Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads

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U.S. Roads
A WikiProject dedicated to the highways and roadways of the United States
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The U.S. Roads WikiProject
New user orientation
General
Project home (WP:USRD) talk
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Assessment
Assessment home (WP:USRD/A)
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 → Log  
 → Category  
 → Visual aids  
By-state assessment (WP:USRD/A/S) talk
 → Live table (WP:USRD/A/L) talk
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 → State audits (WP:USRD/A/SA) talk
A-Class review (WP:HWY/ACR) talk
Maps
Maps home (WP:USRD/MTF) talk
 → Requests (WP:USRD/MTF/R) talk
 → Tutorial (WP:USRD/MTF/T)  
Newsletter
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Resources
Resources (WP:USRD/RES) talk
AASHTO minutes (WP:USRD/AASHTO)
Lengths (WP:USRD/L) talk
Maps (WP:USRD/MDB) talk
Periodicals (WP:USRD/PER) talk
Shields
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 → Tutorial talk
 → Research  
 → Database  
Task forces
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Portals
Editing guidelines
Article standards (WP:USRD/STDS)  
Naming conventions (WP:USSH) talk
Road junction lists (WP:RJL) talk
Notability (WP:USRD/NT)  
Rockland County Scenario (WP:USRD/RCS) talk
Michigan Plan (WP:USRD/MP) talk
Route Lists (WP:USRD/STDS/L) talk
Project resources
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Essays (WP:USRD/E) talk
Precedents (WP:USRD/P) talk
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Interstate RJL compliance talk
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Article templates (WP:USRD/AT)
Barnstar list (WP:USRD/BS)
{{Infobox road}} talk
{{Infobox road small}} talk
{{Jctint}} talk
{{Jct}} talk
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{{HWY Announcements}} talk
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Welcome to the U.S. Roads WikiProject!

We are a group of Wikipedia editors that work on improving the coverage of Interstate Highways, United States Highways, state highways, and other notable roads in the United States. If you would like to help, please sign up, and start editing.

What do we do?

We create, edit, and maintain articles related to the highways and major roads of the United States and then assess them based on their quality and importance. We also maintain portals that serve as entry points for readers interested in highways and roads. It is our goal to be the foremost Internet resource for highways located in the United States.

How can you help?

Just start editing! You can join the project by adding your name to the participants list. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on our discussion page or through Discord. You can also subscribe to our quarterly project newsletter to keep up to date on project happenings.

New user orientation

Hello, there, and welcome to the U.S. Roads WikiProject on Wikipedia! If you're reading this page, you're probably new to our WikiProject, or even Wikipedia in general. This tutorial page is designed to help you find your way around and learn about the way our project works. We're always happy to have extra help, so thanks for your interest!


Project information

What do we cover?

We maintain articles relating to roadways of national or regional significance in the United States. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:

What do we not cover?

With some exceptions, we do not maintain:


Featured content

We currently have 83 featured articles, ten featured lists, and thirteen files considered featured media.
In addition, we have four featured topics and three featured portals.

Map

Read through a comprehensive list of recognized USRD content.
We also have a U.S. Roads WikiProject Triple Crown.


How is our project organized?

The U.S. Roads WikiProject (USRD) serves as an umbrella project for articles relating to roads and highways in the United States. The main project serves as the focal point for coordinating national initiatives, such as standardization of article structure, infoboxes and junction lists.

USRD has five project departments, which facilitate collaboration, article assessment, and other editing resources.

  • The assessment department handles assessment criteria and programs for USRD.
  • The maps department creates and maintains map files for highway articles. Many maps are available on the Commons.
  • The newsletter department creates and distributes a quarterly newsletter for editors that subscribe.
  • The resources department handles research resources of a general nature for the entire project.
  • The shields department creates highway marker ("shield") graphics for use in highway articles. Shields for most existing highways have been created and reside on the Commons.

Every state and territory has its own task force, where you can find resources for researching and editing highways in that area. Task forces also exist for historic auto trails, U.S. Route 66, as well as Interstate and U.S. Highways.


What guidelines can we offer?

We have four guidelines for highway articles:

State subprojects may set limited standards that apply to their state only, in order to resolve any conflicts that arise when USRD standards do not work well with a situation unique to that state.


Embassy

These are links to the U.S. Roads projects on other Wikimedia Foundation sites.


WikiProjects related to the U.S. Roads WikiProject

WikiProject U.S. Roads is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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States

List of U.S. State-level WikiProjects and their sub-projects

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Featured content
Parent project Highways
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