Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Blog/December 2008

Leaderboard for 29 December
All states have not moved; Michigan, Utah, Arizona and Connecticut have not lost any points, but New York has lost one hunderedth of a point; five new states were added as part of an expansion to include the top ten and the states, in order, are:. Now, here's the condensed leaderboard (if you want the full version of the board just head on over to WP:USRD/A/S): Merry Christmas, from  ComputerGuy  talk 19:08, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Project announcements template
Project U.S. Roads is no longer being updated frequently. Please see USRD Announcements for the latest announcements. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

ACR
I just noticed that most articles on ACR have been up since November! Please, help clear the backlog now, before 2009! Merry Christmas, from  ComputerGuy  talk 17:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

250th Road GA!
With the addition of New York State Route 398, we now have a total of 250 GAs from all over the world. The roads are listed under "road infastructure" on the GA list and it states that there are now 250 articles in the section. Merry Christmas, from  ComputerGuy  talk 16:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

2008: Year in review
It's been a rough year for USRD. Towards the beginning, we had just begun the second arbitration case, and throughout the year there were several disagreements.

On the other hand, we have made much progress throughout the year in terms of article quality. On January 1, we had 3 FAs; we now have 22. We now have 18 A-class articles (up from 6), our first 5 featured lists, and 217 GAs (up from 23). We have many more quality articles than we did last year.

Hopefully in 2009 we will continue to improve article quality across USRD and have a more successful year as a project. --Rschen7754 (T C) 05:52, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Featured member for December
User:Algorerhythms has been active in the maps task force and with his map contributions has helped numerous articles reach GA or FA status. He has also been active writing about articles about roads in Maryland, especially historical routes of U.S. Route 40, including the recently promoted U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Keyser's Ridge – Cumberland, Maryland). Thanks for the hard work.

The featured member for January is now being discussed, if you want to nominate someone for featured member, head on over to WT:USRD/B.

Leaderboard for 2 December
All states have not moved; Michigan has lost nine thousanths of a point; New York has also lost sixteen thousanths of a point; while Connecticut lost five thousanths of a point. Now, here's the condensed leaderboard (if you want the full version of the board just head on over to WP:USRD/A/S): computerguy @  Wikipedia.org  22:54, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the top ten should be included next time around? --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:43, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay. Merry Christmas , from  ComputerGuy  talk 18:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

USRD article to be featured on the main page
Interstate 70 in Utah is scheduled to be Today's Featured Article for December 5th. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davemeistermoab (talk • contribs) 22:53, December 1, 2008

Oh no, we're on Wikipedia Review! --NE2 22:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That's funny. Thanks.Dave (talk) 23:19, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Article promotions
The following articles have been promoted to GA, GT, A, FL, FA or GT status in December. Please take the time to read these newly-promoted quality articles and congratulate the nominator:

Contributors: Merry Christmas , from  ComputerGuy  talk