User talk:Q300r bc2

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Category:U.S. Highway System[edit]

Hello. Articles that have their own categories (Category:U.S. Route 2, for example) shouldn't be placed in Category:U.S. Highway System because the route-specific categories are child categories of the U.S. highway system category, making the addition of the U.S. highway system category redundant. Thanks. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 19:11, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, a lot of the highways with a child category of their own were already added to the list, so I followed up on that and completed the list.. (for example U.S. Route 6). I.m.h.o. it's easier to navigate this way, but if it was decided not to there's quite a few to revert. Q300r bc2 19:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the case of many of the articles that had their own cat, the reason that they were in the US highway cat as well was that the route cat was created while the US highway cat was never removed from the page. Yes, eventually this will need to be sorted out, possibly when I get some free time. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 19:05, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is it the plan that every route has it's own category? What kind of pages should be in it then? Terminusses and so? I could try and make some work of that as well, one at a time.. Q300r bc2 09:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, every main U.S. route (the 1- and 2-digit routes plus the five special cases - 101, 163, 400, 412, and 425) should eventually have their own category. Category:U.S. Route 50 is a good example of what kind of articles should be in the category, such as spur routes and bannered routes. The only thing I don't like about that category is that there's a cat just for US 150, which, IMHO, is overkill. --TMF ^{Let's Go Mets - Stats} 14:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stephens City, VA/US Route 11[edit]

Hello, I was wondering why you removed the US Route 11 tag from the Stephens City, Virginia page. I ask, because I live there and US Route 11 runs directly through Stephens City, hence why I added it (like the I-81 and VA Route 277 tags). If I added when I wasn't supposed to, I apologize. Take Care and Have a Good Weekend....NeutralHomer ^T:C 21:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Tybois, my reason is the 'goal' of the name of the category and thus the category itself: Category:U.S. Highways in Virginia. If we'd add the 1,000's of places every Route passes, the category would be useless and just be a list of pretty much all major places in Virginia, instead of a list of the Highways in the State.. Q300r bc2 14:43, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I never thought of it that way. I know US11 would have thousands of towns. Now, I added I-81 and VA277 tot he page too (same day). Should I remove those too? The western termius of VA277 is the intersection of VA277 and US11 in Stephens City, so perhaps we should leave that one (if not it's cool). Please let me know if I can be of assistance in anyway in the future. Take Care....NeutralHomer ^T:C 00:11, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I think the terminus of a (inter)state route is a good lemma to add to the category of the route itself; perhaps one day there'll be some kind of clean-up of those categories as well and it;'ll be made uniform.. Greets, Ewoud Q300r bc2 09:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That shouldn't be done... a city is not a highway and never should be classified as one. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 16:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know if the terminus should be noted. If my use of the I-81 and VA277 (the terminus in question) categories on the Stephens City, Virginia page is not allowed, please, by all means remove them or let me know and I will be glad to remove them. I wasn't really sure what to do there, so I added the categories. My apologizes if I stepped on some rules in the process, that was not my intention. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 20:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Correct, the highway categories should not be used on the city page. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 20:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsensical category[edit]

I reverted your addition of U.S. Route 9 in New York to Category:Three-digit U.S. Highways because it made absolutely no sense. Not only is "9" a one-digit number, as a state segment article it wouldn't be in that category anyway. Daniel Case 04:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was a long night ;-) Anyway: I (wrongfully) added it because U.S. Route 109 (never signed) on this page links to Route 9.. My mistake! Q300r bc2 14:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

White House room articles[edit]

Hello, I notice recent edits where you have added a command "wrapper". Could you please tell me how it works/what it does? Thanks. CApitol3 (talk) 16:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, if you put all the images (and other generally right aligned templates) in it, it prevents them from messing up the vertical text alignment (areas of white in between headers when the image is taller than the piece of text) and it prevents blocking the 'edit' links by the images at the same time. Q300r bc2 (talk) 23:24, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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