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Hello, HighwayMaster, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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If you are interested, there is already a community of users who are roadfans or who edit articles about roads, just like you! Stop by any of these WikiProjects — WP:HWY (worldwide), WP:CRWP (Canada), WP:INR (India), WP:UKRD (United Kingdom), or WP:USRD (United States) — and contribute. For those in the United States, there is an excellent new user's guide. There is a wealth of information and resources for creating a great article. If you have questions about any of these WikiProjects, you can ask on each project's talk page, or you can ask me!

If you like communicating through IRC, feel free to ask questions at #wikipedia-en-roads as well. Here, there are several editors who are willing to answer your questions. For more information, see WP:HWY/IRC.

Again, welcome! Rschen7754 02:32, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

January 2010

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary for your edits. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. Rschen7754 22:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Pennsylvania Route 760

The article Pennsylvania Route 760 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced article. There's no source that backs up the existance of this state highway, or any state highway under this designation. To keep this article without a source would be perpetuate a rumor. This article does not meet WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV and WP:NOR.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Imzadi1979 (talk) 20:35, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

P.S. The burden of evidence lies with you as the editor that added the information, in this case the whole article. I'm challenging it all. If deleted, the article can be recreated at a later date, if you have the sources to back it up. Imzadi1979 (talk) 20:41, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

P.P.S. You can't remove an AFD tag from an article because you disagree with it. The AFD tag can ONLY be removed at the conclusion of the 7-day AFD process. The AFD tag has been restored. If you disagree, you must comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pennsylvania Route 760. Imzadi1979 (talk) 23:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Join the WP:USRDCUP 2010!

We're going to go ahead and try this again! The contest will begin April 1. It is a contest to encourage editors to improve teh quality of WP:USRD articles and participate in USRD. Precautions will be taken to make sure that people do not "game the system" and bring article quality down. Please sign up ASAP! Announcements regarding the contest will be made at WP:USRDCUP, Twitter, and/or IRC. --Rschen7754 06:51, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Recent template edits

I noticed you changed a lot of the shield templates for DE and NJ state routes. A while back, we decided to use the Elongated circle set for DE and Circle sign set for NJ instead of the state-specific sets in order to have less shields to manage. If you have an issue with this, you can discuss it at WT:USRD. Dough4872 01:33, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

USRD stub drive

I would like to take the opportunity to inform you of the Stub Removal Drive, a current project being undertaken by WikiProject U.S. Roads. We are attempting to reduce the number of stubs (short, underdeveloped articles like American Samoa Highway 005) within our project scope by 3000 before this December. Please help us with our goal by expanding such articles when possible, rather than creating new ones. (If you need to create a new article, you can help by expanding it beyond the stub level.) If you would like more information, it's available at WP:USRD#Goals. Thank you. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 04:37, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Member assessment at the Canadian Roads Wikiproject

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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012

Volume 5, Issue 1 • Winter 2011 • About the Newsletter
This edition is going out to all USRD WikiProject members (current, former, or potential) in addition to other subscribers as part of a roll call to update the participants list. Anyone that would like to continue to receive this newsletter in the future needs to update the subscription list if they are not already subscribed.
Departments Assessment roundup Portal selected articles and pictures	Features U.S. Roads consolidates M-6 article makes headlines Planning Department debuts Stub drive concludes early, successfully Editorial	State and national updates Project news Task force reports for MD, MI, PA, and VA
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

—Imzadi 1979 → 22:03, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Station logos

Hello, I did want to tell you thank you for your help in uploading current station logos to articles. However, I do need to advise two things;

• Logos should be uploaded in the PNG format whenever possible, and even better, with transparency around the logo. This makes it easy to scale down images for thumbnail and infobox sizes. When you upload them in JPG, it cannot scale well in the infobox, and up-close details are compromised by the JPG scaling.
• To meet WP:FAIRUSE, logos should be limited to 400 pixels in size.

An easy program to scale and covert to meet these issues is Irfanview or Paint.NET, which I utilize when I upload images. Hopefully this helps you out with uploading logos to Wikipedia. Thank you. Nate • (chatter) 04:39, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

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