Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Kentucky/Archive 1

Official name?
What is the official name of a route in the system? The KYTC site always uses "KY XX"; if that is official, we should use that rather than "Kentucky State Highway XX". --SPUI (talk) 00:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)


 * You're correct. I believe the official nomenclature is KY XX.  I don't remember coming across any with hyphens.  Even when discussed together with a multiplexed road, such as I-265/KY 841, the Interstate is hyphenated, but the KY highway is not.  The articles I have created thus far are titled Kentucky State Highway XX and noted their identifier, KY XX, in the subject.  Are you proposing that we rename the articles?  Or perhaps create redirects?  :-)  Guess I dunno what you'd like to see.  Thanks for your help!!!  >:  Roby Wayne  Talk &bull;  Hist  &bull;  E@ 23:34, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll join up!
I live in Bullitt County, Kentucky, and I'm quite interested in the roads around here. I got bored today, so using the example Kentucky State Highway 55 provided, I made one for Kentucky State Highway 44

If anyone needs any help or has any suggestions for me, please let me know. :)

Hyper Anthony 01:18, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to help!
Hey guys, neat project you've got going on, I'd love to help out! I'm originally from outside of Louisville, and I currently live in Lexington, so hopefully I could contribute some knowledge. Don't want to mess up anything you guys are working on though, so let me know how I can help! :) BMetts 19:33, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

new list / shield images
Hi all,

I'm from the california SR project (althouht i don't participage much in that project anyhmore). I've made some shield images for you guys and started on a new list; tell me what you think:

User:Atanamir/asdfasdf

If you guys like ti, i'll continue and put in the complete list. otherwise, I'll just stop.

PS -- how does kentucky do a shield for four digits?

THanks, atanamir 02:19, 23 November 2005 (UTC) I have just created Portal:U.S. Roads. If you have any feedback, please place it under "Portal" at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads.Rt66lt 03:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * There are tons of circle images available at Circle signs. These differ substantially from the Kentucky State Highway PNGs that I've also seen. Which one is closer to being accurate? I maintain WikiProject Illinois State Routes and some Illinois routes terminate at the Kentucky state line, so it'd be helpful for me (see Illinois State Route 13 for why I need to know). Thanks! &mdash; Rob (  talk  ) 13:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Helping Out
Hey guys! I'm going to help out on the highways project also. I currently live in northern Kentucky, and have already helped edit the pages for KY 8, 9, and 10. Hopefully, I can do all the northern Kentucky roads in time. --Firstthes 16:06, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ditto. I am in central Kentucky but travel all over the state extensively. Seicer 05:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

AA Higway "Indian Temple??"
Hi all, on a recent trip up the AA highway just north of Grayson, my husband and I saw a strange temple looking structure off on the right. We took a short drive on a side road and came upon a huge "indian Temple" looking thing sitting there. It had intricate stone carvings and had to be about 3 stories tall. We took pictures of it. Just wondering if anyone knows what that was? Thanks, Amy


 * No idea, I've noticed this myself on the many times I've passed by this. I'll check it out more closely next time. Seicer 01:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Kentucky
Greetings WikiProject Kentucky State Highways from yo' momma - WikiProject Kentucky! We have proposed Portal:Kentucky and are drumming up support. Here are the links:


 * Portal:Kentucky (Should still be a red link)
 * Proposal (please support Portal:Kentucky)
 * Portal draft, queue and maintenance area
 * Discussion Brainstorming, debate etc.

Please show your support at the proposal section, join up at WikiProject Kentucky if you can, and throw us some relevant content to include on the Kentucky portal queue.

We're thinking of launching the portal on July 4th, but only if the queue is fat with links to good articles and meaningful content. I know you folks will jump on in, right? Thanks in advance for your help! -- CQ 05:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

New route box template
I would wish to try out and experiment with, to see if it would help clean up the appearance of the right-column template that lists the counties, cities, along with other information for that particular route. What I want to pattern it after is Nevada State Route 115 and apply it to Kentucky State Highway 8 for the interm. If there are no objections, I would like to make a test run after installing it in my sandbox and see what your reactions are.  Seicer  (talk) 04:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I implemented it on Kentucky State Highway 8. The advantages of the new route box are:
 * No need to manually go in and gather the mileage for each individual county and then convert it to kilometer. This saves a lot of wasted time, since most users do not care about the per-county mileage. Having the total length is sufficent enough.
 * No need to redo the "previous state route XX" and "next state route XX" link and shields at the bottom of the route box. This had to be manually coded in before, and if a new route, such as KY 20 was added after, say KY 19, that would force KY 19 to be recoded to accept KY 20. This saves time and will reduce confusion when a new state route has been added.
 * A link to the List of Kentucky State Highways is now there in its place. This gives an updated list that is more comprehensive and clear.
 * Removed county links from the categories. This one really goes either way, but for longer routes, like KY 80, I don't want to see a category box flooded with counties...
 * Tell me your thoughts on this change! I believe it is cleaner and much more simplified.  Seicer  (talk) 05:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

