Wikipedia:Naming conventions (U.S. state and territory highways)

This guideline documents an English Wikipedia naming convention. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This Naming Convention is intended to standardize the naming formats used in articles pertaining to highways in the United States.

The highway types covered by this convention have two naming formats – official name and article title – which can be the same. The official name is the naming format typically used by the state department of transportation (DOT) or the general public, and is what should be used to refer the highway in article prose. The article title is a disambiguated form obviously used for article naming, and should only be used in article prose if a sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

If you disagree with the conventions described here, or wish to add to them, please discuss it on the talk page. These conventions were established through previous debates, and any proposals to change such conventions may be contentious (see also the Arbitration Committee Highways case).