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Welcome to the WikiProject Trucks. This is a WikiProject to improve articles on trucks, truckparts and truck manufacturers. Please feel free to edit this page, but discussions should be kept on the talk page of this project.

Goals

The purpose of this WikiProject is to co-ordinate articles on light, medium and heavy trucks. It aims to improve the coverage of manufacturers and models, and to make articles on trucks uniform and informative.

Scope

This project proposes to work with all pages related to the type of road or off-road vehicle commonly known as truck or lorry.

Guidelines[edit]

Participants[edit]

--Saltysailor (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • TicketMan - Talk - contribs 22:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Duncan1800 I like lots of different trucks, but I'm based in the USA which limits me somewhat. I do agree about the need for consistency among truck articles and will do what I can to help fix it.
  • ɯɐʇsnɾı (talk) 16:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Stian Former truck driver, diesel addict and Peterbilt fan. Slowly working on the US CDL article as my first WikiProject Trucks project!
  • Chevymontecarlo (talk) 15:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC) - Extending and copyediting truck stubs.Reply[reply]
  • Orsd {talk} Most likely semi-participant but will try to drop by and help with US truck related articles.
  • FrankyLeRoutier (talk) 04:17, 27 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Midder Ford (Ford Trucks Including F-series, L-series, LCF and, more.*AMERICAN*) 21:07, 7 December 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC) (I like to create/edit pages on Toyota trucks)Reply[reply]

Inactive Participants[edit]

Pre 2013
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
  • Rotten Stone (vintage Volvo and Scania)
  • FabioTalk Definitely agree, there needs to be a more uniform article structure on trucks and i think a project may accomplish this.
  • G®iffen (Semi-participating. Basics om new European models, truck purposes, finding suitable pictures, translating from Scandinavian + eventually German texts)
  • Hasannur OK, I'm interested and willing to help
  • Tepoo (I'll probably be semi-participant like G®iffen but I definitely agree there should be better consistency amongst lorry related articles. Interested about truck manufacturers from Northern Europe and on more general view keeping articles well formed.)
  • --HybridBoy 11:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • --Hencetalk (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • John Carter (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Dionysus_ab I'll try to help. Trucking experience in Europe, N. Africa and N. America; not much experience on Wikipedia, though.
  • VWphaetonfan VW Enthusiast, I created the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles page and am a lover of all things VW be it small cars to large trucks.
  • Truck driver from the USA, 3 years experience. I train new drivers so I have lots of knowledge of truck regulations and whatnot. Doing what I can to improve old articles and create new ones. ErgoSum88 (talk) 10:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • Stonufka I'm in, mainly into Tatra and Volvo.
  • Whitfan I'll go in as a semi-participant. Caterpillar and Western Star are my specialty, and anything to do with the Australian industry. (Road Trains FTW!)
  • DAFMM (talk) - all British trucks (in particular ERF).
  • The Crunchy Nutter (talk) 09:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC) - Working on the Scania articleReply[reply]
  • Vegavairbob I have contributed to several truck articles including Chevrolet El Camino and GMC motorhome 01:39, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Templates[edit]

About templates, see section /Templates.

Categories[edit]

Please use one of the following categories when writing a truck related article.

Stubs[edit]

Instead of using the standard {{stub}} template, you may want to use one of the following more specific vehicle stub tags, some of which are:

Lists[edit]

Article alerts[edit]

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

Articles[edit]

Trucks articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Total
FA 2 2
GA 1 1 6 8
B 1 7 5 16 29
C 9 32 99 141 281
Start 5 40 191 452 688
Stub 38 158 196
List 2 10 12 18 42
Category 215 215
Disambig 4 4
Project 5 5
Template 40 40
NA 118 118
Other 17 17
Assessed 17 90 348 791 399 1,645
Total 17 90 348 791 399 1,645
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 5,843 Ω = 4.85

Recognized content[edit]

Featured articles[edit]

Good articles[edit]

TFAs (Today's Featured Article)[edit]

DYKs (Did You Knows)[edit]

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections[edit]

Formerly recognized content[edit]

Former featured articles[edit]

Former good articles[edit]

Things to do[edit]

  • Guidelines for the structure of good articles on trucks and truck manufacturers
  • Infoboxes
  • User banner
  • Project banner
  • Create a sound structure for categories under Category:Trucks
  • Pictures

Parentage[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Transportation

Related projects[edit]

Resources[edit]

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