Bflockett
Welcome, roadfan! edit
Welcome Bflockett!
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Happy editing! Signed, Imzadi 1979 → 00:11, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
Kentucky Route 248 and List of Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways (3500–6999) edit
@Bflockett: welcome to Wikipedia! Our articles are written by volunteers, just like you. Not everyone has the time, resources, or interest to devote time to writing and expanding articles. My area of expertise is Michigan's highways, so I'd be lost or just plain unable to do much work in expanding Kentucky's highway articles. I can copy edit and polish the work of others, so I try to help out where and when I can with other states. I just wouldn't be any good at adding histories to Kentucky route articles, and although I might be able to do a passable route description off maps, someone else local might be better.
Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/New user orientation is a good introduction to editing road articles. One thing to remember is that all of our articles are considered works in progress, even the Featured Articles! So feel free to add what you can to articles as you can add it. One important thing is to provide citations to your source material. You don't have to worry about making perfectly polished footnotes, but there are templates to help with that. Just remember to use reliable sources. Your sources don't have to be online; print sources are perfectly acceptable. Providing citations allows other people to verify your work, so as long as your source is in a library someplace, that's a good start. In the roads realm, you don't want to use self-published sources like websites written by fellow roadgeeks and published online without editorial oversight. Other roadfans might hold those webmasters in high esteem, but their work isn't compatible with some of Wikipedia's policies. Imzadi 1979 → 00:28, 10 February 2023 (UTC)