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Contents

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  • Intro
  • 3 feature stories
  • Project news
    • State updates
  • Deletion debates
  • From the editor
  • Member of the editon
  • Coming and going
  • Member news

[edit] Issue 5 (06/17/2008)

Publication deadline: 12 PM Pacific-3 PM Eastern on June 17.

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[edit] Introduction

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[edit] Feature 1

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[edit] Feature 2

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[edit] Feature 3

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[edit] Project news

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[edit] State updates

Write the updates below. If signatures are present, remove them before adding to the newsletter.

WP:USH: U.S. Route 163 became the project's 8th Good Article passing on May 10. U.S. Route 491 has been nominated to be the featured article for April Fool's Day in 2009. The US-491 article is currently a Good Article Candidate and would have to reach Featured Article status by next April to be considered. The discussion is taking place at Wikipedia talk:April Fool's Main Page

WP:MISH: Michigan State Highways Wikiproject received its first FA, M-35, passing on May 21.

WP:MCDH: Michigan County Designated Highways Wikiproject was created as a task force on May 19.

WP:NVSH: Interstate 80 in Nevada became the project's 2nd GA, passing on June 8.

WP:NYSR: New York State Routes has fallen to 147 stubs to go with the news of the project's first featured list coming on June 8, after 30 days on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates. The project got its second Featured Article and the first time a project has consecutively-designated FAs with New York State Route 175 passing on May 29. The project has an A-class review after the recent expansion of the article, New York State Route 343. The project has also gained its first Featured topic nomination, produced by User:Mitchazenia about New York State Route 20N and the history/routes behind it. The proposal is currently on FTC. New York State Route 319, New York State Route 324, New York State Route 318 and New York State Route 323 all recently passed their good article nominations. NYSR also has 2 Featured Article candidates, with New York State Route 28 and New York State Route 32 being nominated within an hour of each other. This is the first time NYSR has had 2 FACs at once.Mitch32contribs 23:33, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:UTSH: The Utah State Highways project has been promoted from a task force to a project. Following a unanimous vote of support, the project was repromoted on May 17 following demotion that occurred on March 16, 2007, after more than a year of task force status. Utah State Route 279 became the project's 3rd GA, passing on June 8.

WP:WASH: The Washington State Highways project's page has been remodeled. Also, two GA nominations and two peer reviews (Washington State Route 531, U.S. Route 101 in Washington) for the project happened in May. During the month, the project finished creating every article in the current system excluding some state-specific U.S. route articles and one state-specific Interstate article.

[edit] Leaderboard

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[edit] Deletion debates

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[edit] Coming and going

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[edit] Featured member

[edit] Old featured members

Note that the following members cannot be nominated at this time (because they have been featured this year already):

2007
2008
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[edit] Nomination for current member

  • User:25or6to4 -- The Maps Task Force is the most underappreciated task force in the U.S. Roads Wikiproject. 25or6to4 has created numerous maps enabling articles to reach GA and FA status, and like most members of the maps task force, gotten very little credit for it. Dave (talk) 00:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Support re above. --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Support - Indeed, 25or6to4 has been awesome at my map requests, as he's been creating quality maps. Definitely undercredited in the USRD community - CL — 02:17, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Obvious support, I have worked with him for awhile over at WP:TXSH and the old adage about not truly knowing how valuable someone is until they are gone can clearly be seen at the backlog that developed at the maps task force when he was gone for a few weeks. --Holderca1 talk 14:54, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
    • Support 25or6to4 is a very good worker and has great mapping skills. — ComputerGuy890100Talk to meWhat I've done to help Wikipedia 17:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] From the editor