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I went through the page and compiled this list of what the significance of the designs means in each state. The reason I did this is because I'm hoping someone will know what the significance of the New York shield is (I grew up in New York and have always been curious about it). Also, I've driven in Michigan, North Carolina, and Washington, and the designs of the shields in those states only leave room for relatively small numerals, making the signs hard to read.
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Texas, West Virginia
"Generic-ish"
Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Vermont, Wyoming
State Flag Elements
Alaska, Colorado, New Mexico, South Carolina
Misc
California: Spade used by 49ers
Hawaii: ?
Kansas: Sunflower
Nebraska: Pioneer wagon (I don't know if there's significance to the trapezoid shape)
Nebraska: the trapezoid was a rather late addition, probably chosen because it could contain the number (newly moved to the top) and wagon and is more interesting than a simple rectangle
Why is the District of Columbia's routes listed under "state highways"? DC is not a state. Shouldn't it be listed together with the territorial highways? --
Zeruelx (
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08:53, 30 March 2011 (UTC)reply
I don't understand why this is so controversial, but I reckon you're right. QM400032(talk) 18:06, 18 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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183A Toll Road - problems
I'm having a problem adding the 183A Toll Road-based Texas U.S. Highway. I got the image and "Shown:" icon to work, but not the bold link to work. Is this because the link is a category? Your help would be greatly appreciated! QM400032(talk) 18:05, 18 May 2013 (UTC) — Preceding
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Because the graphic involved is fair use, I removed your addition here. Fair-use images can only be used in specific ways, and each article where they appear has to have a separate fair-use rationale to justify inclusion. Such a FUR is likely not possible for a list article; we don't permit copyright-protected photos of actors in their character roles on lists of characters, but we might on an individual article about that character.. The same concept is going to play out here in that this is a list of types of highways and the specific article would use the image under fair use. Imzadi 1979→23:34, 18 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Purpose of this article
What exactly is the purpose of this article or whatever it is? It seems like it is a duplication of the
portal, even though this is nine months older, and not as nice. If I had to guess, it's supposed to be a capstone list that summarizes all the different numbered highway systems, but it isn't that at all. It's a meta list with pretty shield pictures that IPs like to change every so often. Does anyone have some ideas for how we can improve this beast? –
Fredddie™03:18, 4 November 2014 (UTC)reply
Well, it does have one purpose: to serve as the article linked from the top of {{US numbered highways}}. I would agree that this is partially the capstone, but it also serves the purposes of a directory page, or something akin to a disambiguation-type page to point readers from a higher level toward articles or lists on specific topics or jurisdictions. I'm not sure what else there is to do if it is just here to serve as a directory. Imzadi 1979→05:28, 4 November 2014 (UTC)reply
I guess my problem with it in its current state is that a navbox can present the exact same information and present it better.
The captions overlap in many of the image arrays. I tried to fix it but was reverted. if this is not fixed, I will try again shortly.
Frietjes (
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15:55, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
I've inserted {{abbr}} to resolve another, different issue. Namely, non-American readers may not know that "Conn." is the old-style abbreviation for Connecticut, but by rendering it as
Conn., a reader can hover his or her cursor over the underlined abbreviation to get a tooltip with the full name. Doing so in other place should resolve the overlap issue. Another option may be to reduce the array from 6 to 5 examples per row, allowing each one to be 20% wider in the process at the expense of an extra row. Imzadi 1979→16:03, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
It doesn't overlap or spill over for me on Safari on MacOS X Yosemite. It also has only minor issues with the word "Secondary" in Chrome and Firefox running slightly wide which could be resolved by switching that to
Sec. or even just "Sec." because the context is clear in that situation.
I've offered two other options (further abbreviation of state names such as
New Hamp.,
Wisc.; using 5 markers per line instead of 6) to retain the current set up. However, the set up with the faux infoboxes was causing other issues and taking up too much width on the screen. Imzadi 1979→16:13, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
1940s highway signs
Hello. I have seen a chart of state highway signs from the 1940s online at
[2]. I don't know how to add those route markers to the article. They could be added under a "Historical route markers" section or something to that effect. Thanks for your help.
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