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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 04:37, 12 December 2015 [1].

Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge

Nominator(s): West Virginian (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article details the history and architecture of a historic Whipple truss bridge on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia. This article recently underwent an extensive peer review. I am nominating this article, as I feel it meets the Featured Article criteria. I look forward to your comments and suggestions, and I will be very appreciative of any guidance than can be offered to improve the quality of this article. Thanks! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:35, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. As always, feel free to revert my copyediting. - Dank (push to talk) 21:13, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

formerly known as South Branch Bridge and Romney Bridge, - to my ears, "or" sounds more natural than "and" here
''The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is the oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge in West Virginia, and is the oldest extant metal truss bridge in the state. - should be able to rewrite so we just have one mention of "West Virginia" or "state"
  • I've modified the sentence as follows: "The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is West Virginia's oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge and its oldest extant metal truss bridge." Let me know if this works better! -- West Virginian (talk) 17:51, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The Whipple truss bridge replaced an 1838 wooden covered bridge - does it refer to the Capon Lake or the larger bridge?
The first four paras of the body of text all start with, "The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge....." - you wanna mix it up a little.

Otherwise looking good/on target.....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed. Nikkimaria (talk) 16:31, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Rodw: A few questions from someone who knows nothing of the engineering involved or the geography of this part of the world:

  • I assumed Capon Lake was a body of water until I found it is an Unincorporated area, perhaps this could be clearer on 1st mention (but I'm not sure how) and I wonder why it is Capon not "Cacapon" (but that may be incidental for this article).
  • Capon is just a shorter form of Cacapon; and the two are used interchangeably when referring to the river. Capon Lake refers to the river's lake-like formation near the bridge and from that formation, the unincorporated area has taken its name. In the first paragraph of the lede, I have added: "...thus connecting the unincorporated communities of Capon Springs with Capon Lake." Will this suffice? Thank you for raising this question. -- West Virginian (talk) 15:07, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • In the section on South Branch Bridge do we need to be told that T. B. White and Sons was also known as Penn Bridge and Machine Works as this has been covered in the previous section? It is repeated again as a direct quote in the next paragraph.
  • Refs 29 & 30 "Some dates..." & "The new Rt..." seem to have "HistoricHampshire.org" twice - once italicised and once not italicised - any reason?
  • "Munske, Roberta R.; Kerns, Wilmer L., eds. (2004). Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1754–2004. Romney, West Virginia: The Hampshire County 250th Anniversary Committee. ISBN 978-0-9715738-2-6. OCLC 55983178" is included in the bibliography but I can see where it is used as a reference.

I hope these comments make sense.— Rod talk 15:45, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support: I peer reviewed this article previously and found it extremely comprehensive and well-written. The fact that it is also on an obscure, local topic makes it much more interesting and is the kind of article that makes Wikipedia great. Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 02:12, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Coord note -- Has there been a source review for reliability/formatting? If not, pls request one at the top of WT:FAC. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 06:38, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Source review All sources seem of encyclopedic quality and are properly and consistently cited, except as follows:

  • The two final sources in the biblio, from the WV Road Commission, have the same OCLC.
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