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Yes, I know there are already some lists and articles out there, and one of the categories is yet-to-be-built. I'll rassle that down later this evening. DavidBavousett 23:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
I have put together an attempt at a infoxbox for Farm to Market Roads. The template is ((TxFMBox)), and a sample can be seen at Texas Farm to Market Road 511. 25or6to4 09:46, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Some articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for Texas articles needing photos - to use it, just add ((reqphotoin|Texas)) to the article's talk page. I have only added a few articles to the category so far, but it would be an easy way to make an extensive list California-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful! TheGrappler 05:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I propose a standard that seems to be the general consensus elsewhere concerning what roads to put in the infoboxen for state highways, in the interest of simplification:
List only highways of the same type, or of a "greater" type. In the Interstate Highways project, it seems that (for the most part) only intersections with other interstates are listed. In US highways, only intersections with other US highways, or interstates, are given. In Texas, that would mean that State Highway infoboxen would include other SHs, US Highways, or Interstates, and only FM/RMs would include other FM/RMs.
Does this make sense? Look at this version of SH 114, for a good reason why not to include lower-designated highways on the infoboxen. The current version of SH 36, while long as-is, would be very unweildy if all of the FMs that intersect it were listed! Any thoughts, from anyone? DavidBavousett 04:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Another thing I would like to bring up regarding the infoboxes is the length. See Highway 6 for example. The infobox is roughly 4 times as long as the written text. I think it would be extremely difficult to write enough on Highway 6 to fill in all of that white space. I propose we move a lot of the detailed information from the infobox to the article. We can include all the counties, all the junctions in the main article, and just leave the major juctions in the infobox. Any thoughts? --Holderca1 14:34, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Here is a couple examples of the infobox I think we should use on the articles, you use the ssame template regardless of what type of highway it is, in the type field you put in either State, Loop, Spur, Farm, or Ranch. All the information that is not listed in these and listed in the infobox currently in use would be moved to the main article, that way the article itself will have more content then the infoboxes, the way it should be. --Holderca1 15:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
Route information | ||||
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Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
Length | 10.7 mi[1] (17.2 km) | |||
Existed | 1984[1]–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | US 90 in San Antonio | |||
Interstate 410 | ||||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Texas | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Route information | ||||
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Maintained by TxDOT | ||||
Length | 38.2 mi (61.5 km) | |||
Existed | 1945–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
North end | US 287 in Goodnight | |||
Interstate 40 west of Groom | ||||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Texas | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Hey all. Noticed on Google that there are a couple pictures of the original Texas Route markers, and that they don't look like the images that are being used on Wikipedia. Does anyone else have any other images of either? Here's the link to the image I found. [1] 25or6to4 01:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Here's my thought. The sign I originally found was the original road sign circa 1920s/30s or so. Checking the history and location of the highways in the above picture, the picture was taken in Waco. Checking the history link of the image, it was taken in November 1939. There's also a secondary picture on the original site that was also taken Nov 1939, that has the signs for SH 6 and SH 31. So it looks like we're looking at 3 different sign types for Texas now... 25or6to4 17:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Please see State Highway 151 (Texas) for my proposed article ideas. Mainly the infobox and the proposed template at the bottom of the articles. --Holderca1 14:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
If you come across an article that needs cleaned up or has a generic clean-up tag, put this on instead, will make it easier to find the articles pertaining to this project that need cleaned up.--Holderca1 14:03, 18 August 2006 (UTC) ((Cleanuptxsh))
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) 00:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
I have added our project to the assessment system. It is fairly easy to use, in the our wikiproject template you simply add a class and importance field. The class field can be FA, GA, A, B, Start, Stub, NA(For non-articles such as template, categories, ect..). The importance field can be Top, High, Mid, or Low. The importance field is relevent to this project, not in general. Right now I have included the Texas state highways and Texas Department of Transportation as the only two that fit into the Top category. Now, it is not realistic to have every article in this project make it as a Featured Article, just the fact that there is only one FA a day and when complete this project will have over 3,000 articles makes it an impossible goal. It is possible to make them all Good Articles though. Also, I believe our Top articles can be Featured. Right now I am rating them all as Start or Stub class, simply because that is the easiest way to seperate them. For the importance field, all Farm roads are Low, State highways are Mid, this is the minimum though, it is certainly possible for some to be higher, Beltway 8 for example I would rate higher than a ordinary state highway. Here is an example of the code to input:
--Holderca1 14:28, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
It is now possible to add maps to Texas highway articles. In the infobox code, simply type map=insert file name here.png, no need to add brackets or Image:, the template takes care of everything. To request a map, go here: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Maps task force/Requests. --Holderca1 22:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Since this article is part of this project, I thought I'ld better discuss this here first. Basically, this article is nothing but an exit list (all the other info is already in the main Interstate 10 article). I would like to propose this article (and any similar ones, if such exist) for deletion, but I'ld like some input first. Do you feel that this article is indeed part fo the scope of this project (from the project description, I would say it isn't)? Do you think an exit list is encyclopedic enough to keep (as compared to what is described at WP:NOT and so on)? Could this article be saved by dropping the exit list but adding other info that is important enough to have in an encyclopedia, but not important enough (ortoo long) to have in the main article on Interstate 10? If the answer is three times no, I think the article should go. Fram 08:06, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
It made it, this article is currently on the main page as a Did You Know? --Holderca1 19:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
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I noticed that the movement of the Highway articles to the naming convention is coming along smoothly. Thanks Rschen! I have one question about how Loop 1 was moved. Loop 1 was moved to Texas State Highway 1 Loop . On the completion page, all the articles seem to be set to go to Texas State Highway Loop # . Do we have any discussion on how we would like this? Personally, the Loop # option would be my choice (seems easier). Just a thought...25or6to4 16:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
If you have shield requests, post a message on my talk page. Thanks. --Holderca1 03:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I was looking through the completion list at some of the highways we don't have articles for yet and several don't have a TXDOT designation file, the ones that I have found are SH 140, 196, 212, 215, 216, 221. Does anyone know if these ever existed? I know that some have existed but don't have a file since the files only go back to 1939, see SH 2 for example. It is entirely possible that these were designated and decommissioned prior to 1939. Just finding a source for them is the key. There are probably more, but quite a few of the higher numbers don't have articles yet anyway, so I didn't want to look through them all just yet. --Holderca1 14:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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 16:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to jump in and help with this project.....I live in Texas. Buddpaul 20:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
The main Texas state highways have articles now. There are only about 30 or so that either have no designation, or I can't figure out where/if they existed:
SH 140 - near Tyler, 1930's - don't know where it went or where it is now. Maybe Tyler airport road.
