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Go here, pick a route, and go to town. Former NC Routes, alternate routes, and business routes can be incorporated into the parent or current route's history. (i.e. NC 10A can be a section in NC 10) They usually don't have enough information to have their own article. Put infoboxes on existing route articles. Write 61% of the articles of the NC Highway System. ~~Expand~~ Polish the North Carolina Highway System article. Replace all PNG shields with their new SVG counterparts. Convert all obsolete NCRoads.com links to NCRoads Annex links.

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[edit] Title

WikiProject North Carolina State Highways

[edit] News

Project news can be found at {{Project U.S. Roads East}} or on the right column of the talk page.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this WikiProject is to create, standardize, and improve articles about the state highway system in North Carolina. This project will encompass all the North Carolina State Routes (on diamond-shaped shields), the U.S. Routes and Interstates that are predominantly North Carolinian (like US 158) and any other unusual routes in the state (like Charlotte 4); important named freeways are also included (like Bryan Boulevard).

[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

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. Put your Username here to join the project. No commitments necessary.

TinMan aka Gooday.1 (founder of this WikiProject) - I'll help where and when I can.
DaNASCAT aka Tim Quievryn - Written most of these articles.
Northenglish aka NORTH - Have no knowledge of the area, but I'll help with clean-up and getting this project off the ground.
Rschen7754 - Never been to NC but will help where needed.
Nimur - Written NC 54 and NC 55 and will polish them up quite a bit. I'll try to get some photographs, also.
Jayron32 - Know mostly the Wake County area. Will help where I can.
TwinsMetsFan - SVG shields and such. Happy to help.
NCMattJ - Wrote NC 107 and Great Smoky Mountains Expressway. Familure with the Charlotte Metropolitan Area and Southwestern North Carolina including Asheville, Waynesville, Sylva and Cherokee. Glad to help.
Vishwin60 - I remember traveling on NC 147...

[edit] Structure

The structure can vary a little, but it should basically look like North Carolina State Highway 8, North Carolina State Highway 12, and North Carolina State Highway 6. The object is to best convey information about the route and to identify its importance. Route histories, termini, attractions, etc. are encouraged, but not always mandatory. These articles should not only satisfy roadfans, but also travelers, tourists, scholars, and average joes. This does not mean, however, that they should read like an advertisement or imply bias. If you are unsure on formatting, use common sense and common law.

[edit] Naming

Articles should be named "North Carolina Highway n" (where n is the route number).

Route shield SVG's should be named "NC n.svg". Most shields have already been made and can be found here. (Contact TwinsMetsFan for new shields.)

A redirect page should be made for each NC route where if I search for "NC 8", North Carolina State Highway 8 should pop up. If there is already a article for the redirect page like in the case of NC 4, make a disambiguation page or a tag at the top of the article.

The WikiProject's Completion List will show any redirects that need to be made. (links with no shield at the beginning of the line are routes that don't exist) (currently under development)

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

Infobox is located at Template:Infobox NC Route
Instructions for use are at Template_talk:Infobox NC Route

[edit] Pages without infoboxes

Pages without infoboxes should have a shield image in the upper right corner (accomplished with [[Image:NC XX Shield.PNG|right|100px]]) and a succession box at the bottom of the page. The template for the succession box is {{ncsh box}}.

These are temporary placeholders until an infobox is created for the route. If you create an infobox, please remove the extra shield and succession box.

[edit] Stub template

This North Carolina Highway-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding this stub.

These should be placed at the bottom of the route articles that need more details.
Articles with stubs will automatically be entered into Category:Southern United States road stubs.

[edit] Project template

{{NC State Highways WikiProject}} or {{NC Highways WikiProject}}

	This article is part of the North Carolina State Highways WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in the U.S. state of North Carolina. 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.

These can be placed at the top of the route talk pages within our jurisdiction.

[edit] Userboxes

This user is a member of the North Carolina Highways WikiProject.

These can be placed anywhere on your user page.
It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} go on your user (talk) (sub) page.

[edit] Shields

NC Route Shields at Wikimedia Commons

[edit] Cleanup template

This North Carolina Highway article needs to be cleaned up to conform to both a higher standard of article quality and accepted design standards outlined in the WikiProject: North Carolina State Highways. 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.
This article has been tagged for cleanup since Insert Date Here.
This article has been tagged for cleanup for the following reasons: Insert rationale here.

If an NC Route article needs to be cleaned up, place this tag on the top of the route's article page.
If a section within a NC Route article needs to be cleaned up, place this tag just under the section's title.
Articles with this tag will be placed in Category:NC highways needing cleanup. This may help you find articles to work on.

[edit] Categories

Category:North Carolina State Highways

The category is sorted numerically by the place of the hundreds digit. The convention is

[[Category:North Carolina State Highways|xxx]]

where xxx is the route number of the highway you're editing. 1- and 2- digit numbers get leading zeros; thus North Carolina State Highway 6 is categorized as 006. There are a few exceptions like with NC 226A; in those cases, you can just do this:

[[Category:North Carolina State Highways|226A]]

This category will help you find articles that have been created and need to expanded: Category:Southern United States road stubs

[edit] Helpful stuff

[edit] Lists

List of numbered routes in North Carolina (now merged into North Carolina Highway System)
/Renumberings

[edit] External links

These places are usually very helpful in finding termini and road lengths:

NC Roads (now defunct, but mirror of info can be found at the annex.)
NC Roads Annex
State Ends - NC Routes
NCDOT county maps

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