Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia Highways

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[edit] Welcome

Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Virginia Highways.

[edit] Scope

All primary and secondary routes in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Use the completion list to help make redirects from alternate styles of the article title.

[edit] Goals

• To organise, standardise, and expand articles of Virginia routes.
  • District todo lists and resources:
    • 1 (Bristol)
    • 2 (Salem)
    • 3 (Lynchburg)
    • 4 (Richmond)
    • 5 (Hampton Roads/Suffolk)
    • 6 (Fredericksburg)
    • 7 (Culpeper) and 9 (Northern Virginia)
    • 8 (Staunton)
  • Facility routes todo list
  • State line crossings

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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

Alabama | California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

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• MPD01605 Creator.
• no1lakersfan
• Vaoverland
• Rschen7754 Setup help.
• NE2 Mainly history.

[edit] User templates

It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} should go on all members' user pages.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Title

• State Highways

Virginia State Route N, where N is the Highway number.

• Virginia Secondary Routes

Virginia State Route N (X County), where N is the route number and X is the county name.

Secondary routes may be titled by their name provided they have a consistent name througout their length and are not ambiguous. Example: Fairfax County Parkway

[edit] Infobox

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Infobox VA route}}	State Route 40 Length: 233 mi (375 km) Formed: 1933 West end: SR 8 in Patrick Co., VA Major junctions: I-85 exit 31 in Dinwiddie US 460 in Sussex East end: SR 10 (VA) in Surry Co., VA Virginia Routes < SR 39 SR 41 > Primary - Secondary - History	Usage: Template:Infobox VA route should be used and include all relevant information. Template:Infobox VACY route shall be used for secondary routes. Shields shall be used at termini.

[edit] Introduction

The introduction shall contain a brief description of the route.

[edit] Route Description

The route description shall contain, obviously, a description of the route, either separated by county or in organised paragraphs from north to south. Cities shall be included in their corresponding county. If the route is short or if there is not much to say about it, the route description can be included in the introduction.

[edit] Towns along the route

This section shall list all towns and cities, including those that are unincorporated, through which the route travels.

[edit] Intersections

This section shall include intersections with other state, U.S., and Interstate routes, and the location of the intersection. These shall consist of the following table with routes listed north-to-south or east-to-west.

Example

Route	Location	Description
State Route 28	Dulles, VA	Full interchange
U.S. Route 33	Harrisonburg, VA	At-grade
Capital Beltway	Tysons Corner, VA	Full interchange

[edit] History

Any history of the route should be here.

[edit] Trivia

Any trivia that doesn't fit into the History section should be listed here.

[edit] Construction

If there is a major construction project going on relating to the route, such as a highway improvement project, a description of the project is to go here. A good example can be found on the State Route 28 article. The title of this section should be named according to the project, such as found on the aforementioned article.

[edit] External links

Any sources and links should be listed here.

[edit] Exemptions

Due to complexity of some articles, they shall be exempted from some or all of the structure requirements. The following routes will be approved for exemption from the beginning of this WikiProject unless discussion on the articles decides to go forward with the structure..

• Virginia State Route 267 exempt from

• Route Description
• Towns along route
• Non-standard routebox

• Virginia State Route 785 exempt from

• Title

• Virginia State Route 895 exempt from

• Route Description
• Towns along route
• History

[edit] Shields

User:NE2 has created shields for all Primary Virginia highways in svg format. You can see them at Commons:Category:Virginia road signs. There are also PNG files, but those are not recommended for use, as the svg files are more up-to-date.

[edit] Category

Category:Virginia state highways

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

[[Category:Virginia state highways|xxx]]

where xxx is the route number of the highway you're editing. 1- and 2- digit numbers get leading zeros; thus Virginia State Highway 6 is categorized as 006.

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

[edit] Project Reference

A good place to begin would be the List of Virginia numbered highways, which has most of the highways right now.

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{Virginia-road-stub}}	This Virginia road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding this stub.	Designates this article relating to Virginia routes as a stub. Articles are listed in Category: Southern United States road stubs.
{{Virginia Highways WikiProject}}	This article is part of the Virginia Highway WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to numbered routes in the commonwealth of Virginia. 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.	Designates the current article as part of the WikiProject Virginia Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{featuredvar}}	This route is currently a featured article from the Virginia Highways WikiProject.	Designates the current article as a featured article of the WikiProject Virginia Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{cleanup-vash}}	This Virginia 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 Virginia 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. No reason has been given for tagging this article as in need of cleanup. Please provide rationale, including an explanation of what work needs to be done.	Designates the current article as in need of a Wikipedia:Cleanup, especially with regards to updating it to current standards as outlined in the Virginia Highways WikiProject.