Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland

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Welcome to the Roads in Maryland WikiProject! For more info see the Introduction section below.
Project navigation: Maryland - Roads - Cumberland - Baltimore
Links: Editing guide - State highways - U.S./Interstate highways - Commons - Completion list - Recent changes - stubs - articles for cleanup - USRD - USRD talk

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Portal news

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Subproject and task force news

Roads in Maryland

List of Maryland state highways has been submitted as a Featured list candidate.
Maryland Route 36 has been submitted to WikiProject Highways for peer review.
Xerol is planning to visit all major Maryland state highways and has offered to upload some photos from the trip. See WT:MDRD#Maryland Road Trip/Crawl for the discussion.

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Cumberland

Baltimore task force

The Baltimore Task Force has been created.

WikiProject U.S. Roads
IRC: #wikipedia-en-roads

West East All

Project-wide news

Nominations for Portal:U.S. Roads selected articles and pictures needed.

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Deletion debates

Previous debates

AFD
Wrong-way concurrency closed as merge (accompanying list was deleted)

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Maps Task Force

Links

Articles without "needs-map"

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Newsletter

Nominations for featured member needed

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Assessment

Quality statistics
Links Bot-generated: Worklist • Log Articles needing reassessment WikiWork Unassessed articles: Quality • Importance A-Class review

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Peer reviews

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Shields

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Interstates

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U.S. Highways

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Maryland

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[edit] Introduction

Welcome to the Roads in Maryland WikiProject! We're trying to provide information on all of Maryland's state highways, U.S. highways, Interstate highways, and other notable roads. This page and its subpages contain our suggestions and tools for working on this project. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see #Tasks below to see what needs to be done. You should also check out /Editing guide for advice on contributing, and if you plan on contributing a lot, please join by adding your name to #Participants. Also, it is recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads}} and/or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}} be placed on all participants' user pages (or subpages).

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Title

The Roads in Maryland WikiProject

This project name was chosen as it reflects this project's intention to cover all articles relating to roads in Maryland, and not just state highways.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of the project is to define a standard style for articles on roads in Maryland and to encourage participation in the editing of these articles.

Articles covered by this project include all Maryland state highway articles, as well as Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles, and other Maryland road-related articles (such as the Intercounty Connector, and Maryland State Highway Administration). A complete list of articles that are marked as part of this WikiProject can be found at Category:Roads in Maryland WikiProject.

Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles should only be created for long routes that go through several states including Maryland, and their section through Maryland is long and/or notable enough for its own article. For example, Maryland-specific Interstate 83 and U.S. Route 113 articles should not be created unless these routes become lengthened through several other states. Likewise, a U.S. Route 522 in Maryland article would also be inappropriate as the section of US 522 through Maryland is pretty short. The purpose of such state-specific articles is to break up what would otherwise be a long article. If a route only goes through one or two states or if the section of a route through the state in question is too short, state-specific articles are unnecessary.

[edit] Project news

List of Maryland state highways has been submitted as a Featured list candidate.
Maryland Route 36 has been submitted to WikiProject Highways for peer review.
Xerol is planning to visit all major Maryland state highways and has offered to upload some photos from the trip. See WT:MDRD#Maryland Road Trip/Crawl for the discussion.

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[edit] Related Maryland WikiProjects

[edit] Parent project

Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland

[edit] Related U.S. roads WikiProjects

[edit] Parent WikiProject

U.S. Roads

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

Interstate Highways | U.S. Highways | auto trails | List of state-level WikiProjects

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

Category:Wikipedians in Maryland

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add yourself here if you plan on participating. You may also wish to add this project's userbox, {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}}, to your userpage. The userbox looks like this:

This user is a member of the Roads in Maryland WikiProject

Note: if you joined this project after its participants list was merged into USRD's, you will need to re-join here.

Jeff02 Very familiar with Queen Anne's county.
Rschen7754 Only drove through MD once but still happy to help.
Boothy443, help out here and their.
Thisisbossi I work with SHA and know the State roads in Greater DC quite well.
Wildthing61476 Familiar with the Baltimore Metropolitan Area
Snowman83 I've lived basically my entire life in Maryland and been on thousands of miles of Maryland roads.
Vishwin60 Drives in/out of MD for visiting friend(s), but will help.
Jason Smith I'm originally from the southeastern part of Frederick County and I'm fairly familiar with a lot of the roads in the area. I have added some information already and will definitely be adding more in the future.
Youngtim74 I live in Baltimore, work in DC, and I've had to learn every way to travel between them.
Politics rule 01:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)~ Active in Harford Co. roads
TheOneKEA: I am back. I will be active nearly everywhere, especially in articles related to central Maryland and Baltimore routes.
Dough4872: I know about many roads in Maryland, more so in the eastern half of the state.
Son I can help where and when I can.

[edit] Projects/Collaborations

[edit] Tasks

Lengths need to be added to counties traversed sections (see Maryland Route 200 and U.S. Route 50 in Maryland for an example)

[edit] Wanted articles

Lowest numbered route without an article: Maryland Route 84
Longest route without an article: Maryland Route 224

If there is any other Maryland road-related article that you would like to see created, add a request for it below

Salisbury Bypass - An article I've been meaning to create myself, but haven't gotten around to it

[edit] Articles to fix

Lowest numbered stub: Maryland Route 12

If there is any other Maryland road-related article that already exists but you would like to see it cleaned up or expanded, add it below

[edit] Ongoing tasks

This section is for ongoing tasks

Make sure talk pages of relevant articles include {{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=MD}}
Make sure relevant articles include the appropriate infobox and that the parameters are passed correctly. This project's routebox, along with how to use it, can be found at {{Infobox Maryland highway}}.
Make sure the articles in this project follow the guidelines at /Editing guide.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

Maryland road transport articles		Importance
Maryland road transport articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	B		14	6		20
	Start		15	77	6	98
	Stub	1	9	243	13	266
	List	1	2	2	1	6
	Assessed	2	40	328	20	390
	Total	2	40	328	20	390

[edit] New articles related to roads in Maryland

Please feel free to list your new Maryland road-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.