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Nominations for Portal:U.S. Roads selected articles and pictures needed.
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Deletion debates

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AFD:

Volusia County Road 4164 closed as withdrawn by nominator
List of highways numbered 888 – closed as keep

CFD:
TFD:

Obsolete road infoboxes - closed as delete all
Usrd1 and Usrd2

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Maps Task Force

There is a backlist of maps requested.

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Newsletter

Nominations for featured member and project needed

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Assessment

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Peer reviews

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Article Improvement Drive

The current article for improvement is U.S. Route 40.
The current article for expansion is U.S. Route 191.
CAST YOUR VOTE for next week's article

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Shields

All shields should be moved from Wikipedia to the Commons so that the shields can be better organized.

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Interstates

To-do list has been updated; see WP:IH.
See User:Vishwin60/Roads for the status of 2di Interstates.

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U.S. Highways

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Alabama

Project started.

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Connecticut

Help needed for some project tasks -- if interested, see Project talk page for details.
Stubs created for all routes 1-99. Articles for about 50% of all current routes now created.

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Florida

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Georgia

Stub category created. Use {{GeorgiaUS-road-stub}}.
Lowest mainline route without an article: S.R. 59

Active mainline routes w/articles: 215 of 335 — 64.18%
Former or future routes w/articles: 31 of 82 - 37.80%
Maps for all mainline routes at Commons
Completion list

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Illinois

All mainline, current articles completed. Will use redirects for decommissioned routes.
Three "best-practice" articles converted at Illinois 19, Illinois 23 and Illinois 54. Discuss on the project talk page.
Infobox converted to Infobox road.

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Indiana

Get basic project setup:
- Add infoboxes to all articles.
- Add the stub template to the article if necessary.
Best-practice article at Indiana State Road 2.
Get more members.

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Kentucky

This project has been demoted to a task force.
Kentucky Route 44 added. Partially detailed with infobox, stub status.

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Maryland

A cleanup template has been created at {{cleanup-mdrd}}
If you know of any Maryland state highways that can be added to List of state highways in the United States shorter than one mile, please do.
A list of B-class articles is on the project page, right now these are the project's best articles, try to improve them as best you can to create our project's first good article.

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Massachusetts

Clean up all articles to meet project standards.

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Michigan

Lowest active route not infoboxed/mapped: none
Lowest active route without an article: none
Completion list is available here
Route maps at Commons

^{All active Michigan trunklines have a map available at the above link}

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New Hampshire

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New Jersey

Infoboxes have been added for all current state routes.
To-do list added to project page for a "final run-through".

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New York

Lowest active route without an article: 11A.
Lowest decommissioned route without an article: 20A.
NYSR members are invited to vote on next month's project featured article.

County Routes

More members needed.

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North Carolina

Active mainline routes w/articles: 39%
Lowest mainline route without an article: NC 33
Our beloved ncroads.com source has shut down, but a mirror can be found at the NC Roads Annex.

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Ohio

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Pennsylvania

Nominations for next month's featured article needed
Pennsylvania Route 39 is now recognized as a good article!
See PA Routes Status for the status of PA Routes 1 to 100.
Best-practice article: Pennsylvania Route 39.
Three articles are up for GA status:

Pennsylvania Route 145

Schuylkill Expressway

Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania

WP:HbgAR

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

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Rhode Island

Project started.
All articles need to be cleaned up to meet project standards.

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South Carolina

Get all articles up to project standards.
- Best-practice article: South Carolina Highway 277

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Vermont

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Virginia

Route infobox is upgraded

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

Articles need to be expanded and revised to conform with standards.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject Illinois State Routes

[edit] Scope

To take whatever individual articles on Illinois State Routes currently exist, and standardize according to structure defined in #Structure below.

[edit] Highways to include

All known numbered Illinois state routes
Notable non-Interstate highways (Elgin-O'Hare Expressway, Kingery Highway)
Interstate and U.S. Route state-level detail pages (U.S. Route 20 in Illinois)
Lists of Illinois county highways (List of County Highways in DuPage County, Illinois)

Any and all ordinary Interstate Highways, whether two or three digits or entirely in the state of Illinois, are covered under Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways. Please use their standards on those pages.

