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[edit] Nomination for GAC

 Lincoln Highway was a good article candidate, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. Once the objections listed below are addressed, the article can be renominated. You may also seek a review of the decision if you feel there was a mistake.

Date of review: 12 November 2006

Cwolfsheep 19:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with External Link

On Jan 22, 2007, the link given as 1915 Video of Opening of Lincoln Highway points to www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za/lincolnhighway which produced an apparently random page that is nothing to do with Lincoln Highway and is different with every reload. For that reason I deleted it. At a later date, if anyone reading this discussion clicks the link in this paragraph and finds it is working, it should be restored. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.133.128.60 (talk) 11:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Marion Ohio Spur

Any thought of given space to discuss the 1920s attempted move of the road from its intended path from Galion, Ohio to Lima, Ohio via Marion, Ohio (Ohio Route 309)? Stu 20:09, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Washington?

[1][2] would have used Bladensburg Turnpike from Baltimore - Maryland Avenue (began at Bladensburg) - somehow to Potomac Park past the Lincoln Memorial - somehow to Rockville Pike (Wisconsin Avenue from Georgetown) to Gettysburg --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 15:55, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1924 changes

[3]

[edit] Nebraska

Route before relocated next to the Union Pacific Railroad
  • Douglas Street Bridge in Omaha
  • Valley to Fremont on 276th Street - Pawnee Road? - 288th Street? - Dutch Hall Road - Old Highway 8

[edit] State highway numbers

[edit] Cleanup

I didn't post the cleanup template, but I think this article is getting too big and needs to be broken up. If no one objects, I will try to do this in a couple of days. There should be a much shorter route description with a seperate article for the more detailed information. I had also considered starting a seperate article for the Lincoln Highway Association. If it can be fleshed out, I will try to do this also.Rt66lt 01:27, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Went ahead and created new article and moved routing information there.Rt66lt 01:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

For a few weeks over in my sandbox I've been paraphrasing and revising the Weingroff history article that drew the cleanup tag. In the next few minutes I'm going to nuke the History section and replace it with my version (scary, but it seems the right thing to do). It should bring the article length down to around 24K, much closer to the WP:SIZE happy zone. —RandallJones 01:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

There are two references to "BPR", apparently w/o antecedents. If the meaning is known, could it be included in the article? (If I've just missed it..., well, sorry.) PeteJacobsen 29 June 2006

Added "(BPR)" at first use. —RandallJones 20:51, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current definition in Illinois

[4] --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 16:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Notable" local streets for Category:Lincoln Highway

San Francisco
East Bay
  • Foothill Boulevard
  • MacArthur Boulevard
  • Castro Valley Boulevard
  • Berkeley Pier (1928)
Sacramento
  • Stockton Boulevard
  • Auburn Boulevard
  • Folsom Boulevard
Omaha-Council Bluffs
  • Douglas Street Bridge
Clinton-Fulton
Canton
  • Tuscarawas Street
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Trenton
Newark
  • Frelinghuysen Avenue
  • Broad Street
  • Market Street
Jersey City
New York

[edit] Indiana

[5] --SPUI (T - C) 21:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map

Could one of our resident Wikipedia cartologists draw up a map of this highway? That would be a great addition to the article. NTK 17:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Contact Paul Gilger at gilger@sonic.net. He is the Lincoln Highway association cartologist and has just completed the first ever electronic Lincoln Highway map available online using DeLorme mapping. It covers all 7700 miles of all alignments.

[edit] GA comments

I note that this article is almost entirely sourced from the (presumably non-copyrighted) Federal Highway Administration essay linked to at the bottom of the page. I assume that this is acceptable, although it would be nice to see a little more original work put into the article.

It is definitely woefully under-referenced. There are quite a few direct quotations and mentions of sources that have no citations, and in order to reach GA status, all of these really need to be cited.

There's also a picture that's currently covering the table of contents, and needs to be moved. MLilburne 12:19, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA failure

I’m sorry, but I must fail this article’s GA nomination. There are a number of problems, as per What is a good article? that keep Lincoln Highway from being a Good Article.

  • 2: This article is, as MLilburne accurately states above, "woefully under-referenced". For an article of this length to have only five references and one additional source is unacceptable if an article is to be rated as a GA or higher. Huge portions of the article are completely unsourced, so how can the reader know that sections such as "Federal highways" or "Since 1940" are even remotely factual? Heck, the first sentence of "History" states that "In 1912, America's highways were just emerging from fifty years of extremely slow growth." According to whom? There's also an external jump to the Portland Cement Association for no particular reason.
  • 6: While there is no direct violation of the image criteria as stated in WP:WIAGA, per se, there are problems with the images. For one, there are far too many images. The different highways that partly make up Lincoln Highway do not need their own images, especially in the lead. There’s a photo covering the Table of Contents, which is obviously a huge issue. The panoramic image of the highway’s route simply distracts from the article. One image near the bottom of the article has been deleted.

Good luck on this article and all other editing, and I hope the problems I have mentioned above can be fixed. -- Kicking222 14:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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