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Australian Branch for wikiproject for discussion

I have ambitions to start up an new wikiproject for primarily australian based transport, to those who are interested please check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Australian Transport NotOrrio (talk) 10:07, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Request for participation in edit dispute

I would like the people here to comment on Talk:British Columbia#Link to article on electric vehicles. Numberguy6 (talk) 19:09, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Feedback on a bus body userspace draft

Hi folks,

Due to WP:WikiProject Buses being inactive and on the advice of WP:Helpdesk, I'll make an enquiry here.

Would anyone be willing to have a good look through my userspace draft, User:Hullian111/sandbox/Alexander R-Type, and give me some pointers on how to improve it for submitting it for draft review? I've worked on it for the best part of two years, and I'm slightly concerned that the scope needed of the article, detailing one of the most common bus bodies in the UK and Ireland of the 1990s, has lead to it becoming a burden to edit.

A couple of things:

• Yes, there are some blanked sections which need sorting, i.e. "The FirstGroup were the biggest operators of Alexander Royales, purchasing [x] from 199x to 1999" and "First West Yorkshire purchased [x] Royales from 1997 to 1999", as well as some bits highlighted in all-caps. I have intentions to complete them when I can find a source, however those are starting to become rather hard to come by. It might be best to suggest to delete them or integrate them into another paragraph in some way.
• A lot of the sources cited in the article are WP:OFFLINE, and some of those might not be properly filled out. I have a large collection of photographic extracts from many piles of UK bus & coach trade on hand, but from around September 2019 to early-2020, I didn't consider noting some of the dates, page and issue numbers of the magazines. In that regard, I've tried my best to make up for it.
• Speaking of the magazine article citations, some of them mention that the then-new buses are fitted with "Alexander bodies" or "Alexander R-type bodies", with but a few of them specifying whether they are RH, RL, RV or Royale bodies, hence why I feel the draft quality is a bit dubious. What should, therefore, be done about that - should I consider breaking down R-type deliveries by powertrain variants or keep them as-is?
  • There's also a case where an article states SB Holdings (Strathclyde Buses + Kelvin Central Buses) ordered "150 Volvo Olympians with Alexander RL bodies", but on a site I use as a reference point for bus deliveries, I can only track down a total of 60 Olympians with RL bodies that were delivered to Strathclyde; the remaining 75 (52 for Strathclyde, 23 for Kelvin Central) all were built with Royale bodies, which I assume was a change in order after the article was published. Because none of these articles are online, however, it is tricky to verify if this is the case.
• Would giving a few citations describing how many R-types were ordered by the Stagecoach Group one year, i.e. from one article stating "240 Leyland Olympians with Voith transmissions of which 100 wil be Alexander RS(?) bodied", be sufficient to demonstrate it was most popular with the company? Other articles state a vast amount of Olympians, Leyland and Volvo, were ordered by the group, however they don't mention the Alexander body type, and it seems impossible to give an exact number of how many R-types were delivered to Stagecoach.

Feel free to discuss here or on User talk:Hullian111/sandbox/Alexander R-Type - unfortunately, WP:Peer review doesn't quite work on user talk pages. Just really want to get this page out the mud and into a more finished state. Hullian111 (talk) 17:19, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR notice

Kochi has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 02:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

GAR Notice

Sandakan has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 00:40, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 08:33, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

usable database for panama canal crossings

what i have now are the "Panama Canal Record" originals which are as i found them not properly OCR'd. Rotated pages are just missing.

Time span i am interested in specifically is till 1940.

Thanks. Nowakki (talk) 01:30, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

RFC on whether citing maps and graphs is original research

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC on using maps and charts in Wikipedia articles. Rschen7754 15:14, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

The RFC, now at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Using maps as sources, has questions related to notability. --Rschen7754 06:11, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:40, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Cologne Cable Car#Requested move 21 May 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Cologne Cable Car#Requested move 21 May 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 09:38, 21 May 2023 (UTC)