Talk:Ohio State Route 725

Removal of "Indiana" references for SR 44

Detcin, you keep reverting my edits including "Indiana" for State Road 44, without providing meaningful edit summaries as to your rationale. I feel that including the state clarifies things for casual, general public readers. Please explain your disagreement. Thanks. --Chaswmsday (talk) 14:33, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

This would be the only article that would have "Indiana State Road xx", rest of them have SR xx. Why change just one of many other articles. For clarifies things for casual and general public readers, "at the Indiana state line" or "Indiana state line" would fix that problem. (The shields for Ohio and Indiana are not even close to the same.) You instead "Indiana" as a road name which is not the road name.Detcin (talk) 16:26, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

@Detcin, I wasn't planning to change any of the Indiana road articles, just Ohio ones where an Ohio SR crosses the border. I think it would stand out better, especially for foreign readers who may not be familiar with our roads or even our states. --Chaswmsday (talk) 17:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Why is Ohio special no other state does it that way. That is 47 other states (not counting Hawaii and Alaska for obvious reason) that would need changed. The USRD is one project, minus New York State, and the other 49 states every thing is basely the same. (New York is not that much different) If you what to change every road then go ahead, but do not change just one state. Also when the SR xx is clicked it goes to the right article.Detcin (talk) 17:54, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, they don't, actually. For some states, the Jct template returns a state abbreviation, so you have, e.g. "NC 5" instead of "SR 5". In Arkansas, you have "Hwy. 5", in Iowa, "Iowa 5". And I just checked out the state you've edited a lot, Indiana. The Illinois shield design seems to be a virtual twin to Indiana's. In Illinois Route 141, for example, the Jct template was not used and someone edited the markup to show the eastern terminus at "State Road 62" instead of "SR 62".

Sure, a click will take you to the right article, but then you have to click or at least hover to see where it's going to go. There are varied styles used in all WP articles. If someone changes a few, it doesn't require you to change all of them. Maybe if editors believe a particular edit improves an article, they will slowly introduce it to all similar articles. IMO, the cross-border termini look somewhat ambiguous right now and should more explicitly declare the state. --Chaswmsday (talk) 18:57, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The infobox for Illinois Route 141 was last work on in 2010, it still has "to" and "from" at was from before 2008. (It was change before I even started working on road.) What you are doing was the way that it was done two years ago. The project used this before and stopped. For the state abbreviation that is a naming conventions from years ago. Hand coding (not using JCT) should not be done due to server problems, after a number of shields the server stops showing the graphic.(I don't remember the number but it is low.) Note: If you will do all of the Ohio (for the Ohio State Routes) crossing then I will not have a problem with it, just keep the state the same.