Review, image and source check by Floydian[edit]
Consider this review to be a source check
- Lede
- The article title is U.S. Route 45 in Michigan, but the article doesn't use the periods. I know the current discussion will hopefully clarify this, but is there some explanation behind this
- According to The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed., 2010, p. 489), periods are no longer preferred in the abbreviation "US" unless being used in a publication using traditional state abbreviations, but even then, CMOS recommends using two-letter postal codes instead of the older traditional abbreviations. Because of that, MOS:ABBR recommends the undotted form saying the other is an option. WP:USSH hasn't been updated, nor has USRD had a discussion yet about renaming the affected articles. (In fact, the project name itself should actually be changed to eliminate the periods.) In any case, the Michigan articles have already switched in the prose and templates, but not yet for titles. Imzadi 1979 → 10:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- "In between, the roadway crosses the UP running through the Ottawa National Forest and running along the Ontonagon River." - Any way to avoid the double use of running?
- "The highway dates back to the 1930s in Michigan. At the time it was extended into Michigan,.." - Again, this feel like a double use. The first use almost seems redundant with the article title and lead sentence.
- "...and some realignment changes in the 1970s moved the path of US 45 around before it was returned to the previous alignment." - This is awkward. I understand what it is saying, but the wording is certain to raise eyebrows at FAC.
- Route description
- Do refs [4] or [5] show the time zone line?
- "North of here is Bruce Crossing and the junction with M-28. US 45 runs northward parallel to the Middle Branch of the Ontonagon River. The highway crosses the river near a roadside park south of Rockland. East of Rockland, US 45 meets the southern terminus of M-26 and turns northwesterly parallel to the Ontonagon River[4][5] and a branch of the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad (ELS).[6]" - This reads as a series of points with no continuity.
- History
- "As part of the project, tons of waste copper rock..." - I suggest working in some link to tailings here, as this is what I assume you are referring to as waste copper.
- The source doesn't specify that it was what we'd call tailings though. I know in this part of the UP, tailings from the iron mine is a sandy material left over after the rock is ground finer than makeup powder and separated, but not anything rocky enough for that type of road construction. In the Copper Country, their tailings is usually in the form of stamp sand. They could have been using the overburden, but again, the source isn't specific enough to specify what it was beyond "waste copper rock". Imzadi 1979 → 10:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Source check: 11 - All good.
- "In late 1973, MDOT reversed the rerouting. US 45 was restored to its previous routing on Rockland Road between Rockland and Ontonagon. M-26 was re-extended south from Greenland to Rockland. M-38 was extended west along Ontonagon–Greenland Road." - I made an adjustment to this to make it read as a list as opposed to independent thoughts without flow between them.
- "The local folklore says that the light is from the ghost of a railroad brakeman according to signs in the viewing area." - May read better as "According to local folklore and indicated on signs in the viewing area, the light is from the ghost of a railroad brakeman." However, there is no context as to what or where this viewing area. In addition, the previous sentence includes "local phenomenon". This double use of "local" feel redundant.
- Source check: 16 - All good.
- Major intersections, External links
- KML
- I don't suppose you could show former routings on the KML as I've done on ON 71?
- Source check
- The previous review includes a spot check for refs 4/5, 11 and 16. Pending a response, all of these check out swell.
- Image check
- Overall
- Only other issue I can spot is that there is no mention of the length in the Lede or Route description, which I believe you normally provide with utmost precision (eg. Brockway Mountain Drive)
-- Floydian τ ¢ 06:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Added the length, but not to the full precision... Imzadi 1979 → 10:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm curious as to why you don't in this instance after the comments at Brockway Mountain Drive when it was TFA?
- My criticism there, in retrospect, is more that the one editor was trying to excise all mentions, going so far as to change one of the three mileposts in the junction list to use a rounded figure but leaving the other two. The prose can get clunky with the extra precision, and if a rounded figure is to be used, we need to indicate it as rounded. Imzadi 1979 → 07:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Indeed. Whenever we as editors make a decision on how to present data, we should indicate what we did in the prose. All the issues are taken care of, so I am now supporting! - Floydian τ ¢ 15:39, 5 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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