Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Streets/Archive 1

Archive 1

Notability

Could someone look at the Falls of Neuse Road and evaluate its notability? Thanks.--Appraiser (talk) 16:38, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to have much notability. There doesn't appear to be any controversial decisions made surrounding the road. It's only saving grace might be if it has any kind of state route designation, which, in this case, would be unsigned. --Son (talk) 15:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

USST scope

As WP:USRD is working on the scope issue, we should really rework ours. I'm suggesting that it go something like this. The scope of WP:USST is two-fold:

• Cover city streets that are not covered by WP:USRD
• Cover local (non-city) streets that are not covered by WP:USRD

Anything streets that are covered by WP:USRD should remain in WP:USRD and not in WP:USST.

This scope would keep the U.S. Streets project very simple and defined.

Any thoughts? --Son (talk) 00:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 00:27, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Better to just say that we will not put any WP:USST banners on the talk pages of US Road articles, but allow the editing of numbered roads that happen to be streets. AnteaterZot (talk) 02:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

"Allow the editing"? You can edit whatever you want, whether or not it's part of your project. But if it's a street, it should be tagged with the streets template, so that people editing it will know they can go here for help. --NE2 03:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Of course. I think that there are so few editors interested in streets, and so little call for help, that it would be easy enough for members of the project to find them and invite them to join. I suggest putting off adding roads to our purview until we run out of things to do on streets articles, which are a horrendous mess. The other day I looked at Category:Streets in Los Angeles County, California, with an eye towards finding ways to give them a unified look and feel, perhaps by an infobox or template. The quality of those articles is so uneven that it made me want to cry. Let's get to work fixing articles. AnteaterZot (talk) 03:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Amen! You are absolutely right. That's what I'm trying to get at here. Let USRD deal with their articles. Let us deal with our articles. By having the projects over lap, it creates a gray area neither project needs. Like you said, let's get to work fixing articles. --Son (talk) 04:44, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Anything that acts as a street should be here, whether or not it's also a main road. Otherwise this project just becomes a "dumping ground" for unwanted articles. --NE2 02:12, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

No, they're not unwanted. This project wants them. --Son (talk) 03:39, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Then this project should decide what it wants without depending on USRD's criteria. --NE2 03:45, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Roosevelt Avenue (Queens)

Hey, I'm not sure how active this project is anymore at all, but I was just wondering if anyone thought that Roosevelt Avenue in Queens would qualify for notability. Sorry for the brevity in the question, but I just thought I'd ask directly and let the experts decide. matt91486 (talk) 05:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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Sam Cooper Boulevard

Hi there, I have added your project banner to the article Sam Cooper Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee that I have recently expanded to a great extend. It started as a stubby and short article without references. I have added a bunch of photos and found references for the facts. I also happen to have a few older Memphis maps that could be used as a reference for the proposed routing. The road was originally planned as an extension of Interstate 40 (I-40) to cut through Memphis and an old forest park there. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1971 stopped the project after citizen protests and forced a re-routing of I-40 around Memphis. Involvenent of the Supreme Court to stop an Interstate highway project sure makes that 6 mile stretch of road notable enough for an article of its own. So, I am not worried about the notability issues.

I would be interested to find out how the article could be improved to be rated B-Class or or better according to your project's standards. I have written two history related GA-class articles and have rated many Tennessee related articles and I think the article about Sam Cooper Boulevard could be of B-class quality and does not lack much to go to GA status. But I have only written two road related articles so far (Tennessee State Route 19 and Tennessee State Route 180), so my experience and experise with road articles is really very limited and I might have missed important points here. It would be great to get some expert feedback on possible improvements and on the quality as a road related article.

Thank you very much and keep up your good work! doxTxob \ ^talk 00:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

This actually falls within the scope of WikiProject U.S. Roads, even by the strictest interpretation, so I've tagged it as such. You'll probably also find more activity there. --NE2 02:41, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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Where to find street lengths?

