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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Wisconsin 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 inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
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| West East All |
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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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U.S. road transport articles
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| Start |
623 |
| Stub |
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| Unassessed |
1339 |
| Importance |
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| High |
16 |
| Mid |
182 |
| Low |
70 |
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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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| 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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| 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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WikiProject on Wisconsin State Highways
To create the balance of and to standardize the Wisconsin State Highway articles and generate featured articles
[edit] Related WikiProjects
[edit] Parent WikiProjects
- U.S. Roads | WikiProject Wisconsin
[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
- Master son - Organizer and leader
- Rschen7754 never been here but will help
- BaronLarf Started WP:WPWI; happy to help out here, too
- jwhouk - Already wrote some articles and info.
- Homefryes – Have some familiarity with Southeastern Wisconsin and live nearby. Will help out here and there.
- Royalbroil - I have traveled on at least part of nearly all state highways at some point in the past 20 years. Contact me to take an image in East Wisconsin.
- ObtuseAngle - Will add what I can and help with formatting/cleanup.
[edit] Structure
[edit] Article Naming Convention
Attention - no articles shall be renamed until the State route naming conventions poll has been completed and the go-ahead is given for move of articles to the name decided upon. See the poll page for an approximate status and schedule.
The contents of each article in this project should reside in Wisconsin Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Wisconsin State Highway XXX and WIS-XXX and Highway xxx (Wisconsin) should redirect to the article as well.
Provide a brief introduction to the route. Highlight any points of interest that are accessible by the route
Termini
Detail the termini of the highway including Exit Number of crossroad, city, features.
Municipalities served by Highway ##
List major Municipalities directly accessed by this route
History
A historical synopsis on the highway
Current Status
What is happening on the route right now - Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and Chris Bessert's guide to Wisconsin Highways provide good amounts of detail about routes.
Future plans
list any possible plans for evolution of the highway here
See also
References
CITE YOUR SOURCES! Make sure that the source you are using is linked to here and referenced by an external link within the article. Lack of citations will lead to article disputes, edit wars, and deletion. add the following to the bottom of the page include in the Category for the article. [[Category:Wisconsin state highways|###]]
[edit] Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
- Create Wisconsin State Highway articles listed in List of Wisconsin numbered highways that are red-linked.
- Expand any existing articles with pertinent information
- Standardize all articles according to the layout described in this project page
/Completion list - This list shows all the redirect links for each of the routes.
Request a stub category and link the template for it.Attach project template to talk pages of existing highway articlesCreate remaining articles - all active and known decomissioned routes have been created at minimum as stubs.- Peer review of existing articles with suggestions.
link up with U.S. Roads and Wisconsin Wikiprojects- Create svg images for the County Highway signs - Due to the structure - I do not see each route getting any articles, but the sign images will complement State, U.S. and Interstate route articles nicely. The standard U.S. County route sign will not comply with this project.
- Single Letter county route markers have been created. image name is as follows Image:WIS County L.svg (replace "L" with your favorite letter. If you need any others let SPUI know, and if possible provide a photo or specify the font series that WisDOT uses.
- Make map images depicting each route.
- Insert properly licensed photographs into articles to give them "visual flavor"
- Research unknown former routes (those that remain red-linked in the /Completion list)
- Create state level articles for Interstates and U.S. Routes.
[edit] Templates
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This article is part of the Wisconsin State Highways WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to highways in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. 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. |
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| The userbox {{User WikiProject Wisconsin Highways|29}} can be added to your user page. Replace 29 with your favorite Wisconsin Route number. Leaving the route number out will show the blank Route Marker image. |
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[edit] Infoboxes
The Infobox to use for this project is the Template:Infobox road template.
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.
{{Infobox road
|state=
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|established=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
}}
For the above paramaters here's what you should fill in:
- state: This should be WI
- type: This should be WIS which is what Wisconsin prefaces their route names with, i.e. WIS-50
- route: This is the number of the route the article is about
- alternate_name: if the route is assigned an additional name, include it here.
- map: This is the Image Wiki for the map. This function is not used as of yet on Wisconsin articles as no maps have been made.
- length_mi: This is the length of the route in miles. If you specifiy 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. For example: <ref name="WH1">[http://www.wisconsinhighways.org/listings/WiscHwys20-29.html#STH-029 Wisconsin Highways: Highway 29]</ref>
- established: This is the date the route was commissioned
- direction_a: 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.
