Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington State Highways

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Welcome to the Washington State Highway WikiProject!
Hello and welcome to the WikiProject Washinton State Highway page! If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants.
This month's selected article from WP:WASH:
In the U.S. state of Washington, U.S. Route 2 is the northernmost all-weather highway through the Cascade Mountains. It runs from Everett east to the Idaho state line in Newport, crossing the Cascades at Stevens Pass and passing through Wenatchee and Spokane. The westernmost point of US 2 is the city of Everett in Snohomish County. From the highway's terminus at SR 529 in Everett, US 2 runs along California Street westbound and Hewitt Avenue eastbound.^[1]^[2] The roadway then ascends to a short freeway and has an interchange with Interstate 5 0.13 miles east of this terminus. Leaving downtown Everett/I-5, the highway crosses the Snohomish River and goes across the river valley to the northern (compass east) side of the valley. It stays to the north of the river valley for 27.8 miles before it crosses the Skykomish River near Gold Bar. Archive – Recommend
Shortcut: WP:WASH	Quick links: List of state highways in Washington (project list page) Redirect completion list
Related portals: U.S. Roads Portal • Washington Portal

[edit] Scope

Numbered Washington State routes as designated by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). This includes all signed routes (such as Washington State Route 99), former routes (such as Primary State Highway 1 (Washington) or Washington State Route 111), and proposed routes (such as Washington State Route 704).

Basically, the purpose of this project is to clean up the Washington State Highway articles (Washington State Route articles) and make them conform to the same structure just like the California State Highways WikiProject.

[edit] Participants

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

To join the project, simply sign up below. If you are interested in receiving a bi-weekly newsletter from WP:USRD with project news and notes, please add yourself to Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Note that new members are not automatically added to this list and that manual signup is required. Please fill out the forms at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants and become one of our great members.

Members of this project are encouraged to add {{User WikiProject Washington State Highways}} to their user page along with {{Project U.S. Roads West}}. The resulting userbox is shown below.

This user is a member of the Washington State Highways WikiProject.

To become a member, click on the edit button to the right.

[edit] Washington

User	Status	Other Projects	Work
ComputerGuy890100	Active	N/A	SR 531, PSH 1, PSH 4, PSH 5, Primary State Highways (Washington), Interstate 5 (Washington), and more.
Sehome Bay	Active	IH, USH	Highways in Washington

This list is incomplete. You can help WP:USRD by expanding it.

[edit] What You Can Do

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Washington State Highways:	edit · history · watch · refresh
Stub (at minimum) articles for routes that haven't been created yet. Add infobox to articles

[edit] Status

Here are the current assessment stats.

Washington road transport articles		Importance
Washington road transport articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	A		1			1
	B	1	10	7		18
	Start		29	37	3	69
	Stub		25	122	28	175
	List		2	1	2	5
	Assessed	1	67	167	33	268
	Total	1	67	167	33	268

[edit] Resources

[edit] Highways to include

This WikiProject includes all Interstate, US, and state highways in the state of Washington.

However, multi-state US highways (2, 12, 95, 97, 101, 195, 197, 395) and multi-state Interstate highways (5, 82, 90, and 205) are also under those WikiProjects. For these multi-state routes, under route description, make a sub-heading for Washington and put the route description, state law, leg. history, etc. in there. Do not put {{routeboxwa}} on these pages, use {{Infobox Interstate}} or {{Infobox U.S. Route}} instead.

Intrastate routes, such as Interstate 405 and Interstate 705 are part of this WikiProject, and follow the structure (and the infobox) provided in this WikiProject.

Refer to the completion list to see which articles have been started.

[edit] Structure

The best example of an article that follows this format is Washington State Route 525.

Articles should best start with a short description of the state highway. This description should say where the route begins and ends, as well as any discontinuities, as defined by law. Unique details about this route may be added, but use sparingly.

[edit] Route description

A physical description of the route should be given here. Cities and communities the route traverses should be mentioned here, as well as segments of freeway.

[edit] History

The history of this route number should be discussed here.

[edit] Major intersections or Exit list

This section contains a table that lists all the junctions on the article route, following the exit list guide. Every junction with another numbered highway should be listed here, as well as every exit on controlled access portions of the route. The table should contain the following columns:

County
Location
Exit # where appropriate
Mile
Roads/Destinations (Use Roads for lists that are primarily intersections; use Destinations for lists that are primarily exit lists.)
Notes

[edit] Related routes

This section contains the "related routes" template, which lists all routes with the same parent as the article route (or all the child routes of the article route). The format for the template is:

{{3dwa|type=|route=}}

where type= is the parent route's type (either Interstate, U.S., or State), and route= is the parent route.

