Talk:Mississippi Highway 489

Mississippi Highway 489 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: December 16, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Mississippi Highway 489 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mississippi Highway 489.

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Reviewer: 420Traveler (talk · contribs) 14:08, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Will review soon. -420Traveler (talk) 14:08, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PlanetJuice: HI just wanted to let you know I started reviewing. -420Traveler (talk) 15:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'll make these changes within the next few days – I am a bit busy now. Also, since the article was nominated for GA, there was some major flooding that damaged the road and received extensive local news coverage. I will assess that at the same time as I make the changes so that any required additions to the History section can be reviewed under the GA nom as well. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:14, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok sounds good. I'll review history section after you add in the flooding info. -420Traveler (talk) 14:42, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Some changes made. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 420Traveler. Just wanted to let you know that I've finished with the remaining changes and added some info about the flood washout. I really apologize for the delay and understand if you would prefer not to continue with the review given the long length of time since our last discussion. Thanks, PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 03:25, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all, I'll be reviewing the history section later today. -420Traveler (talk) 15:04, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Lede

• Add 22.215 mi-long before state highway

   Done (amended to 22.215-mile-long for consistency with other articles) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Add (US 80) after U.S. Route 80

   Done — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Change Mississippi Highway 492 to MS 492

   Done — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Starting on the south end at U.S. Route 80 in Lake, the highway almost immediately crosses into Newton County and runs to Conehatta. Add "in Scott County" after Lake and then split into two sentences

   Done – I used in the Scott County portion of Lake to try to avoid a double "in"; Lake crosses the county line — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• it then continues I would change "it" to "MS 489"

   Done — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Add comma after 1956

   Done (slightly reworded this as well) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• in infobox, add references to established date

   Done PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 03:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Route description

• MS 489 begins change "begins" to "southern terminus" since it begins at both ends

   Done (reworded as well) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• what is a stop-controlled intersection?

   Reworded PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 03:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Add link to US 80
  • US 80 is already linked in the lead. I understand it's the first occurrence after the lead, but I think that the lead and the article are short enough that this shouldn't be necessary. Is there something I overlooked? Ultimately though, I am fine with either way, if you would prefer it still be linked. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That works for me. -420Traveler (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• The road initially runs northeast; less than 1,000 feet (300 m) later, it crosses into Newton County and continues north-northeast. I'd change to "The road runs northeast for roughly 1000 feet before crossing into Newton County and curving north-northeast" or something similar

   Done PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 03:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Add link to both counties
  • See Add link to US 80 PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:56, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me -420Traveler (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• All the mileages under 10 as "|spell=in|" -420Traveler (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

   Done PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 16:19, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History

• Previously, only Mississippi Highway 21 and Mississippi Highway 15 change "Mississippi Highway 21" to MS 21?

Changed both MS 21 and MS 15. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 04:21, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• comma after 1965

I offset "in 1965" in commas altogether since I think that is correct. I can make a quick change to just the end comma if needed though. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 04:21, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@PlanetJuice: sorry for the delay, after this it can pass. -420Traveler (talk) 22:28, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@420Traveler: Changes made. Thank you for the review! PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 04:21, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 20:48, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to memorialize MDOT superintendent Jason Boyd, who was killed while removing debris from the highway? Source: https://legiscan.com/MS/text/SB2481/2021 , https://web.archive.org/web/20211027174029/https://www.wtok.com/2021/10/27/mdot-dedicates-jason-boyd-memorial-highway-newton-county/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wibautstraat metro station

Improved to Good Article status by PlanetJuice (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 00:38, 21 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

• ALT1: ... that part of Mississippi Highway 489 was completely washed away in August 2022 after significant flooding, causing the road to be closed? Source: WJTV
  First-time DYK participant here. I was originally thinking of nominating this hook but wasn't sure if it's hooky enough; I will throw it out here anyway. PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Typo fix in the original hook (higway to highway) PlanetJuice (talk • contribs) 02:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral : Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough (promoted to GA on 16 Dec) and long enough (RPS is 3002). Earwig didn't turn up with anything concerning and the hook is interesting and cited (preference for ALT0). That hook is a touch repetitive ("Jason Boyd") but I don't think that's a dealbreaker and it could be easily reworded by nom or a prepbuilder if repetition is determined to be too much of an issue. It's not a big enough problem for me to prevent a tick so we're good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 20:27, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]