Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Pennsylvania

Welcome to the Pennsylvania task force of WikiProject U.S. Roads! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

Quick links: List of Pennsylvania State Routes (project list page) Redirect completion list

Scope
This task force aims primarily to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways, scenic highways, US or Interstate routes, historic tollroads, and other historic routes in Pennsylvania.

Structure
Articles on signed traffic routes are to be named "Pennsylvania Route N" (where N is the route number per WP:USSH. Shields are available for all signed traffic routes in the format PA-X.svg, where X is the route number. All Pennsylvania road articles follow WP:USRD/STDS.

Major intersections/exit list
The PAint family of templates may be used to generate a MOS:RJL-compliant junction list for at-grade highways. It may also be used to create the list for at-grade highways with limited-access portions without exit numbers. If the limited-access portion does have exit numbers, use jctint with the exit parameter.

Further instructions can be found at Jctint. The easiest way to generate MOS:RJL and WP:USRD/STDS compliant entries for the road parameter is to use jct; see that template for usage instructions. Types that the template recognizes include "PA" (state routes), "US" (U.S. Highways), and "I" (Interstate Highways).

How you can help
Suggestions on how you can help are listed below. Click the "watch" link in the upper right corner of the box to add the to do list to your watchlist, keeping you up-to-date on the latest items needing attention in WP:USRD/PA.

Questions?
If you have any questions regarding the Pennsylvania State Route System, you can leave a note on WT:USRD.

You are also welcome to leave a note on my talk page - User talk:hmich176.

On Wikipedia

 * Historical information from the 1920s
 * Map Database of Pennsylvania
 * Road length sources
 * General info about roads IRC channels
 * Articles by quality
 * WP:USRD/PA Related Changes
 * All-time list

Available on state websites

 * PennDOT map page - various maps, current and historic
 * County Type 10 Maps
 * Historic Transportation Maps
 * Historic County Maps
 * Straight Line Diagrams

Legislative route definitions

 * 1911
 * 1919 No. 267
 * 1919 No. 312
 * (scans of laws since 1970)
 * transcriptions of selected laws
 * transcriptions of selected laws

Other websites

 * 1929 Pennsylvania maps


 * List of historic Pennsylvania maps

Recognized content
Past selected articles of the task force.

Infoboxes
The infobox for this task force is Infobox road. Remember to set the state parameter to "PA", and the type parameter to I, US, PA, or QR for Interstates, U.S. routes, state routes, and quadrant routes respectively.

Stub templates
Pennsylvania-road-stub

Designates this article relating to roads in Pennsylvania as a stub. Articles are listed in Category:Pennsylvania road stubs.

Project templates
Place this template at the top of all talk pages of articles within the scope of this project. " " shall be added to the banner on the talk pages of all former PASH selected articles. See WikiProject U.S. Roads for all of the parameters that the template accepts.

User templates
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Pennsylvania/Userbox Userbox for participants of this task force.

Categories
All traffic routes are to be placed in where nnn is the three-digit route number. For quadrant routes, use where nnnn is the four-digit route number and X is the county the route is in.

Routes that exist in only one county should also have "Transportation in X County, Pennsylvania" as a category (example: since Pennsylvania Route 546 only exists in McKean County, it would have Category:Transportation in McKean County, Pennsylvania as a category). The addition of these categories to multi-county routes is optional, but recommended, especially if a "Transportation in X County, Pennsylvania" category exists.