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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

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{{portal-inline}} revert

Hi,

I'm curious about the assertion in this edit summary. From my examination of the existing transclusions of this template, the majority are not negatively impacted by the removal of the explicit bullet: indeed, in multiple cases it is already being prepended with a bullet in lists anyway. Is there a particular set of articles where this change results in significant breakage? I'm not given to believing that there is, given the relatively minor substance of the change and the low transclusion count (for a meta-template, <2000 transclusions is really pretty small fry, and almost all of them come from a handful of templates anyway). Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 15:23, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

A few months ago, one of my colleagues in the U.S. Roads project added See also sections to road articles in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and possibly other states. He used portal-inline to create links to the USRD project and to the particular state project. In most cases, the portal links are the only links in the See also section and the change would not be terribly notable. However, there are some cases where there are links other than portal links; this is how this change came to my attention. I was editing Maryland Route 7, which has a See also section with two portal links and an ordinary link to a tangentially related article. Combining a bullet point with non-bullet points does not look very good or consistent.
I admit that I was more fired up than I needed to be and would have been had I taken time to cool down. However, the fact remains that the documentation for portal-inline states it should be used in See also sections, yet the WP:SEEALSO guideline proscribes a bulleted list for the contents of See also sections. These prescriptions conflict with each other. One solution, if your change to the template is to go through again, is to go back to all uses of portal-inline in See also sections and manually add the bullets before each instance of the template. This is probably a job best done by someone with AWB.  VC  18:20, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
All that needs to happen is for the documentation to be updated to include an explicit bullet when adding it to a see also list. I'm happy to fix the transclusions myself, which is what I was planning to do anyway. If you haven't any strong objection I'd like to remove the bullet again and give this plan a go. Cheers. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 00:30, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
I approve of this plan now that I know what is going on.  VC  18:08, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Maryland Route 7

Begun review, not much to answer.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:29, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

M-553 ping

Where are we with the review? Are we ready to call it done, or are we close? Imzadi 1979 → 06:09, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Maryland Route 657

After thoroughly reviewing this article, I have decided to pass it at this time. Keep up the good work you are doing for Wikipedia! Rp0211 (talk2me) 18:38, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Maryland Route 615

After thoroughly reviewing this article, I have decided to put it on hold . For comments, please click here. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Rp0211 (talk2me) 22:50, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

All issues have been addressed, so I passed the article. Keep up the good work! Rp0211 (talk2me) 22:24, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Georgia State Route 40

After thoroughly reviewing this article, I have passed it at this time. Keep up the good work you are doing! Rp0211 (talk2me) 23:32, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of U.S. Route 40 Scenic

After thoroughly reviewing this article, I have decided to pass it at this time. Awesome job and keep up the good work! Rp0211 (talk2me) 21:17, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Maryland Route 528

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September 2012

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Rolling Road a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. I undid the cut&paste move per process. Regarding the actual issue of the article title, the article originally was created at the numbered-route and then quickly renamed to the road-name per "more accurate description". I don't know what the current guideline is on route-names, whether the locals and other sources use the name or number, or whether there is substantially more to rt 166 than just this one named part. Given history, I think WP:RM would be the way to go here rather than doing it unilaterally.

DMacks (talk) 14:40, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For doing the hard yards in List of state highways in Kansas shorter than one mile. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

K-267

Can you find a record for how long K-267 is? People say that it is 0.837 miles long, but my sources say it is 0.5 miles long. Thanks! Brycecordry (talk) 20:57, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

What are your sources? Reference 1 in the article is my source for the 0.837 figure. Click on Sherman County and scroll to the bottom.  VC  21:01, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

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I usually wait 7 days before bugging people, but we now have 7 ACRs open... sorry about that. Rschen7754 08:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

GeoTRAQS

Would you mind doing a quick review of the current state of the above application? I have read your tutorial several times, and initially thought that it was my PC at work (controlled by 'Big Brother') that was causing Layers not to correspond to what you describe - but I cannot get it to work at home either. Any ideas would be most welcome, as I am creating Major Intersection lists without mile posts at the present for Georgia State Routes. Concertmusic (talk) 02:06, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

I cannot get GeoTRAQS to work either. The application changed a few months ago and I have not been able to figure it out. I also do not have the patience to comprehensively test everything and try to figure out how the updated application works, especially on my wife's left-handed computer. I put a warning on the tutorial stating the application does not work as presented. I wish I could help more. Please do continue to create Major intersection lists, though. Once someone figures out how it works, you or anyone else can revisit each article and insert the mileposts.  VC  19:00, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
While I would have loved to get a quick answer on what I might have been doing wrong, I am glad that it was not just my incompetence causing that application to look strange to me. I will carry on, and with any luck I may make some headway on getting the application figured out as well. Thank you for your help! Concertmusic (talk) 20:07, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Maryland Route 170

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