See the new template, which can be customizable: template | in action  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 20:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

State route naming conventions poll/Part2
Your state is invited to participate in discussions for its highway naming convention. Please feel free to participate in this discussion. If you already have a convention that follows the State Name Type xx designation, it is possible to request an exemption as well. Thanks! --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  00:23, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

City specific - new category
See City Specific. This gives more detail to the roads of a certain city. I'm hoping to expand this to other major cities in an effort to give detail to not only state highways, but to city-controlled streets and boulevards.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 04:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Links to SPRS listings
Adair Allen Anderson Ballard Barren Bath Bell Boone Bourbon Boyd Boyle Bracken Breathitt Breckinridge Bullitt Butler Caldwell Calloway Campbell Carlisle Carroll Carter Casey Christian Clark Clay Clinton Crittenden Cumberland Daviess Edmonson Elliott Estill Fayette Fleming Floyd Franklin Fulton Gallatin Garrard Grant Graves Grayson Green Greenup Hancock Hardin Harlan Harrison Hart Henderson Henry Hickman Hopkins Jackson Jefferson Jessamine Johnson Kenton Knott Knox Larue Laurel Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher Lewis Lincoln Livingston Logan Lyon Madison Magoffin Marion Marshall Martin Mason McCracken McCreary McLean Meade Menifee Mercer Metcalfe Monroe Montgomery Morgan Muhlenberg Nelson Nicholas Ohio Oldham Owen Owsley Pendleton Perry Pike Powell Pulaski Robertson Rockcastle Rowan Russell Scott Shelby Simpson Spencer Taylor Todd Trigg Trimble Union Warren Washington Wayne Webster Whitley Wolfe Woodford

Input this page into a download manager to download them all quickly. --NE2 00:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Infobox
I've made the sub-templates so template:infobox road works with Kentucky, and used it in KY 160 and KY 932. Is there a standard naming for shields, and someone currently working on them? If so, the template can easily be changed to include those. --NE2 00:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Another infobox question: I've seen three distinctly different templates used on Kentucky roads - RouteboxKY, Infobox Kentucky Highway, and the standard Infobox road. I'd imagine that Infobox road is the infobox of choice, but I can't be certain due to the heavy usage of the other two templates. Could someone from the project clarify which infobox is preferred? -- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 18:10, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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Citation
The article on Kentucky contains the following claim: "Kentucky and Missouri are the only two states to share a boundary with no road directly connecting the two states." I remember this quirk when my granddad took me over the river to Sikeston, but I'd really like to provide a source. Hopefully, one of you will know exactly where to find one. Could you please either leave it on my talk page or drop by the Kentucky article and add the cite? Thanks so much. Acdixon 16:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Please expand Lincoln Heritage Trail
Please consider expanding Lincoln Heritage Trail. I started the article, but I couldn't find much information for the article. --Eastmain 08:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Added KY 90
Just added Kentucky Route 90. First time I've done a state highway. Please check for issues. Realkyhick 19:21, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Promotion of Kentucky
This task force is being considered for repromotion to a subproject here. -- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 06:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Repromotion successful. -- T M F Let's Go Mets - Stats 03:58, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of All USRD Clean-up Templates
All of the USRD Clean-up Templates have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.  master son T - C 16:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Reminder from USRD
In response to a few issues that came up, we are giving a reminder to all state highway wikiprojects and task forces:


 * 1) Each project needs to remain aware of developments at WT:USRD and subpages to ensure that each project is aware of decisions / discussions that affect that project. It is impossible to notify every single project about every single discussion that may affect it. Therefore, it is the state highway wikiproject's responsiblity to monitor discussions.
 * 2) If a project does not remain aware of such developments and complains later, then there is most likely nothing USRD can do about it.
 * 3) USRD, in most to nearly all cases, will not interfere with a properly functioning state highway wikiproject. All projects currently existing are "properly functioning" for the purposes mentioned here. All task forces currently existing are not "properly functioning" (that is why they are task forces). Departments of USRD (for example, MTF, shields, assessment, INNA) may have specific requirements for the state highway wikiprojects, but complaints regarding those need to be taken up with those departments.
 * 4) However, this is a reminder that USRD standards need to be followed by the state highway wikiprojects, regardless of the age of the wikiproject.

Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 05:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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Added KY 21
I just added Kentucky Route 21. I put all the info I could find into it. If someone could check for any problems and correct them if any exist it would be very appreciated. -- F P A t l  ( holla, holla, holla ) 01:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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RFC on coordinates in highway articles
There is currently a discussion taking place at WT:HWY regarding the potential use of coordinates in highway articles. Your input is welcomed. --Rschen7754 01:55, 26 December 2011 (UTC)