Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Issues/Volume01/Issue09
The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter | ||||||
| Volume 1, Issue 9 | 9 June 2007 | About the Newsletter | ||||
IntroductionAs many road editors were busy with "real life" the last three weeks, publication was delayed a week. Apologies for the inconvenience. Enjoy.
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Highways notability guideline?
Currently, the notability guideline has hit a snag. Discussions are taking place to determine which county and secondary route systems should have an article for each route. However, these discussions keep continuing. Highways in independent cities have been discussed as well. Fortunately, the guideline apparently is desired, and the revert tag wars have stopped. | ||||||
Project news
 U.S. Route 191 NOMINATE the next articles | ||||||
Deletion debates
Template:TxRouteBox and Template:TxFMBox were sent to TFD. | ||||||
Portal debate
A small impromptu IRC meeting was held discussing the viability of Template:Portal US Roads. This template was mass-removed from all list pages, citing WP:SELF. After a few users objected, a compromise was reached by placing a link to the portal on Template:US state highways. | ||||||
Featured member: KrimpetKrimpet (talk) joined Wikipedia on January 2, 2007. From the start, he has helped improve a number of Philadelphia road articles to GA. He also became an administrator in three months' time. Besides improving articles and being an admin, he has developed a handy tool for moving images to the Commons. Thank you, Krimpet, for your continued hard work!
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Three new GAs
These past three weeks, three articles, namely New Jersey Route 18, U.S. Route 40, and State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania) have become GAs. The Route 18 GA is a first time GA, as is US 40; SR 1002 was a failed featured article candidate that then became a GA. SR 1002 is also the U.S. Roads portal selected article and WikiProject Pennsylvania State Highways's featured article. | ||||||
State updatesWP:CASHThere are 43 routeboxes left to fix; list is at User:Rschen7754/Routeboxca2. WP:MDRDThere are 108 routeboxes left to add/fix; list is at User:Vishwin60/Roads/MD. Additionally, the neutrality of Intercounty Connector is disputed. | ||||||
Exit list debates
Some Wikipedians were concerned with the some of the exit list standards on June 3rd. A user commented about colour usage as a standard for exit lists and the problems with the current standards. Others said that the cleanup tags should state what's wrong with the exit list. Concerns that the consensus reached earlier for these issues was not reflected in this guideline were addressed. At the end, it was decided that the USRD cleanup tag needs to be updated for exit lists and it was mandatory to supply rationale use. | ||||||
From the EditorsBe part of the turnaround... now become part of the solution! Become active in highways again. Let's save the articles from being inactive and destroyed. On the heels of a complete restructuring of the newsletter, we want to hear from you, the reader. What do you like about the current format? What should be changed? Removed? Added? Your comments are needed. Due to many of the distributors not being as available over the summer, publication will be decreased in the next few months. Lastly, remember that this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue released on June 23. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing! | ||||||
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