| This WikiProject exists to create, expand and improve upon articles related in any way to the railways in India. You are invited to be a part of this initiative! Please click on any of the links below to get started. |
Aim
editThis WikiProject aims to, in general, increase the quality of all articles related to Railways in India by expanding them, simplifying them and