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The Harrisburg Area Roads WikiProject

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about roads in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.

An article describing the logic and basic history of the Pennsylvania Highway System is necessary to accompany the current List of State Routes in Pennsylvania and List of Pennsylvania numbered highways article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material.

[edit] Routes Worthy of Articles

The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:

Quadrant Pennsylvania State Routes
Routes that are partly constructed.
Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these can be merged onto a single article, Deleted Pennsylvania state highways.

For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these can be merged onto another article, Unconstructed Pennsylvania state highways.

Project lists:

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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

[edit] Participants

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Harrisburg Area Roads/Userbox}}

This user is a member of the Harrisburg Area Roads WikiProject.

Myselfalso
TwinsMetsFan - Been to Harrisburg once, but only passed through. Happy to help.
Wrightchr
Vishwin60 - About time I joined...been to Harrisburg 5 times, but passed through 4.
PYLrulz - What the hell, since im from near Harrisburg (Lancaster County), ill help out.
JohnnyAlbert10 I've been to Harrisburg like 4 times but passed through many times. Happy to help.

[edit] How you can help

No article that currently exists is in compliance with the standards. You can help by adding to the existing articles and reformatting them to the project standards.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Harrisburg Area Roads:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Structure

Route articles should be named "Pennsylvania Route N" where N is the route number. Route shields should be in SVG format and stored at Wikimedia Commons and should be named "PA-X.svg", where X is the route number.

Quadrant route articles should be named "State Route X (Y County, Pennsylvania)" where X is the route number and Y is the name of the county in which the quadrant route is located. Route shields should be in SVG format and stored at Wikimedia Commans and should be named "PA QR X.svg", where X is the route number. It should be noted that quadrant routes are repeated throughout the state, so there are duplicate quadrant route numbers. Hence the necessity of the "(Y County, Pennsylvania)" in the article name.

The naming of quadrant route articles is currently being discussed; see WT:USSH.

[edit] Infobox

The Infobox to use for this project is the Template:Infobox road template.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete routebox on the article page, just place this before any other text and fill in the variables.

{{Infobox HAR
|route=
|name=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
}}

Colonial Road

Quadrant Route 3017 (Dauphin County)

South end:

US 22

Major
junctions:

PA 39

North end:

South Carolina Drive

Harrisburg Area Roads

For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:

route: the number of the route
name: name of the road
route: This is the number of the route the article is about
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. For example: <ref name=pah>[http://www.pahighways.com/state/PA1-50.html#PA39 Pennsylvania Highways - Pennsylvania Route 39]</ref>
established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
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.
junction: Any major junctions along the route should be listed here. If more than one is listed, use a <br> to break the lines
direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus

Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. If you do an infobox for PA 79, the following route would be I-80, not PA-80. PA-80 would succeed I-80 as there is no U.S. 80 in Pennsylvania. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Pennsylvania route.

So, by completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one to the right.

{{Infobox HAR
|route=3017
|name=Colonial Road
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=South
|starting_terminus=[[Image:US 22.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 22|US 22]]
|junction=[[Image:PA-39.svg|20px]] [[Pennsylvania Route 39|PA 39]]
|direction_b=North
|ending_terminus=South Carolina Drive
}}

[edit] Main section

Untitled section that describes the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (W/E or S/N) and termination points, or may go into considerable detail. However, the majority of detail, such as progress by town or county, should be reserved for the next section.

[edit] Route description

This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across the counties of Pennsylvania. This section should be broken up by counties using third-level headlines. If the route is contained entirely in one county, then it is not necessary to give said county a third-level headline. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] Cities and towns

A section containing a list of cities and towns along the route, from south to north and/or west to east.

[edit] Major intersections

This section is for listing all of the intersections, both actual junctions and over/underpasses, that this route has with PA traffic routes (1-999), Interstates and U.S. routes.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete junction table on the article page, just place this in the Major Intersections section and fill in the variables. An example of a complete table is at Pennsylvania Route 18.

{{PAinttop}}
{{PAint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{PAintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{PAint
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}

For the above parameters, here's what you should fill in:

county: name of the county without wiki markup - the county is automatically linked by the template
cspan: number of rows the county spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
location: name of the location without wiki markup - the location is automatically linked by the template
lspan: number of rows the location spans - if value=1, omit this parameter
area: (optional for use with location) used to disambiguate between town, city, village, etc.
ctdab: (optional for use with location) further disambiguation by county (Brighton in New York is an example where this tag would be used)
location_special: (replaces location) location where the junction is located - use for custom entries only. Wiki markup is required.
type: noaccess, mplex (for concurrency), decomd (for decommissioned), unbuilt, closed
mile: milepost of the junction. If unknown, leave blank.
road: road that the article route intersects at this junction. To generate the proper coding, use {{subst:PAint/XX}}, where XX is:
- PAint/PA:{{subst:PAint/PA|(route number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}
- PAint/US:{{subst:PAint/US|(route number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}
- PAint/IN:{{subst:PAint/IN|(Interstate number)|(size of shield in pixels)}}.
street: (optional for use with location) Used to break up monotony in sections where the route has the same town name six or more times over (see NY 33 for an example of appropriate usage).
notes: any notes regarding that junction.

Any parameter which is empty can be omitted.

[edit] Attractions

Major attractions along the road.

[edit] History

History of the road. This can be as brief as a sentence or as extensive as a few paragraphs.

[edit] Notes

Put all oddities, miscellanea, etc. here. Recent projects to improve/upgrade the road, if applicable. Road in popular culture, if applicable.

[edit] Sources

Put all sources here.

[edit] External links

Links having to do with entire highway go here.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub templates

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[edit] Cleanup templates

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