Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland

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Useful links
WikiProject Maryland
Editing guide - State highways - U.S. highways/Interstate highways - Shield/Sign gallery - Completion list - Recent changes - stubs - Highway articles needing attention
WikiProject U.S. Roads
West East All
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. 52
  • Active mainline routes w/articles: 152 of 333 — 45.65%
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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
  • The editing guide has been updated with guidelines on how to format major junctions sections.
  • The completion list has been reformatted and expanded. Since the Recent Changes link in the Useful Links box uses the completion list, it will now include more articles related to the project!
  • Commons:Category:Diagrams of road signs of Maryland has been created and contains some more images. If you have any other ideas, but don't know how to make the images, contact Jeff.
  • Don't forget to read through the routebox page for the guidelines on how to use it, shield sizes seem to be a common pitfall, and the template page does mention the correct sizes to use.
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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
Welcome to the Roads in Maryland WikiProject! We're trying to provide information on all of Maryland's state highways, U.S. highways, Interstate highways, and other notable roads. This page and its subpages contain our suggestions and tools for working on this project. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see #Tasks below to see what needs to be done. You should also check out /Editing guide for advice on contributing, and if you plan on contributing a lot, please join by adding your name to #Participants. Also, it is recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads}} and/or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}} be placed on all participants' user pages (or subpages).

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Contents

[edit] Title

The Roads in Maryland WikiProject

This project name was chosen as it does not use any convention that is currently debated and is more inclusive in light of state-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of the project is to define a standard style for articles on roads in Maryland and to encourage participation in the editing of these articles.

Articles covered by this project include all Maryland state highway articles, as well as Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles, and other Maryland road-related articles (such as the Intercounty Connector, and Maryland State Highway Administration). A complete list of articles that are marked as part of this WikiProject can be found at Category:Roads in Maryland WikiProject.

Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles should only be created for long routes that go through several states including Maryland, and their section through Maryland is long and/or notable enough for its own article. For example, Maryland-specific Interstate 83 and U.S. Highway 113 articles should not be created unless these routes become lengthended through several other states. Likewise, an Interstate 81 in Maryland article would also be inappropriate as the section of I-81 through Maryland is pretty short. The purpose of such state-specific articles is to break up what would otherwise be a long article. If a route only goes through one or two states or if the section of a route through the state in question is too short, state-specific articles are unneseccary.

[edit] Project news

  • The editing guide has been updated with guidelines on how to format major junctions sections.
  • The completion list has been reformatted and expanded. Since the Recent Changes link in the Useful Links box uses the completion list, it will now include more articles related to the project!
  • Commons:Category:Diagrams of road signs of Maryland has been created and contains some more images. If you have any other ideas, but don't know how to make the images, contact Jeff.
  • Don't forget to read through the routebox page for the guidelines on how to use it, shield sizes seem to be a common pitfall, and the template page does mention the correct sizes to use.
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[edit] Articles needing help

See also: Category:Maryland State Highway stubs

If you see an article in need of some help, add it here.

[edit] Wanted Articles

Here is a list of articles that have not been created yet, but should be

[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

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating, the more the merrier. You may also wish to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}} to your userpage.

This user is a member of the Roads in Maryland WikiProject


[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Projects

[edit] Tasks

(none at the moment)

[edit] Ongoing

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Resources

[edit] Wikimedia commons images

Note: because these images are on Wikimedia Commons, they are already on Wikipedia under the same name that they have there.