# Talk:Ontario Highway 8

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Reviewer: Keresluna (talk · contribs) 20:59, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
I will start this review now, however, it may take me a few days to actually start to review this article.

@Floydian: Notifying that the review has started. Keres🌕Luna edits! 16:39, 2 May 2022 (UTC)


### Lead section
'Prior to 1970s, it continued...' change to 'Before the 1970s, it continued...'
'... transferred from province to the ...' add the between 'from' and 'province'.
Suggesting changing thereafter to after that.
Remove such as in the third paragraph.
Add comma after Hamilton and Dundas Stone Road.
Remove comma after passed in the third paragraph.
Otherwise seems good. Keres🌕Luna edits! 15:51, 6 May 2022 (UTC)


### Route description
Add a comma between Mitchell and and in the first paragraph.
Add a comma between Clinton and where in the second paragraph.
Suggestion: Replace 'Between Clinton and Stratford, Highway 8 is completely straight for approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi).' with 'Highway 8 is completely straight for approximately 50 kilometers between Clinton and Stratford (31 mi).'
Add a comma between (where it intersects Highway 23) and and in the second paragraph.
Add 'and' between Avon river and then in third paragraph.
Perhaps divide into subsections.
Not sure if you're waiting on me and going section by section, but I've been following along and making fixes. Some of the commas you've suggested for the Route description are Oxford commas, which I prefer to avoid in lists. As for splitting it into sections, I contemplated it at one point, but felt it would make for overly short subsections. It's about a paragraph away from it, but not quite there. - Floydian τ ¢ 00:06, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Makes sense. Feel free to reject my suggestions. Keres🌕Luna edits! 15:56, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
Replace centre of the city with city's centre in the fourth paragraph.
Between midpoint and it add comma in the fourth paragraph.
Done, and also dealt with 2b above. Regarding 2a, Google Maps is reliable for the purpose it is used for here (to provide a convenient digital reference to locations, because it shows the actual physical surroundings, and for local street names that do not appear at the scale of regional mapbooks). There's only one use of it that isn't in tandem with a physical mapbook. - Floydian τ ¢ 23:59, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Suggestion: Instead of At its midpoint, it crosses over the Grand River,... change to It crosses the Grand River at its midpoint,...
Remove comma between six lanes and and later.
Suggestion: In the fifth paragraph, replace where it exits with which exits.
Seems good otherwise. Keres🌕Luna edits! 16:07, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

For the third suggestion, that would change what exits urban Cambridge from Highway 8 to Branchton Road. - Floydian τ ¢ 12:42, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


### Predecessors (1780–1918)
Add 'which' between Goderich, and begun in first paragraph.
On the image description on Queenston Road Cape Horn.jpg, replace prior to with before.
Remove the hyphen on criss-crossed on second paragraph.
Remove known as on second paragraph.
Remove comma between Iroquois Trail and and.
Replace continued with continues in second paragraph.
Remove on between continued and towards on second paragraph.
Add comma between figures and including in second paragraph.
All done except switching continued with continues, as the old native trail is lost now (the highway roughly follows it, but not always exactly in the same place) - Floydian τ ¢ 12:48, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The trail was further improved to allow for the passage of wagons by 1932. Who improved it?(Fourth paragraph)


### Designation and paving (1918–1949)
Replace the majority with most in the first paragraph.
Replace ... 60% of the construction and maintenance costs for these roads, while the counties... with ... 60% of these roads' construction and maintenance costs, while the counties... in the first paragraph.
Replace 'permit' with 'allow' in the first paragraph.
Replace The initial system, between Windsor and Quebec, was bookended by branches to Niagara and Ottawa. with Between Windsor and Quebec, the initial system was bookended by branches to Niagara and Ottawa. in the first paragraph.
Remove comma between 'States' and 'and' in the first paragraph.
Add comma between 'Initially' and 'Highway' in the third paragraph.
Replace all as well as with and in the third paragraph. Adjust if needed.
Replace were with was between which and spent in third paragraph.
Remove comma between Hamburg and as.
@Floydian: Sorry for being late, was busy last week. Keres🌕Luna edits! 15:57, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

No worries, just let me know when you are finished and I'll make the necessary fixes. - Floydian τ ¢ 19:33, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
@Keresluna: Is this the end of the review? --Rschen7754 22:15, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
Rschen7754, clearly not, since there are three more significant subsections under History plus a couple of sections beyond that. Keresluna is busy with responding to a review of their own nomination, and editing on occasional days only at the moment. It's probably going to take a while before this review is finished. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:49, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
I'm in no rush, I prefer the thorough review to a fly by "looks good" any day of the week! - Floydian τ ¢ 03:51, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
@Floydian: I am very sorry, please look at my User page. I will try to finish this review this week, but if I don't, I probably won't finish it. Sorry again. Keres🌕Luna edits! 20:54, 20 July 2022 (UTC)


### Bypasses and the Conestoga Parkway (1949–1970)
Remove comma between 'years' and 'until' in the first paragraph.
Remove the and of which is before and after the word bypassing in the first paragraph.
Add a comma between '1949' and 'the' in the first paragraph.
Remove comma between 'street' and 'before' in the first paragraph.
Replace 'in an effort to' to 'to' in the first paragraph.
Replace 'The original route – following Huron Street, Waterloo Street, and Snyder's Street West – met the new bypass at Gingerich Road east of Baden.' with 'Following Huron Street, Waterloo Street, and Snyder's Street West, the original route met the new bypass at Gingerich Road east of Baden.' in the first paragraph.
@Keresluna: All fixed except the last one, because that makes it seem as though those streets were the route the new bypass followed. At this point I'll assume you won't be able to continue, so I'm going to request that another editor finish the review. Thank you for the extensive copyedit help thus far though, all the best in your wiki-retirement! Sorry to see you go. - Floydian τ ¢ 19:29, 7 August 2022 (UTC)