Talk:Roads and freeways in metropolitan Phoenix

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The I-11 exists and is open, it's not a future interstate anymore. 23:58, 20 November 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:B4C0:38:9883:BB69:B864:7779 (talk)

Pictures
Or lack thereof. Can anybody upload some and add them to the article? Looks very plain right now. Rko202 (talk) 03:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Name
Should this instead be at Phoenix metropolitan area freeways? That makes more sense to me. Karanacs (talk) 15:02, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

A more proper name would be "Highways in metropolitan Phoenix" as it does not discuss city streets at all, but only numbered highways (whether or not they are limited access highways, which some folks call "freeways"). And isn't, for example, "Arizona State Route 143" redundant? Surely it should just be "Arizona Route 143" since, quite obviously, Arizona is a State. Wlindley (talk) 05:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Reference formatting
I made two edits here that updated the formatting of the references used. I'll detail why I did what I did here.
 * 1) Newspaper titles are supposed to be rendered in italics. The references to the Arizona Republic were not.
 * 2) Author names were missing completely.
 * 3) So were publication dates, which like the author names, were given in the newspaper sources.
 * 4) Some of the article titles were wrong, instead using section subtitles as article titles.
 * 5) The first usage of a publisher should be linked, not the fourth.
 * 6) Publisher names should be used consistently. Not Arizona Department of Transportation half of the time, and ADOT the other half.
 * 7) The 1961 road map wasn't formatted correctly. Rand McNally didn't publish it, ADOT did with Rand McNally cartography.
 * 8) Some of the sources are Excel spreadsheets, which should be indicated as the format.
 * 9) The whole report from Mn/DOT has been reformatted. Since the link was only to one chapter in a larger report, I linked it differently so it links to the chapter, by chapter name, with a link to the whole report. I also added a publication date and the name of the company that wrote the report for Mn/DOT

A suggestion going forward would be to convert all of the ISO-style dates into regular format dates. That style is a relic of the days when the templates used date autoformatting on access dates, but date autoformatting is pretty much deprecated now. I only used the style for consistency, but honestly there's no reason not to use normal date formatting in the references. Rand McNally, CNN and KJZZ can be linked if desired, since others are linked on first mention. The rest of the information for Ref 23 should be found to create a full citation using cite report.  Imzadi  1979   →  07:51, 18 September 2010 (UTC)