Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Transport

Anything related to Transport in Australia is considered to be under the scope of the project. Anything under Category:Transport in Australia and its subcategories will likely be within the scope of the project. This includes all modes of transport, and not just public transport.

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of transport in Australia.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australian transport by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles in a fair and accurate manner.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australian transport in Wikipedia.
• To expand and improve existing articles, and bring some to GA or FA status.

 

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Add |transport=yes to {{WikiProject Australia}} on all relevant pages
• Engage in policy, naming suggestions and article format consistency regarding Australian transport.
  • Adopt a list of reliable sources for Australian transport-related articles.
• Engage with WikiProject Australia and WikiProject Transport and bring in editors from them.
• Determine the notability of articles within the project at AfD, and add reliable sources if possible.

Here are some tasks you can do to help at WikiProject Australian Transport:

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• Requests: - Missing topics
  • Transport in Tasmania - Core article for this WP
  • Transport in Victoria (state) - Core article for this WP
  • Transport in Western Australia - Core article for this WP
  • Transport in Australian Capital Territory - Core article for this WP
  • Transport in Northern Territory - Core article for this WP
  • Picola railway line
  • Waubra railway line
  • Grampians railway line
  • Ballarat Cattle Yards railway line
  • Wedderburn railway line
  • Maribyrnong railway line
  • Mornington Rail Trail
  • South Morang Rail Trail
  • Bunny Rail Trail
  • Mt Samaria Tramway
  • Tyers Junction Rail Trail
  • Andersons Mill Tramway
  • Great Divide Rail Trail
  • Marysville Tram Lines
  • Dookie Rail Trail
  • Plain Creek Tramway Trail
  • PS Canally
  • PS Avoca
  • PV Rothbury
  • PS Industry
  • PS Marion
  • Transport in Fremantle
  • Commonwealth Railways NA Class
  • Commonwealth Railways NFA Class
  • Launceston Tramway Museum
  • National Automobile Museum of Tasmania
  • Launceston Seaport
  • PS Mary Ann
  • PS Lady Augusta
  • PS Melbourne
  • David Munro (engineer)
  • Coleman Rail
  • EastLink WA
• Expand: - stubs: 2,100
  • Trans-Australian Railway - Rated as start-class vital article
  • Alstom Australia - include Bombardier Australia
  • Move Queensland#Transport to Transport in Queensland and expand
• Images: - requested images: 1
  • Western Port Ferries - image of boat
• Logos: - requested logos: 5
  • Fitzroy, Northcote & Preston Tramways Trust
  • Hawthorn Tramways Trust
  • Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company
  • Melbourne, Brunswick & Coburg Tramway Trust
  • Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust
• Route maps: - requested maps: 0
  • placeholder
• Audio: - requested audio: 3
  • X'Trapolis 100 - horn sound
  • Siemens Nexas - horn sound
  • High Capacity Metro Train - horn sound

Categories for discussion

• 30 Oct 2024 – Category:1500 V DC multiple units of New South Wales (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by EditorGirlAL07 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 07 Nov 2024 – Northern Suburbs Transit System (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Yanchep line by Steelkamp (t · c); see discussion
• 22 Aug 2024 – Boggo Road busway station (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Boggo Road railway station by DigitalPanda (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Aug 2024 – Park Road railway station (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Boggo Road railway station by DigitalPanda (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Townsville (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Sunshine Coast (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Rockhampton (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jun 2024 – Sunbus Cairns (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sunbus by Whiltshinx (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 08 Oct 2024 – Road toll (Australia and New Zealand) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 121.98.204.148 (t · c); see discussion

Of the 8,438 pages overseen by WikiProject Australian Transport:

For full assessment categories see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Transport/Assessments

as of 16 June 2024

For full list of recognised content see: Assessments#Recognised content

If you are interested in the project, please add yourself to the list below. Please add your state or territory of residence (if applicable) and interests (e.g. trams, Melbourne trains, historic railway lines)