[edit] Quick links

Progress reports – blog-like progress reports.
External correspondence – track communications with external entities like usegroups, Yahoo! groups and the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Illinois road lengths – sub-project of U.S. Roads WikiProject to document precise lengths of U.S. and Illinois state routes.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Illinois

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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

[edit] Ancestry

Ancestors
Transport → Highways → U.S. Roads →			WikiProject Illinois State Routes
Countries →	U.S. states →	Illinois →
Countries →	U.S. regions →
Geography →	U.S. regions →

[edit] Participants

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LpAngelRob — leader. I know about most highways in Chicago, Peoria, and most everywhere in between. Also chip into IN state routes sometimes...

"The Illinois State Routes WikiProject was born on March 20, 2006 when I (Rob) finally saw a few too many interpretations of how a State Route article is supposed to look. This project is meant to unify the best aspects of each approach while providing the best experience for browsing Illinois State Routes by a casual reader." —Rob (talk) 20:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) helping although I dont live in IL
Greg Beat — Although now living in Chicago, I am primarily assisting with western and central Illinois sections (where I was born and raised). While I do not have as much time in late 2006, I will contribute when available. There was a "method" to the IL state route numbering system in 1918 and 1924 when the State Bond Issue (SBI routes) were established for these routes/roads - Rick Carlson is a great reference.
master_son^{Lets talk} can help - near the north border.
V60 ^{VTalk · VDemolitions · VRoads} - I started the nearby WP:INSR, helping wherever I can

[edit] Recommended Article Structure

The best practice articles are currently Illinois Route 19 and Illinois Route 54. I have found the structure below works quite well. In general, if you have a list of things on a route, list these items from south to north and west to east, except for the direction field, where we say "east-west" and "north-south" more commonly. This follows Interstate mile marker convention.

[edit] Article name

For now, "Illinois Route x" where 'x' is the number of the state route.

[edit] (Header)

The first element of the page should be the project's infobox. For numbered state routes, it is Template:Infobox Illinois state route. If the highway does not have a number, use Template:Infobox road for now. If the highway has a number, but is more commonly referred to by its name, use Template:Infobox road. See Kennedy Expressway for a good example of the last one.

The introductory paragraph of the article is supposed to briefly cover the important elements, but not repeat verbatim what is in the associated infobox. Mileage, termini and and brief description of the territory the road covers should be sufficient.

[edit] Route description

This section should exist for all highways. It should consist of the basic reasons (besides the fact that the state route may just have been legislated into existence) that the route is there. Describe the character of the road through the towns; if it is scenic, mention that. This paragraph should be written from the present point of view, so leave off any historical precedent until the next section.

[edit] History

The history of this route number should be discussed here. Sometimes routes have long and fanciful histories, while others do not. This section, regardless of how short the history of the state route may be, should be included in every state route page. Important events that occurred on the route should also be in this section. If you can trace the route to an originate State Bond Issue (SBI), feel free to do so.

[edit] Future

This section is entirely optional. If there are plans to substantially widen, or lengthen, (or shorten) the highway in question in the 5 year plan of the Illinois Department of Transportation, mention those plans here, along with reasons why the highway is being widened, lengthened, or shortened. Rumor, hearsay and speculation do NOT belong in this section! Illinois Route 336 is a good example of an article needing a Future section.

[edit] Major junctions

This section is optional, but useful. Creation of a table that looks like the following is encouraged:

City	County	Routes	Notes
Name of city...	...and county (can span rows) where...	...intersection of State, U.S. and Interstate routes occur. Use termini format as in infobox.	Notes about this city or junction here. If there is more than one junction, cite the specific junction in the note.

This has been tried in list form. It doesn't work. In general, the only content of this section should be the table as above. Avoid using tables in any section aside from "Major junctions" and "Interchanges".

[edit] Exit list

This section is optional, but very useful... and only for state highways that are at least partially highways (example: Illinois Route 6). Creation of a table follows the exit list guide is preferred; see that article for details.

