Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Interstate Highways

Title

WikiProject U.S. Interstate Highways

Scope

To standardize the format of the Interstate highway articles.

Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways

Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar WikiProjects

• California State Highways
• California County Routes
• Washington State Highways
• Kentucky State Highways

Related WikiProjects

No related WikiProjects have been named.

Participants

• Rschen7754- leader of project
• Gateman1997-I'm in when I have time.
• TEG24601 - Willing to help. I call Dibs on I-69, 96, and 75.
• Engleman

Structure

All articles are to begin with a brief description of the route in general: mileage, etc.

Route description

The first state the interstate goes through

If this state is CA or WA then put the sections that that WP wants here. Otherwise describe the routing through this state.

Length

Make (or leave) a table that has the individual mileages for each state.

Cities

Make (or leave) the cities list... South to north and west to east please!

Intersections with other Interstates and other main roads

A bulleted list.

Spur routes

List any. Then put the 3di template in here.

Notes

Put all oddities, trivia, etc. here.

Sources

Put sources here

External links

Links having to do with entire interstate go here.

California (for example)

Put California related links here.

Naming articles

All articles are to be named "Interstate x". If more than one route of the same number exists (such as Interstate 405) then a disambiguation page needs to be placed at Interstate 405 and three pages need to be made called "Interstate 405 (California)", "Interstate 405 (Oregon)", and "Interstate 405 (Washington)". Exceptions to these rules will be listed below under naming exceptions.

Highways to include

Interstates 105CA, 205 CA, 305 CA, 405 CA, 505Ca, 605 CA, and 805CA are part of the California highway WP. Put the 3di tag on it but see the CA WP page for what to do with those highways. Interstates 405WA, 705 WA are part of the Washington highway WP. Interstates 205 OR/WA and 238 are part of this WP. Also Interstate 238 is a Primary interstate for purposes of this WP.

Goals

1. See scope.

Tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Interstate Highways: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2016-01-17 Update all exit lists to comply with the road junction list section of the MOS. Make sure shields in routeboxes and exit lists are using {{jct}}. Also make sure there aren't too many junctions in the routebox (limit 10). See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/National articles for the status of the 2di Interstates.

General strategy and discussion forums

• /General
• /Strategy

Templates

Routebox

{{Routeboxint}}

Template:Routeboxint

Example can be found at User:Rschen7754/Routeboxinttest. Stuff that isn't easily apparent:

• type: Primary for 2dis, and Secondary for 3dis.
• type2: Put Interstate for 2dis and Interstate- for 3dis and Interstate 238.

Example

Template:Routeboxint

Junctions and Mile Posts Columns

To create these columns, simply add the following to the "junction" parameter:

<tr><td align=right>Junction route number and link to its article</td><td align=left>State abbreviation and milepost</td></tr>

To add more routes, simply copy and paste this code into the "junction" parameter as many times as needed. The code will in turn form two columns: The right column, titled MILE POST, which gives the status of the article route according to its legal definition; and the left column, titled JUNCTION, which gives the status of the junction route it meets. The right column lists the point along the article route (in the county it currently traverses, in miles) where it meets the junction route. Generally, if the right column is white, it means that the article route physically exists (it is constructed, traversable, state-maintained and signed as a state highway) and that it meets the junction route at the given state and milepost. The left column lists the junction routes. If the left column is white, it means that the respective junction route physically meets the article route at an interchange. Also, junction routes in bold denote the start, discontinuities, and the end of the route and may include a route, a street, a city boundary, or a point of interest.

Background colors in any of the JUNCTION or MILE POST columns' boxes designates a different status of the junction route or the article route, respectively. In this case, either the junction route or article route does not meet the other at the given milepost, for a variety of reasons. These background colors should be added in the "td" section of the tables (Example: <td align=left bgcolor=#d3d3d3>). The following is the key:

Web Colors	Junction route...	Article route at this milepost...
lightgrey #d3d3d3	...is deleted.	...is deleted.
plum #dda0dd	...is unconstructed.	...is unconstructed.
lightyellow #ffffe0	...is closed to traffic.	...is closed traffic.
navajowhite #ffdead	...does not have an interchange with the article route.	...does not have an interchange with junction route.
paleturquoise #afeeee	...shares alignment with the article route. If this route number is in bold letters, then the shared alignment belongs the junction route, making the article route discontinuous. If this route number is in "regular" letters, then the shared alignment belongs to the article route, making the junction route discontinuous.	...merges with the junction route and shares alignment.
		...alights from the junction route and continues.

Note: Only major junctions go into the Interstate routebox... these would be other Interstates, terminii, state lines, and weird things (turnpikes, etc).

Stub templates

{{Interstate-stub}} (Got changed from {{Interstate Highway Stub}}.)

Other templates

• {{U.S. Interstate Highway WikiProject}}

Template:U.S. Interstate Highway WikiProject

Goes on talk page of each article.

• {{3di}}

Auxiliary routes of Interstate 5
California 5E1 5W1 105 1051 205 3054 405 505 605 805 9052 Business Oregon 105 205 3053 405 5053 Washington 205 405 6053 705 Business
1Former 2Future 3Unbuilt 4Unsigned

Goes on each primary highway (exept 76, 84, 86, and 88) that has 3dis, and also goes on each secondary highway. (For Interstate 10 use {{3di|10}}etc.

• {{3di2}}

Template:3di2

Same use as Template:3di. Use this for Interstates 76, 84, 86, and 88 (east and west for all). Example: {{3di2|84|east}}

• {{Interstates}}

Primary Interstate Highways
Signed	2 4 5 8 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 19 20 22 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 35 37 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 49 55 57 59 64 65 66 KS–KY VA–DC 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 CO–NE OH–NJ 77 78 79 80 81 82 WA–OR PA–NY CT–RI 83 84 OR–UT PA–MA 85 86 ID PA–NY CT–MA 87 NC NY 88 IL NY 89 90 91 93 94 95 96 97 99 H-1 H-2 H-3
Unsigned	A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 PRI-1 PRI-2 PRI-3
Lists	Primary Auxiliary Suffixed Business Future
Other	Standards Gaps Tolled
Routes in italics are no longer a part of the system. Major Interstates are highlighted.

Goes on every article on a primary highway.

Categories

• Category:U.S. Interstate Highway system

All primary interstate highways go here with a 2 digit sort code (08 for I-8, 85 for I-85, etc.)

• Category:Interstate highways in California (or Arizona, etc... there is even one for District of Columbia and Puerto Rico)

All interstates that run through that state go here. For 2dis, use a 2 digit sort code as above. For 3dis, follow this example: 05-7 for I-705. 25-8 for I-825.

• Category:Three-digit Interstate Highways

All 3dis go here with the 05-2 sort key (for example).

Lists

• List of Interstate Highways
• List of three-digit Interstate Highways

Naming exceptions

Alaska, Puerto Rico

All of these interstates are listed under Interstate Highways in Alaska or Interstate Highways in Puerto Rico.

2-state 3dis

All should be named "Interstate 205 (Oregon-Washington)" for example. I don't know about the 3 state one yet.