Wikipedia:WikiProject Alabama Highways

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Project-wide news
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NCs
  • All pages have been moved.
  • This section will be removed within the next week.
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Deletion debates
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Maps Task Force
  • Voting has concluded on a standard map design at WT:USRD/MTF. Standards for all U.S. road maps on Wikipedia can now be found at WP:USRD/MTF.
  • There is a huge backlist of requests for the MTF.
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Assessment
Quality statistics
Assessment links


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Shields
  • Proposal to change the naming conventions of state-specific Interstate shields and all county route shields has been offered. See WT:USRD/S.
  • All shields should be moved from Wikipedia to the Commons so that the shields can be better organized.
  • Discussions regarding the naming of county route and state-specific Interstate shields underway, see WT:USRD/S.
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Interstates
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U.S. Highways
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Connecticut
  • Project started.
  • Stub-a-week Project -- see Project talk page for details.
  • Existing articles have been assessed.
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Florida
  • Articles have been assessed.
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Georgia
  • Lowest mainline route without an article: S.R. 53
  • Active mainline routes w/articles: 153 of 333 — 45.95%
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  • Former or future routes w/articles: 7 of 81 - 8.64%
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  • Lowest mainline route without a map: S.R. 52
  • Maps are available for all mainline routes at Commons
  • Completion list
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Illinois
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Kentucky
  • Added Kentucky Route 67 and will be adding more history to this and others when I get my HTML files at home.
  • Kentucky Route 44 added. Partially detailed with infobox, stub status.
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Maryland
  • Category:Roads in Maryland has been created.
  • The editing guide has been updated with guidelines on how to format major junctions sections.
  • The completion list has been reformatted and expanded.
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Massachusetts
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Michigan
  • Lowest active route not infoboxed/mapped: none
  • Lowest active route without an article: none
  • Completion list is available here
  • Route maps at Commons

All active Michigan trunklines have a map available at the above link

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New Hampshire
  • Proposal to switch from Routeboxnh to Infobox NH Route has been submitted, see WT:NHSH.
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New Jersey
  • Best practice article at Route 17
  • Infobox made for county route articles. Talk to Northenglish for missing shields.
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New York

WP:NYCR
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North Carolina
  • Lowest mainline route without an article: NC 33
  • Major Junctions issue currently under discussion at WT:NCSH
  • North Carolina Highway System article needs cleanup on history, etc.
  • Our beloved ncroads.com source has shut down, but a mirror can be found at the NC Roads Annex.
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Ohio
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Pennsylvania
  • All existing articles have been cleaned up and assessed.
  • See PA Routes Status for the status of PA Routes 1 to 100.
  • See article Pennsylvania Route 39 as an example when writing articles.
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Vermont
  • All articles cleaned up and assessed. Most are still stubs, though.
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Virginia
  • Naming convention change to Virginia State Route x.
  • Route infobox is upgraded
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West Virginia
  • Project started.
  • Infobox road has been prepared for WV .
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Wisconsin
  • WIS Active and known decommissioned roads have been stubbed at minimum. Many still require detail.
  • Wisconsin Road Stub now available and in use.
  • NC: Wisconsin Highway x.
  • Articles have been assessed.
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Welcome to the Alabama Highways WikiProject!
Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Alabama Highways page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.
List page: List of state highways in Alabama
Redirect completion list: Completion list
Portal:U.S. Roads U.S. Roads Portal


[edit] Scope

This project covers Alabama Highways.

[edit] Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on Alabama Highways.

[edit] Naming conventions

Articles should be named Alabama State Route x per WP:USSH.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects
California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Illinois | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

[edit] How you can help

[edit] Structure

[edit] Infobox information

Articles should use Template:Infobox road, and all known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards for the routebox.

[edit] Main Section

Untitled section that describes the route. It might be helpful for formatting to use {{TOCleft}} at the top of this section to display the table of contents on the top left, followed by the main description of the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (E/W or N/S) and termination points, or may go into considerable detail. However, the majority of detail, such as progress by town or county, should be reserved for the next section.

