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{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:1em 0; background:transparent; width:100%;" New user orientation 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!
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How is our project organized? 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.