Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa State Highways
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[edit] Title
WikiProject on Iowa State Highways
[edit] Scope
To create the balance of and to standardize the Iowa Highway articles and generate featured articles
[edit] Related WikiProjects
[edit] Parent WikiProjects
[edit] Sibling 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.
- Master son - Organizer and leader
- Rschen7754 Happy to help where needed
- Station Attendant
- ObtuseAngle Will add what I can and help with reformatting/cleanup
- DandyDan2007 Have some familiarity with Iowa, can help out
[edit] Naming Convention
The contents of each article in this project should reside in Iowa Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Iowa State Highway XXX and Iowa-XXX and IA-XXX and Highway XXX (Iowa) should redirect to the article as well. (see WP:USSH)
[edit] Structure
[edit] Infobox
Articles should use Template:Infobox road with all known info supplied. See #Infoboxes below.
[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 the state. 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] 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.
| Route composition | Section header title | What should be here |
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| All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections | Exit list | An exit list designed in accordance with the 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] See also
- Any links that are of use to this page within Wikipedia
[edit] References
All articles within the wikiproject shall contain this section and the following code:
{{reflist}}
CITE YOUR SOURCES! Make sure that the source you are using is linked to here and referenced by an external link within the article. Lack of citations will lead to article disputes, edit wars, and deletion.
[edit] External links
Place all external links which are not references here.
[edit] Category
add the following to the bottom of the page include in the Category for the article. [[Category:Iowa State Sighways|###]]where ### is the route number using leading zeros
[edit] Structure
[edit] Article Naming Convention
The contents of each article in this project should reside in Iowa Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Iowa State Highway XXX and Iowa-XXX and IA-XXX and Highway XXX (Iowa) should redirect to the article as well.
[edit] Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
[edit] Goals
- Create Iowa Highway articles listed in Iowa State Highways that are red-linked.
- Expand any existing articles with pertinent information
- Standardize all articles according to the layout described in this project page
[edit] Tasks
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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa State Highways: | edit · history · watch · refresh |
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The following tasks should be held off until existing articles are expanded and cleaned up.
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[edit] Categories
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles
[edit] New articles for this project
Please feel free to list your new Iowa State Highways-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
- Iowa Highway 117, iowa Highway 122 created 03/12/2007
- Iowa Highway 25, Iowa Highway 44 created 10/26/06
- Iowa Highway 31, Iowa Highway 37, Iowa Highway 39, Iowa Highway 141, Iowa Highway 175 created 10/25/06
[edit] Did you know?
[edit] Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet with much of this info and more can be found at User:Rschen7754/Roadqr.
[edit] Requests
There are no requests entered at this time.
[edit] Resources
- Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT)
- The Iowa Highway Page (Jason Hancock)
- State Shield Pics on Commons
[edit] Templates
The Infobox to use for this project 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=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}
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| Iowa Highway 32 |
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| Northwest Arterial | |||||||||
| Length: | 5.1 mi[1] (8.21 km) | ||||||||
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| South end: |  US 20 west of Dubuque |
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| North end: |   US 52/IA 3 NW of Dubuque |
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For the above paramaters here's what you should fill in:
- state: This should be IA
- type: This should be IOWA which is what Iowa prefaces their route names with, i.e. IOWA-50
- route: This is the number of the route the article is about
- alternate_name: if the route is assigned an additional name, include it here.
- map: This is the Image Wiki for the map. This function is not used as of yet on Iowa articles as no maps have been made.
- length_mi: This is the length of the route in miles. If you specifiy 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="WH1">[[http://iowahighways.home.mchsi.com/highways/iowa30-39.html#32 Iowa Highways: Highway 32]</ref>
- established: This is the date the route was commissioned
- 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: Any major junctions along the route should be listed here. If more than one is listed, use a <br> to break the lines
- Only major junctions go into the Interstate routebox... these would be Interstates, U.S. Highways and and other major state highways/roads. Otherwise the routebox becomes way too big.
- For multiple highways near a city either:
- List them together on the same line by city OR
- Omit minor highway junctions (preferred)
- Of course the terminii would always be there.
- If any routebox has over 10 or so junctions, then some of the junctions need to be removed.
- The only time a county route would be mentioned is if it is a terminus (there are at least three instances of that so far).
- 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 usually: Interstate, US, or IOWA for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Iowa 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. If you do an infobox for IOWA-28, the following route would be I-29 not IOWA-29. IOWA-29 would succeed I-29 as there is no U.S. 29 in Iowa. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Iowa Highway.
