Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/United Kingdom

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Welcome to the UK Roads Task Force!

Goals

• Improve road articles to at least B-standard. Steps can be seen below.
• To provide balanced and accurate information on all issues relating to road transport in the UK.

Scope

• The project covers all articles in Category:Roads in the United Kingdom and its sub categories, legislation covering UK roads and road transport related organisations.

Recognised content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs). 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 UK Roads}}) or categorized correctly. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

A-Class articles

Good articles

Main page featured articles

Did you know? articles

Former featured articles

Former good articles

B-class drive

Our first goal is to get all of the articles on motorways to B-class standard. What we need in such an article is:

• A brief but informative lead section
• An infobox - currently, all articles have this.
• A route box, showing the junctions of the roads and the roads which intersect the motorway at these junctions.
• A history into the road, informative, well-written and reliably sourced.
• A NPOV, well-written article, without trivia that can not be integrated.

If all five of these checkpoints can be achieved, the article is at a standard comparable to B-class. If one is missing, it is best at Start-class, while if two or more are, then it is a stub.

Road sign colours

The recommended RGB colours for British road signs have been published in a Department for Transport document^[1] The hex equivalents of the values quoted are given below as a reference for any editors:

UK road sign colours

Colour code	Usage
#0079C1/white	Motorways
#00703C/#FFD200	Primary road
#E31837/white	Warning signs
#794400/white	Tourist destinations
#FFD200/black	Roadwork signs

Any editor who is unsure of how to use these codes can of course look at the underlying code.

Members

Add your name below if you wish to participate. Note, if you have not edited a transport related article in the last 12 months, your name will be marked as "inactive".

1. Sceptre (talk · contribs)
2. Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs) - interested in the Birmingham area, service stations and route tables (including coordinates and microformats)
3. MapsMan (talk · contribs) - I would really be a part-time editor. Pages on Motorways are generally something I look at from time to time, and I'm always looking to improve any page I read on Wikipedia. Thus, I am a de facto member of any Wikiproject encompassing a subject area of my interest.
4. Seth Whales (talk · contribs) - Part-time wiki editor in the south west
5. C2r (talk · contribs) - based in Hertfordshire, but travels around Europe!
6. Sunil060902 (talk · contribs) - based in London, so best placed to contribute to roads in and around the Capital
7. Hmich176 (talk · contribs) - Based in the USA, but I try to contribute to articles on a worldwide scale. I can copy edit and do basic research on articles.
8. Freakmighty (talk · contribs)
9. Richie wright1980 (talk · contribs) - Liverpool
10. Jeni (talk · contribs) - Based in the Midlands
11. Squirrel684 (talk · contribs) - Based in the SW - I work in the "Road Industry"!
12. Zangar (talk · contribs) Based in Cardiff
13. Cherryguy93 (talk · contribs) - Based in London, United Kingdom
14. Martinvl (talk · contribs) - Based in SE England
15. TimMassey (talk · contribs) - Based in Cheshire.
16. Doh5678 (talk · contribs)
17. Presidentman (talk · contribs) - Based in USA, but certainly an Anglophile
18. Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk · contribs)
19. Wilbysuffolk (talk · contribs) - Mainly minor A roads in East Anglia
20. Baldy Bill (talk · contribs) - like MapsMan, I like to improve any area of Wikipedia of interest to me. Based in SW but travel regularly across UK.
21. robs.shaw (talk · contribs)
22. Trillig (talk · contribs) - SE England and East Anglia
23. The Rambling Man (talk · contribs)
24. Nordic Dragon��(talk · contribs) Southeastern England and Pembrokeshire
25. Davey2010 (talk · contribs) - Based in Kent.
26. Rcsprinter123 (talk · contribs) - most places, but especially the north west. Can be contacted to make maps and road signs
27. Patch1969 (talk · contribs) - Focusing on Managed Motorways and Motorways in general across Greater Manchester and the North West.
28. Gweglez (talk · contribs) - Very interested in roads, the details and irregularities of them, particularly motorways that aren't actually up to motorway standards. Based in Hampshire so most of my edits will be around there.
29. RichardHC (talk · contribs) - Based in Cheshire, current focus is on making motorway junction infoboxes more legible.
30. Bellezzasolo (talk · contribs) - Live in Dorset, studying in Oxford
31. Blolbly (talk · contribs) - I like roads

