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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Trains in Japan. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Articles

The main article about Trains in Japan is Rail transport in Japan.

[edit] New Articles

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The following are some of the newest articles about trains in Japan on Wikipedia for the month of December. Please feel free to edit this list.
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Shimo-Takaido Station, {{Tokyu Setagaya Line}} --Izumi5 16:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hatagaya Station, Sasazuka Station, Daitabashi Station, {{Keio Line}} --Izumi5 09:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
{{ja-stalink}}, {{ja-railservice}}, {{ja-linecat}}, Gakugeidaigaku Station, Yutenji Station --Izumi5 06:38, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
7100 steam locomotive LordAmeth 20:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
{{Sobu Main Line}}, {{Chuo-Sobu Line}}, Toritsudaigaku Station, {{Rinkai Line}} --Izumi5 16:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Jiyugaoka Station (Tokyo) --Izumi5 14:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Hiroshima Electric Railway by Kiyokun (found) Fg2 12:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
223 series - Mailer Diablo 18:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Marine Liner. JRHorse 22:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
{{Shonan Monorail Enoshima Line}}, description for Template:Japan Railway Line --Izumi5 07:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
{{ReqphotoinJapan}}, for sorting by prefecture requested photographs, including train stations and related. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 05:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Okurayama Station (Kanagawa), Motosumiyoshi Station, Musashi-Kosugi Station, Template:Yokohama Line, and Template:Nambu Line --Izumi5 15:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Higashi-Hakuraku Station, Hakuraku Station, and Myorenji Station --Izumi5 15:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Category:Stations of Yamanote Line completed. Template:Ja-Stalayout, Template:ja-rail-line, Template:ja-rail-linem created. --Izumi5 14:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Nanaehama Station, Kamiiso Station, Yunotai Station and Esashi Station--Japanese Tsugaru Man 08:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Template:Muroran Main Line, Template:Chitose Line, Template:Sekisho Line, Rankoshi Station, Niseko Station, Kutchan Station, Otaru Station, Higashi-Muroran Station, Tomakomai Station, Oiwake Station (Hokkaido), Minami-Chitose Station and Chitose Station (Hokkaido)--Japanese Tsugaru Man 23:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Suwanotaira Station, Tomabechi Station and Kita-Takaiwa Station --Japanese Tsugaru Man 10:13, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Akabane Line in Tokyo Fg2 08:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Mutsu-Ichikawa Station, Mukaiyama Station, Chibiki Station, Karibasawa Station, Shimizugawa Station and Higashi-Aomori Station--Japanese Tsugaru Man 10:03, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Ashino-Kōen Station and Tsugaru-Nakasato Station--Japanese Tsugaru Man 09:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Nagoya Municipal Subway (found). Also see contributions by Nobitaplus. Fg2 10:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Tsuchizaki Station, Kami-Iijima Station, Oiwake Station (Akita), Tomine Station, Futatsui Station, Tsugaru-Yunosawa Station, Nagamine Station and Naijōshi Station--Japanese Tsugaru Man 09:54, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Yonesaka Line and all stations; remaining stations of Uetsu Main Line and Flower Nagai Line. Yamagata-ken is stub-complete.Neier 13:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Tokyo transit}} by User:Sekicho Fg2 09:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Ryōgoku Station for sumo fans Fg2 06:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Kōdo Station. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 07:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Hiyoshi Station, found and formatted. Limitedexpresstrain 01:21, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Kabe Station, Takashima Station (Hiroshima), Category:Kabe Line suspended stations, {{Kabe Line suspended section}}. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 08:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Scope and Goals

There are currently over 500 articles about Trains in Japan (see Category:Rail transport in Japan), many of which have been translated from the respective Japanese version (see the category on the Japanese Wikipedia).

Some articles are in states of bad disrepair, with awkward grammar, formatting and spelling. This WikiProject helps highlight these problems, and seeks to improve the visibility of articles about trains in Japan.

Although "Trains in Japan" may sound like a narrow topic, in reality there are hundreds of pages to be created and expanded.

The focus at WikiProject Trains in Japan will mainly be articles in Category:Rail transport in Japan.

