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U.S. Roads Newsletter, Issue 1


The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 1 • January 19, 2007 • About the Newsletter
Departments Project news Deletion debates Featured member From the editors Coming and going	Features B-class audit shows stunning results	State and national updates Leaderboard California Illinois New York New Jersey Oklahoma Pennsylvania Wisconsin
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Want to change your method of delivery? – It's all here. —^Mitch32^contribs 20:09, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:FLRouteBox

A tag has been placed on Template:FLRouteBox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes.

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to delete sooner if you so desire, this template is no longer used or needed and has been replaced by {{infobox road}}. --Holderca1^talk 17:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TX Hwy assessments

I noticed that you've been doing some housekeeping on TX highways and their assessments. I have been tackling unassessed & unclassified articles for WP:TX so you've probably noticed my assessments. I want you to know that when doing assessments on highways I deferred to the Hwy project's assessment, if it was a "start" I made TX a start too. Rarely did I assess differently, I did scan each article but still I deferred to Hwy since I felt they know the standards better than I. I hope that I didn't create more work for you in the process. Jacksinterweb (talk) 17:09, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No extra work at all, the highway articles have enough work to keep me busy. During reassessing the articles, I have went ahead and changed the WP:Texas tag as well, hope that is okay. Once the articles are up to a quality B-class, I am going to submit to WP:GAR where it would be a GA-class across the board anyways. --Holderca1^talk 17:14, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course that is ok, I was just concerned that I might have been stepping on toes. Like I said, I generally defer to the parent project's assessment so any changes made to TX project is fine. Jacksinterweb (talk) 17:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Mi-km

A tag has been placed on Template:Mi-km requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AARoads

I believe it to be a really reliable source for interstate highways. I personally contribute pictures and other info to their site. But it has about 25-30 individuals who are extreme road geeks who spend countless hours updating their site, and making sure things are accurate and up to the minute. They also cite their sources like anyone on wikipedia would expect. I don't know how you would say AARoads is not reliable. Other than federal transportation logs, I don't know anyother place where you can get that amount of info on the interstate highways. -Airtuna08 (talk) 21:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then by that logic we should be finding original sources for everything. All secondary sources come from a primary source. And AARoads is a secondary source. The difference between AARoads and Wikipedia is that AARoads only focuses on roads, and their contributors are experts on the subject. Some who contribute to Wiki roads are, but many are not. Anyone can sign up for an account with Wiki, that isn't so with AARoads. Not just you, but I really believe you guys are mistaken about AARoads, and I have already brought it up on the Interstate talk page. -Airtuna08 (talk) 17:27, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USRD Newsletter - Issue 2


The U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 2 • 17 February 2008 • About the Newsletter
Departments Project news Deletion debates Featured member From the editors Coming and going	Features Interstate 355 becomes USRD's newest Featured Article Commons refuses to delete superseded shields Michigan project breaks the 4.000 barrier USRD relative WW comes close to surpassing Wikipedia relative WW The newest neologism issue January 26 Meetup	State and national updates Leaderboard California Michigan New Jersey New York Utah
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Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Want to change your method of delivery? – It's all here. —O bot (t • c) 03:27, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:USRD-AIDnom

A tag has been placed on Template:USRD-AIDnom requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:USRD-AIDvoter

A tag has been placed on Template:USRD-AIDvoter requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:52, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Automatic centering of text on templates

Hey, I saw that you asked how Mr. Matté how he fixed the text to be automatically centered regardless of the number in one of the requests I just archived. If he was using Inkscape, there are three buttons that appear when editing text - one for each standard justification (left, right, and center). He then pressed the button for "center justification" (which messes up the text placement temporarily) then recentered the text onto the Texas outline and saved, thus creating the automatically centered text. Hope that helps, TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 20:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas

What do you think about filling in all those red links? Basketball 110 _{what famous people say} 19:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, if that's what you want to do. --Holderca1^talk 21:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations on your DYK!

On 27 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Texas State Highway Loop 13, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Keep up the good work Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 11:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

News articles

[1] - you can usually get the useful parts of the articles by searching for known text. --NE2 02:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Westheimer Road and F.M. 1093

I do not appreciate you deleting my contributions to the Westheimer Road article. The reason why the non-F.M. 1093 portions of Westheimer Rd. was added by me to the table was because someone merged Westheimer Rd. and F.M. 1093, which, while they run concurrently, are not the same road. Unless someone unmerges those articles, then my contributions should remain. --WisTex (talk) 22:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The title of the article is "Farm to Market Road 1093." If the section of Westheimer Road that isn't designated FM 1093 is notable enough to have its own article, then that is where such information should be located. If its not, then I'm sorry, there really isn't a place for that information. There are many roads that continue even though a state highway designation ends. See WP:USST for more guidance on city streets. --Holderca1^talk 22:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have ever driven down Westheimer Road, you will see how notable it is, and that it is a major commerce section of town that extends for the full length of Westheimer Road. It also have historical significance as mentioned in the Westheimer Road article and talk pages. --WisTex (talk) 22:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you feel it meets the notability guidelines here: Wikipedia:USST#Notability_guidelines, then by all means create the separate article. --Holderca1^talk 23:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arkansas state shields

I thought Arkansas still uses normal state shields. There is no signs of neutral shields I thouhgt. I'm still having trouble finding the specs, but I think they look much like California or Arizona shields. Isnt User:O an adim or not because I dont see him on admin list. Anyways does admins get certain salary for working on Wiki? --Freewayguy (Meet) 00:33, 1 March 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Honestly, the state specific vs. neutral shields isn't that big of a deal. No, O isn't an admin, I believe he is an admin on the commons though. Admins get paid the same amount as us regular editors. --Holderca1^talk 23:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interstate 37

On 3 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Interstate 37, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:20, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Business plates

I'm not quite sure what the easiest way to fix California is. Currently Template:Jct/plate/CA/4 etc. redirects to Template:Jct/plate/4 etc. But state routes have separate plates, and when there are only state routes the plates aren't showing up:

SR 99 Bus.

US 101 Bus. / SR 99 Bus.

I see that some states like NC have their own templates - do you think you can fix this, since I'm not sure of the best way? --NE2 14:07, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]