I'm needing to know where to find street lenghths.Sameul66 (talk) 00:51, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Where? In Virginia, for instance, the VDOT AADT documents have this information for some - but not all! - city streets. See any article labelled "Virginia State Route xxx" for exactly where. I don't know about other states or countries. --Tim Sabin (talk) 13:56, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Propose merge to create 'Phoenix metropolitan area arterial roads'

There are currently a number of stub pages describing arterial roads in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. I have proposed merging Baseline Road (Arizona), Sun Valley Parkway, Grand Avenue (Phoenix), Camelback Road, Bell Road, Mill Avenue and Central Avenue Corridor to create a new page, tentatively to be called Phoenix metropolitan area arterial roads. (Note also the existence of Phoenix Metropolitan Area#Arterial roads.) Comments are welcome at Talk:Baseline Road (Arizona)#Merge discussion. Cnilep (talk) 18:00, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 Done Cnilep (talk) 16:24, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Conflicting/collaborative interests

It seems that there are two approaches to writing about a street. One is about the its routing, designations, intersections, widths, lanes, etc, etc. The other is to describe what what can be found along the street, its' history, its significance in the community, etc. I am more interested in the latter, but at the same time don't there would need to be two articles about a particular street. Two examples that I've added are Summit Avenue (Hudson County) and Boulevard East, notable for their history and location (and both very expandable). Do these two, especially Summit Avenue (which carries a single county route designation) belong in both projects?Djflem (talk) 12:43, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

This project, as founded, is intended to maintain articles oriented towards the local community, while WP:USRD maintains more highway oriented articles (routing, designations, etc.). Basically that's all we can get people to agree to. There are those who would fight tooth and nail to keep Summit Avenue in USRD because it has a county route designation, even though it's more of a local street-type article. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 15:54, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

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"BRICKELL AVENUE" SHOULD NOT be merged with Biscayne Boulevard and South Dixie Highway.

Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida is THE signature street in the city of Miami as well as Miami-Dade County. In Miami, it has the same stature as Park Avenue (New York) Fith Avenue (New York) Lakeshore Drive (Chicago) Rodeo Drive (Los Angeles) and others. It most decidedly has it's very own identity and again, should not be merged with any other streets. 74.228.6.166 (talk) 18:16, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Pre- Revolution Street Names in New York City

Hello...

I'm a Wiki novice. Found an interesting factoid about three NYC streets and need your help getting them into Wikipedia:

In his classic novel (1821) about the American Revolutionary War, "The Spy," by James Fenimore Cooper, the author's footnote in chapter 3 references the fact that three street names in NYC were changed after the war. King Street became Pine Street. Crown Street became Liberty Street. Queen Street became Pearl Street.

You can download a free version of the book at the Gutenberg Project, www.gutenberg.org

Hope you can help by adding the aforementioned factoids to the wiki pages...

Thanks!

Jill G.

72.199.68.177 (talk) 13:57, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Pre- Revolution Street Names in New York City

Hello...

I'm a Wiki novice. Found an interesting factoid about three NYC streets and need your help getting them into Wikipedia:

In his classic novel (1821) about the American Revolutionary War, "The Spy," by James Fenimore Cooper, the author's footnote in chapter 3 references the fact that three street names in NYC were changed after the war. King Street became Pine Street. Crown Street became Liberty Street. Queen Street became Pearl Street.

You can download a free version of the book at the Gutenberg Project, www.gutenberg.org

Hope you can help by adding the aforementioned factoids to the wiki pages...

Thanks!

Jill G.

72.199.68.177 (talk) 05:09, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

• Sounds like you've got some valuable information there. I would suggest two things: 1) set up an account for yourself, and 2) Sign into your new account, and edit Transportation in New York City, section "Roads and Freeways". I would suggest you set up a subsection for this information - maybe call it something like "History". Enter your reference within <ref> and </ref> tags. I'll go behind you to make sure the new section and reference are good.
• One of the mottos of Wikipedia is: BE BOLD!!! ;-) --Tim Sabin (talk) 14:32, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Wall Street has been selected as the United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month for May 2011

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Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States

