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Below are formal conventions for the listings of Australian roads. These guidelines largely formalise pre-existing conventions in regards to Australian roads. As always use common sense when applying these guidelines.
See also Wikipedia:Article titles and Wikipedia:Proposed naming conventions and guidelines.
Roadways are named by their current public official name as listed in the appropriate government gazette [preferred], or as otherwise used for general administrative purposes, and not their common name, or their internal name according to the relevant government department. For example:
Articles are generally not created for routes containing notable roads, excluding Highway 1 (Australia). Routes which consist of a majority of non-notable roads are named by secondary name [preferred] (if one exists), or by a route number.
Older gazette editions generally aren't available from the above websites. They may be available from Trove or any of the various state and national libraries and archives in either hardcopy or electronic form. This information may also be found on the websites for the applicable names board or land and planning authority in each state.
The following apply only when an article needs to be disambiguated:
road_name" is the article title, excluding disambiguation.
road_name2" and separated by " / ", this includes both public common names and those used in reputable sources. (Soft limit of 3 common names based on approximate popularity)