Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways

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WikiProject Highways	Shortcuts WP:HWY WP:ROADS
A [[WP:WikiProject\|WikiProject] covering the world's major roadways

8.7% List-Class
38.6% Stub-Class
26.1% Start-Class
15.2% C-Class
6.3% B-Class
4.6% GA-Class
0.1% A-Class
0.4% FA-Class
0% remaining

WikiProject Highways

General
Project home	(WP:HWY)	talk
Portal		talk
Project category		talk
Roads category		talk
Chat	(WP:DISCORD)
Article alerts	(WP:HWY/AA)	talk
• All article alerts	(WP:HWY/AAA)	talk

Subprojects
Australian Roads	(WP:AURD)	talk
Canada Roads	(WP:CARD)	talk
Indian Roads	(WP:INRD)	talk
U.S. Roads	(WP:USRD)	talk

Task forces
Africa	(WP:HWY/AF)	talk
Asia	(WP:HWY/AS)	talk
Europe	(WP:HWY/E)	talk
Hong Kong	(WP:HKRD)	talk
Latin America	(WP:HWY/LA)	talk
Oceania	(WP:HWY/O)	talk
South Africa	(WP:ZARD)	talk
United Kingdom	(WP:HWY/UK, WP:UKRD)	talk

Project resources
Assessment	(WP:HWY/A)	talk
• A-Class Review	(WP:HWY/ACR)	talk
• Project table	(WP:HWY/A/P)
• Live assessment table	(WP:HWY/A/L)
Route markers	(WP:HWY/RM)	talk
New articles	(WP:HWY/NA)	talk
Participants	(WP:HWY/P)	talk
Popular pages	(WP:HWY/PP)	talk
Precedents		talk
Recognized content	(WP:HWY/RC)	talk
Rockland County Scenario		talk
Road junction lists	(MOS:RJL)	talk
TFA suggestions	(WP:HWY/TFA)	talk

Templates
{{WikiProject Highways}} (doc)	talk
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Userbox}}
{{HWY Announcements}}	talk
{{Infobox road}}	talk
{{Infobox road small}}	talk
{{Infobox road junction}}	talk
{{Jctint}}	talk
{{Jct}}	talk
{{Welcome-roads}}	talk
{{WikiProject Highways Barnstar}}	talk

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WikiProject Highways is a wikiproject that aims primarily to standardize the format used in articles about highways, including freeways, expressways, throughways, and other major forms of road. A major part of this is the connectivity of highways and the analogous connectivity of their articles. The scope and aims of this project are likely to change in this early stage. If you are interested in joining, add yourself to the participants page.

Project organization

This project sets the standards for countries that do not have a country roads WikiProject yet. These standards are intended to be loose so that they are applicable worldwide.

In addition to this, this project sets a few standards for country roads WikiProjects that do exist, to ensure uniformity across all highways articles.

Parentage

The parent of this project is WikiProject Transport.

Subprojects and task forces

Similar projects

Recognized content

For the analogous lists for the various subprojects, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/Recognized content, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Recognized content, or Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Recognized content.

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Highways}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Featured lists

National Tourist Routes in Norway

A-Class articles

Featured pictures

A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1
Darcha Padum Road Below Shinku La Lahaul Oct22 A7C 03533

Good articles

Picture of the day pictures

UK Roundabout 8 Cars (2004-06-20)
A591 road, Lake District - June 2009 Edit 1 (2018-10-25)
Darcha Padum Road Below Shinku La Lahaul Oct22 A7C 03533 (2023-04-05)

Assessment

Highways articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1		8			9
FL		1					1
FM					2		2
A	1			1			2
GA		5	27	37			69
B	6	22	73	42			143
C	13	35	263	258			569
Start	8	67	1,122	1,002		1	2,200
Stub	5	78	5,358	2,639			8,080
List	9	99	1,227	111	1	11	1,458
Future		1	82	7			90
Category					1,288		1,288
Disambig					136		136
File					16		16
Portal					1		1
Project					40		40
Redirect		5	342	91	488		926
Template					502		502
NA					1		1
Other					12		12
Assessed	42	314	8,494	4,196	2,487	12	15,545
Unassessed			13			1	14
Total	42	314	8,507	4,196	2,487	13	15,559
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 62,325			Ω = 5.63

The Assessment Department has resources related to the assessment of articles under the project's scope, including the project quality log. In addition, the project maintains A-Class Review and Peer Review forums. The department page also has directions on which talk page banners to use to assess articles under the project's scope.

