if you see any outliers. Thank you again for engaging in the source review. -- West Virginian (talk) 11:37, 5 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wehwalt, please let me know if there are any further issues with this article's sourcing and I will address them immediately. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:58, 10 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry. No, its fine. Thank you.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:16, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 04:37, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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