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"the only major route that allows motorists to drive through, in, and out of the Santa Ana Mountains." Well, there's also the Ortega Highway. Looking at the cited reference (which is a personal story), it seems the writer was referring to "entirely within Orange County". The east end of the Ortega is not in Orange County. But that distinction is lost in the wording of this article.
Not sure of the best fix. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
198.70.193.2 (
talk) 23:33, 12 August 2010 (UTC)reply
The articles describe the same stretch of road. Furthermore,
El Toro Road may not be notable by itself. --Rschen7754 (
TC) 00:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)reply
All of El Toro Road is part of CR S18; this probably calls for a merge. Is the road particularly "
notable", or is it just a standard suburban arterial? --
NE2 17:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Not to my knowledge, but then I don't live in Orange County. --Rschen7754 (
TC) 03:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Hey, I do live in Orange County, and I know of El Toro Road. But only half of CR S18 travels on El Toro Road. Do you still believe it calls for a merge?
AL2TBGaborTab 01:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Um, thats basically what NE2 said above... --Rschen7754 (
TC) 01:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)reply
NE2 uses a higher level of vocabulary than me. I could not comprehend the words "suburban arterial" accurately. And no, the dictionary did not help either. I'm just in 10th grade...
AL2TBGaborTab 02:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)reply
There is no history pre-2008 in the article - it says 1970 in the infobox, but there has got to be more history pre-2008.There is now some pre-2008 history.
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have
fair use rationales:
Not applicable per below.
B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with
suitable captions:
No pictures, not even a map of the highway
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
This article meets almost all of the criteria. There are no pictures, but I won't fail or On-hold the article for it. I do wish to see a map request in the next few days however. Anyway, fix the comments listed above and I will pass this article. Thanks. Mitch32contribs 12:30, 27 May 2008 (UTC)reply
One comment. In the sentence, The route follows in a convoluted pattern from State Route 133 in Laguna Beach to State Route 55 near Orange, "convoluted" is very POVish, and not suitable for an encyclopedia.
JuliancoltonTropicalCyclone 12:43, 27 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Sorry about the pictures; I'm not a photographer. However, I'll see what I can do about the pre-2008 history. Can you please hold this GA Review until next Monday? I'm kind of busy this week in school, doing homework, and studying for tests. And I really don't have time to address the problem right now. And yes, my username used to be formerly Dabbydabby.
Dabby (
talk) 01:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)reply
"Convoluted" - POV removed and sentence reworded.
Dabby (
talk) 02:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)reply
GA Reassessment
The following is a closed discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
My main issue with this article is that as of
this diff is that references 3, 4, 10. 11, 15, & 29 are cited to images / street view, and 5, 20, & 21 are not reliable sources. If this article can be cleaned up I support retaining the article's GA status, else the article will be demoted. --
Admrboltz (
talk)
I agree. The multitude of Google Maps references could be combined together, and using the aerial view with labels instead of the map view in the link will reference the physical surroundings. As it stands, the Google Maps references should be using {{google maps}} instead of {{cite map}}. The current method is linking
Google Maps in ever citation, a clear case of
WP:OVERLINKing. Several newspaper names are used, but not in italics, and second usages of newspaper names should not be linked. Source #2 needs section numbers/inset names. If a link target is a PDF, |format=PDF should be added. Not all browsers can read PDFs nor do they all insert the PDF icon after the link. There's no publisher or author information on footnote 28. (If retained, the title needs to bre re-rendered in Title Case, not ALLCAPS. Actually the other titles need to be redone in Title Case instead of Sentence case.)
The map needs work. It provides no context... which line is S18? Where is this map located? The writing quality could be improved. It's still not well written from its aborted FAC nomination. I suggest a copy edit. Imzadi1979→ 01:11, 21 January 2011 (UTC)reply
"The route follows in a boomerang-like pattern" - wha?
Knowing who the editor of this article was, this likely needs cleanup; I haven't read the article, but it's highly probable. --Rschen7754 07:56, 21 January 2011 (UTC)reply
There's been a lack of activity or interest for improving this article to retain it's GA status. I'd like to suggest that we move to demoting/delisting it. Imzadi1979→ 01:50, 27 January 2011 (UTC)reply
This article will be demoted tomorrow evening (around 02:00 GMT) if changes are not completed. --
Admrboltz (
talk) 02:07, 27 January 2011 (UTC)reply
To be honest, the only reason I'd be interested in saving this is rel WW, and this is the only CACR standalone remanining. Not good signs for it staying a GA. --Rschen7754 06:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
Smerging to list article
I summarized and merged this into
California County Routes in zone S#S18 by copying the lead and the junction list, updating the infobox. If any additional content should be moved over, it's all available at
this revision of the article. Keep in mind that it is now part of a list, and most of the information from the previous article was not needed in the list version of the article and the article was so poorly written that it was delisted as a Good Article with many issues. Please do not recreate this article without discussion. Imzadi1979→ 08:30, 28 January 2011 (UTC)reply