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The purpose of this list was established at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Roads_in_Maryland#Minor_Routes, and a unanimous consensus for its creation was reached. Its purpose is to list the routes that do not have enough information on them to write an entire article on. -Jeff (talk) 04:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
How detailed do we want this list to be? If you see my pending edits, I'm looking to add all current of 8xx and 9xx state roads in PG County. I may include 7xx, as well. My intentions are to do the same for Montgomery County. I will likely start adding these in on Wednesday or Thursday if no one objects. Note that these streets are *very* minor, in most cases being only a couple dozen feet long, being without any signs indicating state maintenance, and could very well be mistaken for someone's driveway. Oftentimes even the SHA staff do not realise that the roads are property of SHA, unless the MAARS Location Reference Guide is consulted. -- Thisisbossi 02:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd recommend covering old alignments not here but in the articles about the current routes. -- SPUI ( T - C) 01:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking that it would be a good idea to move the letter-suffixed routes from here to the articles on their parent routes. Even if there is no "parent" route for certain letter-suffixed routes (such as the 810s) we could still create an article to group them under ( Maryland Route 810) and put them there. A couple of articles where this is already done are Maryland Route 648 and Maryland Route 835. -Jeff (talk) 03:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Should I add something about MD 911 in Rockville, MoCo to this list. It connects Veirs Mill Road ( MD 586 and MD 28) and the northern part of First Street(MD 28, also) with Rockville Pike ( MD 355). At this point, First Street (MD 911) turns into Wootton Parkway, which has no designation. -- RockRNC 01:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
User:Dough4872 changed the approximate length of MD 715 from 1.2 mi to 1.19 mi. I reverted that change because the difference amounts to less than 53 feet. At the moderate speed of 45 mi/h, that works out to the distance driven in eight tenths of a second! Such precision is inappropriate, especially in a statistic labeled as approximate. PaulTanenbaum 17:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
The definition of a "minor highway" is either undefined, ambiguous, or arbitrary. The best way to eliminate having to figure out what a minor highway is for purpose of having it on a list of minor highways is to eliminate the list altogether. However, there is a lot of valuable information in the list that needs to be saved. Most of that information can be put to good use either by expanding the data into new, well-developed articles or moving the information to articles about related highways. The goal of this initiative is to eventually retire the list while transferring all relevant data to other articles. To accomplish this, over time we will transfer every route on the list either (1) to the article of a related route, or (2) to its own developed article.
If you have any questions or comments, please offer them here. In the next week, I will provide a list of minor highways that we should target for either folding into other articles or splitting out into new articles. Viridiscalculus ( talk) 04:15, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Once you take action on a particular minor highway, please remove that highway from the article.
The following minor highways (before the colon) should be placed in a Related routes section of the parent article (after the colon):
The following minor highways should be expanded to their own article. Remember, if you cannot expand a particular route to at least a start-class article, please leave it for someone else to pick up.
It is unclear what the course of action should be for these routes. If you decide to work with them, use your best judgment.
... Viridiscalculus ( talk) 06:11, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
An update three months after the push to work on the minor routes list began. The original plan was to expand more significant routes into their own articles and to place minor routes into the articles of their "parent." In May, consensus shifted away from placing related routes in their parent articles. The related routes scheme was less arbitrary than placing such highways in a minor routes list, but it was still arbitrary. A more objective approach was suggested to group all routes shorter than one mile together. That approach was adopted in the form of the List of state highways in Maryland shorter than one mile.
