User talk:Mjkline

Welcome, roadfan![edit]

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Again, welcome! Imzadi 1979 → 15:54, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maps on highway articles[edit]

Maps aren't required for Good Article status. If you have any question on what is required, see the Good Article criteria. Imzadi 1979 → 15:54, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Creating redirects[edit]

I think you got confused on how to create a redirect. Rather than insert that in the target of the redirect, you need to create the title of the redirect (Truck Pennsylvania Route 711) with the code #REDIRECT [[Pennsylvania Route 711#PA 711 Truck]]. That way the server knows to redirect readers from "Truck Pennsylvania Route 711" to "Pennsylvania Route 711#PA 711 Truck" The first part of the link is the article, everything after the # is the section name. I hope this helps you out. Imzadi 1979 → 19:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Pennsylvania road articles[edit]

I've noticed recently you have made edits to Pennsylvania road articles. For a good example for how Pennsylvania road articles should look in order to meet GA status, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania Roads/Selected article, which showcases several of the best road articles in Pennsylvania. Dough 48 72 01:42, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When writing the route description of an article, make sure to use the present tense instead of the future tense and do not include too much detail about the physical surroundings of the road. Dough 48 72 01:58, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation[edit]

The history section you added to Pennsylvania Route 791 was directly copied from [1]. This is a copyright violation and has been removed as directly copied material from another source is not permitted on Wikipedia. Please refrain from doing this in the future. Dough 48 72 00:19, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found another copyright violation in Pennsylvania Route 978. Dough 48 72 02:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:A little help[edit]

The other night, I went through the route description of PA 731 and made some fixes. Two major issues I had noticed in your writing were the use of future tense, such as "The route will come to an intersection", and the use of the second person, such as "A right turn will have you continue on PA 731." Also, the route description header should be written as "Route description" and not "Route Description" and the major intersections header as "Major intersections" and not "Major Intersections". Overall, your writing style in the Route description and History need improvement as many sentences are written awkwardly such as "Originally, PennDOT's plan was to keep PA 731 in northern Philidelphia from when it was signed in 1930". You may want to get a copyeditor to look at your articles. In addition, Pennsylvania Highways by Jeff Kitsko is a WP:SPS and is therefore not considered a reliable source to use in articles. Concerning major intersections tables, if the route exists in a single county and/or municipality, then a separate column in the table is not needed as a note atop the junction list saying "The entire route is in Town, County" is sufficient. Pennsylvania Route 201 and Pennsylvania Route 978 also need to have their route descriptions rewritten as they contain both the future tense and the second person. For a good example of how a Pennsylvania road article should look, see Pennsylvania Route 263 which is a GA. Dough 48 72 16:51, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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—Imzadi 1979 → 22:09, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]