Talk:Business routes of U.S. Route 287 in Texas

Business U.S. Highway 287
Business U.S. Highway 287
Location	Mansfield–Fort Worth
Length	38.613 mi (62.142 km)
Existed	January 14, 1991–present

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To Be Continued

Will finish article in near future.
Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 05:40, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I want to share some best practices for list articles of this genre.

Use the the city or location name as the heading for each section; The letter suffixes aren't going to mean a whole lot in the table of contents
Sort the sections in south-to-north order to keep them geographically lined up.
Something to note is that it isn't a good idea to duplicate section names because if someone tries to link to that section, they may end up in a different one.
- Since these will all be short and fairly self contained, I wouldn't try to make separate route description subsections with separate history subsections. Just give them separate paragraphs.
- I wouldn't put a true heading above the junction list tables; I just start the line with a semicolon (;) so that the pseudo-heading appears in bold.
- In fact, if there aren't any junctions for a business route except the termini, you can omit the table completely; if only one route in the whole list though would be missing a table, put one it anyway in the end.
Don't forget to create the redirects. That way {{jct|state=TX|US-Bus|287|dab1=Vernon}} will link to U.S. Route 287 Business (Vernon, Texas) which redirects to Business routes of U.S. Route 287 in Texas#Vernon.
If any have separate articles, then they still need a summary here with the {{main}} hatnote at the top of the subsection. Imzadi 1979 → 08:27, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mansfield–Fort Worth summary

Business US Highway 287-P (BUS US 287-P) is a 38.613-mile-long (62.142 km) business loop that serves as a main street for Mansfield, downtown Fort Worth and Saginaw. The loop was designated on January 14, 1991. It replaced a portion of Loop 496, and the old route of US 287 and US 81. The business loop was then rerouted several times during the 1990s.

Comments

This section, if pasted into the article, doesn't need its junction list. Leave that level of detail to the main article on the business loop.
It does need an infobox and short summary. We could expand upon this a bit, but I'd try to keep it to a single paragraph without too much detail. Remember, the full article will have all of the details.
We just need to give the reader enough detail to place this business loop into context with the others, so I tried to touch on a few important highlights.

Imzadi 1979 → 21:18, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, I think the article should redirect here and after the content is fully merged in. –Fredddie ™ 01:43, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I agree, but if the article is left stand-alone, this is what should be done. Imzadi 1979 → 02:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental Mistag

I mistagged as nofootnotes

My apologies,

Athleek123 (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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