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

The article was not promoted 15:06, 14 August 2007.

[edit] Pennsylvania Route 39

Currently, this article is an A-Class, good article. It is well documented and includes well written information about the route. It has a detailed intersection guide, and includes historical information. There has been a previous FAC. --Son 19:49, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Oppose for now, with many of the same objections from last time.
    • Some of the wording is awkward.
    • The history of Legislative Route 39 does not belong in the history, since in Pennsylvania the Legislative Routes and Traffic Routes were totally different systems. It's like having the history of US 30 in the article on PA 30.
    • The "route description" and "other development along PA 39" sections duplicate each other in part, and should be merged.
    • The Delorme "Toggle Measure Tool" probably gives false precision. Is there a government source you can use?
  • --NE2 22:55, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose—1a and 2a plus MOS breaches.
    • Got to the fourth word: MOS breach. Please read about units and values.
    • Unsure about "designated". It stretches from ...? And what does it mean by "signed east–west"?
    • Please read up on leads. Three stubby paras, inadequate in length and scope.
    • Link: lower-case "annual ..." in middle of sentence. Remove "it".
    • Read MOS on seasons ("fall").
    • "farmland".
    • "more and more"—too informal. Try "increasingly".

And more and more issues. Please arrange for the whole article to be properly copy-edited. And do your best to raise it to an interesting level—at the moment, it's kind of boring. Route description, for example, says nothing about the topography/geography spanned by the route. Give us a bird's-eye view rather than a succession of trivial details. Needs to be "among our best work", doesn't it? Tony 07:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.