Talk:Saskatchewan Highway 2/GA2

2nd GA Review

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Done Are all the junctions in the infobox considered major? I would suggest removing some of the ones that do not seem so major. -- Well, they are all primary highways that are in the infobox. The ones that are Class 1 highways are 1, 11 16, 5, 41, 3 and 55 2007-08 Road Classification Map
Done Add a shield for Montana Highway 24 in the south end section of the infobox
Done Move the picture below the infobox to the beginning of the Travel Route section left-aligned as it will get rid of the large white space in the lead of the article
Done Switch the second and third sentences in lead
Done The last sentence in the first paragraph of the lead sounds redundant. I would indicate the terminus at Highway 102 in the sentence "Highway 2 is a major north-south route, connecting Montana Highway 24 at Port of West Poplar River, and Opheim, Montana at the Canadian-American border, with the town of La Ronge in the north."
DoneAdd some more historical information about the route to the lead
Done In the second sentence of the Travel Route section, indicate road continues into the U.S. as Montana Highway 24
Done "hide outs" should be one word
Done "full of glaciotectonic hills"? I would rephrase this statement
Done Change "up and down and around" to "up, down, and around"
Make sure to wikilink to the routes that Highway 2 intersects -- This hadn't been done before as I didn't want to over wikilink.
Done Change "in a northern direction" to "north"
Done Change "north east" to "northeasterly"
Done In the phrase "in the area of the Old Post rural municipality (RM) area", remove "in the area of"
Done Combine the last two sentences in the first paragraph of the Travel Route section
Done Fix extraneous reference before next sentence
Done "104.8 kilometres (65.12 mi) into the trip"? sounds awkward, try rephrasing
Done "This intersection locates Mossbank..." also sounds awkward
Done Remove "is" after "Chaplin, Old Wives, Reed Lakes (Hemispheric) - Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) Site" and place a comma after this phrase
Done Fix link to Highway 36
Done Change "providing" to "which provides"
Done The sentence "Moose Jaw, is a city of 32,132." is short, combine with another sentence -- This has been interesting...in my endeavours not to creat long rambling sentences I am now creating too short of sentences. I will pay attention now to this as well. (thank you)
DoneThe sentence "The Trans Canada Highway Saskatchewan Highway 1 intersection is north of Moose Jaw intersecting with Highway 2." sounds awkward, rephrase
DoneAdd comma after 230.9
Done Add "The" before "Junction of Highway 11"
Done "southeast wrong-way concurrency 11.4 kilometres (7.08 mi) concurrency " sounds awkward and redundant, rephrase
Done Capitalize "highway" -- done whenever it was the name of a route but not where it was just a road.
Done Rephrase or combine many of the short, monontonous sentences in the Travel Route section such as the sentences "At the junction, is the town of Chamberlain." and "Penzance is east of the highway at km 305.0."
Done "beginnings" should be singular
Done "postoffice" should be two words
Done "road side" and "turn outs" should each be one word
Done In the third paragraph of the Veteran's Memorial Highway section of the Travel Route section, you begin two consecutive sentences with "Highway 2". I would suggest changing one of them
Done What is the point of the random quotes in the article? -- Um. My original thought had been to include the restoration work that was done which the quotes are referring to. Putall maintainance into history with the quotes.
Done "in beginnins of" sounds awkward, rephrase
Done Add comma after "deaths"
Done "At km 451.8 there is a junction with Highway 5 east and the concurrency ends Highway 5 east provides access to Humboldt." is a run-on sentnece, add period after "ends"
Done "with access to Prud'homme on the west" sounds awkward
DoneHistorical information about the route should be in the History section, not the Travel Route section
Done In phrase "which features golf course" add "a" after "features"
References should not be in the middle of a sentence, move to the end
Done The sentence "The CanAm Highway, Highway 3 segment joins with Highway 2 at km 568.4, and they become a concurrency for 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) crossing the North Saskatchewan River via a bridge." sounds awkward, rephrase
Done In sentence "Christopher Lake is at the junction with Highway 791 east and Highway 263 west, is at km 610.0." remove comma after "west"
Done Change "10 thousand of lakes" to "10,000 lakes
Done Add "with" before the first instance of "the" in same sentence
Done "Lac La Ronge 156 Indian Reserve is met at km 805.9." sounds awkward, rephrase
Done Is it necessary to overlist information about attractions and history of towns along the route? I would eliminate any information that does not directly pertain to the route itself -- if the attraction information is left it is because the tourist attraction mentioned makes the AADT on the highway larger and that makes the highway class, and road construction type change from TMS to AC
DoneDoes the historical information in the History section pertain directly to the establishment of Highway 2? I would make sure the article has information about the evolution of Highway 2 and not just of Saskatchewan roads in general.. -- I had added the population changes, as the population contributes to the AADT which makes the maintainance and construction of the highway a differenct class and type, not gravel anymore but TMS...not TMS anymore but granular...not granular anymore but AC as the highway gets busier and busier....even in the old days. I removed some of the older dates, as I didn't have the supporting decisions from the RM or the DHT (which it was called then.Dept of hwys & transportation)
Done Convert link to 1926 Saskatchewan Map into a reference
Done Add "was" before "virtually halted"
Done "per cent" should be one word
Done Remove links to dates
Done Make sure to use past tense when talking about a past event
DoneThe sentence "176.3 miles (283.73 kilometres) of Saskatchewan Highway 2 contribute to the CanAm Highway between Prince Albert and La Ronge." sounds awkward, rephrase
Done Put NAFTA in parentheses
Done "huge transportation corridors"? rehprase
Done In last sentence of history, add "that" after "concept"
Done Make sure to keep capitalization of "road" consistient in intersections table
Done Do not highlight notes such as "Beginning Veterans Memorial Highway segment"
Done Avoid run-on sentences in notes such as "Enter Moose Jaw Beginning Veterans Memorial Highway segment"
Done Keep links for other roads consistient throughout intersections table. For instance, you begin with stating township roads as "Township Road X" but later move on saying "Township X"
Done Also keep notes for concurrencies consistient and do not overlink to concurrency (road)
Done Make sure to add slashes between separate roads at same intersection such as in "Highway 670 Township Road 324"
Done Replace "references" with "reflist" template in References section

I am placing the article on hold Dough4872 (talk) 02:38, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there thank you for taking the time to review this article. I believe I have addressed all the points raised above. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 00:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]