No new stubs, or we'll sic Dan Quayle on you. Or that guy in the background with the Navy hat.
Anti-stub vigilance
This year, the idea is simply to end the year with fewer stubs than we started. Article creators, you are on notice; if you create a stub, you should destub something else. Currently there are 1,323 stubs; a net loss of 1174 stubs since January 1.
Interstate and US Highway cleanup drive
Destub and generally improve all Interstate and US Highway articles, including the parent/national-level articles. The goal would be to get any last stubs improved to at least Start-, if not C-Class by the end of the year. We should pay special attention to the articles on our popular pages list. These articles get the most traffic, therefore they should get the most attention first. 7 stubs and 362 starts remain.
Junction list template conversion drive for GA and above articles
We've been developing the {{jctint}} series of templates to such a degree during 2011, that we will focus efforts to convert articles to using them. The benefit is that our formatting would be consistent and in full compliance with MOS:RJL. Any such drive would need to be done in two phases though, although both can be done at the same time initially. A second benefit is that once Phase I is done, all templated articles* would have both measurement systems for the benefit of our foreign readers, and encourage foreign editors to include mileages for our benefit. *California, because of its postmile system, won't be set up with dual columns, but it would otherwise be consistent with the remainder of the project in terms of formatting.
Phase I would be to update how the mileages are entered in the articles already using templates in anticipation of the update to using miles and kilometers. Any non-numeric characters need to be removed(currently 0 articles) before the templates are switched to generate the dual columns.
Phase II would be to convert articles not using templates to use them where possible. (There may be a few articles with special needs that haven't been anticipated yet.)
Our goal is 100% deployment to FA/A/GA articles (currently 0 articles). Depending on progress, 100% deployment across all articles with junction/exit lists may be possible during the course of the year (currently 4 articles, with 3789 unchecked).
