Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/Newsroom/Issue2-2

Issue 2 (02/16/2008)

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Introduction

Editor:

Feature 1

Editor: Mitchazenia

• My report about the Long Island roadgeek meetup.^Mitch32^contribs 21:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Feature 2

Editor: Master son

Interstate 355 now an Featured Article  — master son^{T - C} 13:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Any way we can mention MI breaking 4.000 here? --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:33, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Feature 3

Editor:

Commons issues --Rschen7754 (T C) 04:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

This

Project news

Probably can be reused, just proofread.

State updates

Editor: Mitchazenia

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

• WP:NYSR - New York State Route 174 became the project's 9th Good Article. New York State Route 22, along with NY 174 are at Wikiproject Highways' Peer review. There is a discussion ongoing to revive the folded up project, NY County Routes, into a task force.^Mitch32^contribs 21:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
• WP:MSHP - M-28 (Michigan highway) and M-35 (Michigan highway) have both been nominated for Good Article status. If passed either of these would be the project's first. Since the B-class audit, MSHP has been active destubbing and improving articles. All the business route articles have been merged together into consolidated articles or merged into their parent articles where appropriate. Our stub count has been dropped from 198 on 2008-01-17 to 46 at last count on 2008-02-13. Thank you to all project editors for the hard work! Imzadi1979 (talk) 02:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
• WP:NJSCR - New Jersey has cut its stub count by over 60 articles over a stretch of 10 days from February 6, 2008 to February 15, 2008. There are also plans to work on county routes and an Article Improvement Drive. New Jersey Route 18 is at A-class review.
• WP:CASH - The California County Routes project was demoted to a task force over the month. Also, California State Route 3 became a Good Article along with the increasing condition of California articles as they are slowly expanded to B-class.
• WP:UTSH - Utah got its first Good Article, with Interstate 70 in Utah passing on February 9, 2008.

Leaderboard

Editor: Scott5114

The leaderboard has yet another new face this month as some of the more neglected projects have gotten some new life; Michigan has had new life breathed into it by Imzadi1979 and Stratosphere, and Utah has seen some serious work by Davemeistermoab. This is partly due to a sort-of race going on in the IRC channel to see who would be the first to break the 4.000 Ω barrier. And the winner was Michigan, which shot up from position 21 last month to number one this month with a record-breaking Ω of 3.970!

Michigan's main competitor in the race to 4 was Connecticut, and as a result that project moved up from 5th place to second. New York has managed to hold onto the #3 spot. Newcomers to the board this month are the aforementioned Michigan and Utah. The established New Jersey project, which was #10 in December's recap and dropped off the following month, has returned, rising back up to the eighth position.

If you're unfamiliar with the WikiWork statistics, you can find more information about them at WP:USRD/A/WW. So ladies and gentlemen, here it comes! Your USRD Leaderboard for February 16, 2008!

Rank	State	FA	A	GA	B	Start	Stub	ω	Ω
1	Michigan	0	0	0	51	139	44	930	3.970
2	Connecticut	0	0	0	11	128	16	625	4.032
3	New York	0	0	9	180	209	255	2669	4.087
4	(D.C.)	0	0	0	4	7	6	70	4.118
5	(Alaska)	0	0	0	0	18	4	92	4.182
6	California	1	1	2	44	172	159	1620	4.274
7	Utah	0	0	0	6	24	25	241	4.304
8	New Jersey	1	0	3	39	93	164	1315	4.383
9	North Carolina	0	0	0	6	91	70	732	4.383
10	Oklahoma	0	0	2	23	59	102	819	4.403

States in parenthesis have no project. States listed in italics are task forces.

Here are the stats for the national projects.

Project	FA	A	GA	B	Start	Stub	ω	Ω
USRD	4	4	31	533	2206	6243	41704	4.623
IH	2	1	9	88	267	219	2446	4.174
US	0	0	3	55	246	218	2245	4.301
Auto trails	0	0	0	3	26	20	213	4.347

Also, big news for USRD as a whole: at press time, USRD is only seven classes away from matching Wikipedia's Ω of 4.622! Great job, everyone!

Statistics are derived from this version of the state stats table table. As always, if your favorite state isn't listed here, you can find it at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Assessment/States. Congrats to the editors at the ten states above for their hard work! Keep it up!

Deletion debates

Compiler: Xenon54 (formerly NASCAR Fan24)

Articles for deletion

• Anaheim Boulevard - closed as Delete.

Categories for discussion

• A deletion discussion for Category:Roads in the Susquehanna Valley area was closed as Delete
• A proposed renaming to "Category:U.S. Highways in Georgia" for Category:U.S. Highways in Georgia (U.S. state) closed as No consensus.
• A proposed renaming of Category:U.S. Highways in Washington, D.C. to "Category:U.S. Highways in Washington, D.C." also closed as No consensus.

Templates for deletion

Template:Susquehanna Valley Transportaion was deleted.

Images and media for deletion

• Image:Map-WA-605.png was deleted.

Coming and going

Compiler:

User:Edit Centric left. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:15, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Featured member

Editor:

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was Support Imzadi1979. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for current member

• Imzadi1979 - well, why wouldn't someone who has greatly reduced the stub count for a wikiproject (MISH) not get consideration. He has my vote for sure! Roadgeeks UNITE! :D  — master son^{T - C} 01:00, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Support - Great returning editor. He's certainly deserves his turn.^Mitch32^contribs 21:02, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Support. A long overdue position for a great editor. XENON54 | talk 22:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Support Juliancolton Talk 16:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.