Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads

 

Hello, there, and welcome to the U.S. Roads WikiProject on Wikipedia! If you're reading this page, you're probably new to our WikiProject, or even Wikipedia in general. This tutorial page is designed to help you find your way around and learn about the way our project works. We're always happy to have extra help, so thanks for your interest!

We maintain articles relating to roadways of national or regional significance in the United States. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:

• Numbered route systems, such as Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, state highways and county highways
• Controlled access or semi-controlled access roadways, such as freeways, expressways, parkways and toll roads
• Historic auto trails and named highways which predate the U.S. numbered route system
• Notable former alignments of numbered routes

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
• State departments of transportation, which are maintained by WP:Transport

The U.S. Roads WikiProject (USRD) serves as an umbrella project for articles relating to roads and highways 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 resources department handles research resources of a general nature for the entire project.
• 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.

Every state and territory has its own task force, where you can find resources for researching and editing highways in that area. Task forces also exist for historic auto trails, U.S. Route 66, as well as Interstate and U.S. Highways.

We have four guidelines for highway articles:

• The notability guideline covers the notability of topics. Further information elaborating on project article notability may be found here.
• 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 may 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.

These are links to the U.S. Roads projects on other Wikimedia Foundation sites.

• Dutch Wikipedia: Wikiproject/Wegen in de Verenigde Staten
• English Wikipedia: U.S. Roads WikiProject
• German Wikipedia: WikiProjekt Straßen der Vereinigten Staaten
• Simple English Wikipedia: U.S. Roads WikiProject
• Spanish Wikipedia: Estados Unidos/Carreteras
• Commons: U.S. Roads WikiProject
• Wikidata: WikiProject Roads/United States
• Meta: WikiProject U.S. Roads
• English Wikisource: WikiProject U.S. Roads