Portal talk:U.S. roads

message: Is that number still correct? I was managing stubs yesterday and we might have more than that. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  20:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't be shocked if the actual number is now double that figure, honestly. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 04:52, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2580 articles 

message: Because there is no portal for roads but only for US roads, I want to ask here: I would be thankful, if the road specialists could have a look here: Portal talk:Transport#Headline of the netherlands motorways are all wrong Thank you -- 84.132.101.93 10:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headline of the netherlands motorways are all wrong 

message: In the early morning of September 21, I moved this page to Portal:North American Roads and enlarged the scope. (The portal currently reflects the expansion, despite the name.) My thought process was sparked by Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Possible "news" page?, where I was told that the portal needed a "steady maintainer". With the interconnectedness of North American roads, it seemed like a logical move. As other editors (presumably) woke up, they objected, and Rschen7754 started moving pages back in preparation to split. That explains the present state, left as a "compromise" to stop the threat of an edit war. --NE2 23:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *Compromise to what? master sonT - C 00:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: **Between U.S. roads only and North American roads only. --NE2 00:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *I'm curious as to what's wrong with it that its not being maintained master sonT - C 00:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *I echo Master_son's comments. The portal was maintained on a regular basis. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 02:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: **So Scott5114 misspoke on WT:USRD? --NE2 02:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ***I believe so, TMF did keep the portal maintained. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ****So should I start the "news" page? I have no interest in running a duplicate portal. (To avoid misunderstandings, I'm not saying I support moving it back; I'm just asking what the "USRD collective" thinks.) --NE2 02:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *****Are you referring to the USRD news page? --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ******I'm referring to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Possible "news" page?. I think there's merit in keeping track of road news without regard for national boundaries. --NE2 02:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *******Apart from the roads portal, potentially. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ********Why not do it as a subpage of WP:HWY? Or you could just read MTR...—Scott5114↗ 03:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. Roads or North American Roads

message: ;Advantages
#Expands the scope so more people may be interested in helping
#Combines interconnected road systems
#Encourages improvement of Mexican and Canadian road articles
*This would happen under the third proposal as well...
**Not as much, especially if nobody cares to maintain a largely duplicate portal... --NE2 00:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: North American Roads only

message: ;Advantages
*Supposedly a compromise
:*Compromise to what? master sonT - C 00:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: **Between U.S. roads only and North American roads only. --NE2 00:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *I'm curious as to what's wrong with it that its not being maintained master sonT - C 00:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *I echo Master_son's comments. The portal was maintained on a regular basis. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 02:26, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: **So Scott5114 misspoke on WT:USRD? --NE2 02:43, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ***I believe so, TMF did keep the portal maintained. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ****So should I start the "news" page? I have no interest in running a duplicate portal. (To avoid misunderstandings, I'm not saying I support moving it back; I'm just asking what the "USRD collective" thinks.) --NE2 02:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *****Are you referring to the USRD news page? --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ******I'm referring to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Possible "news" page?. I think there's merit in keeping track of road news without regard for national boundaries. --NE2 02:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: *******Apart from the roads portal, potentially. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

text: ********Why not do it as a subpage of WP:HWY? Or you could just read MTR...—Scott5114↗ 03:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Both portals

message: *Go back to U.S. Roads only. I could support two portals, but under no circumstances should the USRD portal be merged into the NA portal. --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.  
The Transhumanist 22:02, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outline of knowledge#Utility of outlines to wikiprojects|Utility of outlines to wikiprojects]] 

message: # With the exception of the news section and maybe DYK, we select the content for the portal a month ahead of time. The advantage is that if on 2/1 we know what article will appear on 3/1, that gives someone 4 weeks to edit the blurb, find a photo (not the shield graphic, please! that gets old) and put it in the templates so it goes live on 3/1 at midnight. Then while the March content is being readied, we can be deciding on the April content. Wash, rinse, repeat.
# Can we rotate out the shield graphics at the top of the portal occasionally? Maybe 2-4 times a year?
# I don't want this to be a rule, but maybe a guideline, to try to find seasonally appropriate photos for the portal? I know that snowy scenes aren't the most common way we roadgeeks photograph the highways, and many areas don't receive snow in the winter, but maybe some fall color in the fall would be nice? I know there are some winter photos out there, those of us in the northern states should seek some out, and add them to the articles.
# Maybe we could even create a gallery space on Commons or here where anyone can add promising photos at any time, and we'd have a gallery to look through to simplify nominations. If I'm working through a random article, and I see a good photo or two in there, I can add it to the gallery so non-Michigan editors can see some things I like from Michigan. Then when it comes time to make some nominations, there might be a Florida photo in there that catches my eye that I could nominate?
Just my $0.08 for today. Imzadi1979 (talk) 18:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some ideas for the portal 

message: Know that WPUS is up and running and the US Wikipedian's collaboration is rebuilt, I wanted to focus on cleaning up and revamping Portal:United States. Per a comment on the talk page I have added this portal to the list of US related portals.
I was also wondering if anyone would be interested in adding a Selected article related to the US roads to the list of featured articles. If not perhaps you could suggest one and I will add it? --Kumioko (talk) 17:03, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some suggestions at WT:USRD. --PCB 04:54, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Portal:United States]] 

message: All right, who did the Portland joke? That's the best material I've ever seen on here. :) —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 13:47, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote the joke you saw, but the assist goes to . –Fredddie™ 23:59, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  April Fools Day 2011 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Portal talk:Molecular and Cellular Biology which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 07:30, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

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thread_title:  Notice from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Portal talk:Canada Roads which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 14:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: moved per consensus, and per MOS:CAPS. Consistency with other wikiproject/portal titles, by following MOS:CAPS. The sole opposer did not provide any logical rationale, nor any policy. —usernamekiran(talk) 17:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
 there's still outstanding questions left to be resolved, "U.S." vs. "US" vs. "United States", so it's a bit premature to start moving anything just yet since it would be highly disruptive to move things multiple times. Imzadi 1979 →  20:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

text: It's really no harder to address that question now rather than later.  Probably easier, actually.  But we can go ahead and do the case fix moves in any case; moves are easy, even with sub-pages. Dicklyon (talk) 03:57, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: —I wonder whether there would be any more than the odd traditionalist objection to removing the clunky dots. They remain in officil titles (U.S. Department of ... etc), but Chicago Manual of Style has been saying it's fine to drop them—for years now—having insisted on them until the start of this decade. I think many Americans don't use them; and hardly anyone in handwriting. Who would bother? Tony (talk) 04:27, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's uncontroversial by me. Dicklyon (talk) 04:45, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 24 May 2018 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Portal:North American Roads. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Legacypac (talk) 19:18, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal:North American Roads listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Does every road in America deserve an article?  People go crazy over notability for people.  Does it apply to what roads are important and those that are not? Eschoryii (talk) 08:50, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I read the portal page.  No one needs to respond to my inquiry. Eschoryii (talk) 09:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Every road? 

message: On January 23, 1818, President James Monroe issued a list of information on "roads made, or in progress, under the authority of the Executive of the United States" that describes--perhaps loosely--the precursors to the American highway system, or at least, Federally-built roads. I can't seem to find a good place for this data, any thoughts on where it could be useful? Wrecksdart (talk) 14:57, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic list of "roads made, or in progress"--where should this go? 

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