Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rapid transit

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I am currently attempting to work on articles on the Munich U-Bahn system. To avoid any unneeded afterchanges I'd ask for your input in direction of naming guidelines for the U-Bahn stations and Navboxes. Agathoclea 07:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Project directory 2 Haxo (Paris Métro) 3 Buses and bus systems? 4 Assessment categories created 5 Project problem 6 London Underground 7 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yeouinaru Station 8 Portal updates? 9 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro) 10 Wikipedia Day Awards 11 MTR FAR 12 WP Munich Transsportation Task Force 13 Buses? 14 Help with info boxes 15 Sound Transit 16 Map templates in infoboxes 17 Wikiproject UK Trams 18 New York City Subway station naming convention 19 Rapid transit-related stub types 20 Deletion nomination 21 Chicago L Infoboxes 22 Featured article review suggested 23 A new wiki specially for Trains... 24 translation help

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Haxo (Paris Métro)

Haxo (Paris Métro) - I have recently added this page and put it in the [[category:rapid transport stubs]], although I think the article is now a decent length considering the dearth of information there is on the topic, and probably warrants removal of its stub statuses - please advise, thanks. Superbfc 22:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

The article has a lot of info, so I went and removed the stub tags. Thanks for letting us know. -- Selmo ^(talk) 04:39, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buses and bus systems?

Another editor added {{TrainsWikiProject}} to Talk:Double-decker bus. While I can easily see how buses fit in to a rapid transit topic, they don't really fit in with TWP. Is this project going to work on bus and bus system articles now too? It would seem logical to include them based on the scope statement here. If you are going to work on bus articles, perhaps it's time to develop a {{WP rapid transit}} (or some similar name) project banner so bus articles don't get classified into rail categories by {{TrainsWikiProject}}. Slambo (Speak) 12:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I had subway and subway-like transit systems in mind while creating the project, but let's see what others have to say. I somewhat agree with the inclusion of bus-related articles though... -- Selmo ^(talk) 00:23, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I've started on a possible banner for this project at User:Slambo/WP rapid transit. Right now, the only parameter implemented is small to display a small format of the banner. Adding other functionality, such as assessments, requires additional categories which are not set up yet (but they can be created quickly if you decide to use them). Slambo (Speak) 17:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment categories created

Since the basic code was added to the new template for quality assessments, I finished the setup for the categories and the template. I've added the categories to {{TrainsWikiProject}} as well so it will categorize pages appropriately. Slambo (Speak) 18:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Rapid transit articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The bot is now collecting statistics and populating lists appropriately for these assessments. Slambo (Speak) 16:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project problem

Just to point out, this project may run into difficulties with other projects that focus on 1 or more rapid transit and associated systems, i think. Simply south 00:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how. Many projects, such as The TV WikiProject and the The Simpsons WikiProject don't seem to have any difficulties with each other. I don't know how this would cause difficulties with other system-specific projects. -- Selmo ^(talk) 01:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] London Underground

London Underground is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy (Talk) 02:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yeouinaru Station

Thought this might be of interest here. A Seoul subway station, Yeouinaru Station, is up for deletion. As it's currently a stub, it does take time to write detail for so many stations in this project (I know, as being part of WikiProject Stations). --Oakshade 01:30, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal updates?

I haven't seen any significant activity on Portal:Rapid transit since October. Is there a project member here who can step up and maintain the portal more frequently? Slambo (Speak) 16:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm interested in working on it. I'm kinda busy doing other things though. -- Selmo ^(talk) 04:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro)

A Paris Métro station, Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro), has been nominated for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro) for a discussion which may lead to the deletion of the article Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro). Another editor has proposed that Jules Joffrin (Paris Métro) be merged into Paris Métro, which I think would be unworkable. --Eastmain 04:23, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MTR FAR

MTR has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. LuciferMorgan 02:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP Munich Transsportation Task Force

I'm trying to start a task force for WikiProject Munich that can deal with the U-Bahn, S-Bahn and so on for Munich. Is there anyone in this project willing to start up this task force? Kingjeff 16:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Buses?

