Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey State and County Routes

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to New Jersey State and County Routes. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please list yourself as a participant below, or inquire on the talk page.

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WikiProject on New Jersey State and County Routes

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to expand and introduce a uniform format to articles dealing with state and county routes in the state of New Jersey.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject New Jersey

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself to this list if you would like to participate!

User:Northenglish -- founder and leader
Alansohn 03:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC) -- non-founder and follower
SPUI - creator of much of the structure --SPUI (T - C) 12:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Rschen7754 Drove through once but still happy to help.
TheImpossibleManX - Local Jerseyan.
Myselfalso - I've spent plenty of time in New Jersey, and as such, know some of the roads. I am a very active participant in WP:PASH, where I'll spend most of my time. I will certainly try to hit up any NJ articles from time to time. I'm happy to help out.
TwinsMetsFan - I've admired the work of this project from across the border at WP:NYSR and am extremely willing to help in any way possible. Most of my contributions are centered around WP:NYSR and WP:NYCR (together, the NY equivalent of this project), but I can give a helping hand here where needed.

[edit] What to include?

Interstate and U.S. Highways that pass through multiple states are governed by their own WikiProjects, and are not part of this one. Intrastate U.S. and Interstate routes (i.e. U.S. Route 46, U.S. Route 130, Interstate 195) are part of this WikiProject. State detail pages for multi-state routes (i.e. Interstate 95 in New Jersey) are part of this WikiProject.

All state routes should have an article or a section of an article (like Route 163 in Delaware Bridge).

All 500-series county routes should have an article.

Other county routes are debatable. Only create an article for them if they are notable. Here, notability does not refer to any specific definition according to Wikipedia:Notability, because there isn't one that applies. Just be honest, do you feel it's notable? Can you write a good two paragraphs of encyclopedic information on the route? If so, then be bold and do it!

[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 discontinuities, as defined by law. Unique details about this route may be added, but use sparingly.

[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.

[edit] History

The history of this route number should be discussed here.

[edit] Future developments

This section is optional. Any information on future developments for the route, such as widening or other construction projects, or route extensions, should go here.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

This section contains a table that lists all the junctions on the article route. Every junction with another state highway should be listed here, as well as every exit on controlled access portions of the route. The table should contain the following columns:

County can be left out on single-county routes
Municipality
Exit # where appropriate
Milepost
Roads – Destinations
Notes

Intersections with 500-series county routes can be included in this table on state highways, provided they do not make the list "too long". (Either all 500-series routes should be listed, or none.) Intersections with non-500-series routes should only be included on other county routes. They can be included on 500-series routes, but not with state highways (and again, only with 500-series routes if the list does not become too long).

[edit] Gallery

This section is optional. A gallery of photos that don't fit along the margins using normal layout techniques can go here.

[edit] Related routes

Links to current routes with numbers related to the article route should be listed here.

Additionally, if the route has any former spurs (either spurs of itself or of a former designation), these should be listed here as well.

[edit] See also and/or External links

Also feel free to include any external links with information about the route, related construction projects, etc., or sources where you got your information. Suggestions include the entry in the New Jersey Roads Route Log, New Jersey Highway Ends or the NJDOT Straight Line Diagrams.

The various "link sections" should be in the following order:

See also
References
External links

External links should be listed only once, either in the references or the external links section, not both.

[edit] Naming convention

Articles for state routes are titled New Jersey Route X.

Articles for 500-series county routes are titled County Route X (New Jersey).

Articles for other county routes are titled County Route X (Whichcounty County, New Jersey).

Redirects from alternative names should be made as well. Use this completion list to aid in creating these redirects.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

This WikiProject uses two different infoboxes, one for state routes and one for county routes.

[edit] State routes

State routes use {{Infobox_road}} with the state=NJ parameter. The code for the template is below. See below that for how to use these parameters.

{{Infobox_road
|state=NJ
|type=
|route=
|highway_name=
|marker_image=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_km=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|established=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

[edit] What these parameters do

state= This should (of course) be state=NJ for all routes.
type= This should be left blank (type=) for state routes, type=US for U.S. highways, and type=Interstate for Interstate highways
route= This is the route number the article is about; for example route=17 for Route 17.
highway_name= and marker_image= These parameters should be used only on articles like Garden State Parkway (where the article title is the name of the road, rather than the number). The shield image should be sized to 70px.
alternate_name= This should be blank for most routes. If there is an alternate name (for example, Central Jersey Freeway for Interstate 195), feel free to include it.
length_mi= and length_km= The length of the route (in miles and kilometers), to two decimal places if possible. The straight line diagrams will have this information.
direction_a= and direction_b= Is this a north-south or an east-west route? Direction_a will either be South or West; direction_b will either be North or East
starting_terminus=, junction=, and ending_terminus= These parameters use regular wiki formatting. Each should include a route shield, route name, and a city name. For example, Route 17 uses the following:

starting_terminus=[[Image:New Jersey 7.svg|20px]] [[New Jersey Route 7|NJ 7]] in [[North Arlington, New Jersey|North Arlington]]

This produces:

NJ 7 in North Arlington

in the southern terminus field to indicate that Route 17 begins at Route 7 in North Arlington. Follow the same format should be used in the junction and ending_terminus fields as well. In the junction field, use <br> between junctions to produce multiple lines.

For the shield images, use 20px images for square (2-digit) signs, and 25px images for rectangular (3-digit) signs.

established= The year the route was established as a state highway with its current number.

previous_type=, previous_route=, next_type=, and next_route= These parameters create the browsing capability at the bottom of the infobox. previous_type and previous_route apply to the previous route numerically (for example Route 15 for Route 17); next_type and next_route apply to the next route numerically (Route 18).

For type, leave it empty for state routes, use US for U.S. Routes, and use Interstate for Interstate Highways.

The browsing order for the infoboxes can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey State and County Routes/Master List.

[edit] County routes

The infobox for county routes is extremely similar -- it still uses {{Infobox road}}, with different parameters. Differences are noted below.

state= This parameter should be set to "NJ County" for all county routes.
type= This parameter is blank for 500-series county routes; the county name (i.e. "Monmouth") for all other routes.
previous_type=, previous_route=, next_type=, and next_route= Browsing is currently only set up for 500-series routes. Leave the type blank. See County routes in New Jersey#500-series routes for the browsing order (bannered routes are left out of the browsing order).

Do not include these parameters for non-500-series routes.

[edit] Stub templates

{{New-Jersey-road-stub}}

This article related to roads in New Jersey is a stub. You can help Wikipedia and the New Jersey State and County Routes WikiProject by expanding it.

[edit] Other templates

[edit] For article talk pages

{{NJSCR}} -- Put this at the top of talk pages for articles in this WikiProject.

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