Template talk:WikiProject Trains/Archive 1

message: This template is, I think, too big compared to some other project membership templates that I've seen recently.  I'd like to propose shortening it to something like the following:
	This article is part of WikiProject Trains.
We could, while we're at it, follow the lead of  and integrate the portal DYK date template to display something like:
 	This article is part of WikiProject Trains.
?	A fact from this article appeared in the "Did you know" section of Portal:Trains on June 26 2006.
but I'm not as keen on that.  I'm more partial to the first option shown here, unless we can come up with something that looks better... Slambo (Speak) 13:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually like the template in its present form.  Check out :Template:WPMILHIST for another "take" on message box templates for talk pages.--Lordkinbote 17:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Looking through some of the other assessment categories, I see lists that are one page long (the FA-class categories) up to as many as 27 pages long (the unassessed categories), so this shouldn't be a concern for us.  So, are there any objections to implementing the third/fourth examples shown here? Slambo (Speak) 11:04, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like them!--Lordkinbote 15:27, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've got a mockup with the optional parameters to make it behave like is shown here at User:Slambo/Template test 4, with sample output testing on User:Slambo/Template usage test.  Is there anything else that should be included?  Slambo (Speak) 19:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Testing complete, reusing that testing location for another template.  Slambo (Speak) 13:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abridged template proposal 

message: I've been following the discussions at Wikipedia:Mini Talkpage Template pretty closely.  The proposal has now reached a consensus that talk page templates like this one should implement small as an optional parameter; if it's set to yes, then it should display in a smaller format like can be seen on Talk:Leonardo da Vinci.  I expect to implement this parameter here by this weekend (although with my obligations to display NTrak modules at Trainfest this weekend, don't hold me to a specific deadline date). Slambo (Speak) 14:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Adding small=yes will make the template use a smaller display format similar to the others described above. Slambo (Speak) 17:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

text: The small size is now being used on Talk:TGV.  As you can see there, we need to work out shorter text for a few of the parameter outputs. Any suggestions? Slambo (Speak) 12:21, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smaller size soon to be available... 

message: Can someone please remove :Category:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation articles from this template? Everything in it is also placed in a sub-category. --NE2 06:59, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: done. Slambo (Speak) 11:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redundant category

message: Please could an editor with sufficient privileges modify this template to use the image:   in place of the current one, for the option selected by parameter UK=yes, as discussed at talk:WikiProject UK Railways regards, Lynbarn
:Done.  Slambo (Speak) 09:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New image for UK use

message: Can someone please incorporate the Wikipedia:WikiProject Metros of the former Soviet Union into this template, so the Soviet Metro and the Trains WikiProjects can share a template. Any objections? —dima/s-ko/ 19:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: (catching up on replies here...) The SovMetro=yes parameter will do this. Slambo (Speak) 11:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New subproject

message: Could you please remove the WP:LT tag from this template and replace it on WP:LT articles with our full template - WP London Transport - please? Unisouth 15:41, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject London Transport

message: I've recently rated most of the Rapid transit lists as list-class. They show as list-class, but also as unassessed. Might that be changed in the template, please? I added the list-class parameter in the WPRT template, but this one seems to be overriding it somehow. Guess I've reached my limits on comprehension of esoteric syntax. If there's a reason for list-class articles to also show as unassessed, though, could that be explained on the main template page, please? Thanks, and later, folks. -Ebyabe 14:24, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm looking into this... Slambo (Speak) 18:05, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Slambo (Speak) 18:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Danke! That's made the unassessed gone below 200. :) -Ebyabe 20:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List-Class assessments 

message: Could you change the very first line from:
{| 
to:
{| class=""
|-

This will add the "nesting" option that's being used by .  Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 01:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 10Q very much!  to see it in action :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Nesting Option? 

