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Hello and welcome to the California State Highways task force page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.

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[edit] Scope

California road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Total
FA 1 1 2
GA 18 6 24
B 9 7 2 18
C 55 47 2 104
Start 1 36 90 18 145
List 2 4 9 3 18
Book 1 1
Category 78 78
Disambig 10 10
File 23 23
Project 3 3
Redirect 97 97
Template 8 8
Assessed 3 123 160 25 220 531
Total 3 123 160 25 220 531

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.

This WikiProject maintains articles regarding highways in California. This includes:

  • Interstates & U.S. Routes
  • State numbered routes
  • County routes
  • Toll roads
  • Freeways, parkways, expressways, and similar controlled access or semi-controlled access roadways, regardless of whether it carries a numbered route
  • Historic auto trails
  • Any notable roadway of regional significance which does not fall under the purview of WP:USST.
  • Former alignments of numbered routes (possible dual tag with WP:USST, where applicable)

This does not include:

  • Most city streets, which fall under WP:USST.
    • Some city streets carry numbered routes, or did in their past. If a street can be tagged by both WP:USRD and WP:USST, WP:USRD will maintain articles about the numbered designation, while WP:USST will maintain articles about the street itself.
  • Bridges unless the entire bridge is the entire length of a route.

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] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know? articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Good article nominees


[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
Jj98 Active San Diegan editor. Usually edits many California State highways, including Southern California and San Diego, including Interstate 805 and California State Route 52.
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.
Ky72x Semi-active California State Route 99
Pzoxicuvybtnrm Semi-active I will try to work on destubbing
Foxyshadis Active Work primarily on Central Valley roads, with others as time permits. Recently greatly expanded CA 180.
Branddobbe Active will help to the best of my abilities; I'll probably focus on San Diego County.
Gateman1997 Started former CACR project
Eganio California native, and resident for 30 years...I can do parts of the Central Valley...driven many of the back-roads out there.
Elaich created Siskiyou County A12

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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.

These standards are meant to supplement WP:USRD/STDS. Please see this page for additional details.

[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 page: 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.

[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 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 road junction 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:RJL.) 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 notable enough to have an article of its own, per WP:USRD/NT. (This is a recent change to comply with the latest updates to WP:USRD/STDS).

[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}}
talk
Stub icon This California road-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
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}}
talk
WikiProject U.S. Roads (Rated NA-Class)
U.S. Roads WikiProject icon 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.

[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, and WP California State Highways.

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