Talk:List of United States Numbered Highways

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Is it Highway or highway? Wikipedia has List of United States Highways and United States highway. RickK 03:17 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)

United States Highway when part of a name such as United States Highway 91 is a proper noun and thus it should be capitalized. The parent article dealing with the whole system is less clear, however. I would suggest that U.S. be used in the place of United States in order to make linking easier. A simple find and replace on this page will fix the links (just make sure the filled links are moved to the new nomenclature if you decide to do this). BTW, I think it would be neat to have articles on every highway in the U.S. --mav 07:28, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ask and ye shall receive! As I noted on the Wikipedia:Village Pump page, I've begun creating pages for each US highway, based on the list at this site. Oddly enough, I began this effort on 12 Jan 2004 -- two days before Mav's suggestion! Though actually, he'd probably already seen my note, seeing's how he's an admin and all...

Some notes from the discussion at the village pump:

  • I've put together a template for the pages that includes most of the basic information. Some of the nice info on the Interstate highway pages isn't as available -- who knows the mileage in each state for a US route, when each state can reroute the designation at will?
  • I converted almost all the existing US Highway pages (except for Route 66, which is a detailed article in itself) to the new format. U.S. Highway 75 was the template I used for most of these pages, but as could be expected, the format is constantly evolving. Please feel free to make any changes you deem appropriate -- I'll be watching and incorporating your suggestions, as I've done with U.S. Highway 90 (correct Wiki heading capitalization style).
  • With no objections, I've established a new naming convention: U.S. Highway 75, as opposed to United States Highway 75. I used "Move" to create redirects for the existing US highway pages, after I updated them with the new format.
  • The owner of the US Highway Ends page has said it's ok to use the information on his site for this project.

Any comments or suggestions, please post here or on my talk page! --Robertb-dc 00:29, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Neat! You might want to form a WikiProject on this - it would help to organize things for you. I am concerned about the "Used with permission" text. To what extent are we permitted to use that text? Is the author aware that we will edit his text mercilessly and that others will redistribute it at will (meaning it will be used by many other websites other than Wikipedia)? Is he aware of and agrees to release his text under the GFDL? See also: Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission --mav
Thanks for the encouragement. I don't know if there's going to be enough general interest for a WikiProject -- there's only a handful of Wikipedia folks that seem interested in highways, and many of *them* are interested in particular highways (see the edits on U.S. Highway 395). As far as the source... I sent him another note to confirm, and he says it's really no problem. Most of his site's info is factual information compiled into a handy reference, and I'm not copying him verbatim anyway. What would be the fun of that? --Robertb-dc 21:49, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] A Question...

Where would a route such as U.S. Route 20A fit on this list? --TMF T - C 05:42, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

List of bannered U.S. Routes. --SPUI (T - C) 19:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] And another question...

What's wrong with the US 8 shield on this page? No matter how many times I purge the image, the image never appears. --TMF T - C 05:53, 14 July 2006 (UTC)It turns out that the problem was related to one encountered by many images last night. It now appears fine. --TMF T - C 17:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Numerical Sequence

Looking for a specific highway number is really a "scroll-and-seach" job. It would be helpful if these were ordered in sequence. Yes, it's a considerable project, but I might take it on someday. Cosmo1976 (talk) 17:08, 26 January 2008 (UTC)