Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ohio Department of Transportation/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 not promoted 16:28, 18 November 2007.

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Ohio Department of Transportation

I'm nominating this article for featured article because I feel it is complete in its coverage as well as concise and well-written. As I am the major contributor to this article, I need outside opinion and review of featured article standards. Polypmaster 15:07, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose My eyes are already rolling.
  • Too many stubby paragraphs, especially in the lead. Chunk them up, more so in the lead, since you will lose readers quickly when they can't read a quality summary.
  • By 1947 the Ohio Department of Highways was constructing—Where can I get a quick breath? And there's a whole lot more.
  • …and has an annual budget approaching $3 billion.—Which dollar do you mean? Definitely not the Hong Kong dollar or the New Taiwan dollar.
  • …and by 1962 had 684 miles of interstates open.—Convert these units please. There is also a capitalization error, and it exists throughout the article.
  • Could I have more information about the other transportation modes that ODOT manages, such as aviation? The article as it stands only describe road stuff.
  • References go above External links. Always.
  • Is the mission statement really needed?

More as I find them. O₂ (息 • 吹) 00:10, 14 November 2007 (GMT)

• Oppose I think you have image problems. I think we need permission in writing from Ohio, not simply an email address to contact Todd. Who is Todd? Does he have the authority to give away these images? What happens if Todd leaves tomorrow, is anyone else going to know that he gave permission? If you have written permission was it sent to Foundation email address so they can keep a record? Also, the image obtained from flickr. I think we need a link to the actual flickr image so we can see that it has been released. There is a template that you can add the link to and a bot will check flickr to verify. KnightLago 01:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 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.