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Anybody interested in a WikiProject on Oregon highways? Several possible suspects may receive similar questions on their homepages... -- EngineerScotty 05:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Now a benefit of setting up a WikiProject is to have a standardized structure. If you don't want other people changing your work and messing it all up then you can implement a WP to coordinate efforts. That way people can't just remove your {{ routeboxint}} for no reason. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 22:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Also, the people at SFD will be ticked if we don't have a WP for the stub type. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 02:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been considering setting one up for Oklahoma for a few weeks but I'm not really sure if there's any interest in it either - no point in having a one-person WikiProject after all. I've written 20 articles and there's 3 that others have written, so it's about to get unmanageable for one person soon. (By the way, I figure there's 127 encyclopedic articles that could be written, meaning that only 18% of them are done.) Scott 5114 22:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
So should we start Oregon soon? Once we finish WP:NC/NH I'll have more time on my hands.... or if someone else wants to start it then they can.... and as a bonus then we can resurrect our deleted stub. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 05:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Kansas Turnpike is currently up for peer review. Scott 5114 02:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone have a general "Highway" infobox? The U.S. and Interstate ones are too specific — I need something that applies to (read: can be flexible with) routes with no shields, or 2+ shields, and yet contain enough relevant info about the specific expressway. This will be used on things like the Borman Expressway. Thanks! — Rob ( talk) 17:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
If noone objects, by Monday I will be moving all lists to the correct convention. For example, I will move "List of Alabama state highways" to "List of Alabama State Routes" (since they are, in fact Alabama State Routes). This will strengthen our case for fixing the highway capitalizations. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 21:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I object to moving state highways in New Jersey, as I believe in that case "state highways in New Jersey" is a correct way of saying it. On the other hand, "New Jersey State Route" is a neologistic phrase; officially the routes are "State Highway Route X" and are state highways, roads maintained by the state. In other states, like Massachusetts, list of numbered routes in Massachusetts is really the only correct formulation, as the routes are state-numbered, but not necessarily state-maintained. In general, I object to using the neologism "state type X" at all. Disambiguation is done with parentheses after, not by putting the state before. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Related to this is we have a number of pages for "New York State Highway N" where N is the number, and each belongs in the category "New York state highways". So far so good. Now why do we have a page called "List of State Routes in New York"? Currently it includes Interstates and U.S. Routes but I don't usually refer to them as "State Routes" or "State Highways", so maybe it should be renamed? If it should NOT include Interstates, etc., shouldn't it be "List of New York state highways" to agree with the category name? I am just looking at NY in this case so if there is a standard already decided, is NY set up this way to comply with the standard? If so why is this the standard? -- Censorwolf 20:26, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/U.S. state highway naming conventions#Capitalization, where we're having this same discussion. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 07:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I would not move pages such as "State Highways in New Jersey". What I'm trying to fix is "List of Alaska state highways." -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:03, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on getting distances to two decimal places for US 30. I'm going to set up Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Lengths for discussion. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 01:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm obviously biased, as I wrote these articles, but I'd recommend Interstate 73 and Interstate 99. West Side Highway is an adaptation of a paper I wrote for college. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 08:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Maybe some of the highway lists like List of California State Routes, List of Interstate Highways, and List of U.S. Routes, as well as Interstate 80, Interstate 90, and Interstate 95. Some of the other Interstate articles may be good as well. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd say that most of the primary Interstate articles have potential to be published, except for a few. However, there could be some improvements made. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've started Wikipedia:Naming conventions/Numbered highways. I'm not sure about the exact process, so if it needs to be submitted anywhere, someone should do so. But we should probably come to some rough consensus first that this is what we want. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 20:49, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just created Portal:U.S. Roads. The intent of this is to serve as a portal to interstate, US, and state highways. If you have any comments, please post them here. I had considered including "streets" here as well, does anyone have a comment on it? Any comments are welcome.
If you wish to post request for selected article, selected picture, or "Did you know?", please post it at the talk page there, other comments, at least until this is fully up and running, please post here. Right now I'm concerned with it's appearance, etc. Much of what I used for the selected article, picture, and "Did you know" I kind of pulled out of a hat. US 66 seemed to be a good article to kick off with and the picture of I-80 looked good, so I used them. I would like to leave this through February and March, then begin changing them every month. "Did you know" I will change "as needed" (for now). I would like to get a small group to help determine these, if possible. Preferably, the selected article should have a photo selection and should be based on the article itself over any particular route. You can also leave comments at my talk page.
I will post a notice of the new Portal on the different WikiProject highway pages and will direct comments to this page since it is the partent project. Rt66lt 03:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Very good idea. -- Censorwolf 04:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to leave the last, unnamed box for a short while in case anybody decides something else to use. There were some I deleted ("Biography", "Quotes") that didn't seem to apply. If no one suggest anything else to add, I 'll remove the leftover one later. Rt66lt 04:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm still curious about including streets. Although they aren't part of the WikiProject, they still are roads. I think they should be included in the portal. I was going to put the portal template on the main articles (interstates, US highways, and the list of state highways -- but not the individual roads, that would be a monstrous job!). I started to put it on the interstate page, but in the preview it seemed to mess the article up.