1. Purin128AL (talk · contribs) – VIC, template and BSicon route map creator
2. JML1148 (talk · contribs) – VIC, interested in Victorian transport, mainly trains and proposals.
3. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) – VIC – Victorian trains, trams, paddle boats. Also templates, slight knowledge of lua modules, BSicon routes, update to old naming convention
4. NotOrrio (talk · contribs) – VIC, mainly interested in trains and buses in Melbourne but may also occasionally work on articles in other cities around Australia
5. Steelkamp (talk · contribs) – Western Australia public transport and roads
6. JarrahTree (talk · contribs) – WA – Australia wide project scope issues
7. MrActiniuM (talk · contribs) – NSW, mainly Sydney Trains & NSW Trainlink, also is avid photographer of trains, trams, ferries, planes and more.
8. Marcnut1996 (talk · contribs) – VIC, formerly NSW – NSW and Vic transport
9. Calistemon (talk · contribs) – WA, loves to take images of ships, planes and trains
10. Fork99 (talk · contribs) – NSW, mainly trains/trams in NSW, but around public transport in general.
11. Anothersignalman (talk · contribs) – VIC, rolling stock and signalling/interlocking. Previously heavily involved, limited time and energy at present given previous decisions re quality of sources and level of detail. At the time people suggested I should move all content to a Wikia page but that didn't end up working.
12. Happily888 (talk · contribs) – NSW, trains
13. Cityedit14 (talk · contribs) — SA, particularly interested in trains in Adelaide, but generally all things Adelaide Metro.
14. HoHo3143 (talk · contribs) — VIC, most transport related articles in Victoria and Australia-wide aviation articles. Mostly working on getting articles about Metro and V/Line to GA status.
15. ArrowAU (talk · contribs) — WA, primarily interested in Perth public transport, roads, some national locomotives, and limited knowledge of aviation. Some added knowledge of Routemaps and BSicons through contributions to other (fictional) transport-related wikis.
16. Jh15s (talk · contribs) — NSW, interested in transport in general. I keep an eye out in the news for any events, new projects/organisations etc. that I can add to relevant articles (or create new articles for) on Wikipedia. I've worked with BSicons as well as infoboxes and other common templates.
17. DrRespect (talk · contribs) — WA, public transport, roads, infobox maps, BSicon route and station maps
18. Alomico (talk · contribs) — NSW/VIC, Regional train lines in Victoria and trams in Melbourne.
19. CuriousSmudge123 (talk · contribs) - NSW/WA, light and heavy rail lines. I really just like trains :)
20. R23130030 (talk · contribs) — NSW, interested in light and heavy rail, particularly the Sydney Metro
21. SuIfate (talk · contribs) – VIC, suburban train/tram stations and their history
22. Takerlamar (talk · contribs) - VIC, photos of all types of transport vehicles and infrastructure, content related to cycling for transport, and data.
23. Bryce Stansfield (talk · contribs) - QLD, Translink network, freight routes, applications of operations research to transport planning. Happy to help :)
24. PEPSI697 (talk · contribs) - VIC, public transport, railway stations, railway lines, rolling stock and infrastructure contributor. Regularly maintain the Melbourne and Victoria railway stations articles for an enhanced user experience. Expand, keep up to date and expand the number of images in Melbourne railway stations articles. Occasionally update all of Australian railway station articles by improving the image captions.
25. Argmae (talk · contribs) - VIC, editing transport and infrastructure pages for an enhanced user experience, uploading regularly updated images of railway stations, rolling stock and other Melbourne infrastructure.
26. Tomiĉo (talk · contribs) – NSW, Sydney

Members of WikiProject Australian Transport should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Australian Transport participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Australian Transport participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Australian Transport}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Australian Transport.	linked pages

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Australian Transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA		1	4	5		10
FL		1				1
FM					2	2
A		1	1			2
GA	1	1	14	40		56
B	12	23	42	304		381
C	10	28	82	872		992
Start	6	12	61	2,479	2	2,560
Stub			7	2,092	1	2,100
List	2	5	20	108		135
Category					1,168	1,168
Disambig					29	29
File					74	74
Project					64	64
Redirect	1		1	26	150	178
Template					667	667
NA			1	2	2	5
Other			1	1	9	11
Assessed	32	72	234	5,929	2,168	8,435
Total	32	72	234	5,929	2,168	8,435
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 30,625			Ω = 5.02

To add an article to the project, please paste the template {{WikiProject Australia|transport=yes}} at the top of the article's talk page

For more detailed assessment please paste the following, filling in the importance section:

{{WikiProject Australia|transport=yes|transport-importance=}}

If you have any questions about article assessment, or want someone to check over your assessment, please ask at the talk page.

There is a semi-automated script that you can use that might help in adding WikiProjects quicker. See WP:RATER for more details.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian transport/Images
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Transport/Sources
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Transport/Templates
• User:HoHo3143/Improving Melbourne train station articles
• Draft of an updated naming convention for Australian transport covering names of lines, services and stations as well as the BSicon diagrams.

If you have created an article, significantly updated or extended an article, or brought an article to good article, featured article, or featured list status, and it is a part of the project, please list it here. Idea shamelessly stolen from WikiProject Australian maritime history.

1. Example - Example.

• Transport Canberra
• Transport for New South Wales
• Public transport in Northern Territory
• Translink (Queensland)
• Metro Tasmania
• Adelaide Metro
• Public Transport Victoria
• Public Transport Authority (Western Australia)

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