Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains

Welcome to WikiProject Trains on the English Wikipedia! We are a group of editors who aim to streamline and co-ordinate the expansion of train-related articles. If you would like to join the project, simply [&section=1 add your name] to the list of participants. Please browse our resources at your leisure; we hope you find them useful. - Recent changes in rail transport-related articles (list) -
 * Goals
 * To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of trains in the English language.
 * To improve coverage of trains by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles that describe all of its aspects.
 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to trains in Wikipedia.


 * Scope : The project generally considers any article related to historical or contemporary train-related affairs to be within its scope. A more detailed description of the scope, and our primary areas of focus within it, may be found in the section on project scope.


 * Structure
 * The project aims solely to assist the authoring of reliable and accurate trains articles in accordance with our Goals [above]. Internally, the project had developed several structural features to assist in the management of our workload:
 * Task forces: informal groups for collaboration on specific train-related topics.
 * Departments: areas of the project which streamline work—such as article review and outside opinions—that "supports" the main body of article writers.

General discussion relating to this project takes place on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains; suggestions or comments are welcome there.

Scope
The project is concerned primarily with train and railroad/railway subjects, and considers any article relating to those topics to be within its scope.

By extension, the scope of the project includes—but is not limited to—the following:
 * 1) Train—including passenger, metro, light rail, goods, and locomotive—units.
 * 2) Railroad engineering and technology.
 * 3) Railway stations and halts.
 * 4) Railway routes and lines.
 * 5) Railroad operators.
 * 6) Manufacturers of train units and of railroad apparatus.
 * 7) Organisations whose main business is with railroads.

Highlights of this project's output are listed on Portal:Trains

Child WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Trains in Japan
 * WikiProject Trains in Philippines
 * WikiProject UK Railways
 * WikiProject Rapid transit
 * WikiProject Stations
 * WikiProject NZR
 * WikiProject Indian Railways
 * Rail transport in Germany task force
 * Wikiproject Bangladesh Railways

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 * WikiProject Aircraft
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 * WikiProject London Transport
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 * Commons:WikiProject BSicon

Members
The current list of project participants is quite large and is located on the /Members page. You may add yourself to this list if you want.

Task forces
Task forces are informal collaboration groups of WikiProject Trains members focusing on certain subtopics of rail transport. The current task forces—and their respective focus and remit—include:

Coordination
The coordination of the project is undertaken in accordance with WikiProject Trains/Strategy.
 * /Article templates - templates that can be used on rail transport articles.
 * /Assessment - Rating rail transport articles based on a standard Wikipedia-wide scale as part of the Version 1.0 efforts.
 * /Peer review - Reviewing articles by project members; such a review could be part of the path toward Featured article status.

Editing

 * WikiProject Trains/Todo: articles identified as needing attention and improvement.
 * Pages needing attention/Railroads.
 * Article templates
 * Partial transcriptions of Interstate Commerce Commission valuation reports, with information about many old U.S. railroads

Article quality

 * WikiProject Trains/Article templates.
 * To mark an article for assessment add &#123;&#123;WikiProject Trains|class=|importance=&#125;&#125; to the article's talk page.

Showcase
The following is a listing of articles (and other types of content) within the scope of the project that have been noted and recognized for their outstanding quality. Project members may peruse these at their leisure: they all serve as excellent examples of different writing and organizational styles that one may wish to emulate.

Former featured articles
These articles were at one time Featured but no longer are. The rationale behind removing Featured status from these articles will be given or linked to on the article's respective talk page. Project members may wish to use this list to identify articles that may require less workload in order to pull up to Featured status and which have a ready-made (by means of the Featured article candidate discussion and of the Featured article review discussion respectively) source of feedback on possible strengths and possible weaknesses.

In alphabetical order:


 * 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings - listed 24, 2008 delisted February 3, 2011
 * BC Rail - front page feature October 4, 2005 delisted June 2009
 * Căile Ferate Române - front page feature July 22, 2005 delisted May 24, 2009
 * Canadian Pacific Railway - front page feature April 23, 2005 delisted May 2009
 * Franklin B. Gowen (president of the Reading Railroad) - listed March 15, 2005 delisted September 1, 2009
 * Indian Railways - front page feature October 16, 2005 delisted January 24, 2009
 * Isambard Kingdom Brunel - front page feature March 23, 2006 delisted November 12, 2009.
 * London Underground - main page feature, June 21, 2004 delisted December 29, 2006
 * Rail transport in India - front page feature August 16, 2007 delisted August 3, 2009
 * SkyTrain (Vancouver) - listed June 19, 2007 delisted June 30, 2010
 * TGV - main page feature, January 15, 2006; delisted on May 9, 2008.
 * Wigwag (railroad) - main page feature, July 5, 2004; delisted on March 26, 2007.
 * William N. Page (co founder of the Virginian Railway) - listed November 18, 2004 delisted November 11, 2008

Templates
Userbox:

Barnstar: may be awarded for exceptional improvements to rail-related articles. Award by adding

Subpages

 * List of