Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport

Portal:Transport

A Transport Portal has been created. Interested parties are invited to collaborate on its maintenance.--cj | talk 14:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

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 22:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Activity

What exactly goes on in this project? Simply south 15:12, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing topics

I have a list of missing topics about vehicles and transportation. I've tried to find any similar articles but I'd appreciate if somebody else could have a look at the list. Thank you - Skysmith 12:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

DOT???

I am curious what people think about state DOT articles and if they fit into the Highway project of some other subcategory of Transport. None that I have seen are under any sort of transport category, but it seems they should fit somewhere. Tell me what you guys think. Polypmaster 04:53, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

New WikiProject: buses

I have created WikiProject buses to manage articles about buses and bus routes, including their history as streetcar lines. --NE2 18:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

CFD Port categories

Hi. I have kicked off a serious CFD about port categories. Any comments/input appreciated. Frelke 07:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

What does Wikiproject transport do?

The scope on the project page of this wikiproject doesnt really specifiy what this wikiproject does. Can I please ask what the wikipoject does do. The project seems to be quite inactive as it just has descendant projects which covers everything within the field of transport. ThanksTbo 157 14:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Peer review requested

Hi. Ruth Kelly is up for peer review here. Your comments are welcome. SP-KP 18:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

More DOT

A considerable amount of time has been spent on the Ohio Department of Transportation article, and it is now a GA class article. Since it is the only DOT article that is close to complete, I would like to know what type of improvements it still needs. I don't know of any particular format it should follow, but that would also be nice to know to add more information. Thanks. Polypmaster 21:06, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Parents and descendants

I just began a discussion on parentage and descendants at Wikiproject Civil Engineering which may be of interest to editors within this Wikiproject. I would be very interested to hear your comments, but to keep the discussion in one place I ask that you please post comments within the aforementioned discussion. Thanks! --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) 00:35, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject UK Trams

Hi! WikiProject UK Trams has now been started at WP:UK Trams, and I wondered if anyone was interested in joining. We aim to expand Wikipedia's coverage of UK Trams and Tram Systems. Please help! There is also a portal at P:UKT. Bluegoblin7 19:03, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Operating speed

Should Operating speed be merged into Speed limit? What do you think? —METS501 (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't think they should be merged. They cover 2 different topics. Tbo ¹⁵⁷talk 16:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the super-quick response. I agree with you, but a user asked on my talk page about possibly merging so I came here. —METS501 (talk) 16:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Happy editing. Tbo ¹⁵⁷talk 16:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Air Transport in the United Kingdom

Hi. Just dropping a line to say that I created a new article; Air Transport in the United Kingdom, which seems relevant to this project, if anyone is interested in helping out. --FactotEm 15:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Nautical Project Proposal

I have proposed a Nautical Project which has been briefly discussed at Portal:Nautical. Huge gaps in what the related projects cover. Comments welcome, preferably at the proposal page.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 21:46, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).

• List of basic transport topics
• List of basic vehicle topics

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Greenspun illustration project: requests now open

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.

• General information about the project: m:Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project
• Potential illustrators and others interested in the project should join the mailing list: mail:greenspun-illustrations

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 12:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

2 new wikis for Planes and Trains

Hello readers of WikiProject Transport!

I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in helping out with Plane Spotting World or Train Spotting World, two new wikis for all sorts of stuff!

Please let me know here of there if you're interested!

Bluegoblin7 19:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Any interest in creating a "child" WikiProject on "Trucks" ?

I've noticed that there is no WikiProject to consolidate articles on transport wheeled vehicles as: Trucks/Lorries, Vans, UTEs, etc. Does anybody know why? Wouldn't it be useful? Is there anyone interested in creating it? (not being an expert or educated user in that matter, I cannot volunteer to do that). Thanks and Regards, DPdH (talk) 03:06, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Need input on a CfR

I recently nominated Category:Abandoned stations for renaming. A discussion about the most appropriate name for the category and about the scope of the category has arisen. I would like to ask the members of this WikiProject for their take on this, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 January 18#Category:Abandoned stations. Aecis^Brievenbus 23:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Reminder of the Philip Greenspun Illustration project

Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.

