Talk:Colorado Department of Highways

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On 5 June 2021, it was proposed that this article be moved from List of Colorado Department of Highways bridges on the National Register of Historic Places to Colorado Department of Highways. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Try Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL. --do ncr am 01:07, 31 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 5 June 2021 edit

Latest comment: 2 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. @Doncram: I'll leave the reworking to you. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 09:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

List of Colorado Department of Highways bridges on the National Register of Historic Places → Colorado Department of Highways – Restore article topic to be the "Colorado Department of Highways", the predecessor to today's Colorado Department of Transportation. The article was abruptly moved without discussion on 2 June 2011, with edit summary "more accurate title based on content". I did not like the move--it seemed like an unnecessary and unfriendly action--but could not at the time dispute it, amidst other brouhaha going on. Just a little later there was a ridiculous amount of contention about quite-reasonable-in-my-view Architects of the United States Forest Service article, at its Talk page and AFD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States Forest Service Architecture Group, which ran from 19 July to 27 July 2011. The move prevented this from developing to be similar to that USFS architects article, or to Architects of the National Park Service, which was created 11 October 2012‎ and was developed cooperatively.

Anyhow, looking at this list-article now, I see it as a non-standard list-article (there are none like it for any other state), and as inferior to standard-type list-article List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado (one of 52 members of Category:Lists of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places by state). The current "List of Colorado Department of Highways bridges on the National Register of Historic Places" is certainly just a subset of that, and not a very good one (lacks photos and other info in the standard-type list, lacks discussion/sourcing about Colorado Department of Highways role). It is not clear if the current list has really been managed to be only the bridges, and all of the bridges, that were designed and/or built by the Colorado Department of Highways before it became the Colorado Department of Transportation. I suggest restoring the article to be about the Colorado Department of Highways, with an intro similar to the 2 June 2011 version just before the move. And development about projects and programs and people (engineers, architects, builders, etc.) of the Colorado Department of Highways. Like, say, Architects of the National Park Service. Perhaps it could end up being renamed. The existing list-article at its current title is just no good, IMHO, though. Doncram (talk) 06:48, 5 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

So the reworked article would start off something like:
The Colorado Department of Highways is the antecedent of today's Colorado Department of Transportation. Along with many other functions, it served as a bridge architect and at times as a bridge builder. Many of its bridges are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.^[1]^[2]

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^ "Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS" (PDF). National Park Service.
^ "Vehicular Bridges in Colorado" (PDF). National Park Service.

And it would include a list of programs, projects, works, including selected important bridge design projects.

And it would have categories like Category:State agencies of Colorado, Category:State highways in Colorado, Category:Transportation in Colorado, Category:State departments of transportation of the United States. --Doncram (talk) 06:53, 5 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Restore / rework article, per nomination. Jeffrey Beall (talk) 10:19, 5 June 2021 (UTC).Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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[highways-1] "Highway Bridges in Colorado MPS" (PDF). National Park Service.

[vehicular-2] "Vehicular Bridges in Colorado" (PDF). National Park Service.

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