Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Brockway Mountain Drive

Brockway Mountain Drive

This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests.

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 14, 2013 by Bencherlite ^Talk 09:33, 2 October 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

Brockway Mountain Drive is a 8.883-mile (14.296 km) scenic highway just west of Copper Harbor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Drivers can access the road from state highway M-26 on either end near Eagle Harbor to the west or Copper Harbor to the east in the Keweenaw Peninsula. The drive runs along the ridge of Brockway Mountain on the Keweenaw Fault and climbs to 1,320 feet (402 m) above sea level, 720 feet (220 m) above the surface of Lake Superior. Several viewpoints along the route allow for panoramas of Copper Harbor, Lake Superior, and undeveloped woodland. On a clear day, Isle Royale is visible approximately 50 miles (80 km) in distance from the top of the mountain. Brockway Mountain was named for David D. Brockway, one of the pioneer residents of the area. The road was constructed by the county road commission with funding through Depression-era work programs in 1933. It was briefly used as a connection for the parallel state highway after it opened. Since it opened, Brockway Mountain Drive has been recognized nationally and locally in several media outlets for its picturesque qualities, usually in profiles of Keweenaw County, the Upper Peninsula or other scenic drives. (Full article...)

2 points: promoted in 2011. This was to be held over for its 80th anniversary this year, however Bencherlite scheduled Kwinana Freeway to run a few days ago. That negates the 2 points it should have received for the anniversary. Please note that this was the consensus of opinion when the nominate was removed a year ago, and it's been listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/TFA, a page Bencherlite is aware of. Also, we'd need to figure out how to crop or otherwise handle File:Brockway Mountain Drive Panorama.jpg for use as the TFA image; it's the best photo for the roadway to use, but it's a panorama. Imzadi 1979 → 06:03, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I'm aware of that page, but I don't check it regularly (can't remember the last time I did so, frankly). If people don't use the "official" Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending page... Personally I think the gap between 22nd September and 14th October is long enough not to be an insuperable bar to its use, but now you'll have to slug it out with Broken Sword and see what people think. Bencherlite ^Talk 06:40, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support, with panorama, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:27, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Not only do I believe this topic is definitely worthy of consideration, but I must say my decision was swayed a bit by the fact that this was pretty much agreed upon last September. TCN7JM on the Road 14:37, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support 80th anniversary, and I feel that the European release for the other candidate is a bit of a stretch. --Rs chen 7754 20:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:44, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]