[edit] Route description

This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across Nebraska. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] Communities along the route

List of communities, which can range from small hamlets to large cities, along the route. Depending on the length of the route this may include only major communities, or just the few hamlets the route passes through.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

The contents of this section may vary by route. Refer to the table below for the appropriate section header and further instructions.

Route composition Section header title What should be here
All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections Exit list An exit list designed in accordance with the Interstate exit list guide
Mixture of grade-separated interchanges and at-grade intersections Major intersections or Exit list Depending on the route in question, either a junction table or a "combo" exit list featuring exits and intersections can be used.
All at-grade intersections; no grade-separated interchanges Major intersections A junction table for at-grade intersections as specified in the "Junction table" section below

[edit] History

Any historical information known about the route should be noted.

[edit] Miscellanea

Any trivia or facts about a route (any interesting information that doesn't belong in the History section) should be placed in this section.

[edit] See also

Place all internal links here.

[edit] References

Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and the <references/> tag in this section.

[edit] External links

Place all external links which are not references here.

[edit] Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:Alabama state highways|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002").

[edit] Talk pages

{{Alabama Highways WikiProject}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to Alabama Highways.

[edit] Infobox

[edit] Touring routes

The Infobox to use for these routes is the Template:Infobox road template.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete routebox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables.

{{Infobox road
|state=
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|counties=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:

  • state: AL
  • type: AL for state routes
  • route: This is the number of the route the article is about
  • alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name (i.e. NY 590 is called the Sea Breeze Expressway for its entire length)
  • length_mi: This is the length of the route in miles. If you specify beyond integers (i.e. add a decimal value) you will need to set the following paramater, length_round
  • length_round: If your value for length_mi is a whole number, you can omit this. Otherwise it needs to be set to the decimal precision of the length_mi paramater.
  • length_ref: To do what a good article writer should, provide your reference for the length of the route using standard <ref> method. For example: <ref name="nyr">[http://www.gribblenation.net/nyroutes/ind/090_099.htm#098 New York Routes - New York State Route 98]</ref>
  • established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
  • direction_a: This should be either south or west to keep in accordance with the U.S. Roads parent project, which lists termini and junctions in progression travelling from West to East and South to North.
  • starting_terminus: This is where the route begins and is either at the southern terminus or western terminus.
  • junction: all junctions this route has with U.S. highways, parkways/expressways or Interstates. All other junctions, such as county routes, state routes that are not limited access expressways, or locations where a route passes over/under a U.S. highway/parkway/expressway/Interstate but does not intersect it should not be listed here. If a route that runs parallel to the article route has four junctions or more with the article route, then only the first and last junctions with the parallel route should be listed in the infobox. Please note that every junction should still be included in the Major Intersections table.
    • NOTE: If a parallel route has 1-3 junctions with the article route, then all of these junctions should be listed; however, for 4 or more junctions, then only the first and last junctions should be listed.
  • direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
  • ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
  • previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or AL for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Alabama Highways, respectively.
  • previous_route: The number of the route preceding this one
  • next_type: Same as previous_type but for the route following this one
  • next_route: The number of the route succeeding this one

Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Alabama Highways.

Any tags that do not apply to a particular route can either be omitted or left blank.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one above.

INSERT ROUTEBOX EXAMPLE HERE

[edit] Junction table

The junction table, to be located in "Major intersections", is for listing all of the intersections, both actual junctions and over/underpasses, that this route has with state routes, U.S. routes, Interstates and, optionally, county routes.

PLEASE SET UP AS PER WP:IH/ELG

[edit] Shields

Many, if not all, of the parkway shields are available on the Commons. Also, all state route shields have been created in the format N-X.svg, where X is the route number.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub

{{Alabama-road-stub}}

Place at the bottom of Alabama Highway stubs.

[edit] Project notice

[edit] Project notice

{{Alabama Highways WikiProject}}

This article is part of WikiProject Alabama Highways, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in Alabama. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

Designates the current article as part of the Alabama Highways WikiProject. Place on the article's talk page.


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