Talk:Delaware Route 6

Delaware Route 6 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 16, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Delaware Route 6/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Rs chen 7754 21:18, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Warning: you will need non-map sources to take this to ACR or FAC.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
The history section is vague; the maps just aren't covering the whole story.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Again not a criteria for GA, but the image is a little dark and could be adjusted.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:

The road runs through areas of woods and farms with some homes In Blackiston, - lost a period
Try and cut down a little bit on the zoning.
In Clayton, the road crosses Norfolk Southern's Delmarva Secondary at-grade - explain that it's a railroad?

Hold - sure, a few minor things, but the history is quite vague. --Rs chen 7754 04:04, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have addressed the prose issues and have added some more detail to the history from non-map sources. Dough 48 72 19:37, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My main issue that remains is the sentence "By the 1990s, DE 6 was routed onto its current alignment through Smyrna." - we're given no context for what's changed or why these changes were made. --Rs chen 7754 20:42, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have added details about what changed with the rerouting. Unfortunately, I cannot find a reason why this happened. Dough 48 72 22:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You might run into issues in future venues but I think this is good enough for GA. It might take me a while but I intend to pass the article. --Rs chen 7754 22:18, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I brightened up the image a bit... let me know what you (plural) think. Juliancolton (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great! Thanks! --Rs chen 7754 22:18, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]