Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan

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Welcome to the Saskatchewan Roads WikiProject.

Scope

Our purpose is to organize all the Saskatchewan roads & highways. They don't seem to get enough attention. It is simple. You create stubs, expand, then use templates and graphics.

Resources

• 1926 highway map
• 1946 Gousha ([1])
• 1955
• 1955 Canadian road map
• 1967 and 1989 commercial maps
• 1920s numbers
• Search directions to and from on google maps or mapquest to find route and junctions and distances
• SK tourism has the government provincial maps in pdf format marked between red triangles with red kilometre distances, and between junctions in black kilometre distances.
• mile by mile
• Unofficial Saskatchewan highways website
• Add this substitution template... {{subst:Saskatchewan Highways}} into your article page and save, then modify with individual particulars.
  • This {{subst:SK Highways Template}} will also have several variations óf the template to add a 'highway shield to junction boxes and to infoboxes.
• Geographical placenames of Canada will provide a radius search of communities for SK regional parks, SK provincial parks (SK tourism) or CA national parks to suggest further looks up or ecosystems
• Large roaside attractions or Big things of Saskatchewan or CA historic sites and monuments
• sask Biz are community profiles submitted by the communities and RMs to the provincial government and they will sometimes discuss transportation and / or economy of their area, as will the local Regional Economic Development Authority REDA.
• 2006 statistics will discuss economic and population demographics of placenames along routes
• our roots nos racines may have the local history book which may give the early highway beginnings (when the highway ran on "the square") and the early involvement of the rural municipality before the department of highways was formed.
• googling or searching the highway name may give CA and/or SK government news releases of federal or provincial funding and construction history and proposals for the highway regarding twinning, renaming to a main corridor route name etc.
• Saskatchewan highway volume and types

• • 2008-09 Area Transportation Map
  • 2008-2009 Area Transportation Planning Committee
  • 2008-09 Highway Road Classification
  • Highway Traffic Volume Map 2008
  • Saskatchewan Rail Network
  • 2008-09 National Highway System
  • 2008-09 Official Weight Classification
  • 2009 Highway Construction and Major Projects
  • 2008-09 Surface Type

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Ontario Roads
• WikiProject Quebec Roads

Parent WikiProject

• WikiProject Canada Roads
• WikiProject Highways

Participants

Participants add this to their userpage:

This user is a member of the Canada Roads WikiProject Saskatchewan subproject.

{{User Saskatchewan Roads}}

1. Mitchazenia 17:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
2. RaccoonFox • Talk • Stalk 00:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
3. Ultraflame 15:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
4. SriMesh|talk Julia 19:29, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
5. Fishhead2100 21:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
6. Realc 20:16, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Presidentman (talk) 12:20, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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Goals

Our goal right now is to create articles related to the Saskatchewan highway network. To make these goals easier to accomplish, this page is divided into phases.

Phases of Project

We are currently in Phase 1 of the project. Please consult the tasks section to see your list of duties.

1. Stub Creation, 1 paragraph or less is fine. Don't forget to add stub templates!
2. Stub Expansion, add some details, a few more sentences to a whole paragraph.
3. Further Review, expansion, add a paragraph or two.
4. Final expansion, Images and templates to spruce article up.
5. Patrol.

Contest Department

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article.This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

You may want to enter the ongoing contest to earn awards!!

Current Focus: Please improve these primary highway articles to good and feature article status. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Canada_Roads/Saskatchewan#NotabilityHigh Importance and most notable articles listed here as they have the most notability in Saskatchewan.

• Example articles which have been worked on longer than some of the others: Saskatchewan Highway 913, Saskatchewan Highway 1 Trans Canada, Saskatchewan Highway 11 Louis Riel Trail, Saskatchewan Highway 58, Saskatchewan Highway 16 Yellowhead or Section of CanAm Highway Saskatchewan Highway 39

Showcase selected highway articles

Portal Saskatchewan Selected Highway has been established to showcase the finer Saskatchewan highway articles. Instructions for Portal additions. As an article is adopted, please add highways of better quality to this section. It would be awesome, if all articles at some time would be feature class or Good Status articles.

Article Content Considerations

Canadian Highway notability guidelines Talk

Try to add these sections to an article: If a road/highway may contain appropriate information but has not been developed add under that section heading: {{Template:Sectstub}} If no information is available delete the section heading.

1. To contribute or to know which Highways, or Roads to adopt click on the list of highways or list of roads, and any article that has a red link should be adopted or added please.
2. Add this substitution template... {{subst:Saskatchewan Highways}} into your article page and save.' This template was created with help from standards set by several WikiProjects and WikiProject Biography Just follow these 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article

This {{subst:SK Highways Template}} will also have several variations óf the template to add a 'highway shield to junction boxes and to infoboxes.

1. Fill in the sections for your chosen Saskatchewan Highway and save.
2. Add the appropriate WP templates and ratings to the talk page.

Infoboxes

• e.g.{{Infobox projectname}}

{{Infobox projectname }}

• Use Infobox road infobox template for your new article creations. See an example in use at Highway 19 There are instructions for how to fill in the fields at Infobox road

There is a new template being used for example Saskatchewan Highway 914:

Route information
Length	275.00 km (170.88 mi)
Major junctions
South end	Highway 165
North end	Road ends at Key Lake Mine
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Highway system
Provincial highways in Saskatchewan
← Highway 913 → Highway 915

Stub templates

• e.g. {{projectname-stub}}
• The current stub being used on Saskatchewan road articles is {{Canada-road-stub}}. If we find that we need a new stub to differentiate, then we can always change them. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 20:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
  • and the associated stub category Category:Canada road stubs

Other templates

{{template}}

{{WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads}} - this will give the project name template for the talk page and SK Roads is part of these other Wiki projects as well!

{{WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads}}

{{Saskatchewanproject}}

{{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= |type= }}

Copy and paste these within the appropriate article pages:

• {{Template:Saskatchewan Provincial Highways}}
• {{Template:SK Expressways}}

Categories

• Category:projectname
• Category:Saskatchewan provincial highways

Lists

• List of Saskatchewan provincial roads
• List of Saskatchewan provincial highways

New articles related to WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads

Please feel free to list your new WikiProject Saskatchewan Roads-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

On 24 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Transportation in Saskatchewan Did you know...that 250,000 kilometers (150,000 miles) of roads complement air, pipeline, hiking trail, and waterway travel to provide transportation in Saskatchewan?. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 15 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Saskatchewan Highway 39. Did You Know That.......that Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of the nation of Canada's busiest highways, providing ease of transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks over the year? If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

An entry from WikiProject Canada Roads/Saskatchewan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 21 May, 2007. Did You Know That...that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?

Wikipedia

See also

• Transportation in Saskatchewan
• Roads in Saskatchewan