Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota

1. Bring all of the Minnesota State Highway articles under the same format.
2. Create an article for all Minnesota State Highways.

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See the Assessment Department for details on how to assess articles for this task force.

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• [http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/# Roadway Data] Mn/DOT's current page listing all the data they provide, including the statewide highway logpoint file, construction project logs, and other valuable information about the state's highway network.
• Constitutional and legislative routes
• 1934 renumbering
• Twin Cities highways
• County shield usage
• All-time list
• [http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/gisweb/ Online GIS map of Minnesota roads]
• [http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmdt State highway maps, 1919 to present]

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• {{cite book |author= Staff |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpt/statelpt.pdf |title= Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing |format=PDF |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=November 6, 2013 |accessdate=}}
• {{cite book |author=Staff |url=http://www.dot.state.mn.us/roadway/data/reports/logpt/statelpt.pdf |title= Statewide Trunk Logpoint Listing |format=PDF |publisher=Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=November 6, 2013 |accessdate=}}

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• {{cite map |publisher= Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=April 2011 |title= Interstate Open Dates |url= http://www.dot.state.mn.us/library/Interstate%20Open%20Dates%20MN.pdf |format= PDF |cartography= Office of Transportation Data and Analysis |inset= |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/66kE7M8x8 |archivedate= April 7, 2012 |url-status= live|accessdate= }}
• {{cite map |publisher= Minnesota Department of Transportation |date=April 2011 |title= Interstate Open Dates |url= http://www.dot.state.mn.us/library/Interstate%20Open%20Dates%20MN.pdf |format= PDF |cartography= Office of Transportation Data and Analysis |inset= |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/66kE7M8x8 |archivedate= April 7, 2012 |url-status= live|accessdate= }}

See WP:USRD/STDS for details on an article's structure and formatting standards.

Articles should be named "Minnesota State Highway X" per WP:USSH. Additional articles may be named "U.S. Route X in Minnesota" or "Interstate X in Minnesota" if there is a Minnesota-specific article. County Roads should use either "County Road X (Y County, Minnesota)" or "County Road X (Minnesota)" depending on if the road is contained in one county or multiple counties. Other articles should use the common name of the roadway as a title.

All state highways should include the category tag: nnnA where nnn is 3-digit route number, and A is the letter designation if any (e.g. Route 1A is "001A", Route 2 is "002").

Minnesota has used four different types of shields:

{{gallery|width=120|File:MN-58 (1920).svg|The shield used from 1920 to 1933.

|File:MNStar116.png|The shield used from 1934 to 1956.

|File:MN-93 (1950).svg|The shield used from 1954 to 1969.

|File:MN-1.svg|The current shield, used since 1969.

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According to official state maps, both the star and white square shields were in use between 1954 and 1956.

All state route shields have been created in the format MN-X.svg, where X is the route number. They reside in the category Minnesota State Route markers.

All of the state highway markers past and present have been created and reside on the Commons.

Shield pages in Sister projects

County shields, where they exist, reside on Commons here. If necessary, there are two blank shields for county roads. :File:County blank.svg is the pentagonal style, and :File:White County Plate Template.svg is the square style. See this page for a guide to which shield is used for which roads in which counties.

If a route is decommissioned, it still needs a browse box at the bottom of the article.

{{start srbox}}
{{mn browse|previous_type=MN|previous_route=XX|route=MN|next_type=MN|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}

will create something like

{{start srbox}}

{{mn browse|previous_type=MN|previous_route=1|route=MN|next_type=MN|next_route=3}}

{{end box}}

Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Minnesota state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=Interstate

This box should only be placed on pages that do not have an infobox, or are an article for an Interstate or U.S. Route in the Minnesota state highway system. On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the mn browse, keeping the list in chronological order from south/west to north/east. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

use {{tl|Minnesota-road-stub}} to label stub articles.

{{Minnesota-road-stub}}

{{tlx|WikiProject U.S. Roads|2=state=MN}}

{{WikiProject U.S. Roads|state=MN|class=NA|category=no}}

Designates the current article as part of the Minnesota State Highways WikiProject. Place on the article's talk page.

The template {{tl|Riner}} will create an automatic citation for [http://www.steve-riner.com/mnhighways/mnhome.htm Steve Riner's Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page]:

Usage: {{Riner|route=|access date= }}

Example: {{Riner|route=610|access date={{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}}} gives a reference to Highway 610 on the 288-694 page and dates it today.

Note: Steve Riner's website is not a reliable source under Wikipedia policy and better sources that are not self-published should be used instead.

{{tlu|Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota/Userbox}} produces:

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Userbox for participants of this project. For a customized box:

{{tlu|Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota/Userbox|2=1}} where 1 can be replaced with your favorite state route marker

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Minnesota/Userbox|1}}

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{{tl|USRD Announcements}}

Template containing news for all USRD WikiProjects.

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