Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Blog/December 2008

Leaderboard for 29 December

All states have not moved; Michigan, Utah, Arizona and Connecticut have not lost any points, but New York has lost one hunderedth of a point; five new states were added as part of an expansion to include the top ten and the states, in order, are: . Now, here's the condensed leaderboard (if you want the full version of the board just head on over to WP:USRD/A/S):

State	Ω
Michigan	3.659
Utah	3.724
New York	3.964
Arizona	4.240
Connecticut	4.359
Vermont	4.936
Guam	5.000
Oklahoma	5.005
D.C.	5.130
Washington	5.134

Merry Christmas, from ComputerGuy ^talk 19:08, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Project announcements template

{{Project U.S. Roads}} is no longer being updated frequently. Please see {{USRD Announcements}} for the latest announcements. --Rschen7754 (T C) 23:31, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

ACR

I just noticed that most articles on ACR have been up since November! Please, help clear the backlog now, before 2009! Merry Christmas, from ComputerGuy ^talk 17:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

250th Road GA!

With the addition of New York State Route 398, we now have a total of 250 GAs from all over the world. The roads are listed under "road infastructure" on the GA list and it states that there are now 250 articles in the section. Merry Christmas, from ComputerGuy ^talk 16:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

2008: Year in review

It's been a rough year for USRD. Towards the beginning, we had just begun the second arbitration case, and throughout the year there were several disagreements.

On the other hand, we have made much progress throughout the year in terms of article quality. On January 1, we had 3 FAs; we now have 22. We now have 18 A-class articles (up from 6), our first 5 featured lists, and 217 GAs (up from 23). We have many more quality articles than we did last year.

Hopefully in 2009 we will continue to improve article quality across USRD and have a more successful year as a project. --Rschen7754 (T C) 05:52, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Featured member for December

User:Algorerhythms has been active in the maps task force and with his map contributions has helped numerous articles reach GA or FA status. He has also been active writing about articles about roads in Maryland, especially historical routes of U.S. Route 40, including the recently promoted U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Keyser's Ridge – Cumberland, Maryland). Thanks for the hard work.

The featured member for January is now being discussed, if you want to nominate someone for featured member, head on over to WT:USRD/B.

Leaderboard for 2 December

All states have not moved; Michigan has lost nine thousanths of a point; New York has also lost sixteen thousanths of a point; while Connecticut lost five thousanths of a point. Now, here's the condensed leaderboard (if you want the full version of the board just head on over to WP:USRD/A/S):

State	Ω
Michigan	3.659
Utah	3.724
New York	3.974
Arizona	4.240
Connecticut	4.359

computerguy@Wikipedia.org 22:54, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps the top ten should be included next time around? --Rschen7754 (T C) 00:43, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Merry Christmas, from ComputerGuy ^talk 18:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

USRD article to be featured on the main page

Interstate 70 in Utah is scheduled to be Today's Featured Article for December 5th.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Davemeistermoab (talk • contribs) 22:53, December 1, 2008

Oh no, we're on Wikipedia Review! --NE2 22:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

That's funny. Thanks.Dave (talk) 23:19, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Article promotions

The following articles have been promoted to GA, GT, A, FL, FA or GT status in December. Please take the time to read these newly-promoted quality articles and congratulate the nominator:

Article	Status	Date promoted
New Jersey Route 3	GA	December 1
New York State Route 474	GA	December 6
New York State Route 83	GA	December 12
Pennsylvania Route 858	GA	December 17
New York State Route 598	GA	December 19
New York State Route 185	GA	December 20
New York State Route 398	GA	December 20
New York State Route 38A	GA	December 24
New Jersey Route 24	GA	December 30
New Jersey Route 49	GA	December 31
Pennsylvania Route 343	GA	December 31

Contributors: Merry Christmas, from ComputerGuy ^talk