Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan State Highways

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List page: List of State Highways in Michigan
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[edit] Scope

Numbered Michigan State Highways as designated by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). This includes all signed routes within the State of Michigan, such as I-96, US 10, and M-1.

[edit] Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on Michigan State Highways. Route articles should be named "M-N (Michigan highway)" where N is the route number assigned by the MDOT.

[edit] Resources

some old maps
board resolutions, including transfers beginning in 1990
PR Finder (includes mileposts)

/List of unsigned state trunkline highways

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects

[edit] Special recognition

The Michigan State Highways Project has a list of special recognition.

[edit] Participants

See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.

[edit] How you can help

You can help by opening the List of state highways to create and selecting any route still in red (which means that there is no article for it yet) and starting that article, or opening any route that you can provide more information about.

Most of the existing route articles need to be modified to comply with the project standard (see below). You can open Category:Michigan articles needing work and review what has been noted to need work there under "Michigan State Highways Project" section. Also, you can check Category:Michigan State Highway stubs to see which articles need expanding.

Routes in Category:Routes needing mileposts have been converted to the new standard but are missing mileposts for the junctions. You can open this category and add mileposts for any route listed. Once the mile column has been completed (to the nearest tenth for each junction), the Template:Mileposts tag can be removed.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan State Highways:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Make sure disambiguation pages exist for all Michigan Highways. See M-10 for an example.
Make sure redirects exist for all Michigan highways if they do not have a disambiguation page...example: redirect the M-231 article to M-231 (Michigan highway)
Update article citations using the {{cite_web}} template. Maps should used the {{cite_map}} template.
Create an exit/intersection list for each route. See Template:MIint for information on using the template and M-1 for an example in action
Update and expand all stubs to at least start class, B-class is preferred.
Identify and nominate articles for GA class or A-Class Review
Expand, expand, expand!

[edit] Structure

To maintain a consistent format, articles will be organized in the order shown below.

[edit] Infobox

Required. Articles should use Template:Infobox road, and all known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards for the routebox.

[edit] Main section

Required. 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. Use WP:LEAD as a loose guideline on what to place in this section.

[edit] Route description

Required. This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across the counties of Michigan. This section should be broken up by counties or other suitable segments using third-level headlines. If the route is contained entirely in one county, then it is not necessary to give said county a third-level headline. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] Communities

Required. A list of communities along the route, which can range from small villages to large cities. Depending on the length of the route this may include only major communities, or just the few villages the route passes through. Place the list in an infobox (code given below) at the top of the route description. An example of a properly formatted and placed infobox can be found at M-26.

{|class="infobox" width="230px"
!style="background: #ccf;"|<big>Communities</big>
|-
|
|}

[edit] History

Optional, but strongly recommended. Place any historical information about the route here. Ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

[edit] Future

Optional. Place any confirmed (no speculation) information about the future of the route here. Again, ensure that proper, reliable references are added.

[edit] Miscellanea

Optional, but discouraged. Any trivia or facts about a route should be placed in this section. Limit usage of this section to a minimum - the Good Article and Featured Article processes frown at articles with trivia sections. Instead of using this section, consider incorporating its potential contents into other sections of the article.

[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
All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections	Exit list	An exit list designed in accordance with the Interstate 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

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

Place all external links which are not references here.

[edit] Categories

For touring routes, use [[Category:Michigan state highways|nnn]] where nnn is the 3-digit route number with leading zeroes, so for M-1 it would look like [[Category:Michigan state highways|001]].

Routes that exist in only one county should also have that county as a category (example: since M-201 only exists in Leelanau County, it would have Category:Leelanau County, Michigan as a category).

[edit] Talk pages

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=MI}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to Michigan State Highways.

[edit] Infobox

M-50

Length:

150 mi^{[citation needed]} (241 km)

Formed:

1926^{[citation needed]}

West end:

I-96 near Alto

Major
junctions:

M-43/M-66 at Woodbury

I-69/M-79 at Charlotte

US 127 near Jackson

US 12 near Brooklyn

US 23 at Dundee

East end:

M-125 near Monroe

Counties:

Kent, Ionia, Barry, Eaton, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe

Michigan highways
< M-49		M-51 >

The Infobox to use for these routes (1-553) 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=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|counties=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

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

state: MI
type: MI for state 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. M-8 is called the Davison Freeway for its entire length)
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. For example: <ref name="length">[http://www.michiganhighways.org/ Michigan Highways]</ref>
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 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: all junctions this route has with U.S. highways, freeways or Interstates. All other junctions, such as county routes, state routes that are not limited access expressways, or locations where a route passes over/under a U.S. highway/parkway/expressway/Interstate but does not intersect it should not be listed here.Routes should appear as "M-XXX", Interstates should appear as "I-XXX", where XXX is the route number. Examples: M-102→stays M-102…Interstate 94→I-94If a route that runs parallel to the article route has four junctions or more with the article route, then only the first and last junctions with the parallel route should be listed in the infobox. Please note that every junction should still be included in the Major Intersections table.
- NOTE: If a parallel route has 1-3 junctions with the article route, then all of these junctions should be listed; however, for 4 or more junctions, then only the first and last junctions should be listed.
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
- NOTE: Limit of eight counties. Routes that enter more than eight counties should not list the counties and should list cities instead (using the cities= parameter).
previous_type: This is the type of route that precedes the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or State for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Michigan State 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 M-93, the following route would be I-94, not M-94. M-94 would succeed I-94 as there is no U.S. 94 in Michigan. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Michigan state route.

