Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennessee State Routes
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in Tennessee. This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.
An article describing the logic and basic history of the Tennessee State Route System is necessary to accompany the current List of state routes in Tennessee article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Interstate, Primary and Secondary routes as well as Scenic Parkways/Roads, and other worthy material.
The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:
- Routes that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with its own route number.
- Routes that are hidden but are state-maintained and have an unsigned route number
- Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
- Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
- Interstates that run entirely in Tennessee (mostly spur and loop routes).
- Tennessee specific Interstate articles. For example: Interstate 40 in Tennessee.
[edit] Goals
- Develop and maintain articles on all primary and secondary system routes in Tennessee.
- Develop and maintain articles on all scenic parkways in Tennessee.
- Refrain from creating articles related to "off-system" or "State Aid System" routes in Tennessee that provide no encyclopedic or historical notability.
[edit] Resources
[edit] Naming conventions
Articles are to be named "Tennessee State Route XX" per WP:USSH.
[edit] Relationships
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[edit] Participants
See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.
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[edit] How you can help
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- Bring existing articles up to current standards. See Category:Stub-Class Tennessee road transport articles.
- Start new articles.
[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 Tennessee. 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, to correspond to WP:USRD standards.
[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 |
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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
Optional. Place all internal links here.
[edit] References
Required. Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and the {{reflist}} tag in this section.
[edit] External links
Optional. Place all external links which are not references here. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow.
[edit] Categories
All articles are placed into a subcategory of Category:Transportation in Tennessee: either Category:State highways in Tennessee, Category:U.S. Highways in Tennessee, or Category:Interstate Highways in Tennessee. The sort key is a three-digit number representing the route number, examples listed below would be appropriate for Tennessee State Route 1, Tennessee State Route 99, and Tennessee State Route 840, respectively.
Examples:
- [[Category:State highways in Tennessee|001]]
- [[Category:State highways in Tennessee|099]]
- [[Category:State highways in Tennessee|840]]
[edit] Talk pages
{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=TN}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to Tennessee State Routes.
[edit] Infobox
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| State Route 5 |
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| U.S. Highway 45, U.S. Highway 45W Maintained by TDOT |
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| Length: | 120 mi[1] (193.12 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1917 | ||||||||
| South end: |  US 45 at Mississippi/Tennessee State Line |
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| Major junctions: |
 US 64 at Selmer
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| North end: |  KY 125 near Woodland Mills |
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| Counties: | McNairy, Chester, Madison, Gibson, Obion | ||||||||
| Major cities: | Selmer, Henderson, Jackson, Humboldt, Trenton, Union City | ||||||||
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The infobox to use for these routes is Template:Infobox road.
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=TN
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|counties=
|cities=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|commons=
}}
For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:
- state: TN
- type: TN for primary state routes Secondary for secondary state routes and Dual for state routes that carry both primary and secondary route classification.
- 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. NY 590 is called the Sea Breeze Expressway 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 parameter, 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 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 U.S. Roads parent project, 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: all junctions this route has with U.S. highways, expressways 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/expressway/Interstate but does not intersect it should not be listed here. If 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 comma-delimited, wikified list of counties the route enters
- cities: a comma-delimited, wikified list of cities the route enters
- previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, TN, Secondary, or Dual for Interstates, U.S. Routes, Primary State Routes, Secondary State Routes and Dual Designation (primary & secondary) State Routes , 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
- commons: This should be set to commons=gallery to include a picture gallery. For example: Tennessee State Route 211
Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. The precedence is U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Tennessee State Routes per WP:USRD/INNA.
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=TN
|type=Dual
|route=5
|alternate_name=[[U.S. Highway 45]], [[U.S. Highway 45|U.S. Highway 45W]]
|maint=[[Tennessee Department of Transportation|TDOT]]
|map=
|length_mi=120
|length_round=2
|length_ref=<ref name="pavecond">[http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/materials/pavement/Documents/Region4(All%20Counties)(PROTECTED).xls TDOT Region 4 Pavement Condition Data]</ref>
|established=1917
|direction_a=South
|starting_terminus=[[Image:US 45.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 45|US 45]] at [[Mississippi]]/[[Tennessee]] State Line
|junction=[[Image:US 64.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 64|US 64]] at [[Selmer, Tennessee|Selmer]]<br/>
[[Image:US 70.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 70|US 70]] at [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson]]<br/>
[[Image:Business plate.svg|25px]]<br/>[[Image:US 412.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 412|Business US 412]] at [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson]]<br/>
[[Image:I-40.svg|20px]][[Image:US 412.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 40|I-40]]/[[U.S. Highway 412|US 412]] Exit 82A/B at [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson]]<br/>
[[Image:US 45W.svg|25px]][[Image:US 45E.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Highway 45|US 45W/E]] at [[Three Way, Tennessee|Three Way]]<br/>
[[Image:US 70A.svg|25px]][[Image:US 79.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 70|Alt US 70]]/[[U.S. Highway 79|US 79]] at [[Humboldt, Tennessee|Humboldt]]<br/>
[[Image:US 51.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 51|US 51]] at [[Union City, Tennessee|Union City]]
|direction_b=North
|ending_terminus=[[Image:Elongated circle 125.svg|25px]] [[Kentucky Route 125|KY 125]] near [[Woodland Mills, Tennessee|Woodland Mills]]
|counties=[[McNairy County, Tennessee|McNairy]], [[Chester County, Tennessee|Chester]], [[Madison County, Tennessee|Madison]], [[Gibson County, Tennessee|Gibson]], [[Obion County, Tennessee|Obion]]
|cities=[[Selmer, Tennessee|Selmer]], [[Henderson, Tennessee|Henderson]], [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson]], [[Humboldt, Tennessee|Humboldt]], [[Trenton, Tennessee|Trenton]], [[Union City, Tennessee|Union City]]
|previous_type=Dual
|previous_route=4
|next_type=Dual
|next_route=6
}}
[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.
{{Jcttop}}
{{Jctint
|state=
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{Jctbtm}}
For additional entries, use this:
{{Jctint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in:
| Heading | What to Enter |
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| county | name of county – automatically coded for [[''Blank'' County, Tennessee|''Blank'']]; just enter county name. |
| cspan | number of rows this county spans. |
| location | municipality – use for municipalities such as [[''Municipality'', Tennessee|''Municipality'']], where the municipality has its own article (incorporated cities and towns); 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 and village |
| ctdab | Optional - Use for disambiguating between towns that exist in multiple counties |
| lspan | number of rows this location spans. |
| mile | milepost to the nearest 1/10th. |
| 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. To generate the proper coding, use {{subst:TNint/XX|Y|ZZpx}}, where • XX = TN (Tennessee), US (U.S. Route), or IN (interstate) • Y = route or interstate number (1 to 3 digits) • ZZ = size of shield in pixels (20 or 25) Notes: • Multiple routes at one intersection can be entered by inserting a <br> and then entering another {{subst:WVint/XX}} template. |
| 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.
[edit] Shields
Shields for Tennessee State Routes have been created in the following formats "Tennessee X.svg", where X is the number of the primary state route; and "Secondary Tennessee X.svg", where X is the number of the secondary state route. If you need a route shield that has not been created, please request its creation at the Shields Subproject.
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