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List page: List of California State Routes Redirect completion list: Completion list
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[edit] Title

The California State Highways WikiProject

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in California, also known as California State Routes (note the capitals). 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 California State Highway System is necessary to accompany the current List of California State Highways article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material.

[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 their own route numbers.
• Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
• Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
• Interstates that run entirely in California (mostly spur and loop routes). Ideally, these should also be part of this WikiProject.

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these should be merged onto a single article, Deleted California State Highways.

For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these should be merged onto another article, Unconstructed California State Highways.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject California

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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

Alabama | California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in a newsletter, please add yourself to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. New members will no longer be added to this list.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways/Userbox}}

This user is a member of the California State Highways WikiProject.

• Bennyp81
• K1vsr - will occasionally help with it (born and raised near 99 and 41)
• Zzyzx11 - will occasionally help with it
• -- Scott e^iπ
• FCYTravis - I've been on a bit of a CS&HC section adding spree. Don't know how much else I can contribute, but it's something ;)
• Rschen7754 Will help with what I know
• Gateman1997 I'll help where I can
• hike395 Mr. Consistency With Rest of Wikipedia :-)
• Cluth Born and raised along highways 41 and 46. I'll see what I can add, but I've got a lot of other real-world stuff to do. Will help where I can.
• QEDQED Added on already and can work on a few more.
• Howcheng adding routes when I need em for the List of California Historical Landmarks
• Geopgeop related to a whole lot of CalTrans employees, hehe, work with Districts 3 and 4 (Sac and Bay Area)
• Gohiking Been maintaining I-105 in Los Angeles, but happy to help out where needed in District 7 or elsewhere.
• WikiLeon - Will occasionally help with northern california based routes.
• NealT
• RandallJones has to admit he's been contributing a bit
• physicq210
• TwinsMetsFan - Can help with infobox conversion and developing a junction table (like that used at WP:NYSR) if desired.
• Vishwin60 - About time I joined
• Happy5214 - Working on project on highways!! Link on my page!!

It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads West}} should go on all members' user pages.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Infobox information

State Road articles should use {{Infobox road}}. U.S. Routes use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, and Interstate highways use {{Infobox Interstate}} regardless if it's intrastate or not. 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 Indiana. 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. This list should be put in the infobox.

[edit] Attractions

Any attractions along the route should be noted in this section.

[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] 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.

[edit] State Law

If the route is in the Freeway & Expressway System, transclude this template:

{{CAFES|shield=(imagename)|route=*|sec=253.#}}

If it is in the Scenic Highway System, transclude this template:

{{CAScenic|route=*|sec=263.#}}

If the route is in both, transclude both templates.

The asterisk (*) should be replaced with the route number. The caret (^) should be replaced with the route number with 300 added to it... unless the number is over 300 in which case you will need to go to the code to find out the right number. The pound sign (#) should be replaced with the section number which you need to go to the code to find out. Replace "(imagename)" with

• California blank.svg for California routes,
• US blank (CA).svg for US routes,
• I-blank.svg for Interstate routes.

[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

This is where all external links that are not references 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 California State Route 2, these links would be used:

• Caltrans: Route 2 highway conditions (Replace "2" with the route number.)
• Cal-NExUS: Route 2 East (Replace "two" in the URL with the route number spelled out.)
• Cal-NExUS: Route 2 West
• California Highways: Route 2
• The Big Highways Page: California Route 2

Or for conventional highways, like California State Route 123, you may use these links:

• Caltrans: Route 123 Highway Conditions
• California Highways: Route 123
• The Big Highways Page: California Route 123
• AARoads: California 123
• San Pablo Avenue Roadway Rehabilitation Project

External links to points of interests should also go here.

[edit] Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:California 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

{{California State Highway WikiProject}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to California State Routes.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] Goals

1. Write articles
2. Write good articles
3. Write featured articles
4. Make redirects listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways/Completion list
5. Change the world

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /Featured Articles
• /Strategy

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{California-State-Highway-stub}} talk	This California Highway-related article is a stub. Please help Wikipedia and the California Highways project by expanding it.	Designates this article relating to California State Highways as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:California State Highway stubs
{{California State Highway WikiProject}} talk	This article is part of the California State Highways WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in California. 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 WikiProject California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{featuredcsh}} talk	This route is currently a featured article from the California Highway WikiProject.	Designates the current article as a featured article of the WikiProject California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{cleanupcsh}} talk	This California State Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject California State Highways. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page, Category:Wikipedia help and the project page. No reason has been given for tagging this article as in need of cleanup. Please provide rationale, including an explanation of what work needs to be done.	Designates the current article as in need of a Wikipedia:Cleanup, especially with regards to updating it to current standards as outlined in the California State Highways WikiProject.