If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 16:56, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Good article nomination backlog

There's still a significant backlog of transport articles at wp:good article nominations. We do not have enough regular reviewers to deal with all the nominations received, and unfortunately certain topics seem to suffer more than others. The good news is that the review process is relatively simple and any registered user is more than welcome to participate. If you'd like to help out, simply pick an article you haven't contributed to from the list and see if it meets every good article criteria. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the good article nominations talk page or even directly on my talk page. --jwanders^Talk 21:24, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist    10:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

A discussion

An important discussion on " Should WikiProjects get prior approval of other WikiProjects (Descendant or Related or any ) to tag articles that overlaps their scope ? " is open here . We welcome you to participate and give your valuable opinions. -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} - , member of WikiProject Council. 14:56, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Bus company article project talk sub-page created

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport/Bus articles. MickMacNee (talk) 15:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Category:Railway accidents and Category:Road accidents

Following a discussion here regarding the placement of bombings in various "accidents" categories, I would like to suggest that Category:Railway accidents and Category:Road accidents (and all relevant subcategories) be renamed to Category:Railway accidents and incidents (or Category:Railway incidents) and Category:Road accidents and incidents (or Category:Road incidents), respectively. This change would bring these categories in line with Category:Aviation accidents and incidents, and would expand their scope to include not only accidents but also deliberate attacks on rail and road infrastructure. Thoughts or comments would be most appreciated. Thank you, –Black Falcon ^(Talk) 15:58, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Transport

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We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:33, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Air transport in Alaska

There have been several AfDs lately involving aviation in Alaska that have raised concerns as to what constitutes an "airline" for purposes of Wikipedia articles. I have initiated a discussion here, and any and all input would be most welcome. Thanks! Beeblebrox (talk) 23:31, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Capacity, throughput and ridership

Wikipedia doesn't appear to have any article that I could find covering the topics of capacity, throughput, and ridership, including related acronyms like pph (pax per hour), pphpd (pax per hour per direction), etc. Would Capacity (transportation) be a good name?

Definitions of "capacity" as starting points:

The maximum traffic flow designation for a segment of roadway or a lane, within the control conditions for that particular segment of roadway or lane, usually expressed in "persons per hour" or "vehicles per hour". [1] (car-oriented)

The ability, in a given time, of a resource measured in quality and quantity. The quantity of goods which can be stored in or loaded into a warehouse, store and/or loaded into a means of transport at a particular time. [2] (NB: freight-oriented) Jpatokal (talk) 06:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Turns out a Passengers per hour per direction article exists! I still think it should be expanded to be a little more general. Jpatokal (talk) 02:59, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund (TiF)

Hello,

The Greater Manchester Transport Innovation Fund (TiF) and corresponding congestion charging in Greater Manchester are in dire need of attention from experts at WP:TRANSPORT. The issues within the articles have gone to referendum (closing mid-December) and so Wikipedia's repuation would be bolstered if we had proffessional coverage.

Is there anyone willing and able to help improve these pages? Hope so, --Jza84 |  Talk  16:44, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Unbelievable ommission

I'm sure there's some sort of historical reasons, but I'm totally shocked that this project can use a Truck driver article as it's {{main}} article in Transport and further amazed no one has ever stubbed in trucking terminal or Trucking industry (edit talk links history) (Which I just made as a redirect combo, stub). Feel free to expand it. Three days without trucking and most of us in the developed world would find no groceries in the local stores. Go three more days, and most of us start going hungry. Don't you think such an important industry deserves some coverage. Last I looked, the factory with the railway spur was pretty much gone. Sheesh! // FrankB 00:37, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Portal:Roads

The World Roads Portal is at Peer Review, if any editors know of any articles, images, news items or DYKs which could be added to the Portal, please add them directly to the portal or contact ....SriMesh | talk 01:13, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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F1 Portal up for Featured portal status

Here. Any and all (relevant) comments welcome. I do realise that this Wikiproject is only marginally associated with F1 (I may be the only person who drives a Williams FW19 to work), but all the same, the more the merrier. Apterygial 05:27, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was requested to be speedily deleted, then proposed for deletion. I have removed the PROD request. 76.66.193.69 (talk) 04:44, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

AfD: Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive

I have nominated this article for deletion. I'm asserting that the notability of the subject has not been demonstrated. Also, the issue has been compounded because I think there is a WP:COI issue with the article's main editor, who is also an admin. Please weigh in. Thank you. ~Pesco^{So say•we all} 22:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Template:Future public transportation up for deletion

I have nominated Template:Future public transportation for deletion at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2009_May_7#Template:Future_public_transportation, please add your thoughts. My view is that the vast majority of public transportation projects currently tagged with this do not qualify under the rules of Wikipedia:Current and future event templates ("warn readers about the fast-changing or speculative nature of the article"). Jpatokal (talk) 03:44, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Ford

FYI, Ford Motor Company → Ford - a WP:RM rename request has been filed. The discussion is occuring at Talk:Ford Motor Company. As ford is a word that is related to your wikiproject, this is an informative notice.