It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the only content updates appear to be simple maintenance so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 20:48, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't see the benefit, but I do see a stealth move aimed at eventually attempting to merge WP:USRD into WP:WPUSA. To quote a game show, "no deal". Imzadi 1979 → 00:58, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't see why this project needs to be bought under the WPUS scope. Just because its inactive doesn't mean it needs to be thrown into a bigger project with a larger scope. Dough4872 01:02, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Nope has nothing to do with USRD...as far as I know these are 2 seperate projects and USRD has, on more than one occassion, vehemently stated that they have nothing to do with Streets. With that said if the members of the project don't want it thats ok. But although all are welcome to comment and since as far as I can tell you are not members of the project, your opinions have a little less weight than those of the members. I am totally ok with the out come whatever is decided. If the project is inactive though, then that means that few or none are actively working the articles in its scope and that is an aweful shame. --Kumioko (talk) 01:10, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Kumioko, consensus is not determined by some membership list; I do work on the few Detroit-area street articles from time to time, whether or not my name is on a list someplace. Consensus is determined by the editors who show and and participate in the discussion. You can't discount Dough or I on that basis; our opinions get equal weight to your own, per policy. Imzadi 1979 → 01:21, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Well lets give it some time and see if anyone else comments. --Kumioko (talk) 01:29, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose, sorry Kumioko, I am against it. I suggest this project should pulled under WP:USRD which is active, not WP:USA. WikiProject U.S. Roads covers all about Interstates and U.S. Highways, but it has not cover any street articles. I doubt that the project should be added into the WikiProject United States banner, but we do not want to add it anytime soon. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 02:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
  • But what if WP:USRD doesn't want to add WP:USST to its scope? --Rschen7754 03:03, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
    • If USRD wants to pull the project into their active project thats fine but historically they have been more eager to eliminate the individual Streets articles as non notable. I suspect if they pull this project in the majority of the existing articles would suffer the same fate. Additionally though they have been utterly opposed to supporting the streets project in the past when it was brought up. The only reason they oppose it now is because they think that WPUS is going to try and pull USRD in as well. --Kumioko (talk) 04:14, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
      • So I just wanted to followup on the discussion so far. Does USRD want to include streets articles into their project and add this project to the list of those they support (like the state highways projects and task forces they have been pulling in) or should it be added to the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States...Those are the two options at this point since I refuse to accept we should ignore the project and let it remain inactive. --Kumioko (talk) 01:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
      • If the proposal were for USRD to merge this independent project under its scope, that discussion should be held at WT:USRD or at least notice given there of that proposal. There are really three options on the table, the first of which is to do nothing. Your impatience is also not needed. Many discussion processes around here take a minimum of seven days. RfCs can run up to 30 days before being considered "closed" You've waited just over four days to issue a statement to start closing discussion. I think it's counterproductive to attempt to determine if a decision has been reached. As of right now, there is no consensus here to do anything. Imzadi 1979 → 02:06, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
