# Talk:Washington State Route 290

This review is transcluded from Talk:Washington State Route 290/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Admrboltz (talk) 03:53, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)
See extended comments below.
It is reasonably well written.
a (prose):  b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): 

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references):  b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR): 

It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects):  b (focused): 

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias: 

It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.: 

It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):  b (appropriate use with suitable captions): 

Overall:
Pass/Fail: 
I am placing this article on hold.
"The highway parallels a Union Pacific railroad for most of its northeastern route and crosses the Spokane River three times." - your covering two completely different things in one sentence. Break them up.

"The highway parallels a Union Pacific railroad for most of its northeastern route. The route also crosses the Spokane River three times. " your replacement sentences are fragments and do not flow at all. Reword.
"The current route of SR 290 was formerly county roads between 1901 and 1937, when it became Secondary State Highway 2H (SSH 2H), running from U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and U.S. Route 395 (US 395) in Downtown Spokane to Idaho. " - sounds clunky

"The current route of SR 290 was formerly county roads between 1901 and 1937, when it became Secondary State Highway 2H (SSH 2H). SSH 2H rann from U.S. Route 2 (US 2) and US 395 in Downtown Spokane to Idaho and the highway became SR 290 in a 1964 renumbering of state highways." is even more clunky, and your obviously rushing. Runn → Run
"SSH 2H was later changed to SR 290 in a 1964 renumbering of state highways." - fragment, poor wording.

"A short spur route connecting the main highway to I-90 was also added during the renumbering, but was later absorbed by SR 290 during a realignment in 2005." - Link spur route, absorbed is unencyclopedic.

Better, but still needs work.

"SR 290 begins as a short freeway at an directional T-interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90) east of downtown Spokane." - clunky, doesn't flow. Freeway is ambiguous, suggest clarifying.

Divided freeway → divided highway
"re-crossing the Spokane River" → "crosses the Spokane River again"

"...parallelling a Union Pacific railroad..." - sp, and clunky.

Good maybe use the UPRR Common Line Name map (see BL-80 for a link to the map) to include the branch name.

"where it intersects Sullivan Road with a diamond interchange." - doesn't flow, poor wording.

"SSH&nsbp;2H was scheduled to be replaced by SR 290 in 1970 under the renumbering." - nbsp, not nsbp, clunky

"1964, the state renumbered its highways to align with a new sign route, later state route, system. SSH 2H was scheduled to be designated SR 290 in 1970 under the new system." - Replacement sentences are just as clunky. Reword.

"East end of freeway" - should not be bolded.

"Bridge over Spokane River" - should not be included if the bridge is not notable enough to warrant its own article.

"SR 290 had a 0.67-mile (1.08 km) long spur route prior to 2005 that ran from SR 290 at the intersection of Trent Avenue and Hamilton Street near Gonzaga University south across the Spokane River and BNSF Railway tracks to an directional T-interchange with Interstate 90 (I-90) east of downtown Spokane." - run on sentence. See Washington State Route 903 for an example of how to create a Spur route section.

"Washington State Route 290 Spur a 0.67-mile (1.08 km) long spur route prior of SR 290 from 1970 until 2005." - read the sentence aloud, you will see whats wrong with it.

"In 2005, SR 290 was moved to end at I-90, absorbing its spur route and removing it from the state highway system." - maybe "The western terminus of SR 290 was realigned, ending at I-90 along the former route of SR 290 Spur."

Ref 3 should use {{cite map}} not {{cite web}} (Washington State Department of Transportation (12 January 2007). "SR 90 – Exit 282: Junction SR 290" (PDF). Retrieved 25 November 2010.)

Ref 15 (Union 76 (1972). Washington Oregon Road Map [map], 1 in ≈ 17.3 mi (WA) / 1 in ≈ 20.9 mi (OR). Cartography by Rand McNally.) - I am curious to know how you used a paper map that I have in my collection for a resource, as I doubt that you have the same map.
 Sorry...I was using your reference page for links to the Secretary of State's maps. I guess I mistakenly copied it.
Addendum: Is the highway on the WSDOT HSS, or NHS system? (Nevermind, its not. --Admrboltz (talk) 02:53, 12 December 2010 (UTC))
Addendum: AADT info?

The GA review will remain open until December 17, 2010. If sufficient changes are not made, the article will be failed at that time. --Admrboltz (talk) 04:11, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Addressed concerns. –CGTalk 04:31, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
See additional comments above. Before stating that all concerns are addressed you really should stop and reread an article before submitting your changes. It looks like you are rushing through. This is not a speed contest, you have seven days to go through the article. --Admrboltz (talk) 04:46, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Added AADT info and the name of the rail line and fixed your comments. –CGTalk 05:09, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, SounderBruce for reviewing my edits. I am sorry that I failed to meet Wikipedia standards. I did my best effort to read/find/link each reference source document, be it a map or law publication. I wish to highlight some information in references that you reverted so someone else more familiar with best practices can improve the article.

Note 1 regarding this edit. The Sessions Laws of the State of Washington, 1937, Chapter 207, Page 999 reference uses a Google Books link. Unfortunately, the Google Books page does not show the text except portions near specific text strings that one is able to locate by the search function; the entire text is not available. The Internet Archive snapshot you added via IABot does not correct this problem. I would recommend you add the PDF linked to by this Washington State Legislature page.
This reference, along with a link to this 1955 topographical map accompanies the statement "In 1937, the road became Secondary State Highway 2H (SSH 2H) and ran from Primary State Highway 2 in Spokane to Wellesley Avenue at the Idaho state border.". I was unable to verify this statement using the references provided; neither Wellesley Avenue or Secondary State Highway 2H is indicated on the referenced map, much less where SSH—2H's eastern terminus is exactly located. Therefore, I decided to add this 1939 map (specifically for this section) to at least show the reader the eastern terminus of SSH 2H. The map is appropriate since it shows highway 2-H and was published only 2 years after 1937. I did not remove mention of "Wellesley Avenue" since I imagine a source for this part of the statement may exist.
Note 2 regarding this edit. Regarding the 1901 USGS map source showing that the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway existed as far back as 1901, the reference's link as I found it was dead and even the link you added via the IABot fails to show the image since it appears that Washignton State University displayed such historical images via a flash applet called Zoomify which appears incompatible with Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I searched and found a live copy of the map served by data.gov instead of wsu.edu. However, I see that I should have linked to this data.gov URL instead of directly to the AWS URL that the data.gov website uses. The map was created by "R.U.Goode", "S.S.Gannet", and "H.Manning"; the copy at data.gov is a 1939 reprint of the May 1901 map.
Note 3 regarding this edit. This change was caught up in your reverting of my other edits. It is the addition of a URL for a reference lacking a URL. The reference is Chapter 145 of the 1967 Session Laws of the State of Washington that supports the claim that SSH 2H's eastern terminus was shifted in 1967 to meet the western terminus of Idaho State Highway 53.
Thank you for your time. Baltakatei 21:10, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

@Baltakatei: Thanks for explaining things here. In the future, please use the edit summary field when making edits and follow the existing page formatting for citation style/templates, dates, and variant of English. It would also help to look at existing (but recent) article in the field, like Washington State Route 504, to learn the style in use. I will make a few of the changes needed to keep this article in compliance with GA guidelines, which is also something to check out. SounderBruce 02:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)