message: Can we add something here so we can type whos adopted the article, as WP:UKT has an adopt an article scheme? i dont know what pic to use... ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book
:We could, but would it be better to use  instead?  With that template, we don't have to worry so much about multiproject collaborations (i.e. Wisconsin and Southern Railroad being maintained by members of both WikiProject Trains and WikiProject Wisconsin). Slambo (Speak) 19:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not particularly comfortable with the adopt an article concept and have explained this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways where I would welcome others opinions on this issue. Adambro 20:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've disabled the editprotected request while discussion continues. Cheers. --MZMcBride 20:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, i dont mind slambo's idea, i'll do that then. Thanks! ACBestMy ContributionsAutograph Book 07:02, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  adopt an article 

message: I need an admin to update the template to a new version (I'm using my unprivileged account on a public wireless access point right now).  The code to be copied is at User:Slambo/TWP test.  Copy that code over the code on this template, but please ensure that the noinclude section here is preserved.  Thanks. Slambo 42 12:59, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: done. — Carl (CBM · talk) 18:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update ready for rollout 

message: There is now an SVG version of :Image:Kanji railway icon transparent.png available so if someone with the power to change the image in the template (see here for an example of the image in use) would do so, it would be greatly appreciated. -Nameneko 21:37, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 22:28, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVG version of [[:Image:Kanji railway icon transparent.png]] now available 

message: Please remove the former monorails task force from this template.--MrFishGo Fish 17:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Coming up... Slambo (Speak) 17:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Done. Slambo (Speak) 18:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit Please

message: I probably missed a }} somewhere, but the importance rating isn't getting suppressed for NA or Category class pages like it should; the importance used to be suppressed for list class as well, but after discussions on the 1.0 project pages, we now do want importance ratings for lists (this part is working correctly).  I plan to take a closer look at it this weekend (in my test area), but if someone else wants to jump in and find the problem first, just leave a note here.  Slambo (Speak) 22:50, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance not getting suppressed when it should be 

message: I've just installed an update that I've been working on for this template.  I tried to solicit comments from members of the project, and integrated all the feedback I got.  This update was developed at User:Slambo/TWP test 1, and subtemplates User:Slambo/TWP test 1/portalbox, User:Slambo/TWP test 1/associated and User:Slambo/TWP test 1/tasks. Slambo (Speak) 11:26, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated 

message: Someone should convert this template to Template:WPBannerMeta. Gary King (talk) 01:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convert to [[Template:WPBannerMeta]] 

message: When used within , the [hide]/[show] link in  has a layout problem. When in the collapsed form, [show] is right-justified just like all other [hide]/[show] (regardless of state) for all the banners. However, when in the expanded form, [hide] shifts left, a behavior different from other banners (and surprising that a toggle-switch moves when being toggled:). It appears to be grouped/positioned with the text, which is all to the left of the Trains Portal box. See Talk:Canton Viaduct for demo. Not sure if it's a misuse/misapplication of  here. However I note that the TWP template appears to have subst'ed WPBM or cut'n'pasted some other attempt at nesting features rather than transcluding it (nonstandard vs other banners that I spot-checked). DMacks (talk) 05:08, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nesting problem 

message: Would someone kindly incorporate Wikipedia:WikiProject Rail transport in Jamaica into this template. You might like to use the flag icon from :Template:WikiProject Caribbean.  Many thanks. -Arb. (talk) 00:59, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another new subproject 

message: Would it be possible to create aliases for the following parameters which invoke the Wikiproject London Transport sub-section? As the project covers more than just the London Underground, they would be better named as indicated. The existing parameters would need to remain to avoid breaking the banners that use the current parameter names.
Current       	Alias
Underground   	LT
LUL-importance	LT-importance
--DavidCane (talk) 23:25, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aliases for Wikiproject London Transport parameters 

