Talk:Great Northern Highway

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Has the prose of a B-grade but no references. Orderinchaos78 02:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

C-grade it is, then. TRS-80 (talk) 18:53, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Sealed?

The History section states (twice) that sealing of the Great Northern Highway marked the completion of sealing the entire national Highway 1 route. However the Highway 1 page states that large sections are still unsealed, specifically mentioning Queensland. --Gth-au (talk) 22:33, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

It's a strange one. It did complete it, then they moved Highway 1. Specifically, it used to come along the Barkly Highway through Mt Isa and Cloncurry whereas now it takes a route much closer to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Orderinchaos 23:50, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Start point

this needs to include that it started at Great Eastern Hwy, the section that is now referred to as "Old Great Northern Hwy" Gnangarra 05:17, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Here's a ref showing GNH starting from GEH:

• "Plan To Control Traffic". The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954). Perth, WA: National Library of Australia. 22 August 1952. p. 20. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

- Evad37 (talk) 14:22, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Perth–Darwin

The lead section includes "Perth–Darwin National Highway", but the rest of the article has "Perth Darwin" without the dash. It should probably be the same throughout. Mitch Ames (talk) 06:34, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done, dash removed from lead. - Evad37 [talk] 02:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Unresolved A-Class Review comments

Resolved

I'm copying the yet to be resolved comments from the ACR here as a worklist, so it's easy to find and I don't forget about them. - Evad37 [talk] 00:40, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

History

• The Midland Junction Municipal Council - run-on sentence
  • Split into into two sentences - Evad37 [talk] 09:02, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
• "with the sealed road ending just past the Wheatbelt town of Miling in 1950." - Do we know how the sealed road got there? (There may not be info on this, but I thought I would ask)
  • Added an explanatory note which gives a little bit of info - Evad37 [talk] 08:57, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
    • Not sure if 1928/29 is formatted properly per MOSNUM - could you check? --Rschen7754 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
      • Its in the WP:DATERANGE section of MOSNUM: " The slash notation (2005/06) may be used to signify a fiscal year or other special period, if that convention is used in reliable sources." - Evad37 [talk] 22:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
• rather than the historical but slow cattle drives - not following why "historical" is mentioned here.
  • Not really relevant - removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• However, the resources allocated to Great Northern Highway were needed just - don't need "just"
  • Removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• Same with "even just" later on
  • Removed - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• "Newman was reached" - passive voice i
  • Adjusted - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• eleven route corridors were investigated - by who?
  • Added - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
• $2.5 billion - there should be a nbsp here (and in similar places)
  • Fixed this one, and a couple of others that I had missed - Evad37 [talk] 13:13, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
• Take a look at MOSNUM - I'm seeing some inconsistencies where you spell out the number versus where you use the numerals.
  • I've made some adjustments per MOS:NUMERAL - Evad37 [talk] 23:27, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Future

• Is the first paragraph still up to date?
  • This does need to be rewritten - there's now a Muchea to Wubin Stage 2 Upgrade project, and I'll have to check if there's other updates to include - Evad37 [talk] 23:27, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
    • Updated, but may need some copyedits - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

This completes the review. --Rschen7754 21:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

@Rschen7754: Can you take another look when you get the chance? Cheers, - Evad37 [talk] 10:05, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

I didn't have any issues except for the one noted above. --Rschen7754 17:39, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

new source

This will be of interest and additional information regarding the development of GNH "PATNE'S FIND". The Murchison Times And Day Dawn Gazette. Vol. 17, , no. 153. Western Australia. 15 August 1911. p. 3. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) the article discusses the construction of a new road between Paynes Find and Mount Magnet. Gnangarra 05:30, 21 October 2019 (UTC)