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[edit] Scope

This project covers Indiana State Roads.

[edit] Routes worthy of articles

The following state roads can have entire articles dedicated to them:

• Routes that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with its own route number.
• Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
• Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
• Interstates that run entirely in Indiana (mostly spur and loop routes).

[edit] Multiple designations

If a route has multiple designations, the decision to make separate articles or use one article varies case by case.

• Indiana State Road 3 used to be a continuous route, but it was split in 1972 following the decommissioning of the route through Fort Wayne.
  • Approach: Single article with an <hr> in the infobox and short blurb about the split in the History section.
• Indiana State Road 4 are three completely different state roads that were never connected.
  • Approach: Disambiguation page with links to Indiana State Road 4 (west), Indiana State Road 4 (middle), and Indiana State Road 4 (east).

In the infobox of one designation of multiple state roads (SR 4, for example), use the {{in browse}} template instead of the default included with {{Infobox road}}, and set the link= variable to the click template:

{{click|image=Indiana X.svg|link=Indiana State Road X|width=25x20px|height=20px}}

See Indiana State Road 4 (west) for the working example.

[edit] Goals

To organize, standardize, and expand the articles on Indiana State Roads.

[edit] Naming conventions

Articles should be named Indiana State Road x per WP:USSH.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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

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[edit] Participants

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• Vishwin60 (talk • contribs) Founder/leader of project
• Lpangelrob (talk • contribs) — mostly NW Indiana and highways that border Illinois
• TwinsMetsFan (talk • contribs) floating in and out with standardization and such.
• Rschen7754 (talk • contribs) can help where needed
• Holderca1 (talk • contribs) - originally from Indiana, can help out where needed.

[edit] How you can help

	To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Indiana State Roads:	edit  · history  · watch  · refresh
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. edit · history · watch

[edit] Structure

[edit] Infobox information

State Road articles should use {{Infobox road}}. U.S. Routes use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, and Interstate highways use {{Infobox Interstate}} regardless if it's intrastate or not. All known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable flags as well as standards for the routebox.

[edit] Main Section

Untitled section that describes the route. It might be helpful for formatting to use {{TOCleft}} at the top of this section to display the table of contents on the top left, followed by the main description of the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (E/W or N/S) 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 Indiana. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

[edit] Communities along the route

List of communities, which can range from small hamlets to large cities, along the route. Depending on the length of the route this may include only major communities, or just the few hamlets the route passes through. This info should be put in the infobox, similar to the guidelines at WP:MOSH.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

The contents of this section may vary by route. Refer to the table below for the appropriate section header and further instructions.

[edit] Attractions

Any attractions along the route should be noted in this section.

[edit] History

Any historical information known about the route should be noted.

[edit] Miscellanea

Any trivia or facts about a route (any interesting information that doesn't belong in the History section) should be placed in this section.

[edit] See also

Place all internal links here.

[edit] References

Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and the <references/> tag in this section.

[edit] External links

Place all external links which are not references here.

[edit] Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:Indiana state highways|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002").

[edit] Talk pages

{{Indiana State Roads WikiProject}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to Indiana State Roads.

[edit] Infobox

[edit] Touring routes

The Infobox to use for state roads is the {{Infobox road}} template. Interstates use {{Infobox Interstate}} ({{Infobox Interstate/Intrastate}} if intrastate), and U.S. Routes use {{Infobox U.S. Route}}, respectively.

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. Note that this is a complete list of every variable that can be used with Infobox road and that many are unnecessary in most cases. Variables that are empty can be omitted.

{{Infobox road
|marker_image=
|state=IN
|highway_name=
|name_notes=
|type=IN
|route=
|alternate_name=
|maint=[[Indiana Department of Transportation|INDOT]]
|section=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=<ref name="illi-indi">[http://illi-indi.com/EndsPage.php?id=1008&section=1 Indiana Highway Ends - SR 8]</ref>
|length_notes=
|established=
|decommissioned=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|beltway_city=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|counties=
|cities=
|system=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|browse=
|commons=
}}

