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	The U.S. Roads WikiProject
A WikiProject dedicated to the highways and roadways of the United States

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, and U.S. state highways. Our goal is to create one of the best online resources related to the highways and major roads of the country. What do we do? USRD does several things. We create, edit, and maintain articles related to the highways and major roads of the United States. We maintain portals that serve as entry points for readers interested in highways and roads in the United States. We assess articles based on their quality and importance.

The U.S. Roads WikiProject New user orientation General Project home (WP:USRD) talk Portal (P:USRD) talk Project category Internet Relay Chat (WP:HWY/IRC) talk Popular pages (WP:USRD/PP)   Recognized content (WP:USRD/RC)   Departments Assessment Assessment home (WP:USRD/A)  → Statistics table    → Log    → Category    → Visual aids   By-state assessment (WP:USRD/A/S) talk  → Live table (WP:USRD/A/L) talk  → WikiWork (WP:USRD/A/WW) talk  → 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 Newsletter home (WP:USRD/N) talk  → Newsroom (WP:USRD/NR) talk  → Past issues (WP:USRD/N/I)    → Subscribe (WP:USRD/N/S)   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 Shields home (WP:USRD/S) talk  → Requests (WP:USRD/S/R) talk  → Tutorial talk  → Research    → Database   Task forces National task forces IH USH CR TRL JCT US 66 State task forces AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY AS DC GU MP PR VI Portals CA MD MI 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 Participants (WP:USRD/PAR)   Article alerts (WP:USRD/AA) arch. Embassy (WP:USRD/EM) talk Essays (WP:USRD/E) talk Precedents (WP:USRD/P) talk USRD Cup (WP:USRDCUP) talk Things to do To-do list General stubs   Project maintenance categories   → Articles needing attention   → Articles needing maps   → Articles needing shields   Interstate RJL compliance talk Systems and lists Redirect lists Templates {{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} (doc) {{USRD}} talk Article templates (WP:USRD/AT) Barnstar list (WP:USRD/BS) {{Infobox road}} talk {{Infobox road small}} talk {{Jctint}} talk {{Jct}} talk Stub templates (WP:USRD/STUB) Userbox list (WP:USRD/UBX) {{USRD Announcements}} talk {{Welcome-roads}} talk

How can you help? 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 our IRC channel (#wikipedia-en-roads). You can also subscribe to our quarterly project newsletter to keep up to date on project happenings.

What do we cover? We work on articles related to roadways of national or regional significance in the United States. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: Numbered highway systems, such as Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, state highways and county highways Individual Interstate, US, state or county highways, scenic byways or other major roads Historic auto trails and named highways which predate the numbered highway systems in the country Other topics related to how our modern highway system came to be, such as the Good Roads Movement What do we not cover? With some exceptions, we do not maintain: City and local streets, which are maintained by WP:U.S. Streets Bridges, which are maintained by WP:Bridges. What advice can we offer? We have four guidelines for highway articles: The notability guideline covers the notability of topics. The content guideline covers article content and structure. The page on highway article naming conventions covers usage of route names. The Manual of Style page on route junction lists covers usage and style of junction lists State subprojects can 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.

How is our project organized? The U.S. Roads WikiProject (USRD) serves the project for articles relating to highways and major roads 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 planning department handles future project planning and goals. 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. Each state has a task force, which consists of the resources for editing articles in that state. One state still has its own WikiProject, which is somewhat autonomous from USRD. What do we hope to accomplish? This year, the project has three main goals: To end the year with fewer stubs than when we started. Clean up all Interstate and US Highway articles. Convert all junction lists on GA-and-above articles to use templates.