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 | This is an essay which contains the advice or opinions of one or more members of the U.S. Roads WikiProject. While it is not a part of the standards the project promotes, it provides some recommendations and ideas for members to consider. |
Notice: Although this essay is outdated and was mostly me venting at USRD, I'm keeping it in this form as a historical archive. I feel that there is still some helpful advice here, and this essay also explains my opinion on how USRD was treating its subprojects. Because I have ceased to maintain this essay, its content may not necessarily reflect my current opinion.
Over the course of Wikipedia's existence, groups of editors with related interests have come together to create WikiProjects, places where they can coordinate their efforts, discuss editing, share resourses, and make decisions regarding stylistic issues. I, myself started two such projects: WikiProject Maryland and WikiProject Roads in Maryland. In my experience working on the later, I have come across the U.S. Roads WikiProject. While it would seem that, since the U.S. Roads project (USRD) is a separate project from the Maryland roads one (MDRD), MDRD would be relatively independent from USRD, much the same way that WikiProject Maryland is separate from WikiProject United States. In my experience however, this has not been the case. I feel that this is because the views of some of the "core" members of USRD on WikiProjects are drastically different from those of other Wikipedians, and these differing views have led to conflicts between editors. I think we can all agree that these conflicts waste precious time that could be better spent editing articles.