Any tags that do not apply to a particular route can either be omitted or left blank.

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

{{Infobox road
|state=MI
|type=M
|route=50
|alternate_name=
|map=Michigan 50 map.png
|length_mi=150
|length_ref=<ref name="length">[http://www.mdot.michigan.gov MDOT]</ref>
|established=1926
|direction_a=West
|starting_terminus=[[Image:I-96.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 96|I-96]] near [[Alto, Michigan|Alto]]
|junction=[[Image:M-43.svg|20px]][[Image:M-66.svg|20px]] [[M-43 (Michigan highway)|M-43]]/[[M-66 (Michigan highway)|M-66]] at [[Woodbury, Michigan|Woodbury]]<br>
[[Image:I-69.svg|20px]][[Image:M-79.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 69|I-69]]/[[M-79 (Michigan highway)|M-79]] at [[Charlotte, Michigan|Charlotte]]<br>
[[Image:US_127.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 127|US 127]] near [[Jackson, Michigan|Jackson]]<br>
[[Image:US_12.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 12|US 12]] near [[Brooklyn, Michigan|Brooklyn]]<br>
[[Image:US_23.svg|20px]]  [[US 23]] at [[Dundee, Michigan|Dundee]]
|direction_b=East
|ending_terminus=[[Image:M-125.svg|20px]] [[M-125 (Michigan highway)|M-125]] near [[Monroe, Michigan|Monroe]]
|counties=[[Kent County, Michigan|Kent]], [[Ionia County, Michigan|Ionia]], [[Barry County, Michigan|Barry]], 
[[Eaton County, Michigan|Eaton]], [[Jackson County, Michigan|Jackson]], [[Lenawee County, Michigan|Lenawee]], [[Monroe County, Michigan|Monroe]]
|previous_type=M
|previous_route=49
|next_type=M
|next_route=51
}}

[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 on the article page, just place this in the Major intersections section and fill in the variables.

{{MIinttop}}
{{MIint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{MIintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{MIint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}

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

Heading	What to Enter
county	name of county – automatically coded for [[''Blank'' County, Michigan\|''Blank'']]; just enter county name.
cspan	number of rows this county spans.
location	municipality – use for municipalities such as [[''Municipality'', Michigan\|''Municipality'']], where the municipality has its own article (incorporated cities and villages); just enter the municipality name.
location_special	use in place of location field for areas that do not have their own associated articles in the above format.
area	Optional - Use for disambiguating between town, city, village, etc.
ctdab	Optional - Use for disambiguating between towns that exist in multiple counties
lspan	number of rows this location spans.
mile	milepost to the nearest hundredth (0.00).
type	noaccess – for highways that cross but have no actual junction mplex – for concurrencies decomd – for intersections with decommissioned routes or segments unbuilt – for planned junctions closed – for indefinite closures (not temporary)
road	intersecting road(s) at this junction.
street	Optional - Used to break up monotony in sections where the route has the same town name six or more times over
notes	any notes regarding this junction.

Any field which is empty can be omitted. Junctions which are approximately 0.1 mile apart may be combined into one entry in the table.

For more information on this template, see the template page. For an example of a completed table, see M-14 (Michigan highway).

[edit] Shields

All active Michigan State Highway shields are available on the Commons. Also, all state route shields have been created in the format M-X.svg, where X is the route number.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Browse Template

If a route is decommissioned, it still needs a browse box at the bottom of the article, unless it has an infobox. Infoboxes are preferred, see M-554 (Michigan highway)

{{start srbox}}
{{mi browse|previous_type=M|previous_route=XX|route=[[Michigan State Highways|MI]]|next_type=M|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}

will create something like

Browse numbered routes
< M-49	MI		M-51 >

Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Michigan 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 Michigan Highway system. On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the mi browse, keeping the list in geographical order (i.e. insert the MI browse at it's appropriate location travelling west to east or south to north). For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

[edit] Stub templates

This Michigan road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Project Templates

	This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. 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.
Topics	Michigan State Highways
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

As of September 9, 2006 the Michigan State Highways WikiProject template above has been retrofitted to accept paramaters regarding it's assessment class, if it's a Map Task Force article and if it needs a map. To utilize these options use the following code when placing the {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} template on an article's talk page:

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=MI|class=<VAL>|maps=[Yes]|mapneeded=[Yes]}}

where <VAL> should be replaced by an assessment grade
Set maps to Yes if the article is maintained by the WikiProject U.S. Roads Maps Task Force
Set mapneeded to Yes if the article would be substantially improved with the presence of a map

[edit] Userboxes

{{User MSHP}} or if you prefer to have the icon be your favorite route, use {{User MSHP|20}} where 20 would be exchanged for the number you'd like

This user is a member of the Michigan Highways WikiProject.

It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} go on user (sub) (talk) pages.

[edit] Barnstar

{{The WikiProject Michigan State Higways Barnstar|citation & signature}} where the reason for award is given with a signature.

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[edit] Scope

[edit] Goals

[edit] Resources

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

[edit] Special recognition

[edit] Participants

[edit] How you can help

[edit] Structure

[edit] Infobox

[edit] Main section

[edit] Route description

[edit] Communities

[edit] History

[edit] Future

[edit] Miscellanea

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] Categories

[edit] Talk pages

[edit] Infobox

[edit] Junction table

[edit] Shields

[edit] Templates

[edit] Browse Template

[edit] Stub templates

[edit] Project Templates

[edit] Userboxes

[edit] Barnstar

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