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I have changed the redirect to the
Shenandoah National Park (in which the Skyline Drive is located) to a separate new article about the road. This is consistent with the way the
Colonial Parkway and
Colonial National Historical Park articles are structured, and allows for the Skyline Drive to be included in various road categories (ie National Scenic Byways, All-American Roads).
I will be working on articles for the red links for two of the gaps in the
Blue Ridge Mountains and for Big Meadows, unless someone else does so first.
I just moved a lot of the info found in this article to the article on
Shenandoah National Park, where I shifted it around. It makes sense to me that being two separate articles, the article on
Shenandoah National Park should be about the park and all its grounds, and the article on Skyline Drive should be strictly about the road called Skyline Drive. I made it easy to shift between the two articles.
Shaliya waya 23:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)reply
a good short hike is little stony man cliffs —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
173.66.85.242 (
talk) 01:27, 10 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Everything looks good here, although I might suggest increasing the size of the panoramic photo in line with what we did with a similar photo on
Brockway Mountain Drive.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Holding for the standard seven days to allow some minor corrections before passing. Imzadi 1979→ 21:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Lead comments
"The drive provides access to numerous trails, including the Appalachian Trail, and is also used for biking and horseback riding." There's a little ambiguity with the sentence structure regarding the commas in the sentence, so I would add the word "it" between "and is".
Honestly, I'd revise the prose in this section to avoid mentioning every single overlook. That's the purpose of the RJL-esque PoI section below. I'd just gloss over most of them, highlighting some as needed, and just simplify everything a bit. It's not that what's in the article is wrong, but it's a bit tedious to read.
Cut back the mention of several of the overlooks. Dough4872 23:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Also of note, but "southwest", et al, is an adjective or a noun, and when used to describe a verb like "continues", "turns" or "runs", you need the adverb "southwesterly" or the prepositional phrase "to the southwest". The entire RD section has this error.
You might want to add inflation-adjusted numbers for the various dollar amounts in the article. Additionally, you could simplify some of the numbers, from "$1,000,000" to "$1 million", where appropriate. (Using the {{
formatprice}} template for the output of the inflation values will round off such large numbers and convert them into that text format anyway.)
Added inflation conversions and simplified $1 million. Dough4872 23:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
"either voluntarily of forcibly" that "of" should be an "or".
You might want to merge notes 1–3 together into a single footnote listing all three maps since they're only cited together. It would clear up the "[1][2][3]" situation in the two spots where they are cited. Additionally, you should cite the delineators listed on the maps as the authors and include |work=Historic American Engineering Record as they're components of a larger publication, like the individual maps within an atlas.
I don't know how would I go about doing this. The three maps are distinct as they cover different sections of the park and have three different URLs. Dough4872 23:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Notes 17 and 18 are missing a publication location for the book, something listed on the other book citations.
Grouped them a little better. Dough4872 23:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the review. I have made fixes to the article. Dough4872 23:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)reply
I combined the three maps into a single footnote. All that was needed was to merge them into the same <ref>...</ref> so that they occupied the same footnote. I also credited the people and project the NPS requested be credited on the maps and added the missing map scales. Everything else looks good enough to pass. Imzadi 1979→ 01:09, 24 December 2016 (UTC)reply