Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Interstate 675 (Michigan)/archive1
Just a quick note: I'm doing blurbs for Featured Articles promoted in 2017, but I don't see a way to write a blurb from this lead. - Dank (push to talk) 13:50, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
- @Imzadi1979: --Rschen7754 19:32, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
- That is: blurbs are at least 925 characters long, so this blurb would need some substantial digging into the text below the lead. If someone else is willing to make some judgment calls ... and better yet, move some stuff into the lead ... then I should be able to handle it. - Dank (push to talk) 04:05, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
I'm completely okay with not doing a blurb for this if you don't want one (I saw both your posts at WT:TFA ... much appreciated). But I'm recommending that we do one to avoid a Streisand Effect ... this would be the only blurb not done for any FAC promoted from 2016 to 2019, so when people ask me if the blurbs are done, I'd have to say "yes, all but one" ... which might draw attention to this page, which isn't what we want. Should I proceed? Is there anything below the lead that you want to see in the blurb? - Dank (push to talk) 03:45, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
- It's not that I'm ignoring you, but lately I've struggled to find time for even the stuff that I find the most valuable (writing articles, asking insightful questions to potential stewards) so naturally something like this where I wonder if we're prioritizing the right things is going to be low on my list. But if you're dead set on doing this, I would try and crib one or two points from the route description or history sections. --Rschen7754 05:11, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
- Agreed that those things are more important than this. (And really, I expected more pushback along these lines when I started the project.) Okay, I'll give it a shot. - Dank (push to talk) 13:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Interstate 675 (I-675) is a 7.7-mile-long (12.4 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway, state trunkline highway and loop route in the US state of Michigan. Splitting from I-75 and US Highway 23, which run north concurrently along the eastern side of Saginaw, I-675 heads west into the downtown area and spans the Saginaw River on the Henry G. Marsh Bridge. After an interchange with M-58, the Interstate turns northward, then runs northeasterly to connect back to I-75. The Marsh Bridge was constructed as an alternative to the Zilwaukee Bridge, which is just southeast of this junction on I-75 over the Saginaw; the I-75 bridge was until 1988 a drawbridge that would impede traffic on the freeway for up to four hours at a time. Construction of I-675 started in 1969 and the freeway opened in 1971. Sections near downtown were reconstructed from 2009 through 2011 to update one of the freeway's interchanges and to rebuild the Marsh Bridge. (Full article...)
Rschen7754, Imzadi1979, and anyone else interested: thoughts and edits (up to 1025 characters total) are welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet. - Dank (push to talk) 00:23, 30 January 2020 (UTC)