Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia Highways

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Project-wide news
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NCs
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Deletion debates
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Maps Task Force
  • Voting has concluded on a standard map design at WT:USRD/MTF. Standards for all U.S. road maps on Wikipedia can now be found at WP:USRD/MTF.
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Assessment
U.S. road transport articles
Quality
Featured article FA 1
Good article GA 2
B 247
Start 623
Stub 1217
Unassessed 1339
Importance
Top 3
High 16
Mid 182
Low 70
Total: 3429
Assessment links


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Shields
  • Proposal to change the naming conventions of state-specific Interstate shields and all county route shields has been offered. See WT:USRD/S.
  • All shields should be moved from Wikipedia to the Commons so that the shields can be better organized.
  • Discussions regarding the naming of county route and state-specific Interstate shields underway, see WT:USRD/S.
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Interstates
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U.S. Highways
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Connecticut
  • Project started.
  • Stub-a-week Project -- see Project talk page for details.
  • Existing articles have been assessed.
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Florida
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Georgia
  • Lowest mainline route without an article: S.R. 29
  • Lowest mainline route without a map: S.R. 29
  • Maps are available for all mainline routes at Commons
  • Completion list
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Illinois
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Kentucky
  • Added Kentucky Route 67 and will be adding more history to this and others when I get my HTML files at home.
  • Kentucky Route 44 added. Partially detailed with infobox, stub status.
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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Michigan
  • Lowest active route not infoboxed/mapped: M-138
  • Lowest active route without an article: M-138
  • Completion list is available here
  • Route maps at Commons

All active Michigan trunklines have a map available at the above link

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New Hampshire
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New Jersey
  • Best practice article at Route 17
  • Infobox made for county route articles. Talk to Northenglish for missing shields.
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New York
  • Lowest active route without an article: 10A.
  • All known articles have been cleaned up and assessed.
  • Reference routes are now part of WP:NYSR and have their own infobox.
  • NYSR/NYCR editors may also be interested in the new New York WikiProject.

WP:NYCR
  • Article for Ridge Road, focusing on the four county routes it carries in Monroe and Wayne counties, has been created.
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North Carolina
  • Lowest mainline route without an article: NC 33
  • Major Junctions issue currently under discussion at WT:NCSH
  • North Carolina Highway System article needs cleanup on history, etc.
  • Our beloved ncroads.com source has shut down, but a mirror can be found at the NC Roads Annex.
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Ohio
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Pennsylvania
  • Timetable has been created for updating all articles to the new standards. See WP:PASH.
  • All existing PA articles need to be cleaned up according to the standards at WP:PASH.
  • See PA Routes Status for the status of PA Routes 1 to 100.
  • See article Pennsylvania Route 39 as an example when writing articles.
  • Naming convention: Pennsylvania Route x.
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Vermont
  • All articles cleaned up and assessed. Most are still stubs, though.
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Virginia
  • Naming convention change to Virginia State Route x.
  • Route infobox is upgraded
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West Virginia
  • Project started.
  • Infobox road has been prepared for WV .
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Wisconsin
  • WIS Active and known decommissioned roads have been stubbed at minimum. Many still require detail.
  • Wisconsin Road Stub now available and in use.
  • NC: Wisconsin Highway x.
  • Articles have been assessed.
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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

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

U.S. Highways | U.S. Interstate Highways | List of State-level WikiProjects
California | California County Routes | Connecticut | Florida | Illinois | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Missouri | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | New York County Routes | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

[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..

  • Route Description
  • Towns along route
  • Non-standard routebox
  • Title
  • 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 Highway-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. (add assessment comments)
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.
{{cleanupvaroute}}
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.
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.