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Hello, this a just a quick note to say are you sure all these roads you keep adding are notable? Every single one could be created without fear of deletion, right? Sir Rcsprinter, Bt(post) @ 22:57, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Either an actual article or (probably more preferably for Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads) a redirect for each road could be made. There are editors there that are better for this sort of thing than I am, so I am asking other editors to help out. I was going to add a link to the "Transport" page to the talk page of USRD after I finished adding my additions. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 23:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
WP:AURD (Australian Roads), is inviting comment on a proposal to convert Australian road articles to {{infobox road}}. Please come and discuss. The vote will be after concerns have been looked into.
You seem to have mixed up the difference between the two types of dashes. There is the en dash (–) and the em dash (—). The article titles of those redirects you created should be using en dashes. Imzadi 1979→03:16, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
Oops. I think you may be right. Can you give me an example of how I should correctly type out a title of a bannered route page? Also, what should be done with the redirects that I have already made? I don't want to make any double redirects. I want to correct my mistakes in this "issue". Thank you for informing me of what I did wrong, and thanks in advance for helping me correct them. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 11:49, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
To answer your first question, the way you were typing the titles of the pages seemed to be corrected except for the fact that you were using the wrong dash. TCN7JM16:11, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
I understood that, 7. What I want is the actual "code" that I should type out to correctly start one of these. My laptop doesn't have an en dash on its keyboard.
What code are you talking about? I have never entered an em dash or en dash any way other than press the "-" key. I have Windows XP, if it matters. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 03:29, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
The HTML entity (which, by the way, is – with a semicolon) will not work in page titles. The simplest method is to copy an en dash from somewhere else and paste it into the title. —Scott5114↗[EXACT CHANGE ONLY]05:16, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
When you are editing page, there is a drop-down menu directly below this box. It is actually between the editing box and the edit summary. Both the Insert and Wiki markup entries have en and em dashes as the very first characters available. You just click the dash and it is inserted where your cursor was before you clicked it. If you can't find this basic feature, I can't ever help you again. –Fredddie™11:51, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Oops, Scott, I forgot the semicolon.
Fredddie, only the "Insert" section has any dashes/hyphens (there are actually 2). Which one do I use to put in the title of a page? I used the longer one, but Imzadi told me that was the wrong one. I want to do this correctly, but I can't do more until I figure out how to type the title in the search bar (to be able to start a new article/redirect). Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 18:35, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
The en dash is the shorter of the two. It is so named because it's the width of a capital letter N, while the em dash is supposed to be the widths of a capital letter M, give or take. Imzadi 1979→22:33, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Any reason why you changed "route" to "loop" for the Arkansas business routes in this diff on US 64? They aren't called loops by citizens or AHTD and some of them don't even "loop" (e.g. Parkin and Wynne on your diff), hence the usage of "route". Brandonrush Woo pig sooie!00:17, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Brandonrush is right, these should be business routes, not loops. They're only considered business loops on Interstates, and I'm not even sure it's 100% of the time then. TCN7JM00:24, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Not to be contrarian, but "business loop" is used on a bunch of the bannered routes pages. If anything, it's consistency across the lists. –Fredddie™00:33, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
It's better to be correct than it is to be consistent. If they're routes, call 'em routes. TCN7JM00:36, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
If they are reverted, then my redirects need to be updated. Also, should all of the bannered route pages be changed to "routes"? Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 00:37, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm not very bright but I think its best to call a spade a spade, however I will stay out of the USRD duel if one is about to ensue (as it seems like they usually do). Brandonrush Woo pig sooie!00:41, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
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and is known as Gibson Highway. It continues southeast towards the town of Gibson and crosses [[U.S. Route 79 in Tennessee|US 79 and [[U.S. Route 70 Alternate (Tennessee)|US 70
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to the northwest. In [[Meggett, South Carolina|Meggett]], it passes the city hall, before it [[intersection (road)|intersects [[South Carolina Highway 162|SC 162]] in [[Hollywood, South
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is a [[state highway]] in [[Amarillo, Texas]], [[United States]]. It runs from Amarillo Boulevard ([[Interstate 40 Business (Amarillo, Texas|Interstate 40 Business]]) and Bell Street east along 9th
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The road from [[Utah State Route 17 (1920s)|SR-17]] (now [[[[Utah State Route 82|SR-82]]) in [[Tremonton, Utah|Tremonton]] northwest to [[Snowville, Utah|
to [[Snowville, Utah|Snowville]] became a state highway in 1912 as part of the [[Midland Trail]] (which continued to [[Nevada]] via present SR-30.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=SZUAAAAAMAAJ&
route was extended slightly east from Tremonton to [[Utah State Route 41 (1927-1962)|SR-41]] (now [[[[Utah State Route 13|SR-13]]) in 1945, taking over what had been part of [[[[Utah State Route 82|SR-82]].<ref>{{cite UTSR law|year=1945|quote=Route 42. From [[Haws Corner,
to proposed [[I-80N (UT)|I-80N]] in 1962, SR-42 east of the Snowville junction (exit 7) became [[[[Utah State Route 3|SR-3]]. (Later, the portion near Tremonton would be renumbered [[[[Utah State Route 102|SR-102]].) Finally, in 1969, SR-42 received its present termini, as [[Utah