Talk:A77 road

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This article is a bit too wordy for me, which is why I've added the {{essay-entry}} template. See A1 and A66 for good examples of how a roads article should be laid out, and not simply a narrative of all its waypoints, which is not useful for an encyclopedia. See wp:mos. — superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 21:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, definitely agree with the tag (and that someone else has later added the unreferenced tag). I've made a start by updating the infobox to the current standard, and adding headings, minor grammar cleanup (eg changed "in Fenwick" to "at Fenwick" as the junction mentioned is not IN the settlement). If time permits I'll work on the deadlinks and lack of references shortly. Baldy Bill (talk) 17:29, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Ok, have pressed on with it - next round of revisions:- Red link to Lendalfoot removed.
Dead link to a77campaign.co.uk removed - haven't found a suitable currently available reference for that yet.
Dead link to transport for scotland pdf removed.
Changed "crucial link" to "important link" - WP:NPOV.
Altered wikilink to NI ferries, and removed some words.
Changed "has been subject" to "is subject".
Changed "hastened upgrades" to "necessitated upgrades" as to use hastened would require citation of an original plan of upgrades and by how much they became hastened.
Referenced the "controversy" to the section within the M77_motorway article.
Changed "sliced through" to "was routed through" - NPOV.
Reworked the sentence about the East Ayrshire section - removed "notorious" as not referenced, removed "accident-prone" as the road itself does not have the accident and is covered by the meaning of "dangerous", also this needs to be referenced to a reliable statistic (the A77 safety group website stats refer to the southern section).
Moved "resulting in a number of fatal crashes" to the end of the list of faults, as otherwise it would imply that the ignorance of the speed limit solely caused the crashes.
Removed "claiming the life of an off duty, top-ranking police officer" - on investigation the incident was in 2002, not 2003 as originally stated". Replaced this vague phrase with the detail of the individual and a reference.
Replaced "road. July 2005" with "road, July 2005".
Replaced Constable Kevin Lowe weblink with an inline citation.
Replaced jargon "GSJ" with the full text. Added wikilink to prev paragraph to explain jargon.

Out of time for now, need to improve citations and update the last paragraph as it portrays historical info as current. Baldy Bill (talk) 19:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

New section added for Proposed Developments, previous "future" developments given completion dates and referenced.
Various claims researched and referenced, 9 citations now in total.
On this basis I have now removed the "essay" and "unreferenced" tags. There is still room for improvement, particularly to find a citation for the East Ayrshire accident rate claim and a suitable general image for the road. Baldy Bill (talk) 16:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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