Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Maryland/Archive 2

message: I've been working on a standard style for listing junctions, it can be found at user:Jeff02/test page#Road junction table, it's based off of the Interstate exit list table.  If we need to, we can add collumns for example, for exit numbers for highways that have numbered exits.  As far as what junctions to include, the best rule of thumb I have come up with is include junctions with signed numbered routes and junctions with other major roads.  Comments?-Jeff (talk) 06:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, seeing as I haven't gotten any comments yet, I'll assume its ready and start working on adding it to the editing guide as soon as I get the chance.  So if anyone has any objections speak now!-Jeff (talk) 20:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard for major junctions section 

message: 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 16:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: I feel the recent edit to Interstate 95 in Maryland, even though it brings the article in technical compliance with the project, is hugely to the detriment of the article. In accordance with the milepost numbering scheme, everything else in the article is listed in south-to-north order. The counties traversed, by contrast, is north-to-south. Why? —C.Fred (talk) 02:45, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't even realize that the Interstate project had a different standard for ordering, in that case I think it would be best to make everything in Interstate articles consistent with that project, I'll make sure to make that an exception to this project's editing guide.-Jeff (talk) 05:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counties traversed, especially with respect to Interstate articles 

message: Just a heads up, I've just uploaded a new set of shields, state name Interstate shields with Maryland as the state name.  They're all of the form I-XX (MD), and here's a link to the gallery I created for them: Commons:Maryland Interstate highway route markers.  The next shields I want to do are the Key Bridge, JFK Highway, and Capital Beltway shields (as seen here and here), if anyone knows where I could find the official specifications for any of them or if you can think of other signs like these, it would be much appreciated.-Jeff (talk) 05:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Interstate shields 

message: I noticed that the article on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was part of , and found myself wondering whether or not any of the other articles within this project might benefit from dual membership (i.e. the articles on the Interstates, the Beltways, or the bridges/tunnels/historic routes/etc). Would it make any sense to add the project tag to such articles? -TheOneKEA
:I certainly think that WikiProject Maryland could benefit from including the more notable roadways within their project's domain.  It may be more relevant, however, to ask this question on their project's discussion page so that they can make their own determination of what roadways to include or exclude. --Thisisbossi 21:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Maryland 

message: Yesterday I created an article on the Airport Loop, a super-designation applied to segments of MD 162, MD 170 and MD 176 around BWI Airport near Baltimore. I was curious as to whether or not an article like this belongs in the WikiProject, and if it does, how it could be expanded - at the moment, it's just a route description and a few other blurbs. -TheOneKEA
:I'm a fan of the belief that Wikipedia's electronic form effectively means that we can expand indefinitely, so every article is a good article so long as we can give at least some sort of encyclopedic context.  Your article seems to do just that, so I definitely have no problem with it.  Consider me too lazy to check myself, but make sure to provide links to this on any relevant highways -- whether by wikilinking in the main article or by adding it into a "See Also" section.  Cheers! --Thisisbossi 22:29, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, seems like a good idea to me.  If I can find the specification (if there is one) for the route signs used along the Airport Loop then I could make SVGs of them to use in that article and/or the articles for the individual routes that form the Airport Loop.-Jeff (talk) 00:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airport Loop 

message: Why does this article exist? According to the WikiProject's rules, I-81's Maryland segment is too short to make such an article worthwhile. Have the rules changed? -TheOneKEA
:11 miles seems a bit short, I think it should probably be merged with Interstate 81, since that article's Maryland section is pretty short and merged with the West Virginia section.  That is, unless we can come up with more to say about the route through Maryland.-Jeff (talk) 23:46, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interstate 81 in Maryland 

message: As noted in the talk page for Maryland Route 144, I am currently performing a major edit of that article. After I'm finished searching for incarnations of MD 144 I would like to know if the way I've chosen to present the route is acceptable to the WikiProject. -TheOneKEA
:OK, editing is finished. I managed to find eight segments of MD 144, with a total mileage of 60 miles. If the article format is acceptable then I intend to apply it to Maryland Route 7, and maybe Maryland Route 18. -TheOneKEA
::That works for routes made up of disjoint sections like Maryland Route 7 and Maryland Route 648 since it emphasizes that they are separate sections.  Not sure about 18 though considering it's more of a continuous route than other routes made up of letter-suffixed sections, each section begins at the same intersection that the previous one ends at.-Jeff (talk) 03:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dealing with multiple-segment routes, part II 

message: What type of articles should be created to describe decommissioned highways? Should a routebox parameter be created that allows a decommissioning date to be included? Should the decommissioned highways go in a mega-article like the minor highways? -TheOneKEA
:All of these decommissioned highways can be merged in one article.  The setup can be similar to Deleted California State Routes.  V60 VTalk · VDemolitions · VRoads 21:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea, I'll go ahead and start it.  List of decommissioned Maryland state highways-Jeff (talk) 02:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decommissioned Highways