Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Maryland/Assessment

This page describes the two main types of assessment, by importance and by quality, and includes a list of the task force's highest quality articles.

Importance
Maryland road articles are classified as five types of importances: top, high, mid, low, and NA (not applicable). The following importance guidelines for this task force supersede the general guidelines for applying those importance labels in the national-level project. These guidelines are based on the Michigan Plan of article hierarchy and on the Federal Highway Administration's National Highway System, which designates for funding purposes which highways in the United States are more or less important from a national perspective. The authoritative source for determining importance is the set of National Highway System lists in the Maryland Highway Location Reference documents. If a highway is not included in those documents, use the Federal Highway Administration's National Highway System maps.

Top-importance article
There is one Top-level article: Maryland highway system.

High-importance articles
High-level articles include:
 * The three state-wide system list articles: List of Interstate Highways in Maryland, List of U.S. Highways in Maryland, and List of Maryland state highways
 * All articles on highways that have at least one non-concurrent portion included in the primary National Highway System. This includes portions of highways classified by the Federal Highway Administration as the Eisenhower Interstate System, Other NHS Routes, Non-Interstate STRAHNET (Strategic Highway Network) Routes, and Major STRAHNET Connectors.

Mid-importance articles
Mid-level articles include:
 * All state-wide list articles organized by the Rockland County Scenario principles, including Maryland Scenic Byways, the lists of Maryland state highways shorter than one mile, and the lists of former Maryland state highways.
 * All articles on former Interstate or U.S. Highways.
 * All articles on highways that have at least one non-concurrent portion included in the secondary National Highway System. This includes portions of highways classified by the Federal Highway Administration as intermodal connectors and MAP-21 Principal Arterials.

Low-importance articles
Low-level articles include:
 * All articles on highways that are not included in the National Highway System. This includes articles on highways that have portions that run concurrently with a highway in the primary or secondary National Highway System.
 * All other standard or list articles maintained by this task force.

NA-importance articles
NA-level articles include everything that is not a list or road or road-related article, such as redirects, categories, templates, and project or task force pages.

Quality
This task force follows the quality assessment guidelines in the national project's Assessment Department. Most of the articles maintained by this task force are B-class, which means they contain the Big Three sections&mdash;Route description, History, and Junction list&mdash;a Lead that adequately summarizes the article, and references that support the prose throughout the article. B-class is the highest quality class without a formal review; most B-Class articles would pass the Good Article Nomination process without requiring major revisions or expansion. Articles that need significant work to reach B-class include the C-class and Start-class articles. C-class articles contain all of the Big Three sections, but lack adequate sections or referencing. Start-class articles only contain two of the Big Three sections. There are no Stub-class articles, or articles with one or none of the Big 3 sections, maintained by this task force.

The following lists include Maryland road articles that have been reviewed in the requisite formal process and designated as Featured Articles, A-Class Articles, and Good Articles. Also listed are Featured Articles that have received the honor of being featured on the front page of Wikipedia and Did You Know? Articles, which are featured on the Wikipedia front page after significant expansion and based on an interesting, well-referenced fact or set of facts.