Wikipedia:Peer review/Wisconsin Highway 140/archive1

Wisconsin Highway 140

I've listed this article for peer review because I think I've managed to get all the major points on this topic, but I would like to make sure that the prose and sourcing are good. Given that this article managed to become GA, I think this article could be plausible for GAN.

Thanks, Username⁶⁸⁹² 21:01, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Just a few thoughts:

• No harm in describing the physical environment the route travels through. Does it travel through a forest or does it go through farmland?
  •  Added Thoguh I'm not sure if I did enough
• The map does say it begins near Bergen. To say the road begins in Clinton would be inaccurate (just say south or near Clinton).
  •  Done
• Where does it enter and leave Clinton and Bradford specifically?
  •  Added The townline is just north of I-43
• There are railroad tracks and a river that the route crosses. You should describe those.
• Might as well mention all the CTPs.
  • @Nova Crystallis: Not sure what you mean by CTP.
    • CTHs, my bad.
• What's the AADT for the road and where are its highs and lows? Is it part of the National Highway System? Does it belong in some scenic byway system?
  • 1. Added 2.Isn't this a state highway? 3.No (See List of Wisconsin Scenic Byways)
• To say the route is an alternative of I-39 would be original research. There's no clear way to show it is other than it travels north-south near it.
  •  Removed I had seen it on Google Street View, though I'm not sure how important that is (probably not very much)
• What type of interchange is it at I-43?
  •  Added, though I'm not sure how important that is.
• Usually I would use "by 1924", to make it sound better.
  •  Done
• What was the road layered in originally?
  •  Added Based on the source, it was gravel
• When was the interchange built?
  • NNot sure how much this matters. It appears that most articles only mention it if it had some sort of impact on the route of the highway itself (this didn't) Username⁶⁸⁹²
    • It matters because this clearly had a difference on the maps. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 18:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
• There's bunch of stuff on Newspapers.com on WI 140, consider getting an account from WP:TWL and use the website to add more to the history.

If you need something to compare to, take a look at Mississippi Highway 438. It goes in a straight line and it could not have been more boring. But with more descriptions and more on the history, you can expand the article much further. Nova Crystallis (Talk) 04:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Just offering a quick comment, but I would delete the AADT table. It's sufficient to either include a single sentence that gives the location of the highest and lowest traffic counts, or insert mentions of them inline in the rest of the RD. The location of the table is problematic as it squishes text between the table and the end of the infobox. The full data set is a bit esoteric, while mentioning the high and low counts still gives a sense of the scale of the number of vehicles using the highway. Imzadi 1979 → 20:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Side note, the National Highway System encompasses all Interstate Highways and other "roadways important to the nation’s economy, defense, and mobility". Many state highways are listed. In fact, technically, all Interstate and U.S. Highways are state highways because they're maintained by their respective state DOTs, so aside from city streets or county roads that are important connectors, most of the components of the NHS are state highways. Imzadi 1979 → 21:02, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

YI decided to mention the highest and lowest (for AADT) in the last sentence of each paragraph (near their respective locations on the route). Username⁶⁸⁹² 21:15, 18 April 2020 (UTC)