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The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 14:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC) [1].[reply]

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Forrest Highway[edit]

Nominator(s): Evad37 [talk] 09:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

For my fourth FAC, I bring you Forrest Highway, which connects Perth (via Kwinana Freeway) to Bunbury, Western Australia. It is one of the state's newest highways, opened in September 2009, but its history dates back to the settlement of Australind in the 1840s. Happing reading, and I look forward to your comments. - Evad37 [talk] 09:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note - WP:WA and WP:AURD projects notified [2][3] - Evad37 [talk] 11:02, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - I reviewed this article at ACR and feel that it meets all the FA criteria. Dough4872 16:50, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Support I also reviewed, and did an image review. --Rschen7754 05:19, 17 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment in the section Forrest_Highway#Forrest_Highway_after_opening the second paragraph refers to the opening of service facilities by the end of 2014, as it happens to now be 2015 that reads as dated. Gnangarra 03:09, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  Unfortunately I can not find any more recent sources that discuss the proposed service centres. I could trim off that last sentence if it would make it seem less dated. - Evad37 [talk] 08:00, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  @Gnangarra: I have a sources that explains the delay, and updated the article - Evad37 [talk] 14:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  thanks caught this as I was heading out the door to take some photos of the area to address the issue consider me a support now Gnangarra 01:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. The article meets the FA criteria and it is well-written. --Carioca (talk) 20:44, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Prose review needed for Overuse of however and overuse of subsequently (often redundant, and redundant in this article). Also, when there is nothing in the See also section, it can be eliminated and the Portal links can be placed in the next section. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:50, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've reduced and copyedited usage of however, removed the three instances of subsequently, and removed the See also section - Evad37 [talk] 00:42, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, one more. Per MOS:SURNAME and MOS:HONORIFIC, why are there several instances of Mr. in the article? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:42, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changed most of them, but I don't have a first name or even initial for Mrs Lyttleton - Evad37 [talk] 04:02, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. tweaked a couple of things but prose and comprehensiveness seem fine to me. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Image check - all OK (have been checked during ACR, see above)

• Fixed a minor problem with File:A_view_of_Koombana_Bay_1840.jpg - needed publication details and US tag. GermanJoe (talk) 03:29, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Source review

• Fn 1 and 3: Same web site is cited inconsistently.
• Fn 4: Why is "(draft for advertising)" in italics? Is that part of the official name of the work?
• Fn 39: What is "Countryman's Magazine"? I don't see that in the source.
• Fn 52 and some others: I'm not sure I understand the need for the "Additional archives" links. Is it in case archive.org is down? In some citations, there are as many as 3 hyperlinks all leading to the same document.
• PDFs are indicated inconsistently. Some read "(PDF)", some just have the little icon, and some have both. --Laser brain (talk) 16:26, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Fn 1 adjusted
• Fn 4: Yes, it is part of the official name (local government planning strategies have to be advertised for public comment before they are adopted)
• Fn 39: That is a section within the newspaper with it's own page numbering. If you look just to right of the article you will see the index for Countryman's Magazine.
• Additional archives: If a link goes dead, then we normally switch to the archive.org link. However, if the link goes dead and the site changes its robots.txt to disallow archive.org, the we're stuffed because the archive.org link will just display an error message (and yes, this has happened to me before). Hence the inclusion of webcitation links as a backup (though they might have their own problems also – there was funding crisis about a year or two ago, but fortunately they survived).
• PDF icons/text: I've fixed what I can. Fn 80 will be fixed after the module update scheduled for 21–22 March 2015 which includes some adjustments to ((cite map)). Fn 52 has a PDF link for the lay summary, but the templates do not currently allow a format to be specified. I've asked for this option to be added at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 7#lay-url-format

@Laser brain: Thanks for the source review - Evad37 [talk] 00:41, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• @Evad37: Thanks for the quick response. Please consider my concerns addressed. --Laser brain (talk) 01:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the ((featured article candidates)) template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Ian Rose (talk) 14:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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