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==New anti-stub initiative==
A discussion recently arose on IRC regarding the number of stubs in the project. We agreed that to assist in setting focus in the coming year the project should make a "New Year's resolution" of a kind. A goal to halve the number of stubs was proposed, and while ambitious, we felt this seemed to be a good target, but to make it more impressive, it was rounded off to '''reducing the stub count by 3,000''' by December 31, 2010.

The current stub count, as of Dec 2, is '''5967'''. Our target is 2967.

How you can help:
*Upgrade a stub today! Unless you work in Michigan your project has at least one stub. You don't have to upgrade it all the way to B (though this is preferred, of course).
*Work on a state with a lot of stubs. Florida has 417 stubs, the most of any state—if it were cleared out we would be one-seventh of the way there. This often helps a state that has nobody covering it at this time.
*Sweep your state. Look for stubs that have been upgraded and never submitted for reassessment.
*Find stubs that shouldn't exist. Look for articles that should be merged or deleted.
*Don't write new stubs! Put that effort into upgrading our existing articles.

In the coming months we will update you on how this initiative is progressing here on the blog. Let's all get out there and improve those articles!
:[[User:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]] ([[User talk:Rschen7754|T]] [[Special:Contributions/Rschen7754|C]]) likes this. [[User:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]] ([[User talk:Rschen7754|T]] [[Special:Contributions/Rschen7754|C]]) 09:25, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
::I wish USRD only the best of luck in getting rid of unsightly stubs, and perhaps making articles more readable to the general populace. [[User:CL|CL]] ([[User talk:CL|T]] · [[Special:Contributions/CL|C]]) — 04:00, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

:::I've been working on articles that merge some of the Suffolk County Road articles, but I'm on vacation right now, so I've been delayed in my work on that project. Thanks to the weather in the New York Tri-State area, this effort will be delayed a few more days. For the record, I ''have'' worked on Florida whenever I get the chance. ----[[User:DanTD|DanTD]] ([[User talk:DanTD|talk]]) 14:59, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

:Oh, I didn't even know this initiative was proposed. I noticed that there are a TON of stubs in [[Maryland highway system|Maryland's road articles]] alone, and as such I have been trying to work them down one by one. I've almost completed the first 100 Maryland routes so far. --[[User:Onore Baka Sama|Onore Baka Sama]] ([[User talk:Onore Baka Sama|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

==Current article quality==
[[Image:USRDstatgraph.png|600px]]

[[File:USRDstatgraph_area.png|600px]]

Courtesy of [[User:Scott5114]]. --[[User:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]] ([[User talk:Rschen7754|T]] [[Special:Contributions/Rschen7754|C]]) 20:14, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

==Updated FA locator map==
[[File:USRD FA locator map.png|600px]]

FA stars not to scale –'''[[User:Juliancolton|Juliancolton]]''' | [[User_talk:Juliancolton|''Talk'']] 17:33, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
:I think this is missing one. I only see one star in [[Southern California]], yet there are two FA's in this region, [[California State Route 78]] and [[Ridge Route]]. [[User:Davemeistermoab|Dave]] ([[User talk:Davemeistermoab|talk]]) 19:01, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

==Current article quality==
[[Image:USRoadQual.PNG|600px]]

We definitely have some work to do... --[[User:Rschen7754|Rschen7754]] ([[User talk:Rschen7754|T]] [[Special:Contributions/Rschen7754|C]]) 08:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
==Article promotions==
The following articles have been promoted to GA, GT, A, FL, FA or FT status in November and December. Please take the time to read these newly-promoted quality articles and congratulate those that worked to improve the article:

{| class=wikitable
!Article
!Status
!Date promoted
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 45]]
|GA
|November 6
|-
|[[Washington State Route 506]]
|GA
|November 11
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 208]]
|GA
|November 11
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 440]]
|GA
|November 12
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 55]]
|GA
|November 16
|-
|[[Washington State Route 510]]
|GA
|November 17
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 47]]
|GA
|November 26
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 59]]
|GA
|November 27
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 44]]
|GA
|November 29
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 162]]
|GA
|November 30
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 70]]
|GA
|December 1
|-
|[[New Jersey Route 72]]
|GA
|December 6
|-
|[[Washington State Route 231]]
|GA
|December 10
|-
|[[U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey]]
|GA
|December 12
|-
|[[Baltimore-Washington Parkway]]
|A
|December 19
|-
|[[U.S. Route 40 in New Jersey]]
|GA
|December 19
|}

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