Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota

Title

WikiProject Minnesota State Highways

Scope

The scope of this project is to:

1. Bring all of the Minnesota State Highway articles under the same format.
2. Create an article for all Minnesota State Highways.

Participants

• Station Attendant
• Rschen7754 will help with tasks but has never been to MN.
• SpaceJunkie is familiar with most of the state highways in central Minnesota.

*Elkman - mostly familiar with Twin Cities roads. Also, I'm kind of a map geek, so I've been collecting old maps (dating back to 1930), so that might help with the history. I'm off of this. Let SPUI figure this out.

• zappa - I live in the Twin Cities, can help if needed.

Structure

Infobox To be placed on all articles.

Naming

All articles should be named "Minnesota State Highway XX".

Tasks

1. Work on individual highway articles.
2. Place routebox on all articles.
3. Place project template on article talk pages.

General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

Templates

Infoboxes

{{MNroutebox}} (A modified MORoutebox.) Template:MNroutebox

Stub templates

• Stub template to be put here once needed.

Project template (talk pages)

• {{Minnesota State Highway WikiProject}}

City link template

I got tired of entering the city name twice within square brackets, so I created a template that would give a full link to the Minnesota city but remove "Minnesota" from the title:

• {{mnclink}}

Template:Mnclink gives a link to Bloomington, Minnesota but doesn't list Minnesota at the end.

Link template for Steve Riner's page

I also got tired of typing out the full citation information for Steve Riner's Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page every time I did a highway, so I created a template as follows:

• {{riner}}

Usage: {{riner|range|specifichighway|accessdate}}

Example: {{riner|288-694|610|2024-08-12}} gives a reference to Highway 610 on the 288-694 page and dates it today.

User templates

It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads West}} should go on all members' user pages.

Categories

• Category:Minnesota state highways

Lists

• List of Minnesota state highways

Shield images

A blank Minnesota State Highway shield can be found at Image:Mnhwyshield.png.

The Roadgeek Fonts site has a font that works well for Minnesota signs. It looks like "Series D", at about 60 pixels, should do the job.

I figured out how to automate Paint Shop Pro so I could automatically generate all of the sign images. I haven't uploaded all of them to Wikipedia yet, though, so if you need any signs in the meantime, they're on my Web server at www2.elkman.net/signs.

Pages needing attention

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

• Category:Articles needing attention
• WikiProject Cleanup Listings

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.