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WikiProject Highways

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A covering the world's major roadways

• 8.8% List-Class
• 38.7% Stub-Class
• 26% Start-Class
• 15.1% C-Class
• 6.3% B-Class
• 4.6% GA-Class
• 0.1% A-Class
• 0.4% FA-Class
• 0.1% 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 {{Knowledge (XXG):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.

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.

The parent of this project is WikiProject Transport.

For the analogous lists for the various subprojects, see Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Australian Roads/Recognized content, Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Canada Roads/Recognized content, or Knowledge (XXG):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.

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

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

Highways articles by quality and importance Quality Importance 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 23 73 42 144 C 12 35 262 256 565 Start 9 67 1,109 1,000 2,185 Stub 5 78 5,350 2,661 8,094 List 9 98 1,227 111 11 1,456 Future 1 82 7 90 Category 51 4 1,181 1,236 Disambig 32 1 104 137 File 16 16 Portal 1 1 Project 5 35 40 Redirect 5 319 78 508 910 Template 1 3 496 500 NA 6 6 Other 6 1 2 9 Assessed 42 314 8,544 4,210 2,351 11 15,472 Unassessed 12 1 2 15 Total 42 314 8,556 4,210 2,352 13 15,487 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 62,295 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.

Articles for deletion

• 12 Sep 2024 – Provincial road 34-12 (Turkey) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chidgk1 (t · c); see discussion (0 participants; relisted)

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Sep 2024 – Unimproved (talk · edit · hist) →Road surface was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

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

Requested moves

• 10 Sep 2024 – Template:Jctint/core (talk · edit · hist) move request by Gonnym (t · c) was moved; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 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

• 08 Sep 2024 – Stafford services (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mike Peel (t · c); see discussion

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.

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.

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 Knowledge (XXG) requested photographs in places categories.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• The most general category for highway and road articles is Category:Roads
• Use the most specific categories applicable, deferring to the above only when the existing categories are not appropriate.
• Do not place articles into both a category and that category's parent category, but use the more specific of the two.

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Roads

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.

1. For instance, a successful DYK could be added.
2. 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 Knowledge (XXG)'s finer work, in this case the roads portal showcases Knowledge (XXG)'s finer roads-related works worldwide.
3. 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.

• 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.

Categories:

• Active WikiProjects
• WikiProject Highways
• Transport WikiProjects