Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida State Roads

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Welcome to the Florida State Roads WikiProject!
Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Florida State Roads page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.
This month's featured article from Portal U.S. Roads:
Interstate 476 is a 132 mile long Interstate Highway that travels between Interstate 95 near Chester, Pennsylvania and Interstate 81 near Scranton, Pennsylvania, serving as the primary north-south Interstate corridor through eastern Pennsylvania. It consists of both the approximately 21 mile Mid-County Expressway (locally referred to as the Blue Route) through the suburban Philadelphia counties of Delaware and Montgomery, and the 110 mile Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike connecting the Philadelphia metropolitan area with the Lehigh Valley, the Poconos, and the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. While proposed as early as 1929, the construction of the Mid-County Expressway through Delaware County, Pennsylvania was not completed until 1992 due to massive community and environmental opposition during the freeway revolts of the 1960s and 1970s, leading The Philadelphia Inquirer to dub it "the most costly, most bitterly opposed highway in Pennsylvania history." Following the completion of the Mid-County Expressway, in 1996 the Interstate 476 designation was extended to include the entire length of the existing Northeast Extension, making I-476 the longest auxiliary Interstate highway in the United States. More about Interstate 476... Recommend next month's Selected Article • Previous Selected Articles
Task forces	Assessment • Infoboxes and Navigation • Maps • Shields
Subpages	Collaboration on selecting/improving articles: Article Improvement Drive Guidelines for creating/designing exit lists: Exit list guide General info about U.S. Roads IRC channels: Internet Relay Chat Road length sources: Newsletter: Newsletter List of XFD debates/discussions: Precedents Redirect completion list: Redirects
Guidelines	Manual of Style for the naming of articles: Naming Conventions Guideline for exit lists: Exit list guide Guideline for infoboxes: Infobox guide Guideline for browse boxes: Navigation guide
Shortcuts: WP:FLSR	U.S. Roads Portal	Florida Portal

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in Florida, also known as State Roads (note the capitals). This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.

[edit] Routes Worthy of Articles

The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:

• Roads that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with their own route numbers.
• Roads that are partly constructed or partly signed.
• Deleted roads with significant information worthy of an article.
• Interstates that run entirely in Florida (mostly spur and loop routes). Ideally, these should also be part of this WikiProject.
• Florida specific Interstate articles. For example: Interstate 10 in Florida

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these should be merged onto a following articles, Former State Roads in east central Florida, Former State Roads in southern Florida, ect...

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Florida

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects

Alabama | California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in a newsletter, please add yourself to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. New members will no longer be added to this list.

• --Holderca1 18:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• As with Georgia, I've been helping here. --NE2 05:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• DanTD A die-hard roadgeek since early childhood and a Florida resident since 1999, thanks to the high cost of living on Long Island. I'm still dedicated to road improvements throughouth the country, and have been adding information on roads before I joined Wikipedia, especially for New York and Florida roads.
• Mitchazenia (7300+edits). For one thing, i've been to FL to know enough already.
• Aerobird 23:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
• EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 03:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC) - My speciality is the Tampa Bay area and everything around it!

[edit] Structure

All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.

[edit] History

A history of the state road. This can be as brief as a few sentences or as elaborate as a few paragraphs.

[edit] Route description

These are subsections. For state roads that transverse a large part of the state, the description should be broken up using third level headings (===Miami===, for example). For state roads that transverse a large part of the state use region subsections (i.e. South Florida, Panhandle). Shorter routes that only transverse a few counties can use county subsections. All state roads that transverse one of Florida's metropolitan areas, should have that metro area as a subsection. Simply write a general paragraph of the route's routing through the region/cities/counties.

Alternate, business, and spur routes should be listed in this section as part of the text.

Route descriptions should be listed from south to north and west to east.

[edit] Major cities

Place the list of cities in an infobox located at the top of the "Route description" section. Include all cities with a population of 2,000 or greater. Use the following coding to generate the box:

{| {{Florida cities}}
*
*
*
|}

For Interstates use:

{| {{Florida cities}}
*
*
*
{{control cities}}<ref>http://users.adelphia.net/~pwolf/controlcities.html [[American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials]] [[control cities]].</ref>
|}

The cities should be listed from south to north and west to east. Control cities should be bolded.

[edit] Exit/Junction List

A table list of intersections with other Interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and farm/ranch to market roads. See Exit list guide for guidance.

[edit] Notes

Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.

[edit] See also

Articles relating to the history.

[edit] References

Put references here, using the new footnoting system.

[edit] External links

Links having to do with entire highway go here.

[edit] Goals

1. Write articles
2. Write good articles
3. Write featured articles
4. Make redirects listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida State Roads/Completion list

[edit] Tasks

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida State Roads:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Create an article for every state road Cleanup: Ensure every article has an infobox; Ensure all exit lists conform with WP:USRD/ELG

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Florida-State-Road-stub}} talk	This article relating to Florida State Roads is a stub. Please help Wikipedia by expanding it.	Designates this article relating to Florida State Roads as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:Florida State Road stubs
{{Florida State Road WikiProject}} talk	This article is part of the Florida State Road WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in Florida. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.	Designates the current article as part of the WikiProject Florida State Roadss. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{featuredfsr}} talk	This route is currently a featured article from the Florida State Road WikiProject.	Designates the current article as a featured article of the WikiProject Florida State Roadss. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{cleanup-flsr}} talk	This Florida State Road article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject Florida State Roads. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. For help, see How to Edit a Page, Category:Wikipedia help and the project page. No reason has been given for tagging this article as in need of cleanup. Please provide rationale, including an explanation of what work needs to be done.	Designates the current article as in need of a Wikipedia:Cleanup, especially with regards to updating it to current standards as outlined in the Florida State Roads WikiProject.

[edit] Infoboxes

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Infobox road}} talk	State Road 9A Maintained by FDOT Length: 25 mi[1] (40 km) (including portions under construction) Formed: 1945 West end: I-95/I-295 in Jacksonville Major junctions: SR 202 in Jacksonville SR 105 in Jacksonville North end: I-95/I-295 in Jacksonville Florida State and County Roads < SR 9 SR 9B >	Parameters: marker_image: shield image to be displayed state: two-letter abbreviation for Florida - FL highway_name: road name to be displayed; only use this if the road is unnumbered. If it has a number, use alternate_name. name_notes: foot notes that will be displayed in small text underneath the highway name type: The value for this is: Interstate, US, or state for Interstates, U.S. Routes and state roads, respectively. route: This is the number of the route the article is about alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name maint: The agency that maintains the highway map: image name of a map for the route, width should be 290px; see the maps task force for maps 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 paramater, 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 paramater. length_ref: To do what a good article writer should, provide your reference for the length of the route using standard <ref> method. length_notes: see below established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment decommissioned: date the route was decommissioned 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 travelling 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. beltway_city: for beltways. This is the city that the beltway encircles junction: a list of major junctions. Each WikiProject has different standards for major junctions, so consult the relevant WikiProject for more details. 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 list of counties that the route enters cities: a list of cities that the route enters system: the highway system that the article route is part of previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or state for Interstates, U.S. Routes and state roads, respectively. Each state has a different parameter for state roads, so consult the WikiProject if in doubt. 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 browse: use to add additional browse lines commons: use to add link to image gallery or category in commons, input should be gallery, category, or left blank

[edit] Categories

All articles are placed into a category: either Category:Florida State Roads, Category:U.S. Highways in Florida, or Category:Interstate Highways in Florida. The sort key is a three digit number representing the route number.

[edit] See also

• State Roads in Florida