So, by completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one to the right.
{{Infobox road
|state=IA
|type=IOWA
|route=32
|alternate_name=Northwest Arterial
|length_mi=5.1
|length_ref=<ref name="IA1">[[http://iowahighways.home.mchsi.com/highways/iowa30-39.html#32 Iowa Highways: Highway 32]</ref>
|length_round=2
|direction_a=South
|direction_b=North
|starting_terminus=[[Image:US 20.svg|20px]] [[US 20 (IA)|US 20]] west of [[Dubuque (IA)|]]
|ending_terminus=[[Image:US 52.svg|20px]][[Image:Iowa 3.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 52|US 52]]/[[Iowa Highway 3|IA 3]] NW of [[Dubuque (IA)|]]
|previous_type=IOWA
|previous_route=31
|next_type=IOWA
|next_route=33
}}
[edit] Interstate and U.S. Routes
3digit U.S. Routes use the same shield size as 2-digit Routes in Iowa and use B-type highway font. Therefore, the 3d routes in Iowa, US 151 and US 218 would have shields as shown at right:
The routes that fall into this situation are:
Articles with such names as U.S. Route XX in Iowa or Interstate XX in Iowa exist to free up space on their respective main articles. These should follow the structures specified by their respective WikiProjects. Interstates and U.S Routes have their own routeboxes {{Infobox Interstate}} and {{Infobox U.S. Route}}. Parent routes that cross state boundaries (such as I-90 must use these routeboxes. Articles for the details of the highways in Iowa can use {{Infobox road}} with the parameters specified above, instead of the type being "IA", for 2-digit U.S. Routes, use "US" for the type, for 3-digit U.S. Routes, use "3dUS" for the type - and for interstates - use "Interstate." 2 of the 3di routes I-235, I-380 may also fall into this category. There are a few things that must be done for each route type which are explained in the Interstate Routebox instructions and the U.S. Routes Routebox instructions.
[edit] Browse Template
If a route is decommissioned, it still needs a browse box at the bottom of the article.
{{start srbox}}
{{ia browse|previous_type=IOWA|previous_route=XX|route=IA|next_type=IOWA|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}
will create something like
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| < IA 3 |
IA | IA 5  > |
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Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Iowa state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=Interstate
This box should only be placed on pages that do not have an infobox, or are an article for a Interstate or U.S. Route in the Iowa Highway system. On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the wi browse, keeping the list in alphabetical order. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.
[edit] Reference entry
Use {{subst:User:Master son/Shortcuts/Iowahighwaysref}} for referencing the Iowa highways page by route number.
{{subst:User:Master son/Shortcuts/Iowahighwaysref|lowrg=10|hirng=19|num=13|m_iter=yes|access_date=2007-02-04}}
gives you Jason Hancock. Highway 13. Iowa Highways. Retrieved on February 4, 2007.
- "lowrg" is the low end of the subpage to reference - 10, 20, 30, etc.
- "lowrg" is the low end of the subpage to reference - 10, 20, 30, etc.
- "num" is the highway number to reference
- "m_iter" - when set will indicate that the highway has more than once occurrence important for proper linking
- "access_date" - the date the information was last accessed
place this within a set of <ref></ref> tags and make sure to include the correct reference section
NOTE: This template must be subst'd. any instances of transclusion will be removed. also - the template will not properly subst into an infobox due to magic words - consider using a sandbox to generate the code and pasting it into the infobox code.
[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:
{{Jcttop}}
{{Jctint
|state=
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{Jctbtm}}
...and fill in the variables! For more entries, use this:
{{Jctint
|state=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in:
- state: the state the intersection is at, do not use if cspan or lspan is specified for the row
- 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:
- State:[[Image:State num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[State Route num|SR num]]''' (refer to naming conventions)
- US:[[Image:US num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[U.S. Route num|US num]]'''
- Interstate:[[Image:I-num.svg|25x20px]] '''[[Interstate num|I-num]]'''.
- 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] Stub Sorting
use {{Iowa-road-stub}} to label stub articles.
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[edit] Project Notice
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[edit] Cleanup
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[edit] User Templates
The userbox {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa State Highways/Userbox|9}} can be added to your user page. Replace 9 with your favorite Iowa State Route number. Leaving the route number out will show the blank Route Marker image.
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