Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Issues/Volume01/Issue14

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Introduction
Apologies for the late delivery. Many of us are back in school / college and got busy with schoolwork.

However, many issues came up during these two weeks.


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 * In this issue

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 * Featured story

Consolidation of participants list causes controversy

 * By O

On the second of September, a proposal to merge all child projects of USRD was formed. Nobody responded to that thread, and implementation began. However, after all merges were done, the Maryland project's list was reverted.

Another thread regarding the merge was started with a bit of controversy from users who did not know about the merge. The discussion contained some key points, such as USRD claiming ownership of the child projects, and that there wasn't any urgent logic in it. Two different proposals were formed, which were to transclude the state lists into USRD's list, and to just revert the entire thing. Opposition mounted for the first proposal, and a second one was drawn up. Nobody really responded to the second proposal.
 * Sources: WT:USRD and archive 7


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Project news

 * Nominations and votes are needed for November's selected article and selected picture.
 * The creation of new state highway subprojects are strongly discouraged. Instead, consider helping to fix the four projects currently demoted to task forces - Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Alabama.
 * Portal:Roads has been created.

 The current U.S. Roads Article Improvement Drive article is Interstate 79. Last collaboration was: Interstate 35. Join the contest to receive a barnstar!
 * Article Improvement Drive


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Deletion debates

 * An archive of all previous debates.

Boston Bypass was closed as No consensus.
 * Closed

Towson Bypass-Burke Avenue-Putty Hill Road-Rossville Boulevard was closed as Delete, possibly influenced by the lengthy name.

Articles for deletion/Windsor Mill Road was closed as No consensus because of claims that the road is old.

List of auxiliary Interstate Highways unconnected with Parent was closed as Delete.

Interstate Highway System chronology was closed as Delete.

A portion of the Kentucky state highway list was sent to AFD, but was closed as Keep.

NYC Expressways was closed as Keep.

Template:Delaware-Route-stub was closed as speedy deleted per previous SFD.

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Adopt-a-Highway was withdrawn.

CR 4 (Saratoga Co., NY) is being AFD'ed due to the notability concerns below.
 * Ongoing

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Newsroom/Deadlines is being MFD'ed because it is not being followed.


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Featured member: Holderca1
Holderca1 has been a Wikipedia editor since July 29, 2005. He was very influential in writing and maintaining articles for both Florida state roads and Texas state highways as well as Interstate and U.S. routes. He created a template that made it easier to add junction information to infobox road and exit lists - which has been widely used since. Outside of USRD, he has written articles and participated in the projects for tropical cyclones and U.S. Major League Baseball.

Thank you, Holderca1, for all of your hard work!


 * Know of an editor who goes the extra mile? Nominate him or her at WP:USRD/NEWS for the next issue. Editors can only be nominated once a year.


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WP:USH
Thanks to efforts by TwinsMetsFan and JohnnyAlbert10, all 1 and 2 digit USH articles are at project standards. However, the 3 digit articles still need to be restructured.

WP:NJSCR
New Jersey Route 55 is currently a GA nominee. However, County Route 622 (Middlesex County, New Jersey) failed its GA nomination after a record-breaking 34 days.

WP:PASH
To reduce the number of permanent stub articles, a new minor routes list was created by User:JohnnyAlbert10 including state routes 102, 110, 121, 127, 179, 424, 474, 505, 531, 618 and 955.

WP:NYSR
A new minor routes list was created by User:TwinsMetsFan including state routes 280, 329, 409, 419, and 421.

WP:NYCR
On September 30, 2007, WP:NYCR was merged into its parent, WP:NYSR. This was due to the recent or proposed merges, redirects, and deletions of nearly all of its articles. The remaining notable routes will be handled by WP:NYSR.

WP:TXSH
Wurzbach Parkway was featured for WP:DYK on 25 September 2007.


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Portal structure change

 * By O

From the time the last issue was distributed, some controversy regarding the portal erupted. First came the moving of the page itself to a new title, Portal:North American Roads. It was quickly reverted, and discussion on the talk page began. Everyone who participated in that discussion pointed out pros and cons about the status quo and the new change, and they were listed. Consensus then rambled on, and finally agreed that the status quo was the best option, and then a new parent portal (unfinished), Portal:Roads was created.
 * Sources: [ Portal revision history], Portal talk:U.S. Roads


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Discussions regarding notability

 * By Rschen7754

Recently, the WP:USRD/NT notability guideline has been created. The major change declares that the majority of county route articles (with the exception of state-wide systems like California's) are to be redirected or deleted. Subsequent application of the guideline at WT:NYSR has resulted in the redirection of many New York County Route articles. Today, WP:NYCR was redirected to WP:NYSR to reflect this change.


 * Sources: WT:USRD/NT, WT:NYSR


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From the editors
'''Be part of the turnaround... now become part of the solution! Become active in highways again. Let's save the articles from being inactive and destroyed.'''

The editors of the newsletter would like to hear from you, the reader. What do you like about the current format? What should be changed? Removed? Added? Your comments are needed.

Lastly, remember that this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue released on October 13. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
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Contributors to this issue

 * O (editor, distributor)
 * Rschen7754 (editor)
 * TwinsMetsFan (editor)
 * JohnnyAlbert10 (editor)
 * Mitchazenia (contributor)
 * Master son (editor)
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