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1a: The Route description says SR 224 is the main north-south highway through West Richland, but the highway looks east-west to me. The second paragraph of the History is confusing as to what WSDOT is planning. Make sure the route numbers are correct; I-84 is nowhere near there. 1b: Secondary State Highway 3R redirects to the article in question. The wikilink should be removed and replaced with boldface. The Lead needs to be expanded to take in a bit from each section of the article. Based on what you have now, there should be at least a sentence for the history and one for the planned interchange upgrade.
References #2 and #8 are not necessary or redundant. Reference #2 is redundant because #1 mentions the park and ride in the log. For #8, no one is going to question that this highway is in Benton County, so the reference is unnecessary. All of the other reference are relevant and all are reliable. However, you should see if you can find something better for reference #5 because the map in the reference is tiny.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
This article is focused on the route at hand, but it appears to be lacking a lot of information. I have listed my specific concerns below so you can answer them point-by-point.
There are no images, but that is not a requirement for GA
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
There is nothing egregiously wrong with this article, but it looks like it was hastily put together, with several mistakes that could have been caught by sitting back and re-reading it a week later. This article seems incomplete, as there is a lot more information that could be added. For some of this information you may not have the resources available to reference, but for others I am certain you can add with the resources already cited. The specific points are below. I am confident you can improve this article within a week, so I will put this review on hold. VC 06:10, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I copyedited the article and removed redundant wikilinks. This article is now good enough to be a GA. However, you should try to find resources to continue to expand the History. Passed VC 03:37, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I saw what looked like a railroad grade where SR 224 turns from south to southwest near Keene Road. I checked the route log and no RR Xing is mentioned at that location, so it is probably abandoned. Therefore, it is probably not worth mentioning. VC 21:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The highway crosses a railroad line at-grade just west of its intersection with SR 240. That should be mentioned.
If this highway has street names, I would mention them. For instance, it looks like the highway is named Van Giesen Street in Richland and West Richland.
Richland Airport is just north of the eastern terminus, so that would be a great reference point to mention. The highway intersects Terminal Drive, which is one of the entrances to the airport.
It would be great if you could find out when the highway was widened in West Richland and Richland.
SR 240, as its name implies, is a bypass highway. Did SR 224 originally extend east into Richland, perhaps to a state highway to the east that may no longer exist?
Kennedy Road looks like it was once US 12. That means it is possible SR 224's western terminus may have once been at its intersection with Kennedy Road.
The problem I have with history here is that the papers in the area do not keep online records for the most part and if they do they charge an arm and a leg via Newsbank, and well, I live in UT now, so driving to the library to check out the microfiche just isn't practical. I will see if I can dredge up anymore --Admrboltz (talk) 07:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Problem two is when the state switched from the PSH/SSH system in 64, codified in 70, they nuked all records from before then that I can search for. The code for 224 is here and I can tell you there was some change made in 87, but I dont know what because it doesnt say, just that there was something done. Any search on Google News or on wsdot or the legislature's website comes up with zilch. --Admrboltz (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the lack of resources can be frustrating, especially for a highway that has not had many changes in the last 20 years. I would keep looking for resources, but I will not hold the lack of resources against this article. VC 21:23, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This is OR on my part, but I looked at StreetView and the signs on SR 224 at I-82 say Richland instead of Pendleton. I suggest changing the city on the first line.
Saying "at-grade intersection" is not necessary on the third line, since SR 224 is entirely a surface highway. Depending on what you do in the Route description, I would include Van Giesen Street on the third line. You can use jct's road parameter.
2 - are you referring to the Horse Haven Quadrangle map? If you go under the map theres a link that says Zoom then it will give you a zoomable map. --Admrboltz (talk) 07:11, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): 
c (OR): 
Done --Admrboltz (talk) 06:39, 18 November 2010 (UTC)