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Don Valley Parkway

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I've listed this article for peer review because could use a third set of eyes to go over it and help take out some of the nuances. My grammar sucks, so anyone with strong grammar skills will have a field day.

Thanks, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 21:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Comments from Natural RX

I have combed through the article briefly and made some changes. A few things I would like you to go over:

• Intro: "The expressway was constructed partially on a new alignment through the valley, and partially along the former Don Roadway and Woodbine Avenue alignments." It makes it sound like alignment is a technical term, and I would prefer if you could simplify the sentence somehow to indicate it is partly new, partly built on old roads.
• "Although the Parkway does not have exit numbers, Highway 404's exit numbers start at 17 (instead of 0) in order to account for the length of the Parkway and the Gardiner to Yonge Street." I understand accounting for the length of the Parkway, but I don't understand the end of the sentence.
• I notice most of the reference template fields are stacked, but I prefer that they appear as such:

{{cite news | title = | first = | last = | publisher = | work = | date = | url = | accessdate = }}

I certainly see more articles that have it formatted as so, but this may be a styling difference, so I won't suggest which one to choose, unless another editor wants to chime in.

• "In the 1930s, a speedway through the lower valley was promoted as possible depression relief." What kind of speedway? Depression relief? Please expand to explain, or wikilink to appropriate articles.
• "The lack of a government to tie the region together is possibly the reason for the lack of serious consideration given to it." Is this from cited material or your original research? Please make an inline citation here if it is the former.
• "In the area of the intersection of the Parkway and the Gardiner, two efforts are proceeding that intend to modify or remove the section around the Don River." Please rework this sentence, it doesn't sound very good.

Overall though, it seems like a very detailed article of a highway, beyond what I would have expected. Cheers. --Natural R_X 02:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for taking the time to go through the article and copyedit and review it :)

• With regards to the intro, I suppose alignment is a technical term, but there isn't exactly a good layman translation for that... it was a new road that followed a path followed by no road before it.
• The second sentence is essentially OR in full, and is mostly a remnant of the old article. There are no official explanations that I know of, the exit numbers just start at 17. I'll remove the sentence.
• I very much prefer the vertical format. It's far easier to work with (Especially when you go through just the references) in the edit window, and it makes it easier to visually separate the references from the text. Despite what may be though elsewhere, I believe wholeheartedly this is better for editors, the encyclopedia and my sanity.
• If I can wikilink to articles to explain these concepts (I will by the way), can the same not be done with 'alignment', above?
• I'd say SYNTH at worst. Only one source discusses the speedway in depth and it doesn't explain why it never came to fruition. However, many other sources mention that the reason the DVP didn't happen earlier was because the formation of Metro and the funding it received allowed for the massive public works projects through the 1950s and 1960s. Any suggestions? Or should I just be-gone with it? I think I found a good way to make this part work.
• Will do.

Cheers, ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 03:42, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Fixes made - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ ^τ _¢ 16:15, 26 June 2010 (UTC)