        • Although this is just a synantic difference I do nt agree that the discussion would have to happen on the USRD project. It should be IMO on the project in question with at minimum a discussion notification to USRD (or whatever project). I had actually intended to leave a notice there but you all responded before I had a chance so I didn't bother. I am not asking for it to be closed yet just trying to keep it going. My statement was directed at the fact that if USRD does not want the articles in its scope (thats completely and totally fine and knowone is trying to force them to do anything) then we should support it through WPUS. We shouldn't have inactive US related projects just floating in the ether of Wikipedia. The articles should be supported by someone. My statement was that I refuse to accept the argument that it just be left alone and let it continue to decompose. The only real activity of this project that I can see is as USRD continues to pick at it and merge it into USRD articles or delete them due to USRD's view that they are non notable. That is the real status quo. And frankly I am getting a little tired of certain members of the USRD project bullying other editors and projects into submission. You have been told repeatedly that any project can tag any articles they deem are in their scope. Do we really need to go down that road again? I have chosen to let the USRD articles alone and have even offered to tag soem other content such as redirects and such as USRD rather than WPUS (I am still willing to do that but other thigns have taken precedence for the moment). --Kumioko (talk) 12:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose just to clarify my position, I'm issuing a !vote here. I oppose any change to the status quo regarding this project. There are three options on the table, even though Kumioko is attempting to remove the status quo as an option. If USST is "supported" by USA, the only change would be that USST articles would lose the USST banner template in favor of USA's template. The USST project pages wouldn't be moved or deleted, but any visibility for the project would be lost. The gagdet I use that displays article assessment in the article title area of a page also has a "show" link that produces a small table that indicates what projects have tagged the article with what classifications. If USST's banner disappears, those articles will only show USA's tag, even if USST is a task force in the USA banner. That's a net negative to me. Since most of these roadways are not of national significance, they don't need national project "support". Second, USST does not need to be merged under USRD. USRD has always been about state highways, which includes the segments of the Interstate and US Highway systems. Because of the US Highway subproject, the overall project couldn't use the US Highways name, so US Roads was picked originally. We've had informal discussions to rename the project "US Highways" and use "US Routes" as the subproject name to clarify that situation. In the end though, street articles and highway articles, while similar, are just different enough. The levels of detail, coverage and notability are different. There purposes are different, which is why the two projects were separated in the first place. The amount of energy Kumioko expends in these attempts to merge projects into USA would be better spent improving a few stub articles. Imzadi 1979 → 02:25, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
  • Again, as seems to be normal practice for you Imzadi you are misinterpreting my intentions. I do not intend to obsorb or dissolve this project nor do I intend to eliminate them from this projects scope. This project will still have everything it has now except that it will gain additional support from a larger project with more people. Lets step away from the National significance thing for a second. Part of the aim of the WPUS project is also to bring together the multitudes of dormant, inactive, semi-active and interested projects into a cohesive group of editors. Not all of those are going to be nationally significant. As with several of the state projects we are supporting now this is another example of that. I also notice that in the tens of thousands of roads in the United States, there are only 400ish in this project as "Notable" and with only a cursary check I found at least 100 more that haven't been tagged with USRD or US Streets yet not counting redirects. Not counting the 2 or 300 that I know of which USRD has merged into existing highways in their project or have deleted as non notable. I do agree that there is a big difference in street and Highway articles. No doubt or question about that. For what its worth BTW you might want to refocus that "edit a stub" comment somewhere else since the whole purpose of restarting the WPUS project is to improve the articles and not to get into these petty little turf wars and inappropriate displays of article ownership. BTW, since you brought it up I have tens of thousands more edits relating to editing articles, creating articles or expanding articles than you. So that comment is not appropriate here directed at me. --Kumioko (talk) 12:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

