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Some formatting hints for Montana highways

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I made some edits to Montana Highway 13, and I'd like to offer you some suggestions. The article is pretty good, so keep up the good work.

  • Montana highway designations are abbreviated MT nn, and since {{jct}} abbreviates them that way, we should in our writing be consistent. I added the abbreviation in parentheses in the lead sentence, and then abbreviated all other references to state highways.
  • {{convert}} can handle the adjective form of measurements by using |adj=mid and following that with |-long then you'll get "112-mile-long (180 km)" as the compound adjective.
  • I personally don't use {{rp}} ever, but I don't think it should be used that way. It's kinda confusing to use it in the footnote instead of using |page= or |pages= in the citation template. I believe that {{rp}} should only be used after the footnote like </ref>{{rp|4}}. That way when it's repeated, it displays as [1]:4 or [1]:155–6
  • Last suggestion, but since these are American topics, they should be using American date formatting, i.e. August 5, 2012. On Wikipedia, if the other format is used, it doesn't have a comma between the month and year, so 5 August 2012.

I hope these are helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!. Imzadi 1979 → 16:58, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, thank you for your comment. It was my first time creating articles within this project, and I hope that my position on the other side of the world doesn't diminish my ability to contribute too much. Thank you very much for your pointers and I will be sure to include them in later articles. I would suggest that you run your critical eye over Montana Highway 24 as that's what I used as a template for creating/modifying the other articles I spruced up ((MT 37 MT 16 and MT 66, plus the five you've already looked at). -DyluckTRocket (talk) 11:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You're doing good, especially for someone that doesn't live in the States. Another thought that I had was concerning the citations. I tend to be a touch picky about them, as I've found that if you get them right early on, then any future work to polish the article for GAN/ACR/FAC is that much easier. Plus, I've found that once an editor is in the habit of supplying author, date, work, publisher, etc that it makes it much easier to just do that always instead of digging to complete a reference later. You might not have your copy of a newspaper article immediately handy to re-verify the page number or reporter name at a later date
Ok, so looking at MT 24, one of the things that I did was to fill out all of the information on the road log reference. My personal habit is to never omit a publisher from the citation template. If dealing with a "corporate work", like something from MDT, I try to find the specific subdivision of the agency that produced it if there isn't a named author. In this case, that subdivision is the "Transportation Planning Division, Data and Statistics Bureau, Road Inventory and Mapping Section". You might want to shorten that to just "Road Inventory and Mapping Section", I don't know. I ran the whole thing for now, but I do have a tendency to shorten them up. (If a source doesn't say, I've been known to use the generic "Staff" to ascribe an author to a corporately authored source.) Then I added the page numbers.
For the Montana Highways website, the original version was written by Mike Ballard and then "rescued" and updated by Robert V. Droz. So I listed them as the authors. The current site was last updated on October 17, 2006, so I used that as the date. The work in this case is the name of the site, which is ""Montana Highways", and the publisher is "Self-published" because it is a self-published source. (Normally we don't allow those, and if you were to GAN the article, you'd have to find replacements, but for now, it's fine.)
Last thing besides a little tweaking of links and using the abbreviations was to move the Google Maps reference out of the lead. Since the lead is a summary of the body of an article, I don't use footnotes in a lead at all unless it's a direct quotation or a controversial/counterintuitive statement. Since the junction list table gives the terminal milepost as "134.098", and the mileposts are cited in that table, the rounded off length in the lead doesn't really need its own footnote. It's cited in the infobox as well. I hope these comments also help. Imzadi 1979 → 17:21, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brisbane meetup with Sue Gardner invitation

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Welcome, roadfan!

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I have reassessed your article

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Hey there! I have looked over the article you flagged for reassessment, Florida State Road 9336, and kept it at C-class. The issue is that it needs a more complete history to be bumped up to B-class. Thanks! TCN7JM 16:43, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Center Line: Spring 2013

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Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike GAN

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Just a reminder I put the GAN of Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike on hold, see Talk:Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike/GA1. Dough4872 22:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Center Line: Summer 2013

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Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 826

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Florida State Road 826 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 05:20, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 826

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The article Florida State Road 826 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Florida State Road 826 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 07:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 826

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The article Florida State Road 826 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Florida State Road 826 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 13:03, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 878

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Florida State Road 878 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 12:11, 25 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 878

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The article Florida State Road 878 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Florida State Road 878 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 21:52, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2014

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Hi, if you haven't already, you should consider signing up for WikiCup 2014. Cheers, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 01:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 874

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Florida State Road 874 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 22:01, 5 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Florida State Road 874

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The article Florida State Road 874 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Florida State Road 874 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 17:06, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Center Line: Fall 2013

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The Center Line: Winter 2013

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The Center Line: Spring 2014

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The Center Line: Summer 2014

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The Center Line: Fourth Quarter 2014

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The Center Line: Fourth Quarter 2014

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The Center Line: Winter 2015

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Brisbane Meetup

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The Center Line: Summer 2015

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The Center Line: September 2015

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Newsletter request

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Can you write up a short paragraph to update our readers on what's going on with Florida? There's already some mention of the topics from WT:USRD in the project news section of the newsletter, so I don't know if that covers everything from the Sunshine State or not as of late. A brief paragraph for the State updates section is all we'd need. You can submit it at WP:USRD/NR. I'm working on publishing with a November timestamp, so if this is too last minute, just ignore the request but keep it in mind for the January issue. Imzadi 1979 → 15:44, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Imzadi1979: Hi there mate, I'm not really sure that I feel qualified for writing up an article for the Florida part of the project in the newsletter, especially as I have been heavily, heavily focused on state highways to the south of downtown Miami and I don't really know what's going on in the very many other parts of the state. I tend to keep my editing to the highway articles which intersect US Highways: in this case, US 1. Thank you for considering me for doing so, though; but, like I said, I really don't think I could speak for the state (if any into the future) as a whole. -DyluckTRocket (talk) 05:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The state updates are usually just a brief on what is going on in the state. If no one else is doing much of substance in the state except you, then you are qualified to write a brief on your activities. At times, when I've written the Michigan updates, they've focused on just one area of the state because my editing was focused there, except to deal with well-intentioned/low-quality edits or vandalism elsewhere. Imzadi 1979 → 06:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Image for deletion

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Think it's time to delete File:SD3ClassChange.gif? I don't see a foreseeable use czar 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Czar: Yeah, sure. I see no problem with its deletion. -DyluckTRocket (talk) 07:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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