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

undated – R770 (Bangladesh) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed; see discussion

Proposed deletions

13 Dec 2024 – R825 road (Ireland) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JarJarInks (t · c) was deproded by Guliolopez (t · c) on 14 Dec 2024

Good article nominees

12 Jul 2024 – A9 dualling project (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by JuniperChill (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

06 Dec 2024 – Super two (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Two-lane expressway by AlphaBeta135 (t · c); see discussion
30 Jul 2024 – A42 road (England) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to M42 motorway by JuniperChill (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

03 Oct 2024 – Canal Street (Manchester) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mspence835 (t · c); see discussion
08 Sep 2024 – Stafford services (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mike Peel (t · c); see discussion

Structure of articles

Each article should have an infobox, which is typically Infobox road, and a lead section which introduces all the article sections. The first sentence should provide a definition of the article subject, including location. If there is another common abbreviation for the subject, state it in the lead section. A map and image help the article. This is an example of map layout adopted by the U.S. Roads WP.

The use of lists is discouraged; prose or tables should be used when more appropriate. For further exploration of road article structure, see road articles that are Featured Articles or any of the subprojects.

Infobox

As of 2010, the standard infobox, {{infobox road}}, has been updated to accommodate roads worldwide, and the subtemplates have been set up already for these countries. There is also {{infobox road junction}} for articles on individual junctions or interchanges.

Maps and images

Use a standard highway map style. Identify articles about highways and routes that need maps and place a regional request map template on the talk page. For further information see Images and media or Commons map resources. Identify and categorize existing historical highway maps, and list them at here. Add {{Image requested}} to the talk page of the road article, the request will end up in one of these Wikipedia requested photographs in places categories.

Route description

Each article should have a prose description of the route. One uniform direction should be followed; for example, in the United States, all route descriptions progress from south to north and from west to east.

History / Future

Where applicable, each article should have a history section and / or a future section, describing past and present affairs of this route. Details in the future section must be verifiable and not speculation, per WP:CRYSTAL.

Junction list / Exit list

Each article should have a list of junctions, or where applicable, a list of exits. This is normally not just a list; it needs to be in a table format. Exit lists need to follow MOS:RJL, the international road junction list section of the Manual of Style, as well. Here is a page of junction templates.

Stub sorting

The most general stub type for road and highway articles is {{road-stub}}.
Use the most specific stub type applicable which are listed on the specific geographical wikiprojects listed above.
Multiple stub templates can be used on a stub, but avoid adding more than two stub templates to any specific article.
In order to create a new stub type, identify at least around 50 articles that would fall into the proposed stub category and then make a proposal on the WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals page.

Portal

Please help add comprehensive coverage worldwide on the Roads portal, and if there are any additions which could be made from many countries or regions that would be appreciated.

For instance, a successful DYK could be added.
Feel free to directly add quality, or featured road-related images or panoramas. If a photo is not recognised by being classified as quality or featured, then it should be of finer quality like would be in a magazine or print encyclopaedia. A portal showcases Wikipedia's finer work, in this case the roads portal showcases Wikipedia's finer roads-related works worldwide.
Feel free to directly add Featured, A-Class or Good roads-content articles to the portal's selected article list. Articles on this list are now rotated automatically through the portal. Other articles may be nominated here.

Resources

Assessment Department including:
- A-Class Review—the review forum to award A-Class status to articles.
Countries list —list of countries and the state of their highway articles.
Precedents—past precedents that have affected the project.

v t e Highway WikiProject Announcements and Open Tasks
Virginia secondary routes discussion

A-Class review	Minnesota State Highway 36

Good article nominees	Full list...

Articles needing attention	...to road junction lists see category for total ...to junction distances 456 ...to infoboxes 398 ...to creation 30 ...to assessment 15
Article alerts Assessment Road junction lists Route markers

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