Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Ontario

Scope

This project covers any and all roads (past and present) within the province of Ontario that are not city streets. This includes:

• Freeways, expressways, parkways
• Provincial highways; primary, secondary, and tertiary
  • Former provincial highways
• Numbered county roads (except in Windsor, Hamilton and Ottawa)
• Historic routes with a significant story to warrant a separate article from their modern counterpart (i.e. The Middle Road)

• All articles concerning city streets and arterial roads in Toronto, the GTA, Hamilton, Ottawa, and Windsor are under the scope of the Canada Streets WikiProject

Before you get too excited however, there are guidelines. Most likely, the street you live on is not notable enough to warrant an article. Only certain roads will meet Wikipedia's notability requirements. All highways and all numbered roads are eligible, as are prominent named streets, such as Cootes Drive in Hamilton, Yonge Street and De Grassi Street in Toronto, etc. Arterial roads come down to a case by case basis.

The general basis is whether or not you can provide several independent reliable sources for an article. Do not create an article without sourcing what you write (note that a map or an atlas is a reliable source for distances, locations, and termini/junctions, but does not constitute a valid source for the notability of a road.) Avoid, whenever possible, speculation; that is to say, do not deduce what the construction you passed on the highway was for. Search the MTO website for a contract in that area, and source it!

If you can create an article on a road using reliable sources, with a History and a Route description section, then your article will generally pass.

Goals

Permanent Goals

There are several purposes to this project:

1. To create more articles about roads in Ontario.
2. To organize those roads into categories by region.
3. To standardize all roads within Ontario, maintaining consistency between pages.
4. To source the unsourced articles we currently have.
5. To provide a standardized infobox that quickly details the critical information of a given road.
6. To provide aesthetically pleasing navigational aids (navboxes) to allow quick access to all articles.
7. To create organized junction tables which conform to WP:RJL for all roads.
8. To bring as many of the articles under the coverage of the project up to featured article standards as is possible!

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada Roads/Ontario: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-07-27 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : All King's Highways, and other provincial routes, including redlinks for former main highways on {{Ontario King's Highways}}. Cleanup : Remaining C-Class articles Copyedit : Older GAs and B class articles Disambiguation : Highways that no longer exist, but of which the constituents are notable, should have a set index article Split : Secondary Highways should be expanded and split out from the District lists as appropriate to maintain quality. Stubs : Don't make them without proper sourcing. Afd the ones that are unsourceable or non-notable.

Good / Featured content

Featured

• 400-series highways, Today's featured list for June 30, 2017
• Don Valley Parkway, Today's featured article for August 31, 2011
• Ontario Highway 401
• Ontario Highway 416, Today's featured article for March 23, 2014
• Ontario Highway 71
• Ontario Highway 402, Today's featured article for February 23, 2017
• Queen Elizabeth Way, Today's featured article for August 23, 2015
• Ontario Highway 61
• List of numbered roads in Kawartha Lakes, Today's featured list for March 21, 2014
• Ontario Highway 403

A-Class

• Ontario Highway 55
• Ontario Highway 404
• Ontario Highway 405
• Ontario Highway 420
• Ontario Highway 427

Good Articles

Media

• 
  Highway 401 in Toronto, empty due to explosions at a nearby propane facility. Picture of the day for July 1, 2011

See also

• Category:WikiProject Ontario Roads
• List of all subpages of this page
• WikiProject Highways – For general roads-related standards and group discussions
  • WikiProject U.S. Roads – A much more developed project to use as a base for standards

Participants

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