After that infrastructure was settled upon, the next step was to create articles for those routes in the minor routes list that were not shorter than one mile. Once all of those routes were removed, the remaining routes could then be transferred to the new list of highways shorter than one mile with minimal required revision. As of today, the final route longer than one mile was removed from the minor routes list. Therefore, the remaining routes in the minor routes list can now be transferred gradually to the new objective list. Once all routes have been transferred from the minor routes list, all references and links to the minor routes list will be changed to point to the new list and the minor routes list will be marked for deletion. Viridiscalculus ( talk) 23:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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The purpose of this list was established at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Roads_in_Maryland#Minor_Routes, and a unanimous consensus for its creation was reached. Its purpose is to list the routes that do not have enough information on them to write an entire article on. -Jeff (talk) 04:14, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
How detailed do we want this list to be? If you see my pending edits, I'm looking to add all current of 8xx and 9xx state roads in PG County. I may include 7xx, as well. My intentions are to do the same for Montgomery County. I will likely start adding these in on Wednesday or Thursday if no one objects. Note that these streets are *very* minor, in most cases being only a couple dozen feet long, being without any signs indicating state maintenance, and could very well be mistaken for someone's driveway. Oftentimes even the SHA staff do not realise that the roads are property of SHA, unless the MAARS Location Reference Guide is consulted. -- Thisisbossi 02:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd recommend covering old alignments not here but in the articles about the current routes. -- SPUI ( T - C) 01:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking that it would be a good idea to move the letter-suffixed routes from here to the articles on their parent routes. Even if there is no "parent" route for certain letter-suffixed routes (such as the 810s) we could still create an article to group them under ( Maryland Route 810) and put them there. A couple of articles where this is already done are Maryland Route 648 and Maryland Route 835. -Jeff (talk) 03:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Should I add something about MD 911 in Rockville, MoCo to this list. It connects Veirs Mill Road ( MD 586 and MD 28) and the northern part of First Street(MD 28, also) with Rockville Pike ( MD 355). At this point, First Street (MD 911) turns into Wootton Parkway, which has no designation. -- RockRNC 01:13, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
User:Dough4872 changed the approximate length of MD 715 from 1.2 mi to 1.19 mi. I reverted that change because the difference amounts to less than 53 feet. At the moderate speed of 45 mi/h, that works out to the distance driven in eight tenths of a second! Such precision is inappropriate, especially in a statistic labeled as approximate. PaulTanenbaum 17:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
The definition of a "minor highway" is either undefined, ambiguous, or arbitrary. The best way to eliminate having to figure out what a minor highway is for purpose of having it on a list of minor highways is to eliminate the list altogether. However, there is a lot of valuable information in the list that needs to be saved. Most of that information can be put to good use either by expanding the data into new, well-developed articles or moving the information to articles about related highways. The goal of this initiative is to eventually retire the list while transferring all relevant data to other articles. To accomplish this, over time we will transfer every route on the list either (1) to the article of a related route, or (2) to its own developed article.
If you have any questions or comments, please offer them here. In the next week, I will provide a list of minor highways that we should target for either folding into other articles or splitting out into new articles. Viridiscalculus ( talk) 04:15, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Once you take action on a particular minor highway, please remove that highway from the article.
The following minor highways (before the colon) should be placed in a Related routes section of the parent article (after the colon):
The following minor highways should be expanded to their own article. Remember, if you cannot expand a particular route to at least a start-class article, please leave it for someone else to pick up.
It is unclear what the course of action should be for these routes. If you decide to work with them, use your best judgment.
... Viridiscalculus ( talk) 06:11, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
An update three months after the push to work on the minor routes list began. The original plan was to expand more significant routes into their own articles and to place minor routes into the articles of their "parent." In May, consensus shifted away from placing related routes in their parent articles. The related routes scheme was less arbitrary than placing such highways in a minor routes list, but it was still arbitrary. A more objective approach was suggested to group all routes shorter than one mile together. That approach was adopted in the form of the List of state highways in Maryland shorter than one mile.
After that infrastructure was settled upon, the next step was to create articles for those routes in the minor routes list that were not shorter than one mile. Once all of those routes were removed, the remaining routes could then be transferred to the new list of highways shorter than one mile with minimal required revision. As of today, the final route longer than one mile was removed from the minor routes list. Therefore, the remaining routes in the minor routes list can now be transferred gradually to the new objective list. Once all routes have been transferred from the minor routes list, all references and links to the minor routes list will be changed to point to the new list and the minor routes list will be marked for deletion. Viridiscalculus ( talk) 23:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)