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Provincial Road 280 (PR 280) is a provincial road in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from Provincial Road 391 northwest of Thompson to local streets in Gillam. Road 280 is the only car access road to Gillam. From its terminus north of Thompson, Manitoba to the town Gillam, PR 280 is classified as a Class A1 Provincial Route.
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[edit] About

Our goal is to bring Canadian road articles up to par from the terrible quality they are currently in. As you can see on the right, almost 80% of our articles are stubs, which is simply unacceptable. To improve, we need to have enough people to form a solid consensus on various conventions. If you are interested, join and take part in discussions on the talk page. Find us on IRC at #wikipedia-en-roads on freenode.

Subprojects
Saskatchewan (currently a subpage of this project)

The other provincial and territorial WikiProjects were deleted at MfD due to inactivity. If you feel there is enough interest in collaborating on a specific province or territory's road articles and you would like to revive the descendant WikiProject, feel free to create a subpage.

The following are not subprojects per se, but have some province-specific information:
WikiProject Canada Roads notices  [edit]
Canada Roads
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Good article GA 1 2 3
B 3 14 30 47
Start 1 2 40 195 238
Stub 52 1227 1279
List 1 26 28 55
Assessed 1 6 133 1482 1622
Total 1 6 133 1482 1622

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  User Joined Comments
Active Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) 13 July 2006
RingtailedFox (talk · contribs) 15 July 2006 Highways in Ontario, as well as its County Roads and 7000-series Highways (secret designations), as well as decommissioned roads.
Inactive Kirjtc2 (talk · contribs) 15 July 2006 mostly Atlantic Canada, especially New Brunswick
Quit Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) I'll help where I can (although I have not spent much time in Canada, and that was in BC) see talk for explanation
Earl Andrew (talk · contribs) 20 July 2006
Dl2000 (talk · contribs)
The Canadian Roadgeek (talk · contribs) 2 December 2006
Bacl-presby (talk · contribs) 21 November 2006
Nhl4hamilton (talk · contribs) 22 April 2007
Active Pomte (talk · contribs) 23 April 2007 Templates, lists, Toronto road articles
Inactive Antonw1 (talk · contribs) 16 June 2007 Albertan and British Columbian Roads
Active Heights (talk · contribs) 5 August 2007 I can help on Ontario highways/roads/bridges, etc.
Son (talk · contribs) 7 August 2007 I can help where possible.
Andrew647 (talk · contribs) 3 September 2007 Nova Scotia
Qyd (talk · contribs) 2 December 2007 Alberta highways
Qst (talk · contribs) 13 December 2007
Savevp (talk · contribs) 20 March 2008 Ontario Transportation + help wherever needed
Active SriMesh (talk · contribs) 27 December 2007 Templates, lists, Saskatchewan road articles
YK Times (talk · contribs) 1 February 2008 Northwest Territories roads/highways
Deltanalliance (talk · contribs) 3 Februrary, 2008 I've been modifying most of the British Columbia Highways (as well as some other highways around Canada and the US) for quite awhile, and have never noticed this project before. I thus consider myself a participant to this project, after all the work I have already done.
Nerguy (talk · contribs) 22 Februrary, 2008
Active Gordalmighty (talk · contribs) 26 March 2008 Quebec and surrounding routes
Active Stephenchou0722 (talk · contribs) 28 March 2008 Ontario highways
Active Skookum1 (talk · contribs) 28 March 2008 Also been working on mountains/ranges and indigenous bands/histories/ etc as well as ghost towns, frontier/pioneer-era history and so on...
Active bulliver (talk · contribs) 04 May 2008 Alberta/Edmonton/British Columbia roads and highways.
Active MTLskyline (talk · contribs) 27 May 2008 Most knowledgeable about Montreal and Quebec roads and highways but can contribute to Prince Edward Island roads and highways as well.

[edit] Naming conventions

See also: List of Canadian highways by province

Although Wikipedia:Manual of Style (U.S. state highways) does not technically apply to Canada, it should be applied as a guideline with the following table.

