Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Roads
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Welcome to the UK Roads WikiProject!
- Goals
- Improve road articles to at least B-standard. Steps can be seen below.
- To provide balanced and accurate information on all issues relating to road transport in the UK.
- Scope
- The project covers all articles in Category:Roads in the United Kingdom and its sub categories, legislation covering UK roads and road transport related organisations.
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Featured content
[edit] Feature article candidates
None
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Good articles
[edit] B-class drive
Our first goal is to get all of the articles on motorways to B-class standard. What we need in such an article is:
- A brief but informative lead section
- An infobox - currently, all articles have this.
- A route box, showing the junctions of the roads and the roads which intersect the motorway at these junctions.
- A history into the road, informative, and well-written.
- A NPOV, well-written article, without trivia that can not be integrated.
If all five of these checkpoints can be acheived, the article is at a standard comparable to B-class. If one is missing, it is best at Start-class, while if two or more are, then it is a stub.
[edit] Members
Add your name below if you wish to participate
- Sceptre (talk · contribs)
- Regan123 (talk · contribs)
- Andy Mabbett - interested in the Birmingham area, service stations and route tables (including coordinates and microformats)
- Dollytheledge
- Ian13 (talk · contribs) - interested, but not too sure where we are going to source some information 10:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
- Superbfc (talk · contribs) - I would really be a part-time editor. Pages on Motorways are generally something I look at from time to time, and I'm always looking to improve any page I read on Wikipedia. Thus, I am a de facto member of any Wikiproject encompassing a subject area of my interest.
- Grand Edgemaster (talk · contribs) - Part time wiki editor, looking at creation of motorway-specific maps from OpenStreetMap data.
- Seth Whales (talk · contribs) - Part time wiki editor in the south west
- C2r (talk · contribs) - based in Hertfordshire, but travels around Europe!
- Sunil060902 (talk · contribs) - based in London, so best placed to contribute to roads in and around the Capital
- Son (talk · contribs) - Based in the USA, but I try to contribute to articles on a worldwide scale. I can copy edit and do basic research on articles.
- Teutonic_Tamer (talk · contribs) - noobie Wiki fan, East Anglia is my main area.
- iridescent (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights) - Author of two of the (paltry) four Quality Article standard UK road articles. Mostly London/SE & East Anglia (and at present getting sidetracked cleaning up assorted railway articles)
- Freakmighty (talk · contribs) - Based in the South East
- Kentem (talk · contribs)
- Snigbrook (talk · contribs) - based in Lancashire
Then copy {{User UK Roads Wikiproject}} into your user page to use the Wikiproject's Userbox
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[edit] Open tasks
- Standardise route boxes for motorway articles to conform closer to either the format at WP:ELG or on M621 motorway.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Article
Category:Speed camera types used in the United Kingdom
Category:Motoring taxation in the United Kingdom
There are some articles in Category:Road transport in the United Kingdom as well, though not all sub cats are appropriate
[edit] Maintenance
[edit] Quality scale
| UK road articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
 GA |
3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||
| B | 13 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 9 | 80 | |
| Start | 3 | 18 | 76 | 131 | 63 | 291 | |
| Stub | 1 | 43 | 306 | 473 | 823 | ||
| List | 10 | 14 | 29 | 53 | |||
| Assessed | 17 | 49 | 156 | 488 | 545 | 1255 | |
| Unassessed | 1 | 151 | 152 | ||||
| Total | 17 | 49 | 156 | 489 | 696 | 1407 | |
[edit] Templates
- {{WPUKroads}} - talk space - categorises the page into the wikiproject
- {{UK motorways}} - article space - links to other motorway articles.
- {{United Kingdom roads}} - article space - links to other general UK A road articles and lists.
[edit] Zonal A Road Templates
Use these for A road articles, choosing the right zone
- {{GB A road zone 1}}
- {{GB A road zone 2}}
- {{GB A road zone 3}}
- {{GB A road zone 4}}
- {{GB A road zone 5}}
- {{GB A road zone 6}}
- {{GB A road zone 7}}
- {{GB A road zone 8}}
- {{GB A road zone 9}}
[edit] Route infoboxes
- {{UK road routebox}} - article space infobox
- {{UK motorway routebox}} - article space infobox
- {{ukmotorwaysmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Mxxx motorway
- {{ukmotorwayAsmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Ax(M) motorway
- {{ukroadsmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an A road
- {{gbroadsmall}} - as above but for those names Axxx road (Great Britain)
- {{ukroadsign}} - displays the road number sign and name of road but doesn't link it - useful where no article exists
[edit] Related Projects
[edit] External resources
- [1] - Society for All British Road Enthusiasts, contains links to good sourceable information
- Pathetic Motorways
- The Motorway Archive
- Chris' UK Roads Database
- Highways Agency
- Road to Nowhere includes route guides
- The Motorway Archive supported by The Institution of Highways & Transportation
[edit] Scotland
[edit] Northern Ireland
- Roads Service of Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Roads Site unofficial but with quotable sources
