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[edit] Redundant category

Can someone please remove Category:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation articles from this template? Everything in it is also placed in a sub-category. --NE2 06:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

done. Slambo (Speak) 11:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New subproject

Can someone please incorporate the Wikipedia:WikiProject Metros of the former Soviet Union into this template, so the Soviet Metro and the Trains WikiProjects can share a template. Any objections? —dima/s-ko/ 19:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

(catching up on replies here...) The SovMetro=yes parameter will do this. Slambo (Speak) 11:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General edit request: This page is maintained by XXX

Many of the options to this template produce text along the lines of

This page is maintained by WikiProject FOOBAR.

which sounds uncomfortably as if the WikiProject in question pretends to own the article. I have often had to remove |Stations=yes| or |Metro=yes| from articles that have had no edits at all from members of the specified WikiProject, and thus where that project cannot meaningfully be said ever to have "maintained" it in a meaningful sense. Several times I myself has been the only substantial contributor to an article before somebody comes along and edits the talk page (only!) with a tag that seems to assign all credit for the article to somebody else.

Could the wording be changed to something less exclusive, such as

This page is within the scope of WikiProject FOOBAR.

please? –Henning Makholm 16:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Slambo (Speak) 11:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. –Henning Makholm 00:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New image for UK use

Please could an editor with sufficient privileges modify this template to use the image: [[Image:Locomotive trevithick.jpg]] in place of the current one, for the option selected by parameter UK=yes, as discussed at talk:WikiProject UK Railways regards, Lynbarn

Done. Slambo (Speak) 09:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject London Transport

Could you please remove the WP:LT tag from this template and replace it on WP:LT articles with our full template - WP London Transport - please? Unisouth 15:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List-Class assessments

I've recently rated most of the Rapid transit lists as list-class. They show as list-class, but also as unassessed. Might that be changed in the template, please? I added the list-class parameter in the WPRT template, but this one seems to be overriding it somehow. Guess I've reached my limits on comprehension of esoteric syntax. If there's a reason for list-class articles to also show as unassessed, though, could that be explained on the main template page, please? Thanks, and later, folks. -Ebyabe 14:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm looking into this... Slambo (Speak) 18:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Done. Slambo (Speak) 18:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Danke! That's made the unassessed gone below 200. :) -Ebyabe 20:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Needed-Class rail transport articles

I'm noticing a similar situation to the list-class issue with this category of articles. Or non-articles, really, as the articles are redlinks. Maybe that could be changed/corrected too, por favor? :) -Ebyabe 14:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

If you look back through the TWP archives, you'll see some discussion on this. The solution that was implemented, the Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/New article notes page, is fairly under-utilized right now. We could remove the Needed-Class category from the template quickly, but I'm a little hesitant to do that until the category is empty. Slambo (Speak) 18:31, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
TWP? What's Television Without Pity got to do with trains? ;)
Oh, no, I wasn't suggesting anything like that. I just thought Needed-Class articles shouldn't show as unassessed. Since they don't exist yet, there's nothing to assess, doncha know. I thought actually creating a Needed-Class category for them all to reside in might be a better idea, like you did for List-Class. Just like the idea of only real unassessed articles showing up as unassessed.
But never mind me. I'm just breezing thru various WikiProjects and assessing articles, and y'all are one of the latest whistlestops. Cheers, and thanks for your help! :) -Ebyabe 20:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Never mind, you already have the needed-class category. Doh! -Ebyabe 20:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
(Aside) TWP is the Trains WikiProject. WP:TWP redirects there while {{TWP}} redirects to this template. Slambo (Speak) 14:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Now I see the real issue. I'll look into fixing it later today. Slambo (Speak) 14:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Add Nesting Option?

Resolved.

Could you change the very first line from:

{| {{#ifeq:{{{small|}}}|yes|class="messagebox small-talk"|class="messagebox standard-talk"}}

to:

{| class="{{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{nested|}}}}}|yes|collapsible collapsed messagebox 
nested-talk|{{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{small|}}}}}|yes|messagebox small-talk|messagebox 
standard-talk}}}}"
|-
{{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{nested|}}}}}|yes|
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center" {{!}} [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains|WikiProject
Trains]]{{#if:{{{class|}}} |      (Rated {{ucfirst:{{{class}}}}}-Class)|}}
}}

This will add the "nesting" option that's being used by {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 01:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
10Q very much! to see it in action :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] adopt an article

Resolved.

Can we add something here so we can type whos adopted the article, as WP:UKT has an adopt an article scheme? i dont know what pic to use... ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book

We could, but would it be better to use {{maintained}} instead? With that template, we don't have to worry so much about multiproject collaborations (i.e. Wisconsin and Southern Railroad being maintained by members of both WikiProject Trains and WikiProject Wisconsin). Slambo (Speak) 19:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I am not particularly comfortable with the adopt an article concept and have explained this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways where I would welcome others opinions on this issue. Adambro 20:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I've disabled the editprotected request while discussion continues. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Sure, i dont mind slambo's idea, i'll do that then. Thanks! ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 07:02, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update ready for rollout

{{editprotected}} I need an admin to update the template to a new version (I'm using my unprivileged account on a public wireless access point right now). The code to be copied is at User:Slambo/TWP test. Copy that code over the code on this template, but please ensure that the noinclude section here is preserved. Thanks. Slambo 42 12:59, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

done. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SVG version of Image:Kanji railway icon transparent.png now available

{{editprotected}} There is now an SVG version of Image:Kanji railway icon transparent.png available so if someone with the power to change the image in the template (see here for an example of the image in use) would do so, it would be greatly appreciated. -Nameneko 21:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 22:28, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Please

{{editprotected}} Please remove the former monorails task force from this template.--MrFishGo Fish 17:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Coming up... Slambo (Speak) 17:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Done. Slambo (Speak) 18:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category correction

{{editprotected}}

If a page with UK=yes is classed as NA, could it please be placed in the category Category:Non-article UK Railways pages, rather than the unassessed category? --Jorvik 18:08, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. Did I do it right? east.718 at 21:04, 11/4/2007
Almost yes, however an article tagged as NA still appears in the unknown importance category. To prevent this happening, I think 
|NA|NA=
needs to be added to this list:
{{!}}}|<includeonly>{{#ifexist:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{#switch:{{{class|}}}
 |list|List=
 |cat|Cat|category|Category=
 |redir|Redir|redirect|Redirect=
 |dab|Dab|disambig|Disambig=
 |template|Template=
 |current|Current=
 |#default=[[Category:Unknown-importance UK Railways articles|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}}}</includeonly>

Thanks, --Jorvik 21:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. You might also want to use the "purge" action on a page to test it out immediately. east.718 at 21:26, 11/4/2007

[edit] Importance not getting suppressed when it should be

I probably missed a }} somewhere, but the importance rating isn't getting suppressed for NA or Category class pages like it should; the importance used to be suppressed for list class as well, but after discussions on the 1.0 project pages, we now do want importance ratings for lists (this part is working correctly). I plan to take a closer look at it this weekend (in my test area), but if someone else wants to jump in and find the problem first, just leave a note here. Slambo (Speak) 22:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)