[edit] See also

This is where all internal links should be placed. Articles without an infobox should include List of Washington State Routes here.

[edit] References

If <ref> tags are used in the article (frequently providing a source for the length in the infobox), do not forget to include <references /> here.

[edit] External links

This is where all external links should be placed. Government or official links should go first. Road enthusiasts links should follow.

External links to points of interests should also go here.

[edit] Naming of articles

Per WP:USSH, the naming convention for state highways in Washington is Washington State Route X.

Redirects from alternate names should be created using the completion list.

Road Type	Article Location	Example
TX specific 2 digit interstate located in multiple states	Interstate X in Washington	Interstate 5 in Washington
3 digit interstate with only occurance in WA	Interstate X	Interstate 182
3 digit interstate with occurances in other states	Interstate X (Texas)	Interstate 405 (Washington)
U.S. route only located in WA	U.S. Route X	U.S. Route 195
TX specific U.S. route located in multiple states	U.S. Route X in Washington	U.S. Route 101 in Washington
State highways	Washington State Route X	Washington State Route 14
State Highways spurs	Washington State Route X Spur	Washington State Route 525 Spur
Principle Arterial Street System roads	At common name, i.e. Yesler Way (Seattle) or Pacific Avenue (Tacoma)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Good Articles and better

The following articles are rated as Good Articles or better.

U.S. Route 12 in Washington (A-Class)

[edit] Did You Know?

Several articles have been featured on the Main Page in the Did You Know section. To qualify for this feature - articles must be less than 5 days old. (articles can be developed in user space before publishing in mainspace.)

For a list of the articles that have made DYK, click here.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infobox

{{Infobox WA State Route}}

[edit] Examples

{{infobox WA State Route
|type=State
|route=539
|sec=785
|parent=5
|parent_type=Interstate
|length_mi=15.16
|length_ref=<ref name="srlog">[http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/HwyLog2...
|length_round=2
|formed=1969
|dir1=South
|dir2=North
|from=[[Image:I-5.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 5|I-5]] in [[Bellingham, Washington|Bellingham]]
|junction=[[Image:WA-546.svg|20px]] [[Washington State Route 546|SR 546]] in [[Lynden, Washin...
|to=[[Image:BC-13|20px]] [[British Columbia provincial highway 13|BC-13]] near [[Langley, ...
|previous_type=State
|previous_route=538
|next_type=State
|next_route=542}}

State Route 539
Auxiliary route of

I-5

Defined by RCW 47.17.785, maintained by WSDOT

Length:

15.16 mi^[3] (24.40 km)

Formed:

1969

South end:

I-5 in Bellingham

Major
junctions:

SR 546 in Lynden

North end:

Image:BC-13 BC-13 near Langley, BC

State highways in Washington
< SR 538		SR 542 >
Lists: current - Interstates - 1937-70 - 1964 renumbering

[edit] What these arguments do

type: The type of route the article is about: WA, US, or Interstate
route: The number of the route the article is about
sec: The section of the RCW that describes the article route. Use List of State Route RCW Entries to look it up. For spurs not listed in the code, use the section for the mainline route instead. Use only the last part of the section number; for example "785" for 47.17.785.
parent: The route that the article route is a child of (that the number is based on). For example, I-5 for SR 539.
parent_type: The type of route for the parent route
length_mi: The length of the route in miles
length_ref: A reference for the route length, using <ref></ref> tags.
length_round: The number of decimal places the length measurement is accurate to
formed: Year the route was established
dir1: Either West or South
dir2: Either East or North
from: The western or southern terminus of the route using: (a) a shield image, (b) a link to the route article, (c) the city/town where the junction is located (wikilinked, of course)
junction: major junctions listed using the same format (image/route link/city link) separated with a line break (<br>)
to: The eastern or northern terminus, using the same format again
previous_type: The type of the previous route numerically
previous_route: The number of the previous route numerically
next_type: The type of the next route numerically
next_route: The number of the next route numerically

[edit] What goes in the browse part

To see what the previous and next routes should be for a given route, use the master list, which lists all routes that should be included in the browsing order.

[edit] Stub templates

{{Washington-road-stub}}

This Washington road-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

[edit] Other templates

[edit] For article talk pages

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