[edit] Goals

Our goals are to:

Provide a centralized discussion point for articles about railways in Japan
Standardize articles about Trains in Japan
Provide information that's useful for both railway enthusiasts and visitors to Japan
Create an interesting portal
And of course... improve as many Japanese railway articles to featured status

[edit] Inter-wiki Relations

Since many of the articles in our scope originated as translations of the articles at the Japanese Wikipedia, one of our aims is to improve relations with Wikipedias in other languages. In particular, we could improve the quality of the articles here by inviting English-speaking users from the Japanese Wikipedia, and translating articles as part of this Project.

[edit] Relatives

[edit] Parentage

Trains Portal

This WikiProject's parents are WikiProject Trains and WikiProject Japan.

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

Wikipedia:Japan-related topics notice board

[edit] Participants

armage (lived in Japan and can translate articles from Japanese to English)
Tangot a ngo
Neier (Yamagata towns are now linked to their stations, like Miyagi. Debating Fukushima/Iwate next....)
Softgrow
日本穣 (Prefer trains in Hiroshima Prefecture, though I can do them for just about anywhere), finished Geibi Line, working on Kabe Line now, I've also created quite a few line templates
struggle (Gimme Kansai Train to-dos)
DAJF (particularly shinkansen and Kanto region topics)
Fg2
JRHorse
redracer (it has been suggested I do the Tōkyū Setagaya line, and I would also like to expand the Keikyū section)
William McDuff (Just went on vacation to Yamagata and photographed the remaining Riku-Tou, Kurihara Den'en stations, as well as the remaining Tohoku stations from Furukawa/Kogota to Ichinoseki. And Iwanoshita on Oofunato. Expect those to go up shortly.)
Mailer Diablo
Zsolt (I travelled on the JR Sobu-Chuo line every day for six months in 2003 between Ichikawa and Yotsuya. I can help out with descriptions for some of these stations.)
limitedexpresstrain
Picturetokyo I have lived in the Tokyo are for the last 2 years. I ride the train alot and can help somewhat. maybe photos if needed.
Endroit (I will work on Yokohama & vicinity topics)
Sudachi
changeup
ShonanSummer
Yume Ringo I participate in Japanese Wiki Project Train. I edit a railroad of Kansai area-related item.
Matthew Davis I can work on almost any page, but aim to focus on freight.
Behemoth14
Rockfender (I will focus on developing Hokkaido's rail system pages.)
El Cid
Tsian (I will focus on the Utsunomiya and Nikkō lines. Specifically working to translate content from the ja wiki and bring over pictures.)
freshofftheufo ΓΛĿЌ (I've done a few articles in Kanagawa and Tokyo, but I will take requests for anything if needed.)
Izumi5 (I don't focus on any of the project. I'm afraid I wouldn't take any of requests.)
Wnash90 I will concentrate on the Shinkansen Series 300 page.
Dekimasu I'm a native English speaker in Osaka. I'll accept individual requests for translation/fixups for Kansai-related pages. I noticed my train station doesn't have an article yet!
Japanese Tsugaru Man A station of Tohoku and Hokkaido region. If there are mistakes because much English is not proficient, I am happy if I have you correct it.
KU Focusing rapid transit either Mass RT or Light RT.

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[edit] Structure

Please see the Style page for information about the style used in articles about trains in Japan.

[edit] Tasks

Below are some open tasks. For a complete list, please refer to this page. You can, of course, choose to work on something completely different.

Here are some open WikiProject Trains in Japan tasks you can do:
Improve:	Hankyu Kobe Line, Shinkansen
Expand:	Hikari Rail Star, Kakegawa Station, Narita Airport Station, Keio Inokashira Line
Write:
Translate:	M250 series (Original),Magarikane Station (Original)
Requested:	Train-related on Requested articles/Japan
Illustrate:	Chiba Urban Monorail, Hotarugaike Station, Jingu-mae Station, Ikebukuro Station
Review:	Sobu Line (Rapid), Keiyo Line, Twilight Express, Sapporo Station
Edit or discuss this list.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Lines

See Category:Templates for Railway Lines of Japan for a full listing of templates that list every station on a line (for use in line/station articles)