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  • Go here, pick a route, and go to town.
    • Former NC Routes, alternate routes, and business routes can be incorporated into the parent or current route's history. (i.e. NC 10A can be a section in NC 10) They usually don't have enough information to have their own article.
  • Put infoboxes on existing route articles.
  • Write 61% of the articles of the NC Highway System.
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[edit] Title

WikiProject North Carolina State Highways

[edit] News

Project news can be found at {{Project U.S. Roads East}} or on the right column of the talk page.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this WikiProject is to create, standardize, and improve articles about the state highway system in North Carolina. This project will encompass all the North Carolina State Routes (on diamond-shaped shields), the U.S. Routes and Interstates that are predominantly North Carolinian (like US 158) and any other unusual routes in the state (like Charlotte 4); important named freeways are also included (like Bryan Boulevard).

[edit] Resources

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Parent WikiProject

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[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects
Alabama | California (County Routes) | Connecticut | Florida (County Roads) | Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan (County Designated Highways) | Minnesota | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania (Susquehanna Valley) | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin

[edit] Participants

See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.

[edit] Structure

The structure can vary a little, but it should basically look like North Carolina State Highway 8, North Carolina State Highway 12, and North Carolina State Highway 6. The object is to best convey information about the route and to identify its importance. Route histories, termini, attractions, etc. are encouraged, but not always mandatory. These articles should not only satisfy roadfans, but also travelers, tourists, scholars, and average joes. This does not mean, however, that they should read like an advertisement or imply bias. If you are unsure on formatting, use common sense and common law.

[edit] Naming

Articles should be named "North Carolina Highway n" (where n is the route number).

Route shield SVG's should be named "NC n.svg". Most shields have already been made and can be found here. (Contact TwinsMetsFan for new shields.)

A redirect page should be made for each NC route where if I search for "NC 8", North Carolina State Highway 8 should pop up. If there is already a article for the redirect page like in the case of NC 4, make a disambiguation page or a tag at the top of the article.

The WikiProject's Completion List will show any redirects that need to be made. (links with no shield at the beginning of the line are routes that don't exist) (currently under development)

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

Infobox and instructions for use are located at Template:Infobox NC Route.

[edit] Stub template

{{NorthCarolina-road-stub}}

This North Carolina road or road transport-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[edit] Project template

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=NC}}

 This article is within the scope of the U.S. Roads WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads in the United States. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Topics North Carolina State Highways
NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
  • These can be placed at the top of the route talk pages within our jurisdiction.

[edit] Userboxes

{{User WikiProject NC State Highways}}

This user is a member of the North Carolina Highways WikiProject.




  • These can be placed anywhere on your user page.
  • It is strongly recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads East}} go on your user (talk) (sub) page.

[edit] Shields


[edit] Categories

Category:North Carolina State Highways

The category is sorted numerically by the place of the hundreds digit. The convention is

[[Category:North Carolina State Highways|xxx]]

where xxx is the route number of the highway you're editing. 1- and 2- digit numbers get leading zeros; thus North Carolina State Highway 6 is categorized as 006. There are a few exceptions like with NC 226A; in those cases, you can just do this:

[[Category:North Carolina State Highways|226A]]

This category will help you find articles that have been created and need to expanded: Category:Southern United States road stubs

[edit] Helpful stuff

[edit] Lists

[edit] External links

These places are usually very helpful in finding termini and road lengths: