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Welcome to the Roads in Maryland WikiProject! We're trying to provide information on all of Maryland's state highways, U.S. highways, Interstate highways, and other notable roads. This page and its subpages contain our suggestions and tools for working on this project. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or see #Tasks below to see what needs to be done. You should also check out /Editing guide for advice on contributing, and if you plan on contributing a lot, please join by adding your name to #Participants. Also, it is recommended that {{Project U.S. Roads}} and/or {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}} be placed on all participants' user pages (or subpages). For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

The Roads in Maryland WikiProject

This project name was chosen as it reflects this project's intention to cover all articles relating to roads in Maryland, and not just state highways.

The purpose of the project is to define a standard style for articles on roads in Maryland and to encourage participation in the editing of these articles.

Articles covered by this project include all Maryland state highway articles, as well as Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles, and other Maryland road-related articles (such as the Intercounty Connector, and Maryland State Highway Administration). A complete list of articles that are marked as part of this WikiProject can be found at Category:Roads in Maryland WikiProject.

Maryland-specific Interstate and U.S. highway articles should only be created for long routes that go through several states including Maryland, and their section through Maryland is long and/or notable enough for its own article. For example, Maryland-specific Interstate 83 and U.S. Route 113 articles should not be created unless these routes become lengthened through several other states. Likewise, a U.S. Route 522 in Maryland article would also be inappropriate as the section of US 522 through Maryland is pretty short. The purpose of such state-specific articles is to break up what would otherwise be a long article. If a route only goes through one or two states or if the section of a route through the state in question is too short, state-specific articles are unnecessary.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/List of state roads WikiProjects

• Category:Wikipedians in Maryland

See Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Participants to join.

You may also wish to add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roads in Maryland/Userbox}} to your userpage. Which looks like this:

This user edits articles about Maryland Routes.

1. Algorerhythms - Familiar with the roads in the western part of Maryland, primarily in Allegany and Garrett counties.

• Lengths need to be added to counties traversed sections (see Intercounty Connector for an example)
• Routebox parameters still need to be cleaned up in several articles. See {{Infobox Maryland highway}} for the new format.

• Lowest numbered route without an article: Maryland Route 84

If there is any other Maryland road-related article that you would like to see created, add a request for it below

• Salisbury Bypass - An article I've been meaning to create myself, but haven't gotten around to it

• Lowest numbered stub: Maryland Route 12

If there is any other Maryland road-related article that already exists but you would like to see it cleaned up or expanded, add it below

• Intercounty Connector - POV issues, general cleanup.

This section is for ongoing tasks

• Make sure talk pages of relevant articles include {{Roads in Maryland WikiProject}}
• Make sure relevant articles include the appropriate infobox and that the parameters are passed using the current correct format. This project's routebox, along with the standards for using it, can be found at {{Infobox Maryland highway}}.
• Make sure the articles fall under the new standards at WP:USRD.

• Category:Roads in Maryland
• Category:State highways in Maryland
• Category:U.S. Highways in Maryland
• Category:Interstate Highways in Maryland

• List of numbered highways in Maryland
• List of Maryland state highways
• List of minor Maryland state highways
• List of decommissioned Maryland state highways

Please feel free to list your new Maryland road-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Washington Outer Beltway
• Pratt Street
• Maryland Route 665

Although there are no good articles that fall under this project, we do have quite a few B-class articles that could be improved into a good article. If you know of any others, please add them here.

• Chesapeake Bay Bridge
• Jones Falls Expressway
• Interstate 70 in Maryland
• Interstate 95 in Maryland
• Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland
• Interstate 695 (Maryland)
• U.S. Route 15 in Maryland
• U.S. Route 29 in Maryland
• U.S. Route 50 in Maryland
• U.S. Route 219 in Maryland
• Maryland Route 8
• Maryland Route 30
• Maryland Route 222

• Maryland State Highway Administration
• mdroads.com
• Highway Location Reference, from Maryland State Highway Administration
  • HLR for Baltimore City (Not listed on main HLR page)
• State highway shield standard
• Other state sign standards

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