Talk:Tennessee State Route 394

Assessment notes

• The prose is very badly worded. The RD section is one long run-on sentence that needs to be copy edited. For that reason alone, I am discounting the presence of the RD section for assessment purposes.
• There are several other formatting issues that should be fixed, some of which I've seen as a pattern in other recently created articles.
  • The |direction_a=west and |direction_b=east in the infobox need to be updated to capitalize those terms since they're being used to create the row labels in the infobox. Notice that the other labels all start with an initial capital letter, so the input in those parameters needs to start with a capital letter as well.
  • We normally do not include directions when using {{jct}} in the infobox. The box is a summary, so you can leave that specific detail to the full junction list in the article.
  • The terms "bypass" and "connector route" are not proper nouns and they should not be capitalized in the lead. Yes, if they were used like "State Route 394 Bypass" or the "State Route 394 Connector Route", then they would, but they are not.
  • The header for the RD section needs to be in Sentence case, not Title Case. In other words, only the initial word and proper nouns get capitalized so it should be "Route description" not "Route Description".
  • The article is not properly and consistently using abbreviations.
    • The first sentence should include "(SR-394)" right after the "State Route 394". (Note that the parentheses are not in bold.)
    • After the first mention of an Interstate, in this case Interstate 81, "(I-81)" should be added so that readers not familiar with the convention will be provided with it.
    • At the first mention of a US Highway/Route, the name should be spelled out in full with the abbreviation in parentheses afterwards. You cannot assume that readers will know that US-11W = U.S. Route 11W/U.S. Highway 11W.
    • Note, that unless/unless USRD standardizes on a nationwide scheme that changes the current Tennessee scheme, you need to match your abbreviations in the prose to whatever is programmed into {{jct}} for consistency between the infobox, the junction list and the prose of the article.
    • By doing the above, all abbreviations used in the infobox or junction list are introduced in the prose of the article so that non-American, non-Tennessean, or non-roadgeek editors have a reference.
  • MOS:RJL says that if a highway is within one county only, we drop the county column and substitute a note above the table. This is done by moving the |county=Sullivan from the first {{TNint}} to {{jctint}} and adding |state=TN to that template.
  • Ideally, the links in the prose should be linking to full titles of the various highways, and Tennessee-specific subarticles where possible, not to "US 11W" as the target of the link. Yes, that redirects to the proper location, but non-American or non-roadgeek readers that hover their cursors over the link will get a pop-up with the full name, not the abbreviation.

Hopefully these comments are useful. Once the RD section is edited to make it a set of discrete sentences in a coherent paragraph, I'd be willing to reassess this as a Start-Class article consistent with USRD's practices. Imzadi 1979 → 23:58, 21 November 2013 (UTC)