User talk:93.201.168.162

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Hello. Why are you setting "⌓" as the category's sort key? Thank you. Ahmad^talk 07:30, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Because it was a mess before, mixing tunnels, bridges and interchanges. "⌓" symbolizes an arc bridge or a bridge in general, the filled black segment a tunnel, and ⌘ an interchange.

The alternative is to create subcategories for tunnels, bridges, interchanges - which I did not want to do at this point because the number of subcategories is not high enough yet that this is actually needed (but for bridges there actually is a subcat already..). --91.55.172.66 07:36, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Fair enough, a creative idea! Thanks for the explanation. Ahmad^talk 07:43, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Please, if you adopt it, go slow, there's no need to hurry and change every other federal highway to this scheme in a rush. The sortkey scheme should prove itself in an evolutionary way. Also note that these are unicode/utf-8 symbols - in theory every computer should support these nowadays, but there may be legacy equipment out there, that may leave a note on the discussion page within months to come (it's a good sign if there are no complaints in that timeframe, because that indicates that unicode/utf-8 is indeed widely adopted in commons user base). --84.135.120.150 07:57, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

# could be used instead of ⌘ on second thought. # is an ASCII char and would sort before the unicode symbols for bridge and tunnels, if its an issue that interchanges sort between bridges and tunnels (as it appears now). --84.135.120.150 08:05, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

But then # would sort before * (asterisk) as well, which is undesirable. So you would need to change the asterisk sortkeys to space or exclamation mark before exchanging ⌘ with #. --84.135.120.150 08:08, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

I'd stick with ⌘ for now, but do not object if you think # is a better/nicer way to display the entries. If unicode chars are an issue, we can fallback to using B, T and X for bridges, tunnels, interchanges respectively. The main intention is to group the classes instead of mixing their items arbitrarily in that category - which symbol/sortkey is used to do that is less important. --84.135.120.150 08:16, 16 December 2019 (UTC)