I think we should go ahead and put a new selected article, photo, etc. up at the beginning of March. I think the portal looks fine, unless someone has suggestions. I would like to keep a balance between the different kind of roads presented (like right now, a US route is the selected article, the image is an interstate). Any ideas? Rt66lt 01:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Should there be a box for the talk page of the selected article stating that the article was selected (like the featured articles)? Portal:London does this. I was thinking just the article and image, not the DYK or news. Rt66lt 19:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I put up a suggestion for selected article and picture in their suggestion pages. US 1 for the article and I-15 near Pimm, Nevada. I realize that a US route and an interstate were in the same positions to start, but these looked good. Rt66lt 02:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
To add to the above, did you want me to start it and if so, how would I do that? Station Attendant 22:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Should I wait for a consensus? Station Attendant 03:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that some of the sign images are not loading, so far they've all been interstates. If you click on it, it takes you to the image page, but they're blank, too. Is this me, or has anyone else noticed it (Interstate 95 is one of these)? Rt66lt 03:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that all the state route boxes that use junction legends all use the same colors. That's great. But the route boxes all have the legend imbedded. See Template_talk:Routeboxny for my analysis. I may have missed a state or two, but I was using this project's "Similar Projects" list for reference.
I created a new {{ Template:Routebox_legend}} which is the common colors, including the county name header which only NY and TX used. Refer to {{ Template:Routeboxny}} to see how I referenced it.
I won't change other state route boxes, leaving that to the project editors of each state.
-- Censorwolf 15:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The box is fine as it is. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
How about making a Pennsylvania State Highways Wikiproject? Pennsylvania has many roadways, including possibly the most famous: the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I'm all up for starting it. -- myselfalso 17:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-12 U.S. Roads. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
There has been some discussion at Talk:Iowa State Highways about making articles for decommissioned routes. I just thought that I would ask for some opinions on this. -- Station Attendant 23:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I created a new category: "State highways shorter than one mile". If you know of any, please add. It currently has four articles in it. Please, not spurs, loops, county roads, etc. Rt66lt 03:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone else interesting in the big job of working on Texas state highways and Farm-to-Market and Ranch-to-Market Roads? I wouldn't mind firing up a Wikiproject page to coordinate the work, etc..and perhaps one or two others might start with the roads in their own County for starters. DavidBavousett 04:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
U.S. Route 66 has been listed as a good article. Rt66lt 21:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
Anybody interested in a WikiProject on Oregon highways? Several possible suspects may receive similar questions on their homepages... -- EngineerScotty 05:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Now a benefit of setting up a WikiProject is to have a standardized structure. If you don't want other people changing your work and messing it all up then you can implement a WP to coordinate efforts. That way people can't just remove your {{ routeboxint}} for no reason. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 22:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Also, the people at SFD will be ticked if we don't have a WP for the stub type. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 02:26, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I've been considering setting one up for Oklahoma for a few weeks but I'm not really sure if there's any interest in it either - no point in having a one-person WikiProject after all. I've written 20 articles and there's 3 that others have written, so it's about to get unmanageable for one person soon. (By the way, I figure there's 127 encyclopedic articles that could be written, meaning that only 18% of them are done.) Scott 5114 22:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
So should we start Oregon soon? Once we finish WP:NC/NH I'll have more time on my hands.... or if someone else wants to start it then they can.... and as a bonus then we can resurrect our deleted stub. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 05:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Kansas Turnpike is currently up for peer review. Scott 5114 02:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Does anyone have a general "Highway" infobox? The U.S. and Interstate ones are too specific — I need something that applies to (read: can be flexible with) routes with no shields, or 2+ shields, and yet contain enough relevant info about the specific expressway. This will be used on things like the Borman Expressway. Thanks! — Rob ( talk) 17:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
If noone objects, by Monday I will be moving all lists to the correct convention. For example, I will move "List of Alabama state highways" to "List of Alabama State Routes" (since they are, in fact Alabama State Routes). This will strengthen our case for fixing the highway capitalizations. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 21:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
I object to moving state highways in New Jersey, as I believe in that case "state highways in New Jersey" is a correct way of saying it. On the other hand, "New Jersey State Route" is a neologistic phrase; officially the routes are "State Highway Route X" and are state highways, roads maintained by the state. In other states, like Massachusetts, list of numbered routes in Massachusetts is really the only correct formulation, as the routes are state-numbered, but not necessarily state-maintained. In general, I object to using the neologism "state type X" at all. Disambiguation is done with parentheses after, not by putting the state before. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:53, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Related to this is we have a number of pages for "New York State Highway N" where N is the number, and each belongs in the category "New York state highways". So far so good. Now why do we have a page called "List of State Routes in New York"? Currently it includes Interstates and U.S. Routes but I don't usually refer to them as "State Routes" or "State Highways", so maybe it should be renamed? If it should NOT include Interstates, etc., shouldn't it be "List of New York state highways" to agree with the category name? I am just looking at NY in this case so if there is a standard already decided, is NY set up this way to comply with the standard? If so why is this the standard? -- Censorwolf 20:26, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/U.S. state highway naming conventions#Capitalization, where we're having this same discussion. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 07:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I would not move pages such as "State Highways in New Jersey". What I'm trying to fix is "List of Alaska state highways." -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:03, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I've been working on getting distances to two decimal places for US 30. I'm going to set up Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Lengths for discussion. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 01:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm obviously biased, as I wrote these articles, but I'd recommend Interstate 73 and Interstate 99. West Side Highway is an adaptation of a paper I wrote for college. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 08:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Maybe some of the highway lists like List of California State Routes, List of Interstate Highways, and List of U.S. Routes, as well as Interstate 80, Interstate 90, and Interstate 95. Some of the other Interstate articles may be good as well. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I'd say that most of the primary Interstate articles have potential to be published, except for a few. However, there could be some improvements made. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've started Wikipedia:Naming conventions/Numbered highways. I'm not sure about the exact process, so if it needs to be submitted anywhere, someone should do so. But we should probably come to some rough consensus first that this is what we want. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 20:49, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just created Portal:U.S. Roads. The intent of this is to serve as a portal to interstate, US, and state highways. If you have any comments, please post them here. I had considered including "streets" here as well, does anyone have a comment on it? Any comments are welcome.