message: I've been working on a new version of the project banner which uses WPBannerMeta. You can see the current version of this in the sandbox.  There is also the current and sandbox version on the testcases page so that they can be compared.
There are a few of small issues with some of the category names which will mean that some categories would need to be renamed if the sandbox version was to be used:
*For Rapid transit assessment categories, the quality ones have a capital R and the importance ones have a lower case r. One set will need renaming to make them consistent, so I've chosen the importance ones to be renamed.
*For WikiProject Transport in Scotland:
** Items currently in :Category:WikiProject Transport in Scotland categories would move to :Category:Category-Class Scotland Transport articles
** Items currently in :Category:WikiProject Transport in Scotland templates would move to :Category:Template-Class Scotland Transport articles
**(as these are currently split anyway, it makes sense to consolodate them into one location)
*For New Zealand Railways (NZR) assessment categories, the quality ones use "New Zealand Railways" and the importance ones use "NZR". One set will need renaming to make them consistent, so I've chosen the importance ones to be renamed.
There's still a bit more testing and tweaking to do but any comments are welcome. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also added the requests in the two sections above to the sandbox banner as well. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:07, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: WikiProject Transport in Scotland has a wider scope than TrainsWikiProject, in that it also includes other forms of transport, such as roads, motorways, buses, ferries, bridges, etc. So, not all of WikiProject Transport in Scotland's "articles" are TrainsWikiProject's articles (and obviously - vica versa). I've no idea whether it has any impact on your proposals, but I'm highlighting it anyway. Pyrotec (talk) 19:12, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm aware that WikiProject Transport in Scotland has their own banner (WPTIS, which is already using WPBannerMeta) and the changes to the TrainsWikiProject won't affect that apart from the issue with the categories that I've already mentioned above and that is on the TrainsWikiProject side anyway. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

text: Thanks for your comments. I'm going to request an admin to copy the sandbox version over now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

text: I've done it. This is the first time the size of the template has increased on conversion, which suggests that the previous version was coded quite efficiently! I'm not satisfied with the use of  because it is interrupting the flow of text in the banner. Could this possibly be fixed? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason that this size has grown is because most of the content was in two subtemplates ( & ). Do you have any suggestions for the portalbox part, as it's not possible to use the builtin portal features of WPBannerMeta. Also, I've missed off HOOK_NESTED, so that's something I've got to fix. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:07, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

text: —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 23:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion of banner to using WPBannerMeta 

message: I see that the new template is the standard now. Unfortunatley it blanks out the image details parameter. ----DanTD (talk) 02:56, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, that was a mistake on my part. I had used  rather than . I've fixed it in the sandbox. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:45, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

text: . I've also changed the portal box until we can sort that out. Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix it though. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:23, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The portalbox looks fine if you don't have the navbar display set. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh really? Could we test it on a selection of browsers just to make sure? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:39, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Similar issue on both Firefox & IE. TrainsWikiProject/portalbox and Portal templates contain similar code for styling and classes. Adding a  option just before the Navbar in WPBannerMeta/core would all the issue to be resolved as I could then put the portal code against that hook. There may be other ways to fix it with styles but that's not something I could easily work out. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image details blanked 

message: In updating the portal today, I noticed there are still a few issues with the new template code.  On Talk:Paveletsky Rail Terminal, the template call is: 
:
The problems I see are:
* The infobox task is not shown in the banner display (whoops, this was my misspelling in the template call)
* The unref parameter is not sorting this article into the correct categories; the article is currently sorted into both :Category:Unreferenced New York City public transportation articles and :Category:Unreferenced Scotland Transport articles but not :Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles
* The portal usage date is not displayed in the portal box.  I see a note above about other work on the portalbox, so I'm guessing that someone is looking into this part already.
Thanks.  Slambo (Speak) 11:33, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Talk:Paveletsky Rail Terminal is actually in :Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles but it is just that it is a hidden category. You need to enable "Show hidden categories" on the appearances section of your preferences in order to see hidden categories or edit  :Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles and remove . As to the portal issue, MSGJ disabled it when the other changes were copied over. Hopefully he will re-enable it soon. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:15, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, but as the article is about a station in Russia, adding it to the New York and Scotland categories is illogical and incorrect. Slambo (Speak) 11:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I misread your comment. I've spotted where the problem was, an extra } that shouldn't have been there. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:03, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional problems since migration 

