What do we cover?
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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:
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What do we not cover?
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With some exceptions, we do not maintain:
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What advice can we offer?
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We have four guidelines for highway articles:
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.
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How is our project organized?
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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.
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What do we hope to accomplish?
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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.
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