Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Interstate 8/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 13:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC) [1].

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Interstate 8

Nominator(s): Rschen7754 02:58, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

It's been about a year since I've been at FAC, and this time I'm bringing Interstate 8, a road from San Diego to Casa Grande, Arizona. It somehow involves the mafia and plank roads, so it should be an interesting read for one of the main roads between California and Arizona. --Rschen7754 02:58, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• Support - I have reviewed the prose and feel the article meets the FA criteria. I also conducted an image review at ACR and determined that all the images check out. Dough4872 05:49, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Comments from RL0919

Definitely seems to be thorough. I made some edits; as usual please undo if needed. Some additional comments:

• There are two dead links.
  • Fixed the first one. Unfortunately the Patch article seems to be completely gone, after 2 years of working on this. Thankfully, I found most of the material in another source and changed the references. --Rschen7754 05:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
• The lead seems a bit short for this size article.
• I-8 continues eastward, bisecting the area known as "Hotel Circle" that has several hotels. As the freeway enters Mission Valley, it has interchanges ... Hotel Circle is in Mission Valley, so the order of the description seems misleading.
• However, the state put its plans on hold shortly thereafter, following several concerns from the public, including state senator Jim Ellis. Not sure a member of the legislature should be described as "the public" in this context. Maybe 'and from' instead of 'including'?
• While using nuclear power to conduct blasting operations... Wouldn't that be nuclear explosives? In my mind "nuclear power" conjures up electricity generation rather than blasting.

Some of those points are arguable; only the first definitely needs to be fixed to get my support (on prose, as I did not check sources or images). --RL0919 (talk) 06:46, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review! I'll try and chip away at these over the next few days. --Rschen7754 05:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
  • All comments have now been addressed. --Rschen7754 05:40, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
    • Looks good, thanks. --RL0919 (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support what seems to be a comprehensive, well-written article. I didn't review sources, but I'm familiar with this freeway and the description section seems accurate. --RL0919 (talk) 18:48, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support. Looks good. JJ98 (Talk) 00:28, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support. I reviewed the prose at the A-Class Review and believe it meets the criteria - Evad37 [talk] 10:40, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Image and source review from Laser brain

• File:I-8.svg - verified PD
• File:I-8 map.svg - verified CC-BY-SA-3.0
• File:San Diego Trolley over Interstate 8.jpg - verified CC-BY-2.0
• File:3-line distance sign, I-8, Gila Bend, AZ.jpg - verified CC-BY-SA-3.0, although I question the value of this image in the article. It doesn't really add anything, and it's not a very good picture.
• File:Interstate8SD.jpg - claims CC-BY-SA-3.0 but I have my doubts about whether someone can upload CC images on behalf of their adult parent. The authorship is listed as "Father of Nehrams2020" which I don't think is sufficient evidence that whoever that is has agreed to have his photos used.
  • Since this user is an enwiki admin I've dropped them a note on their talk page. --Rschen7754 04:46, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
    • No response after a few days so I'm commenting out the picture for now. --Rschen7754 03:50, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
• File:Old US 80 West of Descanso Junction.JPG - verified CC-BY-SA-3.0
• File:I-8 Alpine.jpg - verified CC-BY-SA-4.0
• File:IMPERIAL VALLEY. INTERSTATE HIGHWAY (I-8) SLICES THROUGH GREEN CROPLANDS - NARA - 549098.jpg - verified PD, but this one is somewhat puzzling because the metadata says it was taken in Blythe. I-8 doesn't go anywhere near Blythe (that's I-10). Are you sure this is an accurate photo? I've ridden both I-8 and I-10 many times and this indeed looks like I-10 through Blythe.
  • Looking at [2] it seems that this title is what the National Archives entered this under. I would be more inclined to believe the title and assume that someone unfamiliar with the area misclassified it. I've never been on this route east of San Diego, but I know that there's farmland in the Imperial Valley (which I-10 doesn't go through either). Unfortunately the original picture is across the country, though I've been to that library. --Rschen7754 05:30, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
• File:Interstate 8 Eastern Terminus.jpg - verified CC-BY-SA-2.5
• File:Business Loop 8.svg - verified PD
• What is the reason for the images in the "See also" section? Unnecessary visual cues that misalign the text and provide no value.

--Laser brain (talk) 15:15, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• • It's part of Template:Portal-inline, though User:Imzadi1979 would know more about this. --Rschen7754 04:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
• Fn 10, is it supposed to be San Diego Union-Tribune? And why no OCLC?
  • Good catch, it was the San Diego Union-Tribune after 2005. --Rschen7754 04:55, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Otherwise looks good. --Laser brain (talk) 02:35, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

All replied to, and thanks for looking! --Rschen7754 05:30, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

• Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 13:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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