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This month's featured article from WikiProject California State Highways:
California 37.svg

State Route 37 (SR-37) in the northern part of the U.S. State of California runs 21 miles (34 km) along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay. It is currently built from U.S. Route 101 in Novato, through the southern tips of Sonoma and Napa Counties, to Interstate 80 in Vallejo. It serves as a vital connection between the four counties of the North Bay Area, north of San Francisco.
List page: State highways in California
Redirect completion list: Completion list
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[edit] Scope

 The relevance of particular information in (or previously in) this article or section is disputed.

The information may have been removed or included by an editor as a result.

Please see discussion on the talk page considering whether its inclusion is warranted.

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in California, also known as California State Routes (note the capitals). This project also aims to establish standards relating to the display of information in these articles.

An article describing the logic and basic history of the California State Highway System is necessary to accompany the current List of California State Highways article. This article should feature information regarding the state's Freeway and Expressway System, Scenic Highways, and other worthy material.

[edit] Routes Worthy of Articles

The following highways can have entire articles dedicated to them:

  • Routes that are constructed, traversable, state-maintained, and signed with their own route numbers.
  • Routes that are partly constructed or partly signed.
  • Deleted routes with significant information worthy of an article.
  • Interstates that run entirely in California (mostly spur and loop routes). Ideally, these should also be part of this WikiProject.

For routes that have been entirely deleted and whose number has not been reused, these should be merged onto a single article, Deleted California State Highways.

For routes that are entirely unconstructed, these should be merged onto another article, Unconstructed California State Highways.

[edit] Resources

History
In-progress pages
External links

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

U.S. Roads | WikiProject California

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects
Alabama | California (County Routes) | Connecticut | Florida (County Roads) | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan (County Designated Highways) | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania (Susquehanna Valley) | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Task forces

[edit] Participants

[edit] California

User Status Work
Edit Centric Active Will provide on-site verification on construction projects between Madera and Stanislaus Counties, also capable of photographing this area, and updating when needed.
Happy5214 Active Can help convert infoboxes and create redirects!!
Zzyzx11 Semi-active will occasionally help with it
Howcheng Semi-active adding routes when I need em for the List of California Historical Landmarks
Gohiking Semi-active Been maintaining I-105 in Los Angeles, but happy to help out where needed in District 7 or elsewhere.
Mike Moresi Semi-active raised near the California border in Klamath Falls, OR. Can help with locations of highways and other minutia since I've traveled on about two-thirds of the state's highways over my lifetime.
SFGiants Active Cosmetic fixes like typos, mostly
Nimur Semi-active Written NC 54 and NC 55 and NC 751, and contributed significantly to many other NC articles. Recently made some useful contributions, including photos, at the Alaska and California highway articles. Always WP:VANDAL patrolling on a lot of road articles.
WikiLeon Semi-active California State Route 37
PhATxPnOY916 Active California state routes, U.S. highways in CA and Interstates in CA, although I may occassionaly contribute to Nevada as well. I also help out with the exit lists for CA state routes.
Geopgeop Active Exit lists, NV route shields
Sehome Bay Active Various highways in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho.
Socal gal at heart Active Will contribute as much to California highways as I can
LochNess Irregular
LizConno Semi-active Focus on Southern California and Sacramento-areas
Paroxysm11 Active US Routes, CA State Routes, Bay Area Highways
Ky72x Semi-active California State Route 99
Mgillfr Active Junctino list formatting, maybe add additional junctions here and there

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It is strongly recommended that {{USRD Announcements}} should go on all members' user pages.

[edit] Structure

Note: Many California road articles use outdated standards, and have not been brought up to current wikipedia and project standards. If using an article as a baseline, it is recommended to use one that has recently been reviewed. As of August 2009, California State Route 78 is the latest California road article to pass a Featured Article review.

[edit] Infobox information

All articles should use {{Infobox road|state=CA}}. All known info should be supplied. See the Infobox section on applicable parameters as well as standards for the infobox.

[edit] Lead section

Main article: Wikipedia:Lead section

Untitled section that describes the route. It might be helpful for formatting to use {{TOCleft}} at the top of this section to display the table of contents on the top left, followed by the main description of the route. Depending on the route this section may just name the direction (E/W or N/S) and termination points, or may go into considerable detail. However, the majority of detail, such as progress by town or county, should be reserved for the next section.

[edit] Route description

This section is for describing the route itself and its progression across California. Regardless of the route's length, progression should be described from south to north, west to east.

Major cities boxes are being phased out. Before removing a box, make sure that all the cities are mentioned in the RD.

[edit] State law

Details on what systems (California Freeway and Expressway System, State Scenic Highway System) the route is in should generally be in the first paragraph in the route description, not in a separate section. Note that the law merely makes routes eligible for the Scenic Highway System; Caltrans must have officially designated it as such to be part of it. Any other significant legal names the route has should also be detailed here in prose (not a list).

Note that many articles still have this information in the wrong place; this should be corrected.

[edit] History

Any historical information known about the route should be noted.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

The contents of this section may vary by route. Refer to the table below for the appropriate section header and further instructions. The exit list guide should be followed for formatting.

Route composition Section header title What should be here
All grade-separated interchanges; no at-grade intersections Exit list
Mixture of grade-separated interchanges and at-grade intersections Major intersections or Exit list Depending on the route in question, either a junction table or a "combo" exit list featuring exits and intersections can be used.
All at-grade intersections; no grade-separated interchanges Major intersections A junction table for at-grade intersections

California uses county-wide postmiles instead of the typical statewide milepost; any lettered designations such as "R" or "T" are listed along with the postmile; for example, "3.45" or "R6.77". The county abbreviation is listed in the county column when it exists (that is, when the route spans two or more counties, per WP:ELG.) See California State Route 115 for an example of what to do with shared concurrencies when the route assumes the postmiles of another route.

