Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian railways

 Welcome to the WikiProject for Indian Railways 

Aim
This WikiProject aims to, in general, increase the quality of all articles related to Railways in India by expanding them, simplifying them and by adopting a standard and easy structure over them.

Scope
The scope of this project fundamentally is loosely defined as all articles and sections relating to Railways in India. Almost all of these will be (eventually) categorised under below categories.

To-do list
Quick Links:
 * Open task page to view tasks and progress
 * To-do list page for editing the task list
 * Article Alerts for various alerts tagged on articles within our scope

Participants
Go to the membership page to add your name. Old members who have become active may place their name in the new list format.

You may place  on your user page to display the following userbox:

Parent Projects
The WikiProject operates under the principles of the following WikiProjects which can be considered parent-WikiProjects of WikiProject Indian Railways. You are invited to join them too!
 * WikiProject India
 * WikiProject Trains

Sister projects
The following projects have a similar scope and operate in a similar fashion to ours:
 * WikiProject Indian Roads

Banners
For reasons of maintenance, it is desirable that all the articles that are under the scope of this project be categorized in a simple and easy manner. To do this, most WikiProjects use banners and so does WikiProject Indian Railways. These banners automatically add the talk page of the article to the suitable sub-category of. It is highly recommended that whenever one creates or edits an article within the scope of Indian Railways, they check for the following banners on the article's talk page. Doing so will not only help better organise WikiProject Indian railways, but also WikiProject India and WikiProject Trains. To add an article's talk page within the scope of this WikiProject, place one or both (as per situation) of the given banners by entering the respective code for it:

WikiProject India banner
Place   at top of the article's talk page and choose railways-importance from either 'top', 'high', 'mid' or 'low'. It will produce:

WikiProject Trains banner
To use this banner, place   at the top of the article's talk page (note that the capitalization on the parameter name is significant). It looks like this (with the class=NA parameter used for this transclusion):

Importance rating
Both of the banners require the user to specify an importance paramater. The available options to choose from and the condition in which to use them are given below. '''Important: Do not add different/conflicting importance parameters for both the banners. In simple words, if a page has both the banners, they both must have the same importance rating.

Please note that the importance ratings for WikiProject Trains is different. It is strongly advised that the importance scale of WikiProject Trains be consulted with when changing the overall importance rating through the banner.

Stubs

 * For stubs about the Railways in India, use India-rail-transport-stub. This will go into the Category:India rail transport stubs category and will produce


 * For stubs about the Railway Stations in India, use India-railstation-stub. This will go into the Category:Indian railway station stubs category and will produce


 * For stubs about the Express trains in India, use india-express-train-stub. This will go into the Category:Indian express train stubs category and will produce


 * For stubs about the Passenger trains in India, use india-passenger-train-stub. This will go into the Category:India passenger train stubs category and will produce

Invite
To invite an editor to our WikiProject, place WikiProject Indian railways/Invite on their talk page. This will produce an invitation card asking them to join the WikiProject Indian Railways along with the current To-Do list.