To be clear: USRD does not want streets in its scope. This is why USST was created in the first place. --Rschen7754 03:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with the comments above, USST should cover any U.S. street articles, not roads. Per WP:USRD, it should not cover any streets. I don't want to pull under WPUS and USRD anytime soon. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 12:11, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok thats fine. Everyone who commented so far seem to be opposed to the articles in this project being supported by anything other than USRD, who doesn't even want to support them. There are plenty of other articles and projects to work with I don't need to continue to spin my wheels over this one. And I certainly don't have time to get into another ownership argument over articles with members of USRD. I do find it fairly interesting though that all the comments are from editors who are not on the list of project participants and none of the editors on the list of participants has commented. I find that more than a little puzzling. --Kumioko (talk) 13:22, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Honestly, I didn't need to post (you came to my talk page a couple days ago). Everything that was said needed to be said. Mitch32^{(A splendid torch for which I have gotten hold of for the moment)} 05:31, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

RFC on coordinates in highway articles

There is currently a discussion taking place at WT:HWY regarding the potential use of coordinates in highway articles. Your input is welcomed. --Rschen7754 01:38, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

20th Avenue (Brooklyn)

There seems to be some problems with this month-old article. This street in Brooklyn, New York should not be notable enough to be on Wikipedia, being that there are many other streets just like it across the five boroughs of New York City and none of them are on this site. It was nominated for an AfD with the result being No Consensus. Initially, the nomination to delete it was very strong, but soon several users who are not members of this project and have no knowledge of street notability came and voted to keep it just because there are several subway stations serving it, which skewered the AfD. A street having a few public transportation services does not make it notable or significant enough to be on Wikipedia. There are many other streets in New York City that have two, three, or even four stations or bus routes serving them and they are not on this site. If every street with public transportation service on it had a Wikipedia article, they would all be just one-two sentences long and saying something like "This street has one station served by the 4 train." From looking at the contributions and sudden stop in activity of the User who created the 20th Avenue article, it seems quite clear that he/she wanted the street on Wikipedia, likely because he/she lives on it. Also, we already have a Disambiguation page of this street with the same basic information. I cannot nominate the article for an AfD again because of certain people not knowing what notability means, but would like to get opinions from everyone on this project on the significance on this street and why it should or should not stay on this site. If there are no reasons for it to deem this street "notable" other than the fact that a few train stations are named after it, the article should be redirected back to the disambiguation page. A notability template was briefly added by an IP user after the AfD, but then removed by a user who voted to keep the article. Another IP user removed a "Prod" template for no apparent reason before the AfD. NOTE: I am also adding this discussion to Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City to get their opinions as well. The Legendary Ranger (talk) 19:05, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Before this project was set up, Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Notability had this to say regarding city streets:

“ Urban arterials (major city streets) are generally not notable. To be considered notable, the arterial should pass one of the following criteria:

• The street has become synonymous with an industry or organization (Wall Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue),
• The street was the site of an important historical event (Clark Street),
• The street has been mentioned by name in a major motion picture, song, television show, or other mainstream media (Wacker Drive, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard)
• The street has been the subject of documentary or article in a major media source.
• It is otherwise notable, as described at Wikipedia:Notability.

”

Perhaps USST could revive this notability specification. It is a tad restrictive, because USRD was never meant to focus on city street articles (that's why this project was spun off), but it could be used as a starting point for a discussion about what streets deserve inclusion in Wikipedia. Good luck. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 05:42, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I agree that it's too restrictive, and I speak as a diehard deletionist. ScottyBerg (talk) 16:45, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Multiple AFDs

Plesae watch the following pages for WP:AFD (some are already in AFD, others are likely soon):

• Southwest Boulevard (Kansas City)
• Prospect Avenue (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Main Street (Kansas City)
• Gillham Road
• Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard
• Armour Boulevard
• Vine Street, Kansas City
• Grand Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Southwest Trafficway
• Truman Road
• Volker Boulevard

If there is a better way to notify interested parties, please do so.--Paul McDonald (talk) 01:37, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Maryland Route 139 move to Charles Street (Baltimore)

There is a discussion going on at Talk:Maryland Route 139 about moving Maryland Route 139 to Charles Street (Baltimore). I am crossposting to WP:MD and WP:USRD since this could be an interdisciplinary article.

Avenues v boulevards

If anyone can help in this CfD discussion please join in. While not restricted to the US, I'm sure someone here can provide some good guidance. Vegaswikian (talk) 00:27, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Requested articles

There are some articles at Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Transport#Roads that could be started (whether actual articles or just redirects) and incorporated into the Project. Hopefully, there are editors here that are better at some of this type of thing than I am. If so, I am proposing (and asking nicely) that you help out. Thanks! Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 18:32, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Renaming of some Miami road articles

G'day. I have put forward a motion to rename eight articles that I think are in the sphere of interest of your WikiProject, primarily so that their names are in line with the standards set forth at WP:USSH. I am seeking discussion regarding the renaming. The articles in question and their proposed names are:

• Bird Road → Florida State Road 976
• Coral Reef Drive → Florida State Road 992
• Coral Way (street) → Florida State Road 972
• Flagler Street → Florida State Road 968
• Galloway Road → Florida State Road 973
• Kendall Drive → Florida State Road 94
• Le Jeune Road → Florida State Road 953
• Sunset Drive → Florida State Road 986

The thread for discussion may be found on WP:RM at Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#South Florida (Miami) State Road article naming.

Your thoughts and input into the matter would be greatly appreciated. -DyluckTRocket (talk) 11:47, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Image discussion at article 17 Mile Drive

Please help find a consensus on images for the article stub at: Talk:17-Mile Drive#17 Mile Drive info box and section images replacement.--Amadscientist (talk) 04:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

RfC: What is the best name for the article about the street called "Broadway" which originates in Manhattan?

