Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Article Improvement Drive

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Contents 1 Open for nomination? 2 Ridge Route 3 What to do when article is chosen 4 Nevada State Route 401 expansion 5 Nomination 6 Changes to the drive, again

[edit] Open for nomination?

Is this already active? There's a highway article that I think deserves some attention from the wider community and would like to nominate it. The highway is the Merritt Parkway. --Polaron | Talk 14:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Go right ahead. The first article will be selected next Wednesday. --Holderca1 14:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ridge Route

This already has four votes; can we skip the bureaucracy and get to work? Or do people need time to get books? --NE2 02:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully... WP:FARC looks ominous... --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

What happened here? I'm waiting on a book through interlibrary loan, but why did almost nothing else happen to the article? --NE2 18:42, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

This issue has been discussed at IRC a few times. But basically, we've complained many times that this project is falling apart. We've got too few editors here, after many having left because of SRNC. Also, we wasted teh SRNC time on the debates and not on fixing the articles that got created during that time. Unfortunately, we're still trying to dig out from SRNC. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 00:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we need to address this, go down the WP member list, see who is still active. Then possibly consolidate projects. Perhaps consolidating WP:USRD, WP:USH, and WP:IH. This would leave us with one project covering all national roads and provide support to the state WPs. It would also consolidate conversations about the entire project to one project as well. I would propose merging all three to U.S. Roads. --Holderca1 10:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Possibly I suppose... yeah, have some verification system. And bout consolidating, might be good to send to WT:USRD first. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What to do when article is chosen

I think that whenever an article is chosen, the nominator, the supporters, or someone familiar with the road should create a list of specific tasks that need to be done. This way, people who are less familiar with the road can help out in the improvement. --Polaron | Talk 15:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nevada State Route 401 expansion

I just added a shield for the Nevada State Route 401 article. Anybody who knows more about the road than me should add the rest. ---- DanTD 22:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination

Hello!! I'm wondering how the current nomination system works!! It says on Category:Stub-Class U.S. road transport articles that Interstate 37 is the only remaining mainline Interstate Highway article stub and I would like to nominate that!! If you could help, that would be great!! Thank you!!

-Happy5214 22:01, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

You cannot nominate articles anymore. --Rschen7754 (T C) 22:14, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Well, that's not entirely true... but, first, future AID articles should be articles that appeal to many people. (The reason MT 200 is listed is because it is unofficially the longest state highway in the U.S., yet is a stub.) I-37 really doesn't appeal (IMHO) to anyone outside of Texas. As for nominations... they are accepted, but most times, there's no need for them as a new article is usually added to the list as soon as it has less than five articles. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 07:03, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Okay, so how about the appeal of Florida State Road 121? That road is actually a three state highway running through Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina towards US 21. Some people consider it a de-facto spur of US 21. ----DanTD 18:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes to the drive, again

In my view, interest in the AID is waning because of how stagnant the drive has become, not only with I-96 (approaching three months on the AID), but also with I-79 and I-35 (both of which spent 3 months on the drive) before that. We went to a single-article, unrestrained time system to try to entice participation; that change seems to have failed. We tried to tie in a barnstar contest; that has had little to no effect. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, but the problem may have been (and probably was) poor article choices, starting with the very first AID (MN 127) up to the current one (the intrastate I-96). This issue was discussed on IRC tonight, and an idea came up where articles on extremely wide topics (like Interstate Highway System and button copy) would be selected instead of individual routes.

So with that, I propose yet another change to the drive - remove the current AID and the future AIDs listed on the page, then replace the current AID with the Interstate Highway System article and the future AIDs with articles with a similarly wide reaching scope and, most importantly, of interest to many editors. If nothing else, this (as well as the new NYSR AID) has proven that an article has to appeal to many of its participants for it to be successful on a collaboration like this. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 05:52, 23 December 2007 (UTC)