[edit] WikiProject Award

Image	What to type	Description
	{{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}	The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for California, WP San Francisco Bay Area, WP Southern California, WP Santa Barbara County, WP California State Highways and WP California County Routes. This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.

[edit] Infoboxes

State Route 37
(CS&HC Section 337)
Length:	21 mi[1] (34 km)
Formed:	1934[2]
West end:	SR-251 in Novato
Major junctions:	US-101 in Novato SR-121 in Novato SR-29 in Vallejo
East end:	I-80 in Vallejo
Major cities:	Novato, CA Vallejo, CA
California State Routes < SR 36 SR 38 > Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic

WHEN CONVERTING OLD ROUTEBOXES, PLEASE SAVE A COPY OF THE OLD JUNCTION LIST ON THE TALK PAGE.

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. Note that this is a complete list of every variable that can be used with Infobox road and that many are unnecessary in most cases. Variables that are empty can be omitted.

{{Infobox road
|state=CA
|highway_name=
|name_notes=
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|section=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=<ref>[http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/brlog2.htm January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways]</ref>
|length_notes=
|established=
|decommissioned=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|beltway_city=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|cities=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|browse=
}}

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

• state: CA
• highway_name: road name to be displayed
• name_notes: foot notes that will be displayed in small text underneath the highway name
• type: CA for State Routes, Interstate for Interstates, and US for U.S. 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)
• section The section of code that defines this route.
• map: image name of a map for the route, width should be 290px; see the maps task force for maps
• 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. One has been given above, and you can use it if you wish.
• length_notes: see below
• established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
• decommissioned: date the route was decommissioned
• 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.
• beltway_city: for beltways. This is the city that the beltway encircles
• junction: a list of major junctions. Roughly 5-10 because of size.
• direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
• ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
• cities: a list of major cities that the route enters
• previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or CA for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other state roads, 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
• browse: use to add additional browse lines

A complete infobox is to the right.

[edit] Length instructions

If neither length_mi nor length_km exists, no length is displayed.

Otherwise, if length_first is either mi or km, that one appears first. Ensure that this one is defined, or it will show up blank.

Otherwise, if only one of length_mi or length_km is defined, that one appears first. The other is calculated and rounded to length_round (default 0) places. Be sure to avoid false precision.

length_ref, if defined, appears after the first length. Use a citation or {{fact}} here. Be sure that the first length is the one for which you have a reference.

length_notes, if defined, appears as a note below the length. This can be used to show former length, or future length, etc.

[edit] Browse Box

All of these boxes need to be changed. Browsing will be done in the infobox on all state routes from now on. For multi-state Interstates and U.S. Routes, please see WP:IH and WP:USH, respectively.

[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.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete junction table for routes that only has at-grade intersections. Just copy and paste the code below into the "Major intersections" section:

{{CAinttop}}
{{CAint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{CAintbtm}}

...and fill in the variables! For more entries, use this:

{{CAint
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}

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

• county: name of the county without wiki markup - the county is automatically linked by the template
• cspan: number of rows the county spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
• location: name of the location without wiki markup - the location is automatically linked by the template
• lspan: number of rows the location spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
• area: (optional for use with location) used to disambiguate between town, city, village, etc.
• ctdab: (optional for use with location) further disambiguation by county (Brighton in New York is an example where this tag would be used)
• location_special: (replaces location) location where the junction is located - use for custom entries only. Wiki markup is required.
• type: noaccess, mplex (for concurrency), decomd (for decommissioned), unbuilt, closed
• mile: milepost of the junction. If unknown, leave blank.
• road: road that the article route intersects at this junction. To generate the proper coding, use {{subst:INint/XX}}, where XX is:
  • CAint/CA:{{subst:CAint/CA|(route number)}}
  • CAint/US:{{subst:CAint/US|(route number)}}
  • CAint/I:{{subst:CAint/I|(Interstate number)}}.
• street: (optional for use with location) Used to break up monotony in sections where the route has the same town name six or more times over (see NY 33 for an example of appropriate usage).
• notes: any notes regarding that junction.

Any parameter which is empty can be omitted.

[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Highways

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