Here. BMK, Grouchy Realist (talk) 02:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jordan Lane and Patton Road. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 19:49, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Atlanta streets

I created articles for

• Edgewood Avenue
• Piedmont Avenue (Atlanta)
• Ponce de Leon Avenue (revamp)
• Tenth Street (Atlanta)

Cheers, Keizers (talk) 16:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Clarification....

Sorry I'm new to this project but I don't really understand: What does FA, GA, B, NA, or C mean? If you could clarify that it would be a big help. Thanks! Ev3commander (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

@Ev3commander:, those refer to assessment classes on the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment scale. The short version, is that for standard articles from best worst, the scale runs: FA (Featured Article), A, GA (Good Article), B, C, Start and Stub. Some projects also use Project-Class, or their pages that aren't articles could fall into NA-Class. The page I linked explains some of the other classes that can be used. Imzadi 1979 → 04:42, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Category:Streets and roads named after Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:Streets and roads named after Martin Luther King, Jr., which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Madison Avenue as a city divider

Madison Avenue is the name of the street that divides the North addresses from the south addresses in several cities including Chicago and Memphis. Someone has mentioned that it may be the dividing line street for Washington D. C. Should there be a WP article for this meaning.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 05:40, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject United States - 50,000 Challenge

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Spaghetti Junction

I am trying to find a source that discusses the confluence of entrances and exits to roads near the Louisiana Superdome on Poydras Street. What kinds of things are considered to be reliable sources for this type of subject?--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

List of streets in Portland, Oregon

I've created List of streets in Portland, Oregon, if project members see any immediate improvements that could easily be made. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:14, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Main St. in Melrose, MA: Does it deserve an article?

Main St. connects downtown Wakefield, Melrose, Malden, and Everett, MA. It seems like the only reason why this street doesn't have an article is that it isn't numbered, although it is just as important as e.g. MA 35, MA 99, or MA 107. Melrose, MA (population 30k) doesn't have any numbered routes except for one that clips the corner (MA 99). Also, the Lynn Fells Parkway already has an article. Given that this street connects downtowns or near-downtowns of four medium-sized suburbs of Boston, do you think this street deserves an article? HotdogPi 20:21, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

As long as there's some good sources about the street itself, it should pass notability. SounderBruce 03:56, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Broadway (Manhattan)#Requested_move_20_June_2018

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Broadway (Manhattan)#Requested_move_20_June_2018. epicgenius (talk) 18:59, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Mission Street in CA

While "Peachtree" is a word much used in the naming of Atlanta streets, "Mission" as a word is used very extensively in the naming of streets in San Diego, San Francisco, and other CA cities, often with confusing effect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozziemaland (talk • contribs) 17:01, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco

Hello! Are any WikiProject members interested in weigh in here re: whether or not Jack Kerouac Alley should be in both the Chinatown and North Beach categories? Thanks. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:16, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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Ball Road Anaheim, California

Curious if Ball Road Anaheim,California namesake is worthy of being on Wikipedia? Named after Hezekiah Wright Ball Ball Road also borders Disneyland.

ballroad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballroad (talk • contribs) 05:07, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Based on what I see at Draft:Ball Road Anaheim,California , I have to agree with the reviewer that the subject isn't notable for our purposes. We'd need "significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject". Now, if there are a couple of local historical articles written about the road, I'd revise my opinion. Those articles or other sources don't need to be online, but they do need to exist, and without such proper sources, any draft will be rejecat and article will be deleted. Imzadi 1979 → 12:51, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Black Lives Matter Plaza

Hi all

I started Black Lives Matter Plaza today, please do add to it

Thanks

John Cummings (talk) 18:07, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Public Transportation sections

I was just wondering what has been established about Public Transportation sections in street articles. It seems like an example of WP:NOTDIRECTORY to me. Just checking in here before I decided whether or not to take one out. Someone in SoCal Area (talk) 23:47, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

If the service follows the street for a significant distance, it warrants inclusion. A list of every bus stop and intersecting route would run afoul of NOTDIRECTORY, but mentioning the effects of the transit service on the street (e.g. reconstruction, lane configurations, ridership) would be encyclopedic. SounderBruce 00:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

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Post Alley

Project members are invited to help improve the new stub Post Alley (Seattle). Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 17:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)