message: Many of the options to this template produce text along the lines of
: This page is maintained by WikiProject FOOBAR.
which sounds uncomfortably as if the WikiProject in question pretends to own the article. I have often had to remove |Stations=yes| or |Metro=yes| from articles that have had no edits at all from members of the specified WikiProject, and thus where that project cannot meaningfully be said ever to have "maintained" it in a meaningful sense. Several times I myself has been the only substantial contributor to an article before somebody comes along and edits the talk page (only!) with a tag that seems to assign all credit for the article to somebody else.
Could the wording be changed to something less exclusive, such as
: This page is within the scope of WikiProject FOOBAR.
please? –Henning Makholm 16:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Slambo (Speak) 11:27, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. –Henning Makholm 00:56, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have found the reason for that.  and  are unrecognised; if these had been entered as  and  the relevant teams would have noticed them. I have added a note to the documentation stressing the importance of parameter name capitalisation. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:19, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: General edit request: This page is maintained by XXX

message: Can someone add a new sub-project, something like railway_engineering, .  This would be good for articles like Voith and Siemens subsidiary Siemens Transportation Systems (look at their "Wegberg-Wildenrath Test Center" for an example of the scope of work they do) - who are involved in either the major infrastructures, or the manufacture of rail-specific projects.  I know you have the locos sub-project, but that doesn't really cover the full scope of what Siemens Transportation Systems, Voith, and other similar companies offer.  Kind regards.  78.32.143.113 (talk) 08:55, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you discuss this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:36, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New sub-project 

message: Regarding  - see WP:BOTREQ#Railway station talk pages not showing WikiProject Stations. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stations parameter 

message: |TF_1_ASSESSMENT_CAT = New York City public transportation articles|TF_1_MAIN_CAT     = 
becomes
|TF_1_ASSESSMENT_CAT = New York City public transportation articles|TF_1_MAIN_CAT     = All New York City public transportation articles
Since WP:NYCPT is a combination of a banner and 2 taskforces on other projects, I am creating a category to contain all pages so Article Alerts can be set up when they resume.— Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 23:56, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:42, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Train2104, 3 November 2010 

message: Currently some requests are duplicated in :Category:UK rail transport articles needing images or :Category:New York City public transportation articles needing images and in the parent :Category:Rail transport articles needing images. The parent category needs to contain less article image requests so that tools such as image search can easily be used on it. Template:WikiProject Trains/sandbox has been updated to edit required. --Traveler100 (talk) 09:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That is not a simple template. You will to get a working version in Template:WikiProject Trains/sandbox, and then request a change.  Ronhjones  (Talk) 01:22, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  What is not working in the sandbox version? Test I have made looked fine? --Traveler100 (talk) 05:57, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry, late night, there was a load of other edit requests without a sandbox version, thought this was similar.  Ronhjones  (Talk) 18:19, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  imageneeded cat 

message: Add the category :Category:WikiProject Stations articles to the syntax for when the banner has the |stations=yes parameter. Rcsprinter (talkin' to me?) 20:47, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems reasonable, . --Redrose64 (talk) 22:30, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: Starting to split :Category:Rail transport articles needing images into more manageable chunks of data. First stage of edits made in sandbox.--Traveler100 (talk) 09:58, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Before making this live, I've tweaked it a little so that the legacy parameters  and  (which are both still in use on several talk pages) are treated similarly to the recommended parameters  and  - how's that? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  thanks for the corrections, I will be more careful of legacy variants in future. --Traveler100 (talk) 19:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done The cats are already populating. Before I began, each of the three had exactly one page, due to . --Redrose64 (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  image requests 