If you wish to post request for selected article, selected picture, or "Did you know?", please post it at the talk page there, other comments, at least until this is fully up and running, please post here. Right now I'm concerned with it's appearance, etc. Much of what I used for the selected article, picture, and "Did you know" I kind of pulled out of a hat. US 66 seemed to be a good article to kick off with and the picture of I-80 looked good, so I used them. I would like to leave this through February and March, then begin changing them every month. "Did you know" I will change "as needed" (for now). I would like to get a small group to help determine these, if possible. Preferably, the selected article should have a photo selection and should be based on the article itself over any particular route. You can also leave comments at my talk page.
I will post a notice of the new Portal on the different WikiProject highway pages and will direct comments to this page since it is the partent project. Rt66lt 03:19, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Very good idea. -- Censorwolf 04:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to leave the last, unnamed box for a short while in case anybody decides something else to use. There were some I deleted ("Biography", "Quotes") that didn't seem to apply. If no one suggest anything else to add, I 'll remove the leftover one later. Rt66lt 04:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm still curious about including streets. Although they aren't part of the WikiProject, they still are roads. I think they should be included in the portal. I was going to put the portal template on the main articles (interstates, US highways, and the list of state highways -- but not the individual roads, that would be a monstrous job!). I started to put it on the interstate page, but in the preview it seemed to mess the article up.
I think we should go ahead and put a new selected article, photo, etc. up at the beginning of March. I think the portal looks fine, unless someone has suggestions. I would like to keep a balance between the different kind of roads presented (like right now, a US route is the selected article, the image is an interstate). Any ideas? Rt66lt 01:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Should there be a box for the talk page of the selected article stating that the article was selected (like the featured articles)? Portal:London does this. I was thinking just the article and image, not the DYK or news. Rt66lt 19:19, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I put up a suggestion for selected article and picture in their suggestion pages. US 1 for the article and I-15 near Pimm, Nevada. I realize that a US route and an interstate were in the same positions to start, but these looked good. Rt66lt 02:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
To add to the above, did you want me to start it and if so, how would I do that? Station Attendant 22:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Should I wait for a consensus? Station Attendant 03:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that some of the sign images are not loading, so far they've all been interstates. If you click on it, it takes you to the image page, but they're blank, too. Is this me, or has anyone else noticed it (Interstate 95 is one of these)? Rt66lt 03:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that all the state route boxes that use junction legends all use the same colors. That's great. But the route boxes all have the legend imbedded. See Template_talk:Routeboxny for my analysis. I may have missed a state or two, but I was using this project's "Similar Projects" list for reference.
I created a new {{ Template:Routebox_legend}} which is the common colors, including the county name header which only NY and TX used. Refer to {{ Template:Routeboxny}} to see how I referenced it.
I won't change other state route boxes, leaving that to the project editors of each state.
-- Censorwolf 15:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The box is fine as it is. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
How about making a Pennsylvania State Highways Wikiproject? Pennsylvania has many roadways, including possibly the most famous: the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I'm all up for starting it. -- myselfalso 17:41, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-03-12 U.S. Roads. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 20:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
There has been some discussion at Talk:Iowa State Highways about making articles for decommissioned routes. I just thought that I would ask for some opinions on this. -- Station Attendant 23:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
I created a new category: "State highways shorter than one mile". If you know of any, please add. It currently has four articles in it. Please, not spurs, loops, county roads, etc. Rt66lt 03:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone else interesting in the big job of working on Texas state highways and Farm-to-Market and Ranch-to-Market Roads? I wouldn't mind firing up a Wikiproject page to coordinate the work, etc..and perhaps one or two others might start with the roads in their own County for starters. DavidBavousett 04:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
U.S. Route 66 has been listed as a good article. Rt66lt 21:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)