A full example is currently available on Elgin-O'Hare Expressway. Some highways, especially state highways, don't have mile markers. That column may be omitted if the author doesn't want to go through the long (hours of research) process of finding out the mile number. Approximations are better than nothing, and can be indicated with a tilde (~).

Avoid using tables in any section aside from "Major junctions" and "Interchanges".

[edit] Notes

Notes sections in this case are discouraged, as they can be worked into the route description. However, if there really is only a sentence's worth of content associated with a given route, it should be placed in a bulleted list under the Notes section.

[edit] References

This section is required. Definitely do use references in the article. See Wikipedia:Footnotes. Use of Template:Cite web inside ref tags is recommended.

[edit] External links

This section is optional, but not recommended for citation purposes, since we don't really know what the external link was used for if there's just a list of links. If, on the other hand, the page contains copyrighted information (such as copyrighted pictures) that could add to the informative value of the article, then an external links section is acceptable.

[edit] Categories

There are a few guidelines for which categories to put these articles in, but overcategorization is a definite concern. Place Illinois State Route articles in the following categories:

Category:Illinois state highways. Use the pipe trick:

1di and 2di highways: [[Category:Illinois state highways|0xx]] where xx is the number of the route
3di highways: [[Category:Illinois state highways|y|xx]] where yxx is the number of the route

The category for each county the route runs through, i.e. Category:Tazewell County, Illinois.
Avoid categories for each individual city on the route. Categories for major cities are acceptable.

Categories for notable highways but not Illinois state routes

Use these for things like Lincoln Highway or Kingery Expressway, not Illinois Route 1.

[edit] Lists

List of Illinois Routes

[edit] Articles

Best practice articles: Illinois Route 19, Illinois Route 23, Illinois Route 54

[edit] Browse boxes

There are two browsing areas that affect Illinois Routes pages:

Illinois Route Infobox — the infobox on the top right of the article contains links to the immediate previous, and immediate next Illinois Route. There is also a "See also" section that links to similarly numbered, "other" routes (U.S. and Interstate Highways).
Browse State Highways on U.S. and Interstate Routes — U.S. and Interstate Route pages relate to State Route pages by the means of a browse box (see the bottom of U.S. Route 6 as an example). Follow established standards on WP:USH and WP:IH for U.S. Routes and Interstate Highways respectively.

[edit] Browsing order

The following demonstrates a sample procession of browsing order on U.S. and Interstate detail pages, per WP:USRD/INNA:

... --> --> --> --> --> ...

This order is: Interstate X, US X, IL X, Interstate X+1, US X+1, IL X+1... (only link to route if the route exists).

[edit] Resources

Illinois Highways Page by Rich Carlson. Excellent resource on Illinois highway history.
Highways of the State of Illinois by Bill Burmaster. Has a lot of highway signs and other photos for most routes, as well as brief descriptions of each route.
ArcExplorer — a GIS data viewer. Use with...
GIS data. This has a lot of fields, including precise mileage data as reflected in Wikipedia:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Lengths/Illinois.
Illinois Highway Ends, Charles Sarjeant. Photographs of ends, multiplexes, and signs - Maps - Descriptions of current routes and history - Links relevant to Illinois highways.

[edit] Templates

Type

Syntax

Example

Infobox

See {{Infobox Illinois state route}} for proper usage.

See Illinois Route 23 for a fully fleshed out example.

Talk page tag

{{Illinois State Routes WikiProject}} or {{WikiProject Illinois State Routes}}

	This article is within the scope of the Illinois State Routes WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Illinois State Routes, U.S. Routes and Interstate Highways in Illinois. 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.

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[edit] Title

[edit] Scope

[edit] Highways to include

[edit] Quick links

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

[edit] Ancestry

[edit] Participants

[edit] Recommended Article Structure

[edit] Article name

[edit] (Header)

[edit] Route description

[edit] History

[edit] Future

[edit] Major junctions

[edit] Exit list

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Browse boxes

[edit] Browsing order

[edit] Resources

[edit] Templates

[edit] Pages needing attention

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