message: I attempted to add |Passenger=yes to the template which is what is prescribed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Passenger trains task force. Apparently, this switch is case sensitive, so in order for an article to be added to this task force, this must be changed to |passenger=yes (lower case 'p'). I notice in the code for this template that provisions seems to have been taken with respect to this for the Locomotives task force. Perhaps this could be implemented for all task forces so that all articles are directed appropriately irrespective of case. __meco (talk) 11:16, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm trying to move the other direction to use only lower case parameter names for task forces where the word isn't a proper noun or country abbreviation.  I've been updating the template usage as I find it manually; I'm not as experienced in bot writing and maintenance to perform this task automatically.  The template was originally coded with capitalized parameter names, but conventions have moved toward using lower case parameter names in other standard templates (i.e. the various citation templates).  Switching the parameter name to only lower case simplifies the code and retains consistency with other templates.  Slambo (Speak) 11:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I sympathize with yout reasoning. My only concern is that many articles may not be assigned correctly because of this. If a bot could go through all instances of this template and make the necessary adjustment that would suffice (see Wikipedia:Bot requests). And of course, all task forces must give the correct instructions. __meco (talk) 12:28, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

text: The fix would be simple and it would comply with the spelling of the proper name of the task force.  The task force is known as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Passenger trains task force, and the text substituted into the banner appears as "This article is supported by the Passenger trains task force." that is, with an upper case P on the word Passenger.  The distinction between proper and improper (generic) nouns does not explain why |Imageneeded=yes and |imageneeded=yes are treated equivalently but |Passenger=yes is meaningless and |passenger=yes is the only parameter officially recognized.  It also does not explain the acceptance of both |Mapneeded=yes and |mapneeded=yes or the other [Mm]ap and [Ii]mage related parameters.  Nor does it adequately explain why |Locos=yes and |locos=yes are both acceptable (the term is not even a word, it is a pluralized abbreviation of the generic word locomotive).  It remains a further mystery that Slambo used the |Passenger=yes non-parameter when making edits such as this, this, this, this, this, or in fact dozens (possibly hundreds) of similar banner parameter edits.  Allowing the parameter to reflect the name of the task force seems like it would align with people's expectation of this template's behavior, including the apparent expectation of Slambo.  Pedro Xing (talk) 05:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The parameters which are case-insensitive on first letter (such as ,  and ) are in the minority. Nevertheless, I have set up  to be an alias for , . It's done in such a way that existing uses of  are unaffected; and if the page has both forms,  will be ignored. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:21, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you very much Redrose64.  In the :Category:Passenger trains task force articles there are now 1,661 articles, whereas just a couple of days ago there were only 1,071.  Hence close to 590 articles were added to that category, and the task force's responsibility list, by the template change you've made.  I think Meco's concerns were well founded and this should put the matter to rest. Pedro Xing (talk) 04:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  case sensitivity 

message: : The fix would be simple and it would comply with the spelling of the proper name of the task force.  The task force is known as the Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Passenger trains task force, and the text substituted into the banner appears as "This article is supported by the Passenger trains task force." that is, with an upper case P on the word Passenger.  The distinction between proper and improper (generic) nouns does not explain why |Imageneeded=yes and |imageneeded=yes are treated equivalently but |Passenger=yes is meaningless and |passenger=yes is the only parameter officially recognized.  It also does not explain the acceptance of both |Mapneeded=yes and |mapneeded=yes or the other [Mm]ap and [Ii]mage related parameters.  Nor does it adequately explain why |Locos=yes and |locos=yes are both acceptable (the term is not even a word, it is a pluralized abbreviation of the generic word locomotive).  It remains a further mystery that Slambo used the |Passenger=yes non-parameter when making edits such as this, this, this, this, this, or in fact dozens (possibly hundreds) of similar banner parameter edits.  Allowing the parameter to reflect the name of the task force seems like it would align with people's expectation of this template's behavior, including the apparent expectation of Slambo.  Pedro Xing (talk) 05:44, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The parameters which are case-insensitive on first letter (such as ,  and ) are in the minority. Nevertheless, I have set up  to be an alias for , . It's done in such a way that existing uses of  are unaffected; and if the page has both forms,  will be ignored. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:21, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you very much Redrose64.  In the :Category:Passenger trains task force articles there are now 1,661 articles, whereas just a couple of days ago there were only 1,071.  Hence close to 590 articles were added to that category, and the task force's responsibility list, by the template change you've made.  I think Meco's concerns were well founded and this should put the matter to rest. Pedro Xing (talk) 04:23, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Revived discussion December 2012