SH 169 - Austin - designated 1990, removed 1991 - was to replace FM 2222 and SS69?
SH 200 - designated north of Corpus Christi, not built
SH 210 - Houston - designated 1993 - Memorial parkway?
SH 221 - near Temple - not designated, but noted on 1938 map.
SH 331 - Corpus Christi - designated and cancelled 1940 - don't know location - possible Ocean Drive.
SH 363 - near Corpus Christi - designated but not built - do not know intended location
SH 365 - will redirect to SH 363
Not designated (24): 196, 209, 212, 215, 216, 221, 228, 229, 233, 241, 250, 252, 260, 262, 263, 266, 268, 271, 280, 281, 287, 296, 298, 306
25or6to4 02:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Although we have made great progress and have all the state highways with articles, the bigger problem is the roads without articles. Taking into account the spurs, loops, and farm/ranch roads that do not have articles, the number is over 4,000. There are roughly 6,000 currently for the entire U.S. roads project. Instead of creating articles for every single one of these, which for the most part, these are very minor roads that their isn't much to say, I propose we start doing List of highway in X County, Texas instead. There are 254 counties in Texas, 254 is much more manageable than 4,000. I have started a page on my user subpage at User:Holderca1/Farm to manage these new articles. I also think that each of the metro areas in Texas should have their own article, there are 25 total. Greater Houston and DFW already have articles and I just started San Antonio's. --Holderca1 21:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
It seems that the disambiguation pages for 4 digit highways (particularly FM roads) get speedily deleted with no discussion (or history). Shall we keep that as one of the goals of the FM/RM/UR project? I say no. Let's just hope that Kentucky (among others, I'm sure) highway buffs don't become more prolific... Dirtydan667 23:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Template:TxRouteBox and Template:TxFMBox 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. — Holderca1 19:47, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I started putting together an Interstate 35 in Texas article in my sandbox. It's very Austin-centric right now, since that's where I'm from, but I think it might be in a state to be of use as a stub starter for a full article. I haven't been tracking this project very much (I'm a bit new to the WikiProject concept), so I thought I'd solicit some comments to see if this is suitable for dropping into place. --Vollers 23:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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 sonT - C 16:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody object to this move, or can I tag the redirect with Template:Db-move? Everyone, even TxDOT, uses "NASA Road 1".[5] --NE2 15:56, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Okay, not sure why you started the same conversation in two different spots, see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._Roads#Move_Texas_State_Highway_NASA_Road_1_to_NASA_Road_1.3F. --Holderca1 18:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Is the 183A toll road in scope for this project? I placed it in the List of highways in Travis County, Texas, but I'm not sure it's actually a TxDOT-maintained highway. I couldn't find a TxDOT designation file for it (that's the "official" list of state highways, right?).
Also, I think the shield file at Image:Toll Texas 183.svg is not the right one; the 183A web page shows a different shield, as do road signs in the area. How do we find out if we can make a public domain version of the correct shield? --Vollers 19:55, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes, it falls under the scope of this project, just as all the toll roads of Texas fall under this project. The file we currently have is not the shield used on this highway, the one on the 183A website is the correct one. We won't be able to create a PD version since the image is copyright eligible, but we can create a image and tag it for fair use. That disclaimer doesn't change how it can be used on Wikipedia, it would still fall under fair use. --Holderca1 20:25, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
In response to a few issues that came up, we are giving a reminder to all state highway wikiprojects and task forces:
Regards, Rschen7754 (T C) 05:10, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I came across List of Farm to Market Roads in the Gulf Coast of Texas via the random article button - it looks a lot more like a navigation template than a list, and I found that somewhat jarring. —Random832 18:21, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if anyone is interested in creating a Wikimedia chapter serving the state of Texas. See: meta:Talk:Wikimedia_chapters#Chapter_proposal_-_Wikimedia_Texas WhisperToMe (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
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hay i would really appreciate it if you can make a article about the OLD interstate 175 in Dallas taxes look it up it exist and its full of history —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.242.201.218 (talk) 00:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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The junction lists in Texas need attention. The colored blocks in the county column violate MOS:RJL, the Manual of Style section on Road Junction Lists. They need to have their county columns removed and replaced with notes above the table, mileage columns should be added. Many of them run north–south when they should run south–north. The shield graphics on several are too big (which goes for the infoboxes too). Imzadi 1979 → 00:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone have any ideas how to better handle FM/RM routes? I don't think each route having an article is the most efficient way to handle them. Ideally, I think they should be handled similarly to List of Nebraska Connecting Link, Spur, and Recreation Highways. Any thoughts or opinions? —Fredddie™ 01:14, 18 July 2010 (UTC)