Template:TrainsWikiProject

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Trains Portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Trains, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
See also: WikiProject Trains to do list
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The Trains WikiProject
General information
Main project page (WP:TWP)  talk
Portal (P:Trains) talk
Project navigation bar talk
IRC (freenode.net) #Wikipedia-Trains-en
Project participants talk
Project banner (doc) {{TWP}} talk
Project category talk
Manual of style (WP:TWP/MOS) talk
Welcome message talk
Departments
Assessments (WP:TWP/A) talk
Peer review (WP:TWP/PR) talk
To do list talk
New article notes talk
Task forces
Article maintenance talk
Assessment backlog elim. drive talk
By country series talk
Categories talk
Images talk
Locomotives talk
Maps talk
Models talk
Monorails talk
Operations talk
Passenger trains talk
Portal talk
Rail transport modelling talk
Timelines talk
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Usage

The {{TrainsWikiProject}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:

{{TrainsWikiProject
| small               =
| nested              =
| class               =
| importance          =
| portaldykdate       =
| portalSAweek        =
| portalSIweek        =
| unref               =
| pr                  =
| oldpr               =
| stations            =
| streetcars          =
| subway              =
| Subway-importance   =
| NYCS or NYPT        =
| NYCS-importance or
| NYPT-importance     =
| Japan               =
| UK                  =
| UK-importance       =
| UKTrams             =
| UKTrams-importance  =
| Scotland            =
| Scotland-importance =
| NZR                 =
| NZR-importance      =
| WashingtonMetro     =
| Underground         =
| LUL-importance      =
| SovMetro            =
| Thomas              =
| bycountry           =
| images              =
| locos               =
| maint               =
| maps                =
| model               =
| operations          =
| passenger           =
| portal              =
| mapneeded           =
| Mapdetails          =
| timelines           =
| imageneeded         =
| Imagedetails        =
}}

Template display formatting parameters:

  • small - show the normal or reduced size template; shows the reduced size template if small=yes.
  • nested - needed for {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}.

Article assessment parameters:

  • class – a rating of the article's quality; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Assessment for more details. Valid values are (case insensitive):
    • FA - The article has reached Featured article status.
    • A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidate; probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality.
    • GA - The article has reached Good article status.
    • B - Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject.
    • Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion.
    • Stub - The article is a stub; it likely contains one of the rail transport stub templates.
    • FL - The page is a Featured list
    • List - The page is a list
    • NA - The page is not an article and should not be rated; it could be a template, image or category, for example.
    • Needed - The article does not yet exist but has been identified as a subject that should be covered.
    • Disambig or Dab - The article is a disambiguation page.
    • Redirect or Redir - The article is a redirect page.
    • Template - The page is a template.
    • Category or Cat - The page is a category.
  • importance - a rating of the article's importance within the Trains WikiProject. Valid values are (case insensitive):
    • Top
    • High
    • Mid
    • Low

Portal appearance parameters:

  • portaldykdate - the date when a fact from the associated article appeared in the "Did you know" section of Portal:Trains.
  • portalSAweek - the week number and year when the article appeared in the "Selected article" section; adds articles to Category:Trains portal selected articles
  • portalSIweek - the week number and year when the image appeared in the "Selected picture" section

Project work parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

Subproject maintenance parameters (set them to "yes" to include them; note that these are not mutually exclusive):

Task force maintenance parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

Miscellaneous maintenance parameters (set them to "yes" to include them):

  • Mapneeded - The article needs a map; adds articles to Category:Trains project articles needing maps.
    • Mapdetails (appears only if Mapneeded is set to yes) - Additional details to specify the kind of map information that is needed.
  • Imageneeded - The article needs an image (other than a map); adds articles to Category:Rail transport articles needing images.
    • Imagedetails (appears only if Imageneeded is set to yes) - Additional details to describe the image that is requested.

To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template.