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This is the A-Class review page, where articles that are at B-Class or GA-Class (no lower) may be promoted to A-Class, and articles that are at A-Class can be demoted. An A-Class article is defined as one that

Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy (peer-reviewed where appropriate). Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.

If you know of a B-Class or GA-Class article that meets this criteria, or of an A-Class article that no longer meets this criteria, you can nominate it below.

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[edit] Goals

The goals of this system are to:

  • Reduce the amount of subjectivity that goes into assigning the "A-Class" rating.
  • Standardize the quality of all A-Class articles.
  • Provide a FAC-style venue without the FAC-style atmosphere.

[edit] Procedure

[edit] To initiate a discussion

  1. Add |ACR=yes to the end of the {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} banner.
  2. Click the red link in the line that reads "A discussion on promoting this article to A-class status or reviewing this status is underway."
  3. On the resulting page, enter {{subst:USRD acr|suggestion (either promote or demote)|comments}} ~~~~ into the empty page and save. This will create the appropriate review subpage.
  4. Add the name of this subpage ({{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Name of nominated article}}) to the end of the Current discussions section below.

[edit] Participating in discussions

Everyone is welcome to participate in these discussions. The A-class criteria mentioned at the top of the page should be used as a guideline; however, participants are not asked to follow it to a perfect "T", as is the case with most guidelines.

Please review the nominated articles fully before deciding to support or oppose a nomination.

  • If you approve of an article, write "Support" followed by your reasons and sign.
  • If you oppose a nomination, write "Oppose" followed by the reason for your objection. Each objection must provide a specific rationale that can be addressed. If nothing can be done in principle to fix the source of the objection or it is not based on policy, the objection may be ignored.
    • To withdraw an objection, strike it out (with <s>...</s> ) rather than removing it. Contributors should allow reviewers the opportunity to do this themselves; if you feel that the matter has been addressed, say so rather than striking out the reviewer's text.

A-Class candidates will remain on this page for a minimum period of 7 days. Consensus must be reached in order to be promoted to A-Class, and an article must also garner a minimum of 4 "Support" votes (counting the original nomination as a "Support" vote, provided it is not withdrawn). A-Class article candidates that are not promoted after 7 days will be removed from the candidates list unless (1) objections are being actively addressed; or (2) although there are no objections, the article has not garnered 4 "Support" votes. In these cases an additional period of time will be given to the article to see whether it can attract more support. Articles that have gained significant opposition and the nominator has made few attempts to address these concerns may be closed early. Please remember that the process is not entirely a vote, and articles with majority support can still fail if they don't fully meet the criteria.

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[edit] Closing a discussion

After seven days, or, in the event consensus is unclear regarding an article after a week, when consensus is determined, the discussion can be closed.

  1. Remove |ACR=yes from the end of the {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} banner.
  2. If the discussion resulted in a change in the article's quality assessment, then change the assessment as necessary.
  3. Add {{subst:archive top}} and {{subst:archive bottom}} to the top and bottom of the discussion subpage, respectively.
  4. Move the line {{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/A-Class review/Name of nominated article}} from the list of discussions below to the current archive page.
  5. Add {{ArticleHistory}} to the talk page of the article, if not already present. Follow the instructions here on how to add the review to the template (see the "WikiProject A-class review" row).

[edit] Current discussions

[edit] California State Route 37 (-1 net support votes)

California State Route 37 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) review

Suggestion: No suggestion given regarding A-Class
Nominator's comments: This article was a FAC that failed. It is also an A-class article that is pre-ACR. As activity on this article has ceased, I'd like to see what remains before sending it to FAC and to see if it should remain at A-class.
Nominated by: Rschen7754 (T C) 20:39, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Oppose I have found quite a few problems and I haven't completely reviewed the article yet, I will take another look once these have been addressed.

  • Opening sentence doesn't really say what it is. I would recommend "State Route 37 (SR 37) is a state highway in the northern..."
    • Fixed.
  • Check for redundancies...just in the lead "currently" and "the whole of" needs to be removed.
    • Fixed those two... I'm probably going to have to copyedit the article.
  • 2nd paragraph of lead "turned parts of the land," make parts singular, sounds awkward as is.
    • Corrected.
  • 2nd paragraph of lead change "home of endangered" to "home to endangered"
    • Corrected.
  • Not sure where we stand on bolding, so not sure if "Blood Alley" should be bolded or not.
    • Replaced with quotes... not sure if that's correct.
  • The last paragraph/sentence of the lead is referenced twice and these references aren't used in the body. Ensure this information appears in the body and not just the lead. Also, may want to either expand this paragraph or incorporate it elsewhere; one sentence paragraphs aren't a good thing. Also, ensure all citations appear after the punctuation, not before as ref 4 currently does.
    • See below.

I haven't checked the prose of the rest, but here are some general observations of the rest of the article:

  • Route description
    • 1st paragraph is unreferenced
    • Last sentence of second paragraph is unreferenced
  • History
    • 1st paragraph is unreferenced
    • Any reason why reference 6 appears in the middle of the sentence? The rest of that paragraph is unreferenced.
    • The last sentence of the article stuck me as odd "The project was completed in the summer of 2005,[8] and fully open to traffic on August 20, 2005.[11]" Isn't August 20, 2005 also in the summer of 2005? Do you have a more exact time period for the first part? June of 2005 or something similar?
  • The "Other Names" section should be incorporated into the "Route description". That section title is a MoS problem in of itself.

**Incorporated into lead... is that ok? --Rschen7754 (T C) 21:00, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

    • Just read your note above... apparently not. Moved the state law and the other names to RD. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
  • References
    • All online sources need an access date and the ones that have them are inconsistent, some have "accessed February 2008", some have "Retrieved on March 2, 2007."
    • Refs 3 and 4 need more to them
    • Do the newspaper articles have published dates?
    • I would recommend using {{cite web}} and {{cite news}} to ensure the referencing is consistent.
      • I just noticed that ref #6 is no longer available online... what do I do about that? --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

That's all I have for now. --Holderca1 talk 16:07, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

    • Sorry about the delay. I do plan to address these over the weekend. --Rschen7754 (T C) 06:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

After today I will be traveling to Europe and will be unable to work on this until mid-June. --Rschen7754 (T C) 18:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New York State Route 343 (1 net support votes)

New York State Route 343 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) review

Suggestion: No suggestion given regarding A-Class
Nominator's comments: NY 343 has been a group project between User:Polaron, User:Juliancolton, and I. I feel this article is ready for A-class, but a good review wouldn't hurt. Any comments are welcome, so thanks!
Nominated by: Mitch32contribs 18:14, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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