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Again, welcome! –Fredddie™ 01:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

SR 840 vs. I-840 in TN

Let's wait until TDOT starts to change the signage over before we change references in other articles' exit lists. This is the approach we took regarding I-41/US 41 in Wisconsin. Also, it's a poor form that when you've been reverted to immediately restore an edit. You might want to take a quick read over WP:BRD, which stands for the "Bold, Revert, Discuss" process, that while not a policy, is a best practice around here. Imzadi 1979 → 02:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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US 31 in TN

I reverted your addition. Let's work through the formatting and writing before adding it back.

1. I noticed that you tried to link to other articles with a syntax similar to how {{jct}} works. Links work differently than templates, and {{jct}} is a template.
   • To link, start with two opening square brackets, follow that by the article title, and if you want to change the displayed text use a pipe "|" followed by the desired text and close with two closing square brackets. Any street names are just typed out in parentheses after the highway name; they can't be included in the link syntax with a |name1= because that's a function of a template.
   • So to link to SR 396 (Saturn Parkway), you'd use [[Tennessee State Route 396|SR 396]] (Saturn Parkway)
2. Two or more highway designations that share the same physical routing and pavement are a concurrency (road). It's better writing to say that they "run concurrently". They can also overlap.
3. The street names a highway follows are rarely important, especially on a national article like U.S. Route 31. Now in an article like a future U.S. Route 31 in Tennessee, that could be something we'd add, but we'd do so sparingly. We'd probably say that a highway followed a specific street in a city, rather than gained a name.
4. We couldn't write that a highway makes a left or right turn; instead we'd say it turned north, south, east or west.
5. Standard formatting requires a space after a period at the end of a sentence.

I hope these tips help. You can always create Draft:U.S. Route 31 in Tennessee and work on a draft copy of a future article. When it's ready, then we can move it over and make it an actual article. Imzadi 1979 → 04:55, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

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