Then copy {{User UK Roads Wikiproject}} into your user page to use the Wikiproject's Userbox

Inactive Members

1. Nick996 (talk · contribs)
2. Sameul66 (talk · contribs)
3. Regan123 (talk · contribs)
4. Dollsworth (talk �� contribs) - interested in the southeast, mainly Kent, Sussex, Surrey and parts of Essex
5. Grand Edgemaster (talk · contribs) - Part-time wiki editor, looking at creation of motorway-specific maps from OpenStreetMap data.
6. Ian13 (talk · contribs) - interested, but not too sure where we are going to source some information 10:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
7. Teutonic_Tamer (talk · contribs) - noobie Wiki fan, East Anglia is my main area.
8. Mardenpb1 (talk · contribs) - Based in the SE, but primarily interested in Road Safety
9. 95jb14 (talk · contribs) Enthusiast.
10. Thatmotorwayguy (talk · contribs)- Generally concentrating on south-western motorways, specialising in the M4 (English section) M5 (Section below M4), M27, M271, M275, M4, M48, M32, A3(M), A329(M), A404(M), A308(M) and M49

Open tasks

• Standardise route boxes for motorway articles to conform closer to either the format at WP:ELG or on M621 motorway.

Categories

Article

Category:Speed camera types used in the United Kingdom
Category:Motoring taxation in the United Kingdom
There are some articles in Category:Road transport in the United Kingdom as well, though not all sub cats are appropriate

Maintenance

Quality scale

UK road transport pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	8
A	1
GA	52
B	102
C	233
Start	841
Stub	845
List	62
Category	254
Disambig	10
File	3
Project	1
Template	32
NA	101
Assessed	2,545
Total	2,545

• Assessment log

Templates

• {{WPUKroads}} - talk space - categorises the page into the wikiproject
• {{UK motorways}} - article space - links to other motorway articles.
• {{United Kingdom roads}} - article space - links to other general UK A road articles and lists.

Zonal A Road Templates

Use these for A road articles, choosing the right zone

• {{GB A road zone 1}}
• {{GB A road zone 2}}
• {{GB A road zone 3}}
• {{GB A road zone 4}}
• {{GB A road zone 5}}
• {{GB A road zone 6}}
• {{GB A road zone 7}}
• {{GB A road zone 8}}
• {{GB A road zone 9}}

Route infoboxes

• {{ukmotorwaysmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Mxxx motorway
• {{ukmotorwayAsmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an Ax(M) motorway
• {{ukroadsmall}} - displays a small road sign icon and link for an A road
• {{gbroadsmall}} - as above but for those names Axxx road (Great Britain)
• {{ukroadsign}} - displays the road number sign and name of road but doesn't link it - useful where no article exists

Related Projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport in Scotland

External resources

References

• Highways Agency
• Transport Scotland
• Roads Service of Northern Ireland

Other authorities

• Transport Research Laboratory
• Department for Transport

Information sites

These are not always reliable sources, but may be useful in finding reliable sources or in knowing what to look for.

• Hansard Parliamentary Archive - Online transcripts of parliamentary discussions in the House of Commons and House of Lords - contains essential information such as dates.
• Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts contains links to good sources of information, including online OS maps from 1920s to 1960s.
• Pathetic Motorways
• The Motorway Archive
• Roads.org.uk - Formerly known as Chris' British Road Dictionary.
• Roads UK includes route guides
• The Motorway Archive supported by The Institution of Highways & Transportation
• Northern Ireland Roads Site unofficial but with quotable sources
• Roaders' Digest All numbered roads in UK

Important discussions

• Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/B roads in the United Kingdom

Article Alerts

Articles to be merged

• 30 Dec 2020 – A4400 road (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Queensway (Birmingham) by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Aug 2020 – Woodside Green (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Woodside, London by WisDom-UK (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 22 Feb 2021 – Draft:List of C roads in the Scottish Borders (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blolbly (t · c)
• 22 Feb 2021 – Draft:List of C roads in Argyll and Bute (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blolbly (t · c)
• 22 Feb 2021 – Draft:List of C roads in Angus (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blolbly (t · c)
• 20 Feb 2021 – Draft:List of C roads in Bath and North East Somerset (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blolbly (t · c)

External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject UK Roads