Not every at-grade junction is listed in the junction list. The current standard is as follows: In order to be listed as an at-grade intersection, the road must be a county route, state route, Interstate, or U.S. Route or must be marked as major by several map sources.

[edit] See also

Place all internal links here.

[edit] References

Place all references here, using the <ref></ref> tags in the article and {{Reflist}} in this section.

[edit] External links

This is where all external links that are not references should be placed. For those relating to the route, please include the following websites. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow. Example: For State Route 2, these links would be used:

Or for conventional highways, like State Route 123, you may use these links:

[edit] Categories

All state highways should include the category tag: [[Category:State highways in California|nnnA]] where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002").

[edit] Talk pages

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=CA}} should be placed at the top of all talk pages of articles related to California State Routes.

[edit] Goals

  1. Write high quality articles with a standardized structure
  2. Make redirects listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject California State Highways/Completion list

[edit] Templates

What to type What it makes Notes
{{California-road-stub}}
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Designates this article relating to California State Highways as a stub. Articles are listed in

Category:California road stubs
{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=CA}}
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U.S. Roads WikiProject (Rated NA-Class)
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 This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. 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.
Topics California blank.svg California State Highways
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 California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.
{{featuredcsh}}
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California blank.svg WikiProject California State Highways is a selected article of the California State Highways WikiProject; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the WikiProject and serves as a model for all other California State Highway articles to emulate. If you can update or improve it, please do.
Designates the current article as a featured article of the WikiProject California State Highways. Should go on the article's talk page.

[edit] WikiProject Award

Image What to type Description
The California Star {{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}

The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for California, WP San Francisco Bay Area, WP Southern California, WP Santa Barbara County, WP California State Highways and WP California County Routes.

This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.

[edit] Infoboxes

State Route 37 shield
State Route 37
Defined by S&HC § 337
Length: 21 mi[1] (34 km)
Formed: 1934[2]
West end: California 251.svg SR 251 in Novato
Major
junctions:		 US 101 (CA).svg US 101 in Novato
California 121.svg SR 121 in Novato
California 29.svg SR 29 in Vallejo
East end: I-80.svg I-80 in Vallejo
State highways in California (list - pre-1964)
< SR 36 SR 38 >
History - Unconstructed - Deleted - Freeway - Scenic


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. Note that this is a complete list of every variable that can be used with Infobox road and that many are unnecessary in most cases. Variables that are empty can be omitted.

{{Infobox road
|state=CA
|highway_name=
|name_notes=
|type=
|route=
|alternate_name=
|section=
|map=
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=<ref>[http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/structur/strmaint/brlog2.htm January 1, 2006 California Log of Bridges on State Highways]</ref>
|length_notes=
|established=
|decommissioned=
|direction_a=
|starting_terminus=
|junction=
|direction_b=
|ending_terminus=
|previous_type=
|previous_route=
|next_type=
|next_route=
|browse=
}}

For the above parameters here's what you should fill in:

  • state: CA
  • highway_name: road name to be displayed
  • name_notes: foot notes that will be displayed in small text underneath the highway name
  • type: CA for State Routes, Interstate for Interstates, and US for U.S. Routes
  • route: This is the number of the route the article is about.
  • alternate_name: Use in situations where the entire route has another name (i.e. NY 590 is called the Sea Breeze Expressway for its entire length).
  • section The section of code that defines this route. This is the route number with 300 added to it if the number is under 300. Otherwise, you will need to go to the code to find out the right number.
  • map: image name of a map for the route, width should be 290px; see the maps task force for maps
  • length_mi: This is the length of the route in miles. If you specify 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 parameter.
  • length_ref: To do what a good article writer should, provide your reference for the length of the route using standard <ref> method. One has been given above, and you can use it if you wish.
  • length_notes: see below
  • established: This is the date the route was commissioned or assigned to its current alignment.
  • decommissioned: date the route was decommissioned
  • 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: a list of major junctions, roughly 5-10 because of size
  • direction_b: The opposite of direction_a
  • ending_terminus: where the route ends, in accordance with the guidelines set forth with starting_terminus
  • cities: DO NOT USE - this parameter is now deprecated
  • previous_type: This is the type of route that precedes the current one in the system. The value for this is: Interstate, US, or CA for Interstates, U.S. Routes and other state roads, respectively.
  • previous_route: the number of the route preceding 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
  • browse: used to add additional browse lines

A complete infobox is to the right.

[edit] Length instructions

If neither length_mi nor length_km exists, no length is displayed.

Otherwise, if length_first is either mi or km, that one appears first. Ensure that this one is defined, or it will show up blank.
Otherwise, if only one of length_mi or length_km is defined, that one appears first. The other is calculated and rounded to length_round (default 0) places. Be sure to avoid false precision.
length_ref, if defined, appears after the first length. Use a citation or {{fact}} here. Be sure that the first length is the one for which you have a reference.
length_notes, if defined, appears as a note below the length. This can be used to show former length, or future length, etc.


U.S. Roads WikiProject announcements and open tasks
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Articles needing attention • Assessment • Maps • Blog • Shields • Standards
  • The standards for junction lists has been changed. See WP:USRD/STDS.
  • A discussion and straw poll regarding the redefinition of the project's scope is currently underway at WT:USRD.
  • The use of "Major cities" boxes and similar lists in USRD articles has been deprecated, per discussion at WT:USRD — this includes similar {{infobox road}} parameters.
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