- starting_terminus: This is where the route begins and is either at the southern terminus or western terminus.
- junction: Any major junctions along the route should be listed here. If more than one is listed, use a <br> to break the lines
- Only major junctions go into the Interstate routebox... these would be Interstates, U.S. Highways and and other major state highways/roads. Otherwise the routebox becomes way too big.
- For multiple highways near a city either:
- List them together on the same line by city OR
- Omit minor highway junctions (preferred)
- Of course the terminii would always be there.
- If any routebox has over 10 or so junctions, then some of the junctions need to be removed.
- The only time a county route would be mentioned is if it is a terminus (there are at least three instances of that so far).
- direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
- ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
- previous_type: This is the type of route that preceeds the current one in the system. The value for this is usually: Interstate, US, or WIS for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other Wisconsin Highways, respectively.
- previous_route: The number of the route preceeding 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
Important notes regarding the routebox: For the previous and next route types, remember to list them in order of priority. If you do an infobox for WIS-93, the following route would be I-94 not WIS-94. WIS-94 would succeed I-94 as there is no U.S. 94 in Wisconsin. The precedence is as follows: U.S. Interstate, U.S. Route, Wisconsin Highway.
So, by completing the infobox as follows, you'll get a routebox like the one to the right.
{{Infobox road
|state=WI
|type=WIS
|route=29
|length_mi=289.11
|length_ref=<ref name="WH1">[http://www.wisconsinhighways.org/listings/WiscHwys20-29.html#STH-029
Wisconsin Highways: Highway 29]</ref>
|length_round=2
|direction_a=West
|direction_b=East
|starting_terminus=[[Image:US 10.svg|20px]] [[US 10 (WI)|US 10]] in [[Prescott (WI)|Prescott]]
|junction=[[image:WIS 25.svg|20px]] [[Highway 25 (Wisconsin)|WIS 25]] in [[Menomonie (WI)|Menomonie]]<br>
[[Image:US 53.svg|20px]] [[US 53 (WI)|US 53]] in [[Chippewa Falls (WI)|Chippewa Falls]]<br>
[[Image:US 51.svg|20px]] [[US 51 (WI)|US 51]] in [[Wausau (WI)|Wausau]]<br>
[[Image:WIS 22.svg|20px]] [[Highway 22 (Wisconsin)|WIS 22]] near [[Shawano (WI)|Shawano]]<br>
[[Image:US 41.svg|20px]] [[US 41 (WI)|US 41]] in [[Green Bay (WI)|Green Bay]]
|ending_terminus=[[Image:WIS 42.svg|20px]] [[Highway 42 (Wisconsin)|WIS 42]] in [[Kewaunee (WI)|Kewaunee]]
|previous_type=WIS
|previous_route=28
|next_type=WIS
|next_route=30
}}
[edit] Browse Template
If a route is decommissioned, it still needs a browse box at the bottom of the article.
{{start srbox}}
{{wi browse|previous_type=WIS|previous_route=XX|route=WI|next_type=WIS|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}
will create something like
Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Wisconsin state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=Interstate
This box should only be placed on pages that do not have an infobox, or are an article for a Interstate or U.S. Route in the Wisconsin Highway system. On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the wi browse, keeping the list in alphabetical order. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.
[edit] User templates
It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} go on user (sub_ (talk) pages.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles on Wisconsin State Highways
- create articles for
- Lake Superior Circle Tour (Wisconsin) (as part of the U.S. Roads wikiproject?) (image of sign:
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- Lake Michigan Circle Tour (Wisconsin) (as part of the U.S. Roads wikiproject?) (images of signs:
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- Rustic Roads (Wisconsin),
- Bannered Routes (Wisconsin) - Such as Spur and Business Routes. No individual articles are necessary.
- County Trunk Highways (Wisconsin)
[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Wisconsin State Highways
Please feel free to list your new Wisconsin State Highways-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
[edit] Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet with much of this info and more can be found at User:Rschen7754/Roadqr.
[edit] Requests
There are no requests entered at this time.
[edit] Resources
[edit] See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates
US 10 in Prescott
WIS 25 in Menomonie
US 53 in Chippewa Falls
US 51 in Wausau
WIS 22 near Shawano
US 41 in Green Bay
WIS 42 in Kewaunee
WIS 21
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