Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport

Archives

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12

The project's third birthday is approaching next Monday, and I think this project page (not the Portal page) is in dire need of a good spring clean as there are a number of sections which seem to be dead now and there seems to be no coherent order. The scope section could really do with a rewrite as well.

The following sections appear to be unused:

• News
• WikiProject London Transport Milestones
• Project outreach

The following sub-areas appear to be dormant:

• Taskforces - the buses taskforce has no members and the others have only two or three.
• Requests

Any suggestions for what should be kept, what should go and anything that should be added? --DavidCane (talk) 22:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone? --DavidCane (talk) 22:11, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not much has happened really from what i see. The news section has really been taken over by the Met and same for Milestones. Requests are happening everywhere except the requests page. I'm not sure. Simply south (talk) 10:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Right, since there have been no specific comments, I am going to start an improvement exercise on the Project Page. This may mean things move around a bit or disappear for a while. The aim is to get rid of a lot of the redundant stuff and modernise the page and sub-pages and make it look something like the WP:LONDON project pages. --DavidCane (talk) 23:13, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The complete reformatting of the WP:LT pages (including this one) is now complete. Hope you like the colours! Information has been reorganised for easier and clearer access and a batch of dead-ends and cobwebbed corners have been eliminated. If you discover an orphaned corner which I have missed, let me know and I'll give it the new look. --DavidCane (talk) 14:42, 3 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Someone has been redirecting buses pages which they don't find notable, in some cases pages had enough info, and still developing. I've undid three pages what I found, like London Buses route 356 so if you find any more can you please undo the redirect edit, thanks.Likelife (talk) 08:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't tell anyone I told you this, but what you can do is have a look at the User Contributions for your 'troublemaker', and act accordingly. This should, at the very least, narrow your search! (see here for contributions of the appropriaate time-span -- there's quite a lot!)

However, having looked at this prolific editor's record, they must have had a good reason for making the changes, so I would suggest acting cautiously and perhaps ask for (their?) assistance in improving the pages to avoid the issues raised.

EdJogg (talk) 10:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You have recreated the articles but are still failing to show that they meet WP:N in any way. Are you going to do this or shall I send them to AfD? Jeni ^(talk) 12:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have some train and train station pictures. Please see my gallery at User:Tyw7/gallery. --Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 23:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notified here because this is the relevant project. The London School Buses article is up for deletion. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/London School Buses--Oakshade (talk) 22:23, 9 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Further to the deletion of the former {{nearest tube}}, etc. partially because they were 'decorated with roundels'; and partially due to the expressed preference for only including this information as narrative text. User:Cherryguy93 is adding a table of "Public transport access" to the front of articles such as London Eye and V&A Museum of Childhood. Some of the tables have roundels. Can I ask if we have a view on this? I'm happy to have the information included - at the end of the article (not the most important element in an article); but don't want to find us having to go through another 'removal' exercise, as when the templates were deleted. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 14:46, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Totally endorse removal. Quite aside from the whole "we're not a travel guide" issue, these are unmaintainable unless someone's planning to watchlist and maintain every article in London. London buses change their routes more often than some people change their underwear. If anyone wants to find out how to get to-and-from particular places, TfL Journey Planner will be delighted to oblige. – iridescent 16:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Again, totally endorse removal. Cherryguy93 has done a great job with graphics for individual London Underground lines, but as Iridescent said, TfL is the place to go for such information, not Wikipedia. WilliamH (talk) 14:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After a recent request, I added WikiProject London Transport to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject London Transport/Favourite pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:14, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article, but needs some work: North and West London Light Railway. MRSC (talk) 19:54, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New article on Baker Street and Waterloo Railway just uploaded covering the pre-LPTB history of the Bakerloo line. That's the last of the Yerkes tubes done. Going to nominate this for GA. --DavidCane (talk) 03:24, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Portal:London Transport for Featured Portal status. The nomination is here, if anyone wants to keep follow what's going on.--DavidCane (talk) 01:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, all the london bus articles are being deleted by User:Jenuk1985 I believe that this is a problem and would like ideas on what to do, Cheers! Crest of London ^(T|C|A) 20:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]