Province Official name Article title
Alberta Highway x Alberta Highway x
British Columbia Highway x British Columbia Highway x
Manitoba Highway x
Provincial Road x		 Manitoba Highway x
Manitoba Provincial Road x
(Winnipeg) Route x Winnipeg Route x
New Brunswick Route x New Brunswick Route x
Newfoundland and Labrador Route x Newfoundland and Labrador Route x
Northwest Territories Highway x Northwest Territories Highway x
Nova Scotia Trunk x (1-2 digit)
Highway x (100-series)
Route x (200 and up)		 Nova Scotia Trunk x
Nova Scotia Highway x
Nova Scotia Route x
Ontario Highway x Highway x (Ontario)
(County roads) <County Name> County Road x <County Name> County Road x
Quebec Route x
Autoroute x		 Quebec Route x
Quebec Autoroute x
Prince Edward Island Route x Route x (Prince Edward Island)
Saskatchewan Highway x Saskatchewan Highway x
Yukon Highway x Yukon Highway x

[edit] Hierarchy definitions

Provinces and territories, and counties, all have different hierarchies. Most provinces take care of county roads, numbering them as secondary/collector/trunk roads. Some provinces, like Ontario and Quebec, have secret designations for highways of some significance and importance, but not enough of such to actually be signed as a provincial highway. Ontario has its 7000-series roads, and Quebec has its R-series roads (Example: R-0920 is a secret designation, with R-0927 to the east, paralleling it).

Roads which have a secret designation are probably important enough to have Wikipedia articles, although these should generally be titled by the road's common name rather than with the secret highway number. The sole exception to this is Ontario's Highway 7051, which actually features road signs bearing that number.

[edit] Structure of route articles

All articles not covered by a descendant WikiProject should follow the general structure outlined below. Sections are optional depending on the nature of the road.

[edit] Infobox

Highway 402
Length: 102.5 km[citation needed] (63.7 mi)
Formed: 1952[citation needed]
West end: I-69 / I-94 in Port Huron, MI
East end: Hwy 401 near London
Ontario provincial highways
< Hwy 401 Hwy 403 >
400-series - County

Articles should use Template:Infobox road, and all known info should be supplied.

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

  • province: two-letter abbreviation of the province that the article route is located in
  • type: usually the two-letter state abbreviation for provincial highways; varies for secondary and lower highways
  • route: this is the number of the route the article is about
  • alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name
  • map: image name of a map for the route, width should be 290px
  • length_km: This is the length of the route in kilometers. If you specify beyond integers (i.e. add a decimal value) you will need to set the following parameter, length_round
  • length_round: If your value for length_km is a whole number, you can omit this. Otherwise it needs to be set to the decimal precision of the length_km parameter.
  • length_ref: To do what a good article writer should, provide your reference for the length of the route using standard <ref> method.
  • established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
  • direction_a: This should be either south or west to keep in accordance with the route description, which lists termini and junctions in progression traveling 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: a list of major junctions - those that help define where the road travels.
  • direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
  • ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
  • counties: a list of counties that the route enters (replace with rural_municipalities for Saskatchewan and Manitoba highways)
  • 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 values for this are the same as those used for the type parameter.
  • 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

Note that if length_km does not exist, then no length is displayed. When length_km exists, the other (length_mi) 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.

Other parameters exist as well; see {{Infobox road}}.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one above.

[edit] Lead section

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] Description

This section is for describing the route itself and its progression. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] History

Historical information about the route here. Ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

[edit] Future

Place any verifiable, not speculated, information about the future of the route here.

[edit] Major intersections

Route composition Section header title What should be here
All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections Exit list An exit list designed using the U.S. road exit list guide as a base
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. See Nova Scotia Highway 104 for an example of the latter.
All at-grade intersections; no grade-separated interchanges Major intersections A junction table designed using the U.S. road exit list guide as a base (i.e. same basic format, but with no column for exits)

[edit] See also

For internal links to other articles on Wikipedia. Should not be redundant with the links in navigational boxes.

[edit] References

Recommend using m:Extension:Cite/Cite.php with <ref> tags in prose and {{reflist}} in this section.

[edit] External links

Place all external links which are not references here.

[edit] Navigational boxes

Consensus The use of these templates is disputed.
See the talk page archive for past discussion.

For instance, {{Canadian highways}} should only be placed on lists by province, not individual highway articles, due to its scope. See Category:Canadian transportation navigational boxes for a score of other templates.

[edit] Categories

All state highways should include the category tag for that province. Sortkeys should be "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] Stub templates

Stub-sorting Wikiproject

To avoid unnecessary redirects and reverts, please discuss any new stub type you wish to create at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals prior to its creation and placement in articles or tables.

[edit] Talk page banner

{{WikiProject Canada|road=yes|class=|importance=}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages within scope of this project. Set the associated province parameter to be yes. See the template for more details.

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[edit] Related WikiProjects

Parent: WikiProject Highways
Sibling: WikiProject U.S. Roads