Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/Standards/Structure

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This is an essay on article content. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how the content policies may be interpreted within their area of interest.

This information is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

This is a draft of the project's standard for article structure – ie standard sections, and standards for the content that goes into those sections.

All articles edit

Text edit

The use of lists is discouraged; prose or tables should be used when more appropriate.

Infobox edit

The standard infoboxes applicable to Australian road articles are:

{{infobox Australian road}} - For roadways, streets, and junctions (Style guidelines here)
{{infobox bridge}} - All bridge structures
{{infobox tunnel}} - All tunnel structures
{{infobox Australian road}} with |small= yes - Where a full infobox would be excessive - eg. former highways

If any cases appear where multiple infoboxes may be required, this should be discussed first.

Road Articles edit

Route description edit

Each article should have a prose description of the route.

Preferred direction choices in order of precedence should be based upto similar criteria to the RJL

If the route crosses multiple states, then use the majority direction (by distance).

If not already checked, please try to ensure road direction is correct before nominating for GA level or above.

History / Future edit

Where applicable, each article should have a history section and / or a future section, describing past and present affairs of this road.

Details in the future section must be verifiable and not speculation, per WP:CRYSTAL.

Extra sections/subsections edit

Extra sections and subsections are not discouraged as long as their inclusion into the article makes some sense.

Junction list / Exit list edit

Each article should have a list of junctions. Junction lists need to follow MOS:RJL, the international road junction list section of the Manual of Style, as well. Any AU specific quirks will be listed here. This section should generally be the last section of the article.

References edit

All relevant Wikipedia standards should be followed. Most notably, roadgeek sites are not reliable sources, try to find the original sources used by the authors. Occasionally photographs from these sites may be cited (they might show a former configuration of an intersection for example), treat them as you would treat any other image citation.

Bridge Articles edit

See: Wikipedia:BRIDGE#Guidelines

Any further guidelines created for Australian Bridges should remain compliant with WP:BRIDGE standards.

Tunnel Articles edit

No standards as yet. As a basic start they should at least have a description, history, and a junction list (if they are a complex tunnel with exits other than the two portals). Whether this needs to be MOS:RJL compliant would need to be discussed.