message: I'm in the early stages of developing a Lua-based replacement for , and I would appreciate peoples ideas for features. If there is anything that you have wanted to do with your WikiProject template, but haven't been able to due to limitations in the meta-template, I would be very interested to hear it. The discussion is over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:46, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature brainstorm for [[Module:WikiProjectBanner]] 

message: Can anyone see an issue with changing the category names for articles needing images to match the  format? This will allow people to use the TrainWikiProject template parameters or reqphoto with the result ending up in the same place.
* :Category:Rail transport articles needing images to :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of rail transport
* :Category:New York City public transportation articles needing images to :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of New York City public transportation
* :Category:UK rail transport articles needing images to :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of UK rail transport
Traveler100 (talk) 07:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  name of image request categories 

message: Below tf2 Streetcars please add "|TF_2_PORTAL =Trams" to link the newly created portal to the relevant articles. --ELEKHHT 02:43, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: This WikiProject banner doesn't handle portals in the usual way. Instead, it has a subtemplate Template:WikiProject Trains/portalbox; you can see the appearance of that if you examine a banner where   or  is set, such as Talk:East Croydon station which has all three. --Redrose64 (talk) 07:27, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I see. Than both templates need to be changed so that when "streetcars=yes" is added to this one a link to portal trams appears. --ELEKHHT 07:42, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, two templates to change. The portal box would change  (see demo at right) and Template:WikiProject Trains would need one line adding, . --Redrose64 (talk) 08:23, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for figuring out how it works. Can we implement it? --ELEKHHT 08:30, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done Have a look at Talk:East Croydon station now... --Redrose64 (talk) 08:43, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! The design of this banner is a bit cluttered, but is ok for now. --ELEKHHT 08:48, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Trams portal

message: As part of a nearly-completed shift to distinguish requests for photos from requests for images in general, it is requested that this template be modified to place talk pages in "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories, rather than the old "Wikipedia requested photographs of..." categories. As such, please supplement all references to "photo(s) of..." and "photograph(s) of..." with "image(s) of..." in both the template and its documentation, while maintaining backwards compatibility for the old "photo" parameters. In particular, change "photograph or picture" to simply "image". Note that the "Wikipedia requested images of..." categories have already been created. Thank you! — s w p b T 15:30, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Mock-up in sandbox. — s w p b T 14:58, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  . Next time please explicitly refresh the sandbox first before adding your changes so that they're visible in isolation. Mackensen (talk) 13:14, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change photo requests to image requests 

message: If possible, can a corresponding subcategory in :Category:Stations articles by quality please be trancluded if both  and  are defined? The only way now for articles to show up in those categories is if  is invoked, while I'd say that a combination of  and  is equivalent. --HyperGaruda (talk) 19:06, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please spell this out in more detail, or just code it yourself in Template:WikiProject Trains/sandbox and test it in Template:WikiProject Trains/testcases. It's not entirely clear what you want here. Disabling the edit protected request pending some clarification.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  02:19, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I am trying to get something similar to what is now the case for  and . For example,  directly adds the page to both :Category:Stub-Class rail transport articles and :Category:Stub-Class Rapid transit articles. If  is transcluded, I'd like to see the page sorted into :Category:Stub-Class rail transport articles and :Category:Stub-Class Stations articles. I think I have copied the relevant parameters in Special:Diff/803552018, but to test this, I would need a test case which includes category sorting. It is probably easier for a template editor to check this in a preview page with the real deal (e.g. Talk:Maastricht Noord railway station). --HyperGaruda (talk) 06:08, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: So to double check this, you want :Category:Stations articles by quality added iff  and ? Ideally I'd like to see this sandboxed, but if the answer to my question is "yes" then I can probably implement that. Primefac (talk) 13:05, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Why ? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:26, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, typo. Was meant to say stations. Amended above. Primefac (talk) 02:21, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Excuse me for getting back to this so late. The short answer is yes. The diff provided earlier is the sandboxed version you wanted, I just don't have the proper means to test it. --HyperGaruda (talk) 17:27, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You test it in Template:WikiProject Trains/testcases.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  04:50, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: What I have been trying to tell all along is that transcluding the sandbox template in Template:WikiProject Trains or any of its subpages (like Template:WikiProject Trains/testcases) cannot be checked for proper categorisation due to some sort of category suppression. However, I have found a workaround: I'll transclude it to its talk page. I'll get back to you once I've established a diff. --HyperGaruda (talk) 17:31, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

