Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Article Improvement Drive
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The Article Creation and Improvement Drive (AID) was a collaboration to improve USRD articles to featured article status. It designated one article at a time as the AID article, generally a stub. AID was meant to draw attention to this stub and promote collaborative improvement of the article.
Several articles were selected as the active AID collaboration during the drive's period of activity. The final AID article was Interstate 96, selected on October 2, 2007. AID was tagged historical on February 24, 2008.
AID failed largely because the articles chosen were of individual roads, which generally held little appeal to editors outside the areas they passed through, making it difficult to get editors involved. AID was also negatively impacted by a drop in the number of USRD editors due to the naming convention disputes that were ongoing at the same time. In all, the lessons learned from AID were that the project should set wider-ranging goals that every editor can participate in, regardless of the geographic area they choose to write articles about.