 Rockland County Scenario
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The Rockland County Scenario (RCS) is a method in use by the Highways WikiProject to handle coverage of short, low-importance, or otherwise minor routes. In the Rockland County Scenario, each article is merged to a single page. Each highway is given its own section of the page, and each uses an instance of {{infobox road small}} to display the most vital statistics. The resulting page is then normally assessed as List-class. Usually it is desirable for the redirects to point directly to applicable section by the use of an anchor link.
In the case of applying, or initiating, the RCS to a very large route system, it may be necessary to split the list across several pages. This is normally done by exploiting some trait of the system, especially if the designations are issued by zones. Otherwise, the split may occur by arbitrary number ranges (e.g. 1–20, 21–40, etc.).
The Rockland County Scenario is flexible enough to allow for expansion of the route articles on a case-by-case basis. If an editor has invested their life's work in getting a bannered route article to FA and protecting it from crazy whackaloons, that article can be left independent, with a summary written in the list and a hatnote linking to it.
The Rockland County Scenario is most often used to deal with county route articles. However, with some creativity, it can be applied to any number of things, including bannered routes, spur routes, secondary routes, etc.
The name "Rockland County Scenario" is derived from the county route system of Rockland County, New York, which previously used the Scenario. The term "Rockland County Scenario" and the acronym "RCS" caught on as a way to refer to the trappings of such a system in IRC thereafter. Rockland County was not the first application of such a system, however; Michigan's County-Designated Highway system used it years prior to that, and bannered route lists like Bannered routes of U.S. Route 81 have existed prior to the RCS-ifying of Rockland County.