User talk:Gspfan
This wiki is a specialist encyclopedia of roads articles written by your fellow roadgeeks, and we're glad you've decided to join us!
Now that you're here, we have a few important things to tell you about. Our main discussion page is The Interchange. This is where we make decisions about how this wiki functions. We have a Discord as well that you might want to join.
We have a cleanup page where you can learn more how we're improving the collection of imported articles for our use. You can also report technical errors related to the article import process on that page.
The rules of the road are really simple. In short, follow the golden rule and you'll be fine; we wouldn't want you to be cited for a moving violation. While contributing, please keep in mind that we currently focus our articles on highways in the United States and Canada, including state or provincial highways and major county roads. (To express interest in adding other countries, see AARoads:International). We have the Annex here for additional content, like the list of longest state highways in the United States.
Once again, welcome to the AARoads Wiki! We hope you enjoy it here! Imzadi 1979 → 15:01, 4 July 2024 (EDT)
Subheadings
Please stop removing subheadings from articles needlessly.
We use subheadings to break up long passages of text. This enhances readability. Other things that we so to break up long passages would be to include images. In both cases, the article is no longer a massive wall of text.
You are a new and enthusiastic editor. We appreciate your energy. Some of us have been editing Wikipedia and now the AARoads Wiki for a very long time. We know of what we are speaking about. You may want to learn from our experiences instead of challenging them. Imzadi 1979 → 13:14, 6 July 2024 (EDT)
Category:Tolls
Please don't move categories like that again. Imzadi 1979 → 20:20, 6 July 2024 (EDT)
Pennsylvania Turnpike
[1] I want you to know that I removed it not because Dough4872 removed it previously, but because it's not very good writing. Please use a spell checker and do better. –Fredddie™ 00:42, 8 July 2024 (EDT)
Warning
Please do not remove section headers without a good reason, especially not from A-Class articles such as Interstate 94 in Michigan. "I don't like them" is not a valid excuse for doing so. These edits have been construed as disruptive and have been reverted. Continuing to make these disruptive edits without discussion first will result in losing your editing privileges. –Fredddie™ 14:13, 12 July 2024 (EDT)
Assessments
Please read AA:Assessment carefully before reassessing articles. Recently you upgraded U.S. Route 17 in South Carolina to B-Class, but that article has not been through a B-Class Review (AA:BCR). AARW's assessment classes work a little bit differently than Wikipedia's, and B-Class here is not the same as B-Class there. Rather, B-Class here is equal to GA-Class there, and like GA-Class there, it requires a formalized review. Until you've demonstrated some familiarity with editing and our assessment processes, I would advise you not to change article assessments again. Imzadi 1979 → 19:41, 12 July 2024 (EDT)
Bare URLs
Please try not to add bare URLs as references. In the editing tool bar, there is a "Cite" tab, and from that, you can select the appropriate citation template to call up a dialog box to insert a citation. You can paste the URL into the field and hit the magnifying glass icon next to it, and the software will expand that link into a full citation as best as it can. You will probably have to do some clean up afterwards. (This is especially so with Newspapers.com clipping links because it will pull the name of the clipping and not the name of the article being clipped, the author of the article, etc.) You can enter various data for the citation in that dialog box and preview the results before inserting it.
Bare URLs are bad. They don't tell the reader anything about the source. They don't tell your fellow editors anything about the source if that link has gone dead. We're still hoping to get InternetArchiveBot from Wikipedia to work here, and IAB works best when citations are built using templates with more information. If we don't know anything about the source, the bot or a fellow editor can't find a replacement or archived copy for that source if the link goes dead. So to reiterate, bare URLs are bad, and adding them is very lazy. Imzadi 1979 → 16:29, 13 July 2024 (EDT)
There are very important legal considerations related to copying content from Wikipedia. If you do it wrong, you are actually breaking the law. The way you imported content to U.S. Route 17 in South Carolina was wrong because you did not link to the specific revision of the Wikipedia article from which you copied content. That breaks the attribution required by the Creative Commons licenses and violates the copyrights of the editors who had contributed to that article on Wikipedia.
Doing things wrong creates a big liability to all of us editing here at AARW.
If you don't understand this, do not import any content from Wikipedia, ever.
Consider this a very official warning from an administrator here. Future violations of this will result in the revocation of your abilities to edit on this wiki. Imzadi 1979 → 23:30, 13 July 2024 (EDT)
Blocked
You have been blocked for misusing multiple accounts. Imzadi 1979 → 01:21, 14 July 2024 (EDT)