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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.
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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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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

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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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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
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Virginia
  • Naming convention change to Virginia State Route x.
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West Virginia
  • Project started.
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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.
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Welcome to the The Kentucky State Highways WikiProject! Please feel free to contribute on how to improve articles in the talk page above.

Contents

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in Kentucky. This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.

An article describing the logic and basic history of the Kentucky State Highway System is necessary to accompany the current List of Kentucky State Highways article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Interstate, Primary, Secondary, Rural and Supplemental routes as well as Scenic Byways, and other worthy material.

[edit] Goals

  1. Develop and maintain articles on all Primary System Roads in Kentucky.
  2. Develop and maintain articles on all named Parkways in Kentucky.
  3. Refrain from creating articles related to Secondary and Supplementary System Roads in Kentucky that provide no encyclopedic or historical notability.

[edit] Routes Worthy of Articles

The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:

  • Routes that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with its own route number.
  • Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
  • Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
  • Interstates that run entirely in Kentucky (mostly spur and loop routes). Ideally, these should also be part of this WikiProject.

There are instances to this:

  • For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these should be merged onto a single article, Deleted Kentucky State Highways.
  • For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these should be merged onto another article, Unconstructed Kentucky State Highways.
  • Supplemental or minor secondary state routes.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Kentucky

[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

Note: It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} should go on all members' user pages. To add yourself to this list, type in: * [[User:USERNAME|USERNAME]]

  • Realkyhick, working mainly on the parkway system
  • RobyWayne
  • Rschen7754-I've never been to Kentucky but I can help with classification and that sort of thing
  • FloNight live in Georgetown, (Scott Co.) KY
  • FPAtl - live in Ashland (Boyd Co.), KY
  • General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace) Henderson, KY
  • Seicer has traveled extensively throughout Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia and authors Bridges & Tunnels and American Byways. The latter used to be devoted purely to roadway articles and photographs, but the focus has changed to more recreational and travel guides.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] Requested pages

[edit] Specific needs

[edit] Recently completed

[edit] Structure

Articles should best start with a short description of the state highway. This description should say where the route begins and ends, as well as any deviations, such as exiting the state and re-entering. Unique details about this route may be added, but use sparingly. The contents of each article in this project should reside in Kentucky Route XXX, with XXX being the route number. An instance of this is Kentucky Route 1.

[edit] Route Description

A physical description of the route should be given here. Cities and communities the route traverses should be mentioned here, as well as segments of freeway. (This can be merged in with the above if both are quite brief.)

[edit] Major intersections

{{KYinttop}}
{{KYint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{KYintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{KYint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}

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

Heading What to Enter
county name of county – automatically coded for [[''Blank'' County, Kentucky|''Blank'']]; just enter county name.
cspan number of rows this county spans.
location municipality – use for municipalities such as [[''Municipality'', Kentucky|''Municipality'']], where the municipality has its own article (incorporated cities and villages); just enter the municipality name.
location_special use in place of location field for areas that do not have their own associated articles in the above format.
area Optional - Use for disambiguating between town and village
ctdab Optional - Use for disambiguating between towns that exist in multiple counties
lspan number of rows this location spans.
mile milepost to the nearest 1/10th.
type noaccess – for highways that cross but have no actual junction
mplex – for concurrencies
decomd – for intersections with decommissioned routes or segments
unbuilt – for planned junctions
closed – for indefinite closures (not temporary)
road intersecting road(s) at this junction. To generate the proper coding, use {{subst:KYint/XX|Y|ZZpx}}, where
• XX = KY (Kentucky), US (U.S. Route), or IN (interstate)
• Y = route or interstate number (1 to 3 digits)
• ZZ = size of shield in pixels (20 or 25)
Notes:
• Multiple routes at one intersection can be entered by inserting a <br> and then entering another {{subst:WVint/XX}} template.
notes any notes regarding this junction.

Any field which is empty can be omitted. Junctions which are approximately 0.1 mile apart may be combined into one entry in the table.

[edit] History

The history of the highway should be discussed here.

[edit] External links

This is where all external links should be placed. For those relating to the route, please include the following websites. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow. Example: For Kentucky Route 55, these links would be used: *[http://transportation.ky.gov/planning/reports/SPRS_listings/listings/adair.pdf State Primary Road System in Adair County] *[http://transportation.ky.gov/planning/reports/SPRS_listings/listings/taylor.pdf State Primary Road System in Taylor County] External links to points of interests should also go here.

[edit] Category structure

All articles are placed into a subcategory of Category:Kentucky Highways: either Category:Kentucky state highways, Category:U.S. Highways in Kentucky, or Category:Interstate highways in Kentucky. The sort key is a four-digit number representing the route number.

Examples:

  • [[Category:Kentucky State Highways|0001]]
  • [[Category:Kentucky State Highways|0101]]
  • [[Category:Kentucky State Highways|3501]]
  • [[Category:Kentucky State Highways|9801]]

[edit] Templates

What to type What it makes Notes
{{Kentucky-road-stub}}
talk
Designates this article relating to Kentucky State Highways as a stub. Articles are listed in

Category:Kentucky road stubs

{{Kentucky State Highway WikiProject}}
talk
WikiProject Kentucky State Highways is part of WikiProject Kentucky State Highways, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in Kentucky. 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.
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Designates the current article as part of the WikiProject Kentucky State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.

[edit] Infoboxes

What to type & notes What it makes
{{Infobox Kentucky Highway
|article_route=1
|length_mi=47.794
|direction_a=North
|direction_b=South
|from= [[Image:Circle sign 3.svg|25px]] [[Kentucky Route 3|KY 3]]
|to= [[Image:US_23.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 23|US 23]]
|counties= [[Lawrence County, Kentucky|Lawrence]]
|cities= [[Grayson, Kentucky|Grayson]]
|before= 
|after= [[Image:Circle sign 2.svg|25px]] [[Kentucky Route 2|KY 2]]
}}
  • article_route: The article route number.
  • length_mi: The length of the route, in miles. It will automatically parse it for kilometers.
  • direction_a: North or West
  • direction_b: South or East
  • from: Northern or Western terminus.
  • to: Southern or Eastern terminus.
  • counties: List of all counties that the route traverses.
  • cities: List of major linked cities/towns that the route passes along.
  • before: The previous state route.
  • after: The next state route.
State Highway 2
Length: 47.794 mi (76.92 km)
North end: KY 3
South end: US 23
Counties: Lawrence
Cities: Grayson
Kentucky State Highways
Previous Next
KY 1 KY 3

The section on the bottom is to browse the state highways. The the link on the left is for the previous state highway in numerical order. The link on the right is for the next state highway. An italicized route designates the route as either entirely deleted or entirely unconstructed. Only route numbers that are or were in use can be used; numbers that were never assigned to any route should not be used (Example: After Kentucky Route 26, Kentucky Route 28 should follow, since no number between the two has ever been used for a Kentucky State Highway. Instead, U.S. Highway 27 stretches through Kentucky.

[edit] See also