Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Article maintenance task force

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The Article maintenance task force performs the more mundane tasks involved in maintaining rail transport related articles to as high a level as possible, including tasks listed under Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo such as bypassing disambiguation pages or keeping track of article topics that still need to be researched and written. This task force is also be responsible for identifying common references used in rail transport articles and providing appropriate templates for citations to them.

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[edit] Participants

  1. Slambo (talk · contribs)
  2. Hirohisat (talk · contribs)
  3. Britishrailclass43 (talk · contribs)
  4. Britishrailclass91 (talk · contribs)

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] To do

[edit] GA criteria updates

  • Ensure that articles currently listed as Good still meet the updated criteria. Progress is currently tracked on /GA updates.

[edit] General

[edit] Common references

The following are sorted in author order:

What to type What it makes
{{Marre-diesel-50}}
(talk)
Marre, Louis A. (1995). Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years. Kalmbach. ISBN 0890242585. 
{{Marre, Pinkepank - Diesel spotters guide}}
(talk)
Marre, Louis A.; Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1989). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-8902-6088-4. 
{{Pinkepank diesel spotters guide 2}}
(talk)
Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Co.. ISBN 0-89024-026-4. 
{{MR steam cyclopedia}}
(talk)
Westcott, Linn H. (1960). Model Railroader Cyclopedia - Volume 1: Steam Locomotives. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-89024-001-9. 
{{White - History of the American locomotive}}
(talk)
White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0. 

In each of these templates, the parameter pages is available to indicate the relevant pages for a specific citation. These citation templates all piggyback off {{cite book}}, so adding other as yet unused parameters from the base template is a simple matter.

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