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Draft:Dixie Highway in Michigan

Regarding your new article, I've moved it out of the mainspace over to the Draft: space. The Michigan task force of USRD has no stub articles, and hasn't had any stub articles in years. In fact, every one of Michigan's highway articles are rated as a GA or higher. Given other issues mentioned below, I'd advise that you not move this draft back as an article until it can merit at least C-Class status.

Honestly, I don't think we need to do state-detail pages on the old auto trails, not unless Dixie Highway itself gets to be too long that we need to spin content out and summarize it in the parent article. We have not reached that point. You should start by adding content to that article, and if it gets too long, then we can split stuff out.

Finally, you should acquaint yourself with the proper nomenclature for highways in other states. There is no such thing as "State Route 134" in Michigan. There is an M-134, however, that was not the not the number of that highway in the days when the Dixie Highway prominently existed. Factual errors like this do not help your case for creating a new article. Imzadi 1979 → 01:29, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

@User:Imzadi1979

Sorry about that. By State Route 134, I did mean trunkline M-134. I know that was not the number then, but tracing the route, you can't use historical terminology completely. Otherwise, for example, you could have some guy following State Route 43 that is across the state from the original. However, I could find out what it was then and redo it to where it shows what it was then and now. I will figure out the other states' highway naming system to reduce these errors. (I am tracing the Dixie Highway's routing with Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010, and it didn't state that "State Route 134" was actually M-134.) It would be nice if they standardized state highways to a certain way; where I live, I don't know of any trunk roads. By the way, is there any sort of list of U.S. road articles to be created?--NorwayHS4 Message box Contributions 22:47, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

@NorwayHS4: if you're working on historical routings like this, you'll need access to maps from that time period. For the Dixie Highway, that's maps from the 1910s and 1920s. Also, if you're going to work on items related to Michigan, you'll need to know the proper nomenclature for Michigan. We have a full list at WP:USSH. Mapping software like Streets & Trips or even Google Maps will typically give you just the number, and you'll need to know how to prefix that number with the correct name.

Now, you missed my one point completely. When writing historical route descriptions, you need to write using the contemporary highway numbers. Yes, they could have changed, and if they have, you also note the modern designation. Do this like: "Dixie Highway followed M-12, which is now M-134 and M-129." To say it was M-134 in the 1920s is to give readers an anachronism.

One last point, but you need to modify your signature. You can't use graphics in a signature, and WP:SIGIMAGE spells out why. Imzadi 1979 → 01:41, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Dixie Highway sidebar

Template:Dixie Highway sidebar has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:22, 29 March 2016 (UTC)