Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Blog/March 2009

Leaderboard for 1 March

Guam and D.C. were moved and replaced by Idaho and Iowa; Michigan, Utah and Connecticut have not lost any points, New York lost nineteen thousanths of a point, Utah gained twenty-three thousnaths of a point, Arizona lost seventeen thousanths of a point, Vermont has lost eleven thousanths of a point, Oklahoma lost five thousanths of a point and New Jersey has lost forty-eight 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	3.655
Utah	3.747
New York	3.909
Arizona	4.240
Connecticut	4.356
Vermont	4.842
Oklahoma	4.963
New Jersey	5.011
Idaho	5.023
Iowa	5.087

–CG 17:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Article promotions

The following articles have been promoted to GA, GT, A, FL, FA or GT status in February and March. Please take the time to read these newly-promoted quality articles and congratulate those that worked to improve the article: Note:The bot did not consistently run in February, as such dates are estimates, please correct as necessary

Article	Status	Date promoted
Numbered highways in Amenia (CDP), New York	FL	February 2
New York State Route 292	A	February 2
California State Route 14	GA	February 2
New York State Route 135	GA	February 2
New York State Route 911E	GA	February 2
New York State Route 912Q	GA	February 2
U.S. Route 50 in Nevada	A	February 5
California State Route 46	GA	February 9
Interstate 68	GA	February 9
New Jersey Route 15	GA	February 9
Blue Ridge Road	GA	February 9
County Route 168 (Sullivan County, New York)	GA	February 9
New Jersey Route 172	GA	February 9
New Jersey Route 179	GA	February 9
New York State Route 18A	GA	February 9
New York State Route 280	GA	February 9
New York State Route 391	GA	February 9
Vermont Route 14	GA	February 9
County Route 166 (Sullivan County, New York)	GA	February 9
County Route 64 (Warren County, New York)	GA	February 9
Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector	GA	February 12
New Jersey Route 182	GA	February 12
New Jersey Route 495	GA	February 12
New Jersey Route 90	GA	February 12
New Jersey Route 161	GA	February 12
New Jersey Route 4	GA	February 28
Wisconsin Highway 131	GA	February 28

Please take this survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aPTg2lwsQB7ZCT6P1YhqZA_3d_3d - This survey is entirely anonymous. This gives us input as to how we as a project are doing. --Rschen7754 (T C) 22:51, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

The USRD-CRWP Cup has ended

Mitchazenia has won the contest. Congratulations! --Rschen7754 (T C) 21:15, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

County Challenge is back!

I took some thinking, and have decided that ComputerGuy was right. :) - On March 18, which is my birthday, I am going to debut the new rules for the 2nd County Challenge! I will sneak peek this rule, states must now have 20 counties, not 10. Also, New Jersey, which is the state that won the last competition, will not be used. That leaves somewhere around 25-34 states. I will debut all the new rules on March 18 and will accept openings until April 2.Mitch32^{(Go Syracuse)} 19:34, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Yay! –CG 23:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Here are the new rules at User:Mitchazenia/County challenge and you are free to sign up until April 5.Mitch32^{(Go Syracuse)} 16:55, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Featured member for March

The featured member for February is Polaron.

Polaron has been active in Wikipedia since 2005. Polaron is perhaps best known to the USRD project for reviewing articles for GA or A class evaluation, however has helped on a variety of wikipedia articles, especially those that deal with demographics, metropolitan areas, New England, and roads. Thanks for the hard work!

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