According to the scope (and the name), this project is for rapid transit, a type of railway. Why are articles like double-decker bus included? --NE2 10:56, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with info boxes

The |logo= tag is not working in the infoboxes used by all the Bay Area Rapid Transit station subpages. An example is at Dublin/Pleasanton. The called image is a valid image. It displays if you move it to the image tag, and is also used in the info box for Bay Area Rapid Transit. Could someone with knowledge of infoboxes look at this? Thanks Tuyvan 04:16, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sound Transit

there 3 pages of the same thing user:geoff271989 05:35:59 june 11 2007 (UTC}

[edit] Map templates in infoboxes

I think that there should be a parameter to add the map templates from WP:TRAIL into {{Infobox Public transit}}. It would look much neater, especially since the maps are closer to the right edge than the infoboxes, which looks unappealing when they are right on top of each other (see United States Capitol Subway System or O'Hare Airport Transit System). –Dream out loud (talk) 17:17, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I figured out a way to do it with {{Infobox rail line}}. See Market-Frankford Line, Broad Street Line, and PATCO Speedline for examples with custom maps, and see Las Vegas Monorail and O'Hare Airport Transit System for examples using WP:TRAIL templates. –Dream out loud (talk) 17:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Shanghai Metro articles are being retrofitted with those kinds of map templates right now. —O (说 • 喝) 19:27, 22 September 2007 (GMT)

[edit] Wikiproject UK Trams

I think that a Wikiproject UK Trams might be in order at the present time. There are already several Wikiprojects that cover trams, but all seem to be rather blank in the UK area. There are hardly any articles on trams, and those that there are, are either stubs, lacking factual references, or are complete so that they only need to be edited to add specialist information. i have almost single handedly revamped the National Tramway Museum Page, and it would be hard to belive that a couple of months ago, it was a stub. Please rally your support or oposal here. The project would cover all trams, both modern and heritage, proposed and forgotten, built and demolished. The page will be started in due course here. - Bluegoblin7 14:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

The page is now online at WP:UK Trams Bluegoblin7 09:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New York City Subway station naming convention

Over at WP:NYCPT, we are trying to reach a consensus on how New York City Subway stations should be named, because the subway system uses various names and punctuation formats for its stations, and users have "move-warred" articles in the absence of an agreed-upon guideline. The proposed convention is at Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Station naming convention. If you are interested, please visit the proposal and comment on the talk page. Thanks! TLK^'in 07:32, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rapid transit-related stub types

I've put up a number of UK transport-related stub types for renaming, rescoping and/or deletion; a number of ad hoc creations have left this hierarchy in a very inconsistent state, please comment, and help resolve, one way or the other. See Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/August/20. Alai 22:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion nomination

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 September 20#Template:Shanghai Metro interchange note —O (说 • 喝) 03:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago L Infoboxes

I recently added some style parameters to infobxoes for stations along the Red Line of the Chicago L, because I've seen them at some stations and not others, most notably Addison (CTA Red Line). Is anybody going to fill in the rest, or make easier style templates than the current ones, like the ones that were made for Metro-North's Hudson, Harlem, Port Jervis, and New Haven lines? ---- DanTD 19:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article review suggested

Another editor has suggested that the Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) article might not be featured article quality and stated his objections in the review proposal. It was removed from the main review page because the nominator put up three other articles at the same time for review. However, this gives us a chance to be a little proactive with this nom so we can clear up some of the problems before the review request is added again. If you have time, please view the objection list and work on the items that you can to help keep this article at FA status. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 15:53, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A new wiki specially for Trains...

Hello readers of WikiProject Rapid Transit!

I just wondered if any of you would be interested in joining up to Train Spotting World, a wiki just for railways and similar things! We are also in the process of setting up several "Workforces", similar to WikiProjects, and were wondering if anyone wnated to help!

Various wikipedians have goine over there, including myself, User:Tbo 157, User:Slambo, User:EdJogg, User:Timtrent and User:S.C.Ruffeyfan.

If you want more info, or have joined up and want some guidance, let me know here or there on my talk page!

Thanks,

Bluegoblin7 20:00, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] translation help

Hi there, I'm writing Hamburg related S-Bahn and U-Bahn station stubs and don't now the translation for the german word Kehrgleis. A track behind the station were the trains can stop and have a rest (coffee and or smoke ;-) and than change the direction. It's not a loop and often used after island platforms. I've tried to describe it, but it sounds a bit ... german ... (see Othmarschen railway station) Maybe somebody can help ? Thx Sebastian scha. (talk) 18:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)