Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon State Highways

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Oregon state highways. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please list yourself as a participant below, or inquire on the talk page.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Oregon state highways

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to expand and introduce a uniform format to articles dealing with state highways in the state of Oregon.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject Oregon

[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.

Feel free to add yourself to this list if you would like to participate!

User:Northenglish -- founder
Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) Traveling in between California and Washington, you inevitably go through Oregon a few times.
EngineerScotty. I tried to start this months ago, and was met with resounding silence, so I edited a bunch of articles here on my own. Glad to see that someone else got it going.
Katr67 I won't be an active participant, but I will make sure any edits I make relating to Oregon highways conform to the standards of the project.
TwinsMetsFan - Helping out where I can.
Dan_ad_nauseam - I'll be an occasional contributor. Dan ad nauseam 01:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Katt 21:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC) - Will help out when I can!

[edit] What to include?

Interstate and U.S. Highways that pass through multiple states are governed by their own WikiProjects, and are not part of this one. Intrastate U.S. and Interstate routes are part of this WikiProject. Articles about a multi-state route in Oregon (i.e. U.S. Route 101 in Oregon) are part of this WikiProject.

All current state routes should have an article.

[edit] Structure

Articles should best 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.

[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 of freeway.

[edit] History

The history of this route number should be discussed here.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

This section contains a table that lists all the junctions on the article route. Every junction with another state highway should be listed here, as well as every exit on controlled access portions of the route. The table should contain the following columns:

Exit # where appropriate
Milepost
Municipality
Roads – Destinations
Notes

[edit] Related routes

Links to current routes with numbers related to the article route should be listed here.

Additionally, if the route has any former spurs (either spurs of itself or of a former designation), these should be listed here as well.

[edit] See also and/or External links

Feel free to include any internal links to related articles. State highways in Oregon should also go in this section if there is no infobox.

Also feel free to include any external links with information about the route, related construction projects, etc., or sources where you got your information.

The various "link sections" should be in the following order:

See also
References
External links

External links should be listed only once, either in the references or the external links section, not both.

[edit] Naming convention

Participants should be aware of Oregon's separation of "routes" and "highways".

Articles for signed routes are titled Oregon Route X, for example, Oregon Route 217. (Note: Do not move articles to this naming convention unless you are signed up at WP:SRNC to do so.)

Redirects from alternative names should be made as well. Use this completion list to aid in creating these redirects.

Articles for unsigned state highwaysare titled by their name, i.e. Tualatin Valley Highway. Redirects from Oregon Highway X should be created, with a clear disambiguating message at the top of the article. For names that are redundant with highway names elsewhere, suffix with (Oregon), for example: Sunset Highway (Oregon).

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infobox

Routes use {{Infobox_road}} with the state=OR parameter. The code for the template is below. See below that for how to use these parameters.

{{Infobox_road
|state=OR
|type=
|route=
|highway_name=
|marker_image=
|alternate_name=
|length_mi=
|length_km=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|established=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}

[edit] What these parameters do

state= This should (of course) be state=OR for all routes.
type= This should be OR for Oregon routes, US for US routes, and Interstate for interstates.
route= This is the route number the article is about; for example route=99 for Oregon Route 99.
highway_name=, marker_image=, and alternate_name= These parameters should be left blank (or completely excluded) for the time being.
length_mi= and length_km= The length of the route (in miles and kilometers).
direction_a= and direction_b= Is this a north-south or an east-west route? Direction_a will either be South or West; direction_b will either be North or East
starting_terminus=, junction=, and ending_terminus= These parameters use regular wiki formatting. Each should include a route shield, route name, and a city name. For example, Oregon Route 99 uses the following:

starting_terminus=[[Image:I-5.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 5|I-5]] in [[Ashland, Oregon|Ashland]]

This produces:

I-5 in Ashland

in the southern terminus field to indicate that Oregon Route 99 begins at Interstate 5 in Ashland. Follow the same format should be used in the junction and ending_terminus fields as well. In the junction field, use <br> between junctions to produce multiple lines.

For the shield images, use 20px images for square (2-digit) signs, and 25px images for rectangular (3-digit) signs.

established= The year the route was established as a state highway with its current number.

previous_type=, previous_route=, next_type=, and next_route= These parameters create the browsing capability at the bottom of the infobox. previous_type and previous_route apply to the previous route numerically (for example Oregon Route 36 for Oregon Route 37); next_type and next_route apply to the next route numerically (Oregon Route 38).

For type, use OR for Oregon Routes, use US for U.S. Routes, and use Interstate for Interstate Highways.

Note: There is currently no infobox for the named highways.

[edit] Stub templates

{{US-road-stub}}

This United States road or road transport-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Other templates

[edit] For article talk pages

{{ORSH}} -- Put this at the top of talk pages for articles in this WikiProject.

	This article is part of the Oregon State Highways WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in Oregon. 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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