Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of U.S. Highways in Michigan/archive2

The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:31, 20 June 2016 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of U.S. Highways in Michigan

Nominator(s): Imzadi 1979 → 01:05, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am renominating this for featured list because it's the next in the series of lists on Michigan's state highway system. The product of research on and off over the last decade, this is the one page on the Internet that so comprehensively covers the topic of the United States Numbered Highways (US Highways) in the Great Lakes State and would join List of Interstate Highways in Michigan and Pure Michigan Byway at this level. It is also the lead article for a featured topic on Michigan's US Highways. Imzadi 1979 → 01:05, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Dough4872 and Rschen7754: you two commented on the last nomination, so you may want to comment here. Imzadi 1979 → 01:06, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support, as I did last time. --Rs chen 7754 05:29, 14 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I reviewed this at the previous FLC and still feel this list meets the criteria. Dough4872 03:55, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support due an interesting lead and an exemplary table, but there are a few issues worth noting:

In the lead, "Since 1999 there are 13 mainline highways and with the creation of a business route for Constantine a total of 30 special routes in the state" is a bit confusing and lacks punctuation. How about "Since 1999, there have been 13 mainline highways, and with the creation of a business route for Constantine, a total of 30 special routes in the state"?
In the History section, "Included on the initial discussion report were the various remaining overlaps between Interstate and US Highways" does not flow well. How about "The initial discussion report included the various remaining overlaps between Interstate and US Highways"?
In the History section, "Additional freeway sections opened in around the turn of the 21st century" should not include the word "in".
Reference #21 ("Interstate 75 Road Markers Are Unveiled") is dead.
You need alt text on all of your images. I know it's tedious and annoying, but it's typically a requirement for featured lists and articles.

That being said, however, I want to reiterate my support due to the fact that these minor issues take about 10-20 minutes to rectify and do not have a deleterious effect on the list's overall quality. Zach Vega (talk to me) 04:16, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Zach Vega: thanks for the review. All of the fixes have been applied in some form. Imzadi 1979 → 05:49, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Just one comment I forgot, but FAC hasn't required alt text in several years. Imzadi 1979 → 05:50, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't? Damn. I must've been gone for a long time. Anyways, Strong Support now. Zach Vega (talk to me)

Source review - minor stuff:

Wikilinking NewsBank should be on footnote 40 and not 45
Same goes for newspaper title 'Herald-Palladium'; it's wikilinked on fn 43 and not 40
Footnote 40 requires username and password. It's available for free on t'internet, but if you wish to keep the links you have at present best include 'subscription required' notification. This goes for other NewsBank links.
Page number for footnote 42?
I notice that for certain footnotes you have included links to newspaper articles as well as page numbers, when I'm certain the MOS says only one should suffice. What's the reasoning behind this?

Otherwise sources are formatted accordingly and consistently. No dead links; all images appropriate licences as far as I can tell. Lemonade51 (talk) 00:39, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Lemonade51: I've updated the wikilinking between footnotes 40, 43 and 45, switching out the URL for FN 40.

As for FN 42, that was accessed online originally at a link that has since gone dead. The URL and access date for that have been commented out for now. If I'm ever in Lansing again, I can attempt to locate a page number for the print edition of that paper, assuming said article was also published in the print edition of the Lansing State Journal. However, I live 400 miles (640 km) from there by car. The paper's online archives through a premium level of Newspapers.com appear to lack the article. For now, a modified version of the cited sentence can be cited to a different source entirely until we can find a replacement copy.

As for the other footnotes, if the page numbers are known, I've provided them as a form of redundancy. If the links go dead in the future, at least readers can fall back to library copies of the print editions. This also gives us a level of redundancy to locate copies through other archive services in the future.Imzadi 1979 → 04:44, 16 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:02, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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