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Permanently signed detour route and other edits
This edit has been reverted. You made some similarly questionable edits to List of unused highways in the United States.  Imzadi 1979  →   20:04, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You removed the non-breaking space that should be there. Those are used to join numbers to non-numerical content so that they don't fall on opposite sides of a line. For example, in dealing with "Interstate 69", if you use a plain space and the construction falls near end of the line, the browser may put "Interstate" at the end of one line and "69" at the start of the other. If you had used a non-breaking space there, the whole thing would put kept together at the end or start of the line. We should do this for full names (Interstate 69, US Highway 31, etc) as well as abbreviated names (US 31, etc.), but in the case of full names, only the last word before the number needs the non-breaking space. So "State Highway 2" only needs to have a non-breaking space between "Highway" and "2". The same goes for dealing with banner types.
 * Highway names should be spelled out in full on the first usage of a highway type. Thus "US Highway 31" is in the link and followed by "(US 31)". Dropping the "Highway" out of the link but retaining the abbreviation to render "US 31 (US 31)" is pointless and doesn't resolve the issue of informing unknowing readers about the name–abbreviation convention.
 * In Michigan, the banner name comes first. It is "Business M-28", not "M-28 Business".
 * Vulgar fractions are not a bad thing. We don't have to convert $1/2$ to 0.5, especially if it's a very rounded/approximated quantity.
 * We shouldn't change US Highway to US Route willy-nilly. Both terms are acceptable for components of the "United States Numbered Highway System" (emphasis mine).
 * US 112 only ever existed in Michigan; using the "U.S. Route 112 in Michigan" link is pointless.
 * First, I didn't know that non-breaking spaces are "supposed" to be used in the full name of roads. Can they be put into the actual link (for example, Interstate 75 in Michigan ? Or, is there a different method of that? Could you show me?
 * Second, did I actually put US 31 (US 31) ? Facepalm.
 * Third, I didn't know that banner names come first in Michigan.
 * What is wrong with only using "U.S. Route" or "U.S. Highway"? A definitive standard for which is which should be promulgated.
 * Fourth, didn't US 112 exist in Indiana at one point?
 * Thank you for clearing these things up for me. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 20:16, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can use a non-breaking space anywhere you use a regular one, in fact, you can do so directly in the link. The server will treat it as a regular space for linking purposes. (Just look at your I-75 example; it works just fine!)
 * Yes, you did do that with US 31, kinda. It was US 31 (US 31) (Nowiki tags won't show the raw HTML code for a nbsp, btw.)
 * As for mixing and matching, we use either "U.S. Route" or "U.S. Highway" on a state-by-state basis. When applied to Michigan, it just looks wrong. It would be like writing a USRD article in British English: the article would use proper grammar, etc, but it would read wrong to the ears. WP:USSH explicitly allows the two terms to be mixed and matched, and United States Numbered Highways uses both variations interchangeably.
 * No, US 112S was in Indiana to connect US 112 to the rest of the system for a while until the rest of the connection in Michigan was completed. US 112 was always an intrastate US Highway.  Imzadi 1979  →   20:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing this stuff up. If I don't want this thread to be archived, or I want it to always be readily available (to reference it for my editing assistance), what do I do? Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 20:56, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Hold up. I tried using Puerto Rico Highway 22, but -- when I tried opening it, I got a "Bad title" page instead. What happened? Actually, let me clarify. In an edit box, I highlight the link (including the brackets). When the popup appears, I right-click on it to open the page in a new tab. That is when I get the "Bad title" page. If I save the page, it works. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 21:30, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Fixing redirects
Good Morning! Please review WP:NOTBROKEN before you continue to fix redirects. The amount of processing power saved when clicking on your fixed redirects is negated when you factor in the fact you made several edits to fix them. --  Admr Boltz  15:36, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tennessee State Route 342
In the Route description you or Fredddie made a mistake on the mileage template thing and it is red like when a page don't exist. I don't know how to fix or i would fix it myself. --ACase Talk  05:32, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for the barnstar! I am one of the editors responsible for destubbing Georgia (although I did most of the work). Yours was only the fourth kudo that I have received. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 05:32, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
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Bannered Routes of US Route 11
I just wanted to say thank you for creating that page and i will be adding some information to the Greeneville TN and Athens, TN Business loops. --ACase0000 (talk) 07:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem. I think that most every U.S. highway and Interstate highway should have one of those pages. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 04:02, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

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