Wikipedia:WikiProject New Hampshire State Highways

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[edit] Scope and Goals

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in New Hampshire. 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 New Hampshire Highway System has been created. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material. A list of NH routes is also present in the article.

[edit] Routes worthy of articles

The following highways 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 that have not been re-designated another route number along its routing.
• Interstates and U.S. routes that run entirely in New Hampshire (mostly spur and loop routes). These routes are part of this WikiProject. Interstates and U.S. routes that enter New Hampshire but do not exist solely in New Hampshire are under the jurisdiction of WP:IH and WP:USH, respectively.

[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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• Rschen7754 I've never been to NH but will help with the project.
• Jayron32 Grew up in New Hampshire. I know mostly about the Nashua area.
• Tckma I lived in Nashua for a year, and New Hampshire is my favorite East Coast state.
• Underorbit I grew up in NH, and know the highways very, very well.
• TwinsMetsFan - Never been to NH but happy to help with standardization and such.

[edit] How you can help

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Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /Featured Articles
• /Strategy

[edit] Structure

The contents of each article in this project should reside in New Hampshire Route XXX per WP:USSH, with XXX being the route number; also, New Hampshire State Highway XXX and/or New Hampshire State Route XXX should redirect to the article as well.

Each highway should have its own separate article and should not be merged with other routes, unless such a road is one of the following or otherwise similar highway.

[edit] Lead paragraph

Articles should start with a short description of the state highway. This description should say where the route begins and ends, as well as any discontinuities, as defined by law. Unique details about this route may be added, but use sparingly. Use WP:LEAD as a bare-bones guideline on what to include in this section.

[edit] Special designation

Any highway which is designated a "Memorial Highway", a "National Scenic Byway", a state "Scenic and Cultural Byway", or a state "Scenic Road" should have a subsection to detail information regarding such distinction. The title of the subsection should be the conventional name of the road, the official name should be included near the beginning of the first paragraph.

[edit] Route description

A physical description of the route should be given here. Cities and communities the route traverses should be mentioned here, as well as segments which are freeways. This section should be broken up, by counties, segments or another method, using third-level headings.

[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] History

The history of the respective highway and other significant information should be discussed here.

[edit] Miscellanea

Notes about the route that do not fall into any of the above sections.

[edit] State law

The description of the route as defined by state law should be quoted here, if available. The quote must include the section of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated which a definition can be found. All descriptions should use the <pre> markup.

Below the code excerpt you should cite when citing the classification of highway:

<font size=-2>Source: [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XX/229/229-5.htm NH RSA 229:5 Classification.]</font>

[edit] See also

A bulleted list of any internal links related to the route.

[edit] References

A list of references used in the article.

[edit] External links

This is where all external links that are not references should be placed. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow. External links to points of interests should also go here.

[edit] Category structure

All articles are to be placed into a subcategory of Category:New Hampshire highways.

• NH Routes: Category:New Hampshire state highways
• Turnpikes: Category:New Hampshire turnpikes
• U.S. routes: Category:U.S. Highways in New Hampshire
• Interstates: Category:Interstate Highways in New Hampshire.

The sort key is a three-digit number representing the route number (with leading zeroes) suffixed by the letter designation if any (e.g. NH Route 1A is "001A", NH Route 4 is "004"). Examples:

• [[Category:New Hampshire state highways|001]]
• [[Category:New Hampshire state highways|099]]
• [[Category:New Hampshire state highways|241]]
• [[Category:New Hampshire state highways|101A]]

[edit] Infobox

NH Route 101
Length:	95.2 mi (153.2 km)
West end:	NH 9/10/12 in Keene
Major junctions:	US 202 in Peterborough US 3 in Manchester I-93/I-293 in Manchester I-95 in Hampton US 1 in Hampton
East end:	NH 1A in Hampton Beach
Major cities:	Keene, Bedford, Manchester, Epping, Exeter, Stratham, Hampton
New Hampshire Routes < NH 97 NH 101A > < NH 49 NH 63 >

The infobox to use for this project is Template:Infobox NH Route, which is derived directly from Template:Infobox road.