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

• state: IN
• type: IN for state routes
• route: This is the number of the route the article is about
• alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name (i.e. SR 4 is called the Phillip T. Warner Highway for its entire length)
• maint: The agency that maintains the highway, defaults to Indiana Department of Transportation
• 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="illi-indi">[http://illi-indi.com/EndsPage.php?id=1008&section=1 Indiana Highway Ends - SR 8]</ref>
  • Replace 008 and SR 8 to the route desired, for example SR 39 would be <ref name="illi-indi">[http://illi-indi.com/EndsPage.php?id=1039&section=1 Indiana Highway Ends - SR 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: all junctions this route has with U.S. highways, parkways/expressways or Interstates. All other junctions, such as county routes, state routes that are not limited access expressways, or locations where a route passes over/under a U.S. highway/parkway/expressway/Interstate but does not intersect it should not be listed here. If a route that runs parallel to the article route has four junctions or more with the article route, then only the first and last junctions with the parallel route should be listed in the infobox. Please note that every junction should still be included in the Major Intersections table.
  • NOTE: If a parallel route has 1-3 junctions with the article route, then all of these junctions should be listed; however, for 4 or more junctions, then only the first and last junctions should be listed.
• direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
• ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
• previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or IN for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Indiana State Roads, respectively.
• 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
• commons: use to add link to image gallery or category in commons, input should be gallery, category, or left blank

Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. The precedence is as follows: Interstate, U.S. Route, Indiana State Roads.

Any tags that do not apply to a particular route can either be omitted or left blank.

By completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one in Indiana State Road 2.

{{Infobox road
|state=IN
|type=IN
|route=2
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=80.98
|length_round=2
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=West
|starting_terminus=[[Image:Illinois 17.svg|20px]] [[Illinois Route 17|IL 17]]
|junction=[[Image:US 41.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 41|US 41]] near [[Lowell, Indiana|Lowell]]<br>[[Image:I-65.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 65|I-65]] near [[Dinwiddle, Indiana|Dinwiddle]]<br>[[Image:US 231.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 231|US 231]] in [[Hebron, Indiana|Hebron]]<br>[[Image:US 30.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 30|US 30]] in [[Valparaiso, Indiana|Valparaiso]]<br>[[Image:US 6.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 6|US 6]] in [[Westville, Indiana|Westville]]<br>[[Image:US 421.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 421|US 421]] in Westville<br>[[Image:US 35.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 35|US 35]] in [[La Porte, Indiana|La Porte]]<br>[[Image:US 20.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 20|US 20]]
|direction_b=East
|ending_terminus=[[Image:US 20.svg|20px]] [[Image:US 31.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 20|US 20]]/[[U.S. Highway 31|US 31]] in [[South Bend, Indiana|South Bend]]
|counties=[[Lake County, Indiana|Lake]]<br>[[Porter County, Indiana|Porter]]<br>[[LaPorte County, Indiana|LaPorte]]<br>[[St. Joseph County, Indiana|St. Joseph]]
|cities=[[Lowell, Indiana|Lowell]]<br>[[Hebron, Indiana|Hebron]]<br>[[Valparaiso, Indiana|Valparaiso]]<br>[[Westville, Indiana|Westville]]<br>[[La Porte, Indiana|La Porte]]<br>[[South Bend, Indiana|South Bend]]
|previous_type=IN
|previous_route=1
|next_type=IN
|next_route=3
}}

[edit] Junction table

The junction table, to be located in "Major intersections", is for listing all of the intersections, both actual junctions and over/underpasses, that this route has with state routes, U.S. routes, Interstates and, optionally, county routes.

This is the basic syntax you need to get a complete junction table for routes that only has at-grade intersections. Just copy and paste the code below into the "Major intersections" section:

{{INinttop}}
{{INint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|type=
|mile=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{INintbtm}}

...and fill in the variables! For more entries, use this:

{{INint
|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:INint/XX}}, where XX is:
  • INint/IN:{{subst:INint/IN|(route number)}}
  • INint/US:{{subst:INint/US|(route number)}}
  • INint/I:{{subst:INint/I|(Interstate number)}}.
• 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] Shields

All state route shields are in the Commons and have been created in the format Indiana X, where X is the route number.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub

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[edit] Project notice

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[edit] Featured article

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[edit] Cleanup

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[edit] Request for image

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It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible. Wikipedians in Indiana may be able to help!

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