70.29.208.129 (talk) 06:05, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Panama Canal

I have nominated Panama Canal for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKiernan (talk) 16:46, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Merger of alternative fuels in buses into sustainable transport

The current alternative fuels in buses article is biased and I'm not sure if it should be a stand-alone article anyways. Should it be merged with sustainable transport? Please discuss on the article's talk page. Thanks, Pdcook (talk) 03:52, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Help needed

Editor Hectorthebat has made several articles about roads/railways in Norway and the articles have major MOS/cleanup issues. I don't know anything of Wikipedia's guidelines regarding roads and railways, so could someone look at them? Recent examples include: Riksvei 171, Riksvei 174, Riksvei 181, Sand, Akershus, Riksvei 120 and Riksvei 22. Thanks, PDCook (talk) 02:23, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

New editor needs assistance with first article

I am soliciting support from this project's members to lend a hand to a new editor User Talk:Commvolunteer and their first article Virginia Canals and Navigations Society. The article was PRODed but no one has attempted to help this editor or article. Certainly a 33 year society has recieved sufficient coverage in 3rd party sources to support notability. This editor just needs help finding them. Thanks--Mike Cline (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

List of missing vehicle topics

I've updated my list of missing vehicle topics - Skysmith (talk) 12:19, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Road tax rename

FYI, Road tax has been nominated for renaming. 70.29.208.247 (talk) 13:04, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

China National Highway 110 traffic jam deletion discussion

Article China National Highway 110 traffic jam is up for deletion discussions. Express your opinion if you have something to contribute. --Kslotte (talk) 19:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Rename

• Category:Transportation disasters by country -> Category:Transport disasters by country - match the individual article names, match Commons
• Category:Transportation in Asia -> Category:Transport in Asia - match majority of subcategories, match Commons
  • Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, South and North Korea should be renamed too
• Category:Transportation by country -> Category:Transport by country - match majority of subcategories, match Commons

TruckCard (talk) 21:14, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Transport articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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We would like to ask you to review the Transport articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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Transportation in the Soviet Union created

I've created this page, and I'm looking for some help. Are any of you interested in helping a fellow wikipedia contributor? If so, reply. --TIAYN (talk) 20:43, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Boats

FYI, there is a proposal for a WP:BOATS to cover watercraft that are smaller than those bannered by WP:SHIPS. As several watercraft articles have been debannered from WPSHIPS, it seems appropriate that there be a wikiproject to cover these articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Boats

76.66.199.238 (talk) 08:55, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Category hype

Categories on transportation accidents are hyped up to "disasters" as you go up the line in categorization. I have recategorized CSX 8888 incident and Category:Maritime incidents so they roll up into categorized "incidents" all the way up the line. Before, it rolled up into "accident" categories, which, in turn, rolled up into "Disaster" categories! While I have changed it for these few incidents (for CSX for 2001 only, for example), many other categories need to be defined to replace ones that wrongly promote into worse-sounding categories.

Note that Aviation was particularly careful in defining its categories to "accidents and incidents" (see for example [3] Category:Aviation accidents and incidents but nonetheless, these too are rolled up into "disasters" further up the line. Student7 (talk) 14:03, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't think this is a case of 'hype', as you claim, but rather lack of better terminology. I'd personally prefer "Disaster" to "Incident"; you claim "disaster" is too strong, but I'd claim "incident" is too weak - see, for example, the definition of "incident". You're proposing a fairly substantial re-categorization of tons of articles - which I see you've already started making changes on. Mlm42 (talk) 17:33, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I see what you're doing now; putting them under Category:Incidents, as a term for things that weren't disasterous, but were significant because maybe they could have been disasterous. Actually, that sounds like a good idea to me, but yes, a lot of work. By the way, shouldn't Category:Disasters be a subcategory of Category:Incidents? Mlm42 (talk) 17:58, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Mlm42 makes an excellent point which I hadn't considered.

I introduced several dozen categories about 5% of what is needed. I am not a transport person! So have resigned after "fixing" the one or two articles/categories I eye-balled. Good luck!  :) Student7 (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Some of which got erased! So the hypers are ahead 6 to 0. Student7 (talk) 23:27, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Tracked vehicle up for deletion

FYI, Tracked vehicle has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.202.72 (talk) 04:43, 30 November 2010 (UTC)