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. Any parameter not needed/used can be omitted.

{{Infobox NH Route
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|formed=
|dir1=
|from=
|junction=
|dir2=
|to=
|cities=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

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

• marker_image: a custom shield for the road (requires full image markup)
• name: a custom name for the road
• type: NH for NH Routes, US for U.S. Routes, Interstate for Interstates
• route: This is the number of the route the article is about
• alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name
• map: a map for the route (file name only, no markup)
• 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. Example: <ref name="nhr">[http://www.roadgeek.org/nhroads/nh_1-25.html New Hampshire Routes 1-25]</ref>
• length_notes: notes regarding the length
• formed: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment
• decommissioned: date the road was decommissioned
• dir1: 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.
• from: 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.
  • 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. Please note that every junction should still be included in the Major Intersections table.
• dir2: The opposite of direction_a
• to: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
• cities: a list of cities that the route enters
  • NOTE: Limit of eight cities. Routes that enter more than eight cities should list only the eight highest in population or size.
• previous_type: This is the type of route that precedes the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or NH for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other NH Routes, 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
• browse: use to add an extra browsing row

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, NH Route.

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 above.

{{Infobox NH Route
|type=NH
|route=101
|alternate_name=
|map=
|length_mi=95.2
|length_round=1
|length_ref=
|formed=
|dir1=West
|from=[[Image:NH Route 9.svg|20px]][[Image:NH Route 10.svg|20px]][[Image:NH Route 12.svg|20px]] [[New Hampshire Route 9|NH 9]]/[[New Hampshire Route 10|10]]/[[New Hampshire Route 12|12]] in [[Keene, New Hampshire|Keene]]
|junction=[[Image:US 202.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 202 (New Hampshire)|US 202]] in [[Peterborough, New Hampshire|Peterborough]]<br>[[Image:US 3.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 3 (New Hampshire)|US 3]] in [[Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester]]<br>[[Image:I-93.svg|20px]][[Image:I-293.svg|25px]] [[Interstate 93 (New Hampshire)|I-93]]/[[Interstate 293|I-293]] in [[Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester]]<br>[[Image:I-95.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 95 (New Hampshire)|I-95]] in [[Hampton, New Hampshire|Hampton]]<br>[[Image:US 1.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 1 (New Hampshire)|US 1]] in [[Hampton, New Hampshire|Hampton]]
|dir2=East
|to=[[Image:NH Route 1A.svg|20px]] [[New Hampshire Route 1A|NH 1A]] in [[Hampton Beach, New Hampshire|Hampton Beach]]
|cities=[[Keene, New Hampshire|Keene]], [[Bedford, New Hampshire|Bedford]], [[Manchester, New Hampshire|Manchester]], [[Epping, New Hampshire|Epping]], [[Exeter, New Hampshire|Exeter]], [[Stratham, New Hampshire|Stratham]], [[Hampton, New Hampshire|Hampton]]
|previous_type=NH
|previous_route=97
|next_type=NH
|next_route=101A
|browse={{nh browse|previous_type=NH|previous_route=49|route=[[Image:NH Route 51.svg|20px]]|next_type=NH|next_route=63}}
}}

[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 and Interstates.

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.

{{NHinttop}}
{{NHint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}
{{NHintbtm}}

For additional entries, use this:

{{NHint
|county=
|cspan=
|location=
|lspan=
|mile=
|type=
|road=
|notes=
}}

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

Any field which is empty can be omitted. Junctions which are approximately 0.1 mile apart may be combined into one entry in the table.

For an example of a completed table, see New Hampshire Route 101.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Stub

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[edit] Project template

{{New Hampshire State Highway WikiProject}}

This article is part of the New Hampshire Highway WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in New Hampshire. 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] Cleanup

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[edit] Resources

• New Hampshire DOT Route Logs (requires registration)
• New Hampshire Routes