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List of Interstate Highways in Michigan

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The list was promoted by Giants2008 (Talk) 01:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC) [1].[reply]

Nominator(s): Imzadi 1979 → 08:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

After a quiet nomination without much comment, I again present to you the list of Interstate Highways in Michigan. This is the first, of what I hope will be, a series of similar lists for the Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, and hopefully the first of several similar lists on highways in the U.S. This used List of Interstate Highways in Texas as a starting point, but it uses specialized templates developed to implement WP:USRD/STDS/L, a project standard for lists of highways. We hope to use feedback from this nomination to improve both this list and the new list standard. Imzadi 1979 → 08:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've also notified the reviewers from the original FLC and the A(L)CR, as well as notifying WikiProject Michigan. Imzadi 1979 → 09:05, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support, again. I reviewed the list at ACR and feel that it meets the FLC criteria still. Dough 48 72 00:12, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments (first look)

Alt text – You might want to say (in a few words) the subject of the photographs.
- The captions already do that, so I'm unsure of what to add that wouldn't duplicate the captions. Imzadi 1979 → 04:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ref 108 is to a Wikipedia article Michigan Department of Transportation – can you find an external direct source? I’m not sure I see an official highway map in the article. Does that mean that similarly named references (for different years) come from the same Wikipedia article?
- No, it is not a reference to a Wikipedia article. It is a reference to a paper map printed by the then-Michigan Department of State Highways and Transportation that has its publisher linked in the citation. Similar is true of footnote 9, which is an article from the print edition of The Grand Rapids Press where the name of the newspaper is wikilinked. Imzadi 1979 → 04:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Okay, I see that now.
Primary Interstates – Not sure if there is anything that can be done, but the notes section is making the segment very long.
Business Routes-In the notes section, if they do not serve a defined area, perhaps put a dash.
- I only noted the cities they serve if they terminate outside of the city. So the first BL I-69 serves Coldwater, but because it terminates on the southern Coldwater city limits ("south of Coldwater"), there was no need to mention that in the notes. The third BL I-69 terminates on the west side of Lansing in Delta Township and on the northeast side of East Lansing in Bath Township, so unless the notes mentioned Lansing and East Lansing, it would not be apparent which cities it serves. Imzadi 1979 → 04:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Understood. My point was that a dash in an empty cell indicates that nothing belongs in that cell (i.e., the information, or lack, is complete), but it may be stylistic.
Only cursory review of prose (will give it a second reading)
- “I-75 is the longest highway of any kind in Michigan and only the highway on both Upper & Lower peninsulas.” Do you mean “the only highway on both Upper & Lower peninsulas”?
  - Fixed. Imzadi 1979 → 04:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Clearly a lot of work went into this.--Godot13 (talk) 03:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you, a lot has gone into this. Imzadi 1979 → 04:28, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Godot13: any more review comments? Imzadi 1979 → 22:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - I'll give it one more read-through to see if anything else jumps out.--Godot13 (talk) 04:06, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      - In the "Business routes" table, how do you feel about moving the box that indicates "former" from the bottom of the table to the top? It's not immediately clear what the grey highlight means.--Godot13 (talk) 04:10, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        I'm not in favor of that change. The color key is in the same location on those tables as the analogous color key on junction list tables in highway articles, like the one that appears at the bottom of Interstate 696#Exit list. Also, just like the colored rows in junction list tables, if a reader hovers his cursor over the colored rows in these tables, a tool top pops up with an explanation of the color. In this case, it says "Former route". Imzadi 1979 → 22:22, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support, most concerns resolved. I currently have a FLC and hope you will consider reading the list and making comments or a review. Thanks in advance.--Godot13 (talk) 22:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. It meets the FLC criteria. --Carioca (talk) 19:33, 6 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 01:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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