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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about trains and railways/railroads. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Recent changes in rail transport-related articles (list)(edit)

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Title

WikiProject Trains

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to improve the coverage of trains and all things railway/railroad in Wikipedia. In support of this goal, this WikiProject will define standards for articles and track our progress in such coverage. It will also be a central place for those interested in such topics to discuss common themes.

Articles within this project that need to be updated or created are listed on the project todo page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Todo

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

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Transport.

Descendant Wikiprojects

Similar Wikiprojects

Similar WikiProjects are:

Participants

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.

Structure

Article templates

Task forces

Task forces are informal groups of WikiProject Trains members who collaborate on certain subtopics of rail transport. In alphabetical order, the current task forces (and their main focus) include:

Article maintenance task force - performing the more mundane tasks such as bypassing disambigs and monitoring the list of articles to write.
Assessment request backlog elimination drive - To assess articles which are requested.
By country series task force - articles in the Rail transport by country and History of rail transport by country series.
Categories task force - standardize the categories under Category:Rail transport into a comprehensive system of categories.
Images task force - create and locate suitable images for use on rail transport articles and replace fair use images with free images where available and appropriate.
Locomotives task force - articles about locomotives throughout history, worldwide.
Maps task force - create and maintain standardized maps of railroad routes for rail transport articles.
Operations task force - articles about rail transport operations with particular attention to organization and inter-system generalization.
Passenger trains task force - articles about passenger trains and passenger train equipment.
Portal task force - maintenance and content updates of Portal:Trains.
Rail transport modelling task force - articles related to rail transport modelling.
Timelines task force - articles in Category:Rail transport timelines and the "Selected anniversaries" and "Trains news" sections of Portal:Trains
Trams task force. Help WP:UK Trams

Hierarchy definition

Top level

The top level page for this is rail transport.

Secondary level

Secondary levels are given in the box (discussion please)-->

the rest is to be discussed...

General strategy and discussion forum

/General
/Strategy
/Todo - articles to write and expand, links to repair.
/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.

Pages needing attention

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.

Featured articles

Rail transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		3	34	69			106
FL			9	23			32
FM					6		6
A				1			1
GA		14	147	638			799
B	6	160	568	1,209		55	1,998
C	12	187	1,416	4,850		159	6,624
Start	2	323	3,086	30,470	1	2,042	35,924
Stub	1	41	744	38,514	1	4,710	44,011
List	2	34	159	1,315	8	70	1,588
Category				11	22,975		22,986
Disambig				3	1,048		1,051
File					1,042		1,042
Portal				11	4,051		4,062
Project				1	67		68
Redirect		7	80	1,160	7,598		8,845
Template			11	92	11,687		11,790
NA			3	58	5		66
Other				9	84		93
Assessed	23	769	6,257	78,434	48,573	7,036	141,092
Unassessed			1	26	2	1,000	1,029
Total	23	769	6,258	78,460	48,575	8,036	142,121
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 477,779			Ω = 5.34

(in alphabetical order)

BC Rail - front page feature October 4 2005
Căile Ferate Române - front page feature July 22 2005
Canadian Pacific Railway - front page feature April 23 2005
Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway
Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra railway line, Sydney
Franklin B. Gowen (president of the Reading Railroad)
Indian Railways - front page feature October 16 2005
Isambard Kingdom Brunel - front page feature March 23 2006
John Bull (locomotive)
London Underground - front page feature June 21 2004
Manila Light Rail Transit System - front page feature June 30 2006
Manila Metro Rail Transit System - front page feature December 18 2006
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) - front page feature February 11 2006
MTR - front page feature June 11 2005
Pioneer Zephyr - front page feature March 23 2005
Rail transport in India - front page feature August 16 2007
Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works
TGV - front page feature January 15 2006
William N. Page (co founder of the Virginian Railway)
SkyTrain (Vancouver)

Former featured articles

These pages (in alphabetical order) were at one time Featured Articles. See the article talk pages for the rationales for delisting them.

Wigwag (railroad) - front page feature July 5 2004; delisted on March 26 2007.

Featured article candidates

Current candidates

These pages (in alphabetical order) are currently candidates for Featured Article status. Please review them and help them reach Featured status

SR West Country and Battle of Britain Classes (nomination)

Past candidates

These articles were nominated for Featured Article status, but all the objections given were not resolved before the articles were removed from the current candidates page. These articles have the potential of becoming featured articles; please review the objections and improve them so they can be promoted to featured status.

Good articles

The following articles have been identified as Good articles. They could easily become featured with a little more work, but as they stand now, they are factually accurate, contain correctly tagged images, and are referenced. Follow the guidelines and procedures at WP:GA for inclusion in this list.

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