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U.S. Route 66
A task force of the U.S. Roads and U.S. History WikiProjects

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Welcome to the U.S. Route 66 Task Force, a joint collaboration between the U.S. Roads and U.S. History WikiProjects. The goal is to create, improve and expand the content related to the Mother Road on Wikipedia.

Scope

U.S. Route 66 should cover not just the highway, but the mark it left on the country and the people who lived along it. For popular culture works, it should cover the work and not the people who wrote or performed it unless they're indelibly linked. For example, Route 66 (song) would fall under the scope, but Bobby Troup, who wrote the song, would not.

✓ Topics within the scope

• The highway itself
• Neighborhoods and small towns
• Important buildings
• Important people
• Popular culture

✗ Topics outside the scope

• Large cities
• Vehicles
• Authors and singers

Participants

1. Fredddie (talk · contribs)
2. Presidentman (talk · contribs)
3. Gfoley4 (talk · contribs)
4. Parsa (talk · contribs)
5. Viridiscalculus (talk · contribs)
6. Skyring (talk · contribs)
7. MatthewAnderson707 (talk · contribs)
8. Srich32977 (talk · contribs)

To do

• Tag related articles.
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
• Identify articles for creation
• Identify articles for improvement
• Review importance and quality of existing articles

Guidelines

Tagging and assessment

Any road articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the U.S. Roads WikiProject banner, {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}}. Any other articles within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the task force banner, {{WikiProject U.S. Roads/U.S. Route 66}}. Either of these will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.

Categories

Category:U.S. Route 66 articles

Templates

Main project templates

{{WikiProject U.S. Roads}} – for articles already under the scope of USRD, invoked as {{WikiProject U.S. Roads|type=US66}}

{{WikiProject U.S. Roads/U.S. Route 66}} – for all other articles

Userbox template

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Userbox US 66}}

This user is helping Wikipedia get its kicks on Route 66.

Assessment

U.S. Route 66 articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			6				6
B			1				1
C	1		37	2			40
Start		1	51	17		1	70
Stub			25	6		1	32
List		1	1	4			6
Category					44		44
Disambig					1		1
File					6		6
Project					5		5
Redirect					34		34
Template					2		2
Assessed	1	2	121	29	92	2	247
Unassessed						1	1
Total	1	2	121	29	92	3	248
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 717			Ω = 4.81

Recognized content

Featured pictures

• 
  Amboy (California, USA), Hist. Route 66 -- 2012 -- 1

Good articles

• Ambler's Texaco Gas Station
• Cars (film)
• History of Flagstaff, Arizona
• Interstate 40 in Arizona
• U-Drop Inn
• U.S. Route 66 in Arizona

Did you know? articles

• Madonna of the Trail (2005-04-26)
• Ambler's Texaco Gas Station (2007-10-05)
• U.S. Route 66 in Illinois (2007-10-08)
• U-Drop Inn (2008-03-28)
• Cozy Dog Drive In (2008-06-11)
• Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In (2009-07-22)
• Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket (2010-06-19)
• Angel Delgadillo (2011-06-08)
• U.S. Bicycle Route 66 (2018-09-15)
• Antares, Arizona (2020-01-18)
• History of Flagstaff, Arizona (2020-09-22)

Picture of the day pictures

• 
  Amboy (California, USA), Hist. Route 66 -- 2012 -- 1 (2017-08-12)

Former good articles

• Flagstaff, Arizona
• U.S. Route 66