AARoads:Cleanup

Cleanup
A subpage for the AARoads project

As we get this new wiki functional, there are a lot of things new editors can do to assist.

Cleanup list

If you are a new editor here and want to contribute, please do any of the following:

• Participate at AARoads:The Interchange.
• Parse an article and redirect non-road articles back to Wikipedia. There is a gadget that can be enabled in your user preferences called Bluelinker that can help with this.
• Clearing Category:Pages with broken file links. Articles may be calling images that are only hosted on the English Wikipedia instead of Wikimedia Commons, which means we can't access them on this wiki.
  • If the files can be moved to Commons, they should. Please perform a null edit on the article afterwards to remove it from the category.
  • If they are fair-use, then they should be tagged with wikipedia:Category:WikiProject U.S. Roads non-free media on Wikipedia so they can be imported at a future date. (Update: please make a note below for any fair-use uploads - they require an import and cannot be done by just an uploader).
  • Other images may not be eligible for Commons and are not fair use. These will need to be individually analyzed later.
• Look through imported articles looking for breakage and report them below.
  • Non-road templates that have not been imported should be imported. Something like {{cn}} isn't going to be deleted from the English Wikipedia, so importing it here doesn't require any special attribution. They can also be reported below to be imported by admin.
  • Road-specific templates that have not been imported. These could be deleted from the English Wikipedia, so we have to run AttributionBot on them here.
    • Portal and Attached KML templates should be removed
    • If they are state-specific (like a state highway map citation template) then we need to know.
• Any page on Special:Contributions/AttributionBot that isn't marked as new. The bot may have added multiple attribution templates that need to be merged together. (However, there are many cases where there are multiple attribution templates to handle former articles that were merged and redirected into the current article).
• Missing articles. If a region's articles have been imported and an article is missing, we need to know so that it can be imported.
• Report Special:BrokenRedirects to targets that will never be imported, i.e. out of scope. A judgment call should be made on whether we want to import that page (and report it as an error), retarget the redirect, or delete it.
• Fix Special:DoubleRedirects.
• If you are comfortable working with geographic data and/or OpenStreetMap and have an account on Wikimedia Commons, there are many articles that need GeoJSON files to be generated to allow the use of interactive maps. See AARoads:Creating a GeoJSON file from OpenStreetMap for instructions on how to do this.
• Clerk this page and mark what is done as done, and archive completed requests after a few days
• Remove disambiguation links (List of routes numbered 𝑥) from redirect templates
• Create redirects to articles from alternate names in the lists at AARoads:Redirects
• Convert lists (where the subject is compatible) to use Template:Routelist row.

Error reports

/Archive 1 If you see something that needs admin/bureaucrat intervention, please list it here.

Requested articles

• Confederation Bridge (enwiki), while out of scope, I feel it's important enough to be included. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 20:43, 18 September 2023 (EDT)
• Manchac Swamp Bridge (enwiki) - even though bridges aren't normally in scope, this one's over 20 miles long and the longest bridge in the interstate highway system. It feels like it's an important topic for a roads wiki. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 18:02, 30 October 2023 (EDT)
• Speed limit enforcement, also Speed trap redirects to that article.Dave (talk) 14:32, 2 January 2024 (EST)
  • Could use further comments, this steers into road safety. --Rschen7754 14:15, 4 January 2024 (EST)
• Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike (w:Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike) auto trail? Dave (talk) 13:11, 3 January 2024 (EST)
• Arlington Boulevard (enwiki) - major arterial road with interchanges, carries a US 50 designation. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 16:13, 13 January 2024 (EST)

Some more from Special:WantedPages –Fredddie™ 00:43, 17 January 2024 (EST)

• American Automobile Association (American Automobile Association)
• Automobile Blue Book (Automobile Blue Book)
• Bilingual sign (Bilingual sign)
• Bridge (Bridge)
• Carpool (Carpool)
• Concrete (Concrete)
• Crossbuck (Crossbuck)
• Culvert (Culvert)
• Fuel tax (Fuel tax)
• Gas tax (Gas tax) *redirects to Fuel tax
• Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (Geneva Convention on Road Traffic)
  • To readd some comments that got archived: AAA is out of scope. Fuel tax is probably borderline and might merit a wider scope discussion on taxation. I'm not sure that Carpool adds much more that Carpool lane does not have. --Rschen7754 15:05, 28 February 2024 (EST)
• Direction, position, or indication sign --Rschen7754 22:42, 2 April 2024 (EDT)
• Regional associations of road authorities --Rschen7754 00:12, 7 May 2024 (EDT)
• Missing articles reported by Si404: E88 w, E89 w, E91 w, E96 w, E98 w, E115 w, E119 w, E121 w, E125 w, E201 w (redirect), E234 w (redirect), E372 w, E373 w, E391 w, E401 w, E402 w, E422 w, E441 w, E471 w, E512 w, E531 w, E533 w, E552 w, E842 w, E013 w. --Rschen7754 14:26, 8 May 2024 (EDT)

Reimports

This section is for articles that have imported an earlier version that should be replaced with an updated copy. Please note that requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. If you are expecting to work on both AARoads and Wikipedia, then you should make edits simultaneously rather than relying on someone else to do a reimport for you.

• Idaho State Highway 37 SounderBruce 23:42, 10 September 2023 (EDT)
• Tennessee State Route 158 (enwiki), since it became a GA it would be best to have the "polished" copy. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contributions)} 01:45, 17 September 2023 (EDT)