text: .  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ<  20:39, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 2 October 2017 

message: In Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_141#RFC:_Should_Wikipedia_have_lists_of_transportation_service_destinations?, an issue has emerged over the syntax that adds articles to the category :Category:Unreferenced rail transport articles if the parameter unref is set to "yes". The word "unreferenced" conflicts with the vaguer wording in the template documentation, "lacks references"; more so with that in the category description, "that lack references and/or adequate inline citations"; and most of all with the wording in the project banner, "This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations". We could remove this category link or we could change the associated category to a new one, perhaps :Category:Insufficiently referenced rail transport articles. Over 22,000 articles are affected. Are there any comments please?: Noyster  (talk),  12:23, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm probably the editor who has applied  to the vast majority of articles in my 14 years of editing.  I was thinking about this a little more this week, and thought that  still has value for articles with no references, but the project would be better served by adding something like  that would then add articles to its own tracking category.  Rather than the category name you suggested, I think :Category:Rail transport articles needing additional references as a subcategory of :Category:All articles needing additional references would be a better answer. Slambo (Speak) 14:48, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

text: I have a test version in Template:WikiProject Trains/sandbox.  It could be improved further by checking if both  and  are set and then either throwing an error or displaying only one of the two (my first thought would be to go with  for the priority). Slambo (Speak) 11:13, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have seen no objections to this strategy after four days so I plan to make this live this weekend. Slambo (Speak) 11:21, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Works for me; I can assist with source review. Mackensen (talk) 14:19, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

text: I've gone through the first batch of articles (those beginning with a number) to recategorize them as appropriate.  I see that at least one other editor started at the other end of the alphabet.  So far, it looks pretty straightforward and I haven't seen any issues with this process.  If you edit to recategorize, please note that there still are many articles that should keep , as you can see from the first batch still in the unreferenced category.  Thanks! Slambo (Speak) 16:27, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorisation as "unreferenced" 

message: The name of Portal:London Transport has been changed to change the capital "T" to a lowercase "t". 
In , please change London Transport Portal to London transport Portal to avoid redirects.
--DavidCane (talk) 16:00, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:34, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks--DavidCane (talk) 16:43, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for edit to template sub-page 

message: This template contains parameters for WikiProject Rail transport in Jamaica, added per the request at #Another new subproject.  The WikiProject never really got off the ground (see deletion discussion) and is inactive—the project's creator and sole member has been inactive since 2015.  Currently, only seven pages are marked using this parameter, and all of them are also tagged separately with .  Is there really any ongoing need to retain this parameter? -- Black Falcon (talk) 17:37, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Ping. The project is currently userfied at User:Arb/WikiProject Rail transport in Jamaica, but these parameters continue to populate :Category:WikiProject Rail transport in Jamaica. Does the project wish to retain this parameter, or is it fine to remove it? If it should be removed, I can perform the necessary updates and minor associated cleanup. -- Black Falcon (talk) 15:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think it's probably fine to remove it. Mackensen (talk) 15:23, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jamaica subproject