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Australian Roads This page is within the scope of WikiProject Australian Roads, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to roads and highways in Australian states and territories. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. Australia WikiProject Australian Roads is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.

WikiProject Australian Roads was featured in a WikiProject Report in the Signpost on 9 October 2013.

To-do list for WikiProject Australian Roads: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2017-01-10 Discuss: Topics on the project talk page or listed as article alerts Create: Missing articles, particularly redlinked or unlinked roads in Highways in Australia or the state listings Expand: Short articles (such as Start and Stub-class articles) – Include information such as history, future works, and route description; as well as an intersection list, an infobox, and navboxes Cleanup: See Cleanup listing for articles needing cleanup. As of 5 September 2013, the largest cleanup categories are: Articles lacking sources (137); Articles needing additional references (76); and Articles with unsourced statements (74) Copyedit: All articles, but particularly articles nominated (or those about to be nominated) at WP:GAN, WP:HWY/ACR, WP:FAC Assess: Articles listed in Category:Unassessed Australian road transport articles and Category:Unknown-importance Australian road transport articles Tasks: Convert all shields in articles to use {{AUshield}}. Convert existing junction lists to be MOS:RJL compliant. See Category:WikiProject Australian Roads articles with a junction list needing attention for a worklist Improve WP:ACCESS compliance across all instances (especially in relation to shielding). Minimise usage of roadgeek sites as citation sources. But reference them where used. Ensure correct usage of the infobox caption field in all articles - Many improperly use this to indicate former allocations and other factoids.

WikiProject Australian Roads Project home (WP:AURD) Talk page (WT:AURD) Portal (P:AURD) Assessment (WP:AURD/A) Resources (WP:AURD/R) Article Standards (WP:AURD/AS) Discussions Library (WP:AURD/L) Advanced Permissions (WP:AURD/P) The U Turn (newsletter) (WP:AURD/NEWS) Parent projects Wikiproject Highways (WP:HWY)  • A-Class Review (WP:HWY/ACR)  • Chat (WP:HWY/IRC)  • Route markers (WP:HWY/RM) Wikiproject Australia (WP:AUS)  • Notice board (WP:AWNB) Project Noticeboard Recently created articles Please add new articles at the bottom of the list Mackay road network – 10 February 2024 Gladstone road network – 11 February 2024 Cairns road network – 5 March 2024 Mount Lindesay Highway state-controlled roads – 5 March 2024 Bruce Highway state-controlled roads – 12 March 2024 Article alerts No Article alerts at this time. Project watchlists Articles – only those with an infobox Talk pages – articles Talk pages – all AURD Progress Indicator Item Required Notes Completion Status   WP:ACCESS shield updates Article Audits Usage of small text in infoboxes to denotes shield meanings (eg. (M1) or (National Highway 1)) In intersection/interchange lists, normal sized text can be used, eg Roe Highway (State Route 3) Partial   AUshielding Remove of direct image links Use {{AUshield}} instead. Also need to remove all shield images from article prose, per WP:NOICONS Status: Complete other than in some junction lists. Near Complete   Infobox changes Minor modifications Infoboxes should be formatted per preferred usage guidelines. This includes: Remove of "large shields" at top; Adding roadway type and state/s; {{Plainlist}}-ing junction lists (and also including route numbers as text); Removing incorrect use of bold text. See the usage guidelines for more information. Near Complete   Missing junction lists New junction lists Format per MOS:RJL and WP:AURD/RJL. See WP:AURD/R for templates to use. For a worklist, see Category:WikiProject Australian Roads articles without a road junction list (319 articles) Started   Jermboy27 sockpuppet edits Revert Jermboy27 sockpuppet edits Revert or improve recent unconstructive edits made by sockpuppet accounts of blocked user Jermboy27 (including Thent and Thegwh), such as edits in List of road routes in Queensland and List of road routes in New South Wales. Full list of recent sockpuppet accounts are listed in Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jermboy27 Completed 23 November 2022   Commons or Local Decide the correct place for shield images There are many files indicate Australian road shields and signs on both Wikimedia Commons (c:Category:Diagrams of route signs of Australia and c:Category:Diagrams of road signs of Australia) and English Wikipedia (Category:Diagrams of Australian highway markers), and nearly 70% of them are duplicated, question is that whether these images are below Threshold of originality (TOO) in Australia, although they are below TOO in the United States, as all files on Commons must be either public domain or free licensed, in both United States and Australia, or otherwise they must be kept locally under fair use conditions. This matter is currently discussing at WT:AURD#Deletion requests for Australian road signs on Commons. Started When a task is completed, please delete within two weeks.

Moving fair-use shields to Commons

Hi, I would like to revisit the discussion on moving the route markers for Australia to Commons: [1] Similar deletion requests have been kept. Is this something that we can do this time around? Rschen7754 00:19, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]