WikiProject U.S. Roads
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Deletion debates |
- Previous debates
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Maps Task Force |
- Links
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Newsletter |
- Nominations for featured member needed
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Assessment |
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Peer reviews |
- Previous reviews
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Shields |
- Continue moving freely licensed shields to the Wikimedia Commons.
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Interstates |
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U.S. Highways |
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- Fix any broken Interstate infoboxes, as the new shield naming convention has taken effect. Good-practice articles at any X80 routes (articles like Interstate 280 (California))
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- Help needed for some project tasks -- if interested, see Project talk page for details.
- De-stubbing project status – stub level now at 3.4%
- All route articles have been created
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- Florida County Roads Task Force created. See below.
- Created due to high number of FL CRs appearing on WP:AfD. More members needed.
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- Looking for more contributors! If you can help out, please do so!
- Lowest mainline route without an article: S.R. 62
- Active mainline routes w/articles: 236 of 335 — 70.44%
- Former or future routes w/articles: 32 of 82 - 39.02%
- Maps for all mainline routes at Commons
- Completion list
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- Get basic project setup:
- Add infoboxes to all articles.
- Add the stub template to the article if necessary.
- Best-practice article at Indiana State Road 2.
- Get more members.
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- Get basic project setup and initally get new members to join project
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- Project has been launched as a task force. Members are urgently needed.
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- Clean up all articles to meet project standards.
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- 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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Statistics as of October 19, 2007
- GA: 0
- B: 1
- Start: 8
- Stub:233
- ω=1200
- Ω=4.96
Bring articles up to the higher classes!
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- Project demoted to task force.
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- Infoboxes have been added for all current state routes.
- To-do list added to project page for a "final run-through".
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- Active mainline routes w/articles: 48%
- Lowest mainline route without an article: NC 41
- Our beloved ncroads.com source has shut down, but a mirror can be found at the NC Roads Annex.
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- Articles still need to be written for ~5% of the current highway system.
- Lowest highway without an article: 83
- Now using Infobox road!
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Project news
Task force news
- The Harrisburg Area Roads WikiProject has been transformed into the Susquehanna Valley Task Force of the Pennsylvania Roads WikiProject.
Project Assessment
We need to improve our articles!
- Here's what we're looking for in a Start-class:
- Good lead
- Complete route description
- Full junction list
- In a B-class, we're also looking for:
- referenced mileposts in the junction list (using the traffic counts)
- history
- GA-class and FA-class go up for Wikipedia-wide review and A-class articles go to the A-class review within WP:USRD
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- All articles need to be cleaned up to meet project standards.
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- Get all articles up to project standards.
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- Get more members.
- Get project started.
- Cleanup of existing articles to project standards.
- State routes w/articles: 94 of 436 — 21.56%
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- Articles
- State Highways: 328 of 328 - 100%
- State Highway Loops & Spurs: 26 of 589 - 4.4%
- Farm to Market Roads: 119 of 3,394 - 3.5%
- Shields
- State Highways: 371 of 371 - 100%
- State Highway Loops & Spurs: 300+ of ~1,200 - 25.0%
- Farm to Market Roads: 1,092 of 3,542 - 30.8%
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- Project is repromoted from a task force to a regular subproject of USRD (closed discussion at WT:USRD/SUB)
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Besides the articles which are on my front page, here's a list of small articles I'd like to expand upon.