12/18/2022 0 Comments Freeway pro text problems![]() ![]() PhilipR 14:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC) Reply Freeway originated in the US. I'm too lazy to pull out WP standards at the moment (maybe later) but I'm pretty sure that parlay (name an international concept by the US name, keep international content in the article, then complain about its prominence w/r/t US content) is inherently unWikipedian. ![]() Indeed, the article is outrageously US-centric, and apparently some of the rationale has to do with nomenclature. You want to have your cake and eat it too, by having an article on international limited-access highways remain under this name and retain international content but then privileging the United States based on the name of the article. I might change my point of view if I could be convinced that freeway were a totally separate concept from motorway, autopista, or what have you. I think that's clearly the WRONG way to approach it, in that it's totally unlike how Wikipedia handles any other varying names for a concept, but hey - it looks to me that a bunch of US-based road enthuisasts have been successful in promoting this aberrant view to the point where it is pretty much consensus. Or finally, as seems to be the settled consensus, perhaps freeway is a distinct concept, not just a distinct name if so, the article needs to be pruned to be relevant to freeways and not autopistas etc.Or perhaps freeway is a sufficiently internationally-accepted name for a main article title, in which case every locale with freeways enjoys equal stake in the article.Perhaps Freeway is a distinctly US name for an international concept, in which case the article should be renamed a la Airplane to something internationally neutral. ![]() Coolcaesar 06:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC) Reply "which is never used in the country where the term "freeway" was pioneered, the United States" - What does that matter? I'm going to start cleaning up this article and Expressway this weekend as I've been discussing over at Talk:Types of road. Coolcaesar 07:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC) Reply I finally got the Highway Definitions book! Though it's actually a booklet. ![]() On the weekdays I'm just too busy with lawyer stuff like depositions. So I won't be able to get up there for a few months. I briefly looked around on CalCat over the weekend and it looks like a few libraries do carry the old AASHTO Highway Definitions book, which would help clear up a lot of the arguments over definitions! Unfortunately, the only library with a copy that's 60 miles of me is the Institute of Transportation Studies Library at UC Berkeley, which has extremely limited public access hours (1-5 pm) and is closed weekends. I'm too busy working on Lawyer as well as keeping up with my professional career to fix this mess, and it looks like everyone else is busy with school or work. Well, I guess this article is becoming more and more of a mess (starting with the fact that it has the motorway icon at the top, which is never used in the country where the term "freeway" was pioneered, the United States). ![]()
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