Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Precedents

This page lists important debates regarding road articles. Please list them here after their conclusion in chronological order.

This page also serves to inform and remind us all of the massive debates that have occurred, and to motivate us to work to ensure that they do not occur again.

RFD
Misleading redirects will likely be deleted.

TFD
Here are reasons why a template was kept.
 * 1) Article navigation or sorting is important
 * 2) Navboxes have at least three useful links
 * 3) Suitable replacements do not yet exist
 * 4) Useful purpose

Here are reasons why a template was deleted.
 * 1) Changes in WikiProject structure and practices
 * 2) Changes in WikiProject banner usage
 * 3) Consolidation with or redundancy to another template
 * 4) Deprecation and/or lack of use
 * 5) Inappropriate use of Template namespace
 * 6) Navboxes with one or two useful links or too many red links
 * 7) Project-specific cleanup/warnings are frowned upon
 * 8) Upgrades in MediaWiki software

Infoboxes
It is worth noting that, a template that made by-state infoboxes unnecessary, was widely used by late 2006. A complete redesign in 2010 globalized the template and added the ability to handle four sections. The creation of also made variations on Infobox road unnecessary. Check the linked debates for details on each nomination.

Highway system navboxes
Navboxes for state highway systems are generally considered to be redundant to state highway lists and categories. They are likely to be deleted.

Geographic area navboxes
Navboxes for highways located within a geographic area (such as "Roads in X metropolitan area", "State highways in X County", "Interstate highways in [state]", etc.) are generally considered to be redundant to categories and lists. They are likely to be deleted.

Stub sorting
In the early days of USRD, stub sorting was a mess. In 2007, WP:WSS proposed renaming all of the templates to, which succeeded in organizing the templates. At first, each state had its own stub category. As a category was emptied, the stub template was changed to put any subsequently added articles into a regional category.

Files for deletion and Commons deletion requests
Also see c:COM:HWY/P

Maps are not primary sources
Wikipedia_talk:No_original_research/Archive_39

Coordinates and KML

 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways/Archive 4 - only KML is required
 * Featured article candidates/Ontario Highway 401/archive2
 * Featured article candidates/M-185 (Michigan highway)/archive1
 * Featured article candidates/U.S. Route 2 in Michigan/archive1

Notability

 * Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(geographic_features)/Archive_3 and
 * Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Roads/Archive_20
 * Good article reassessment/M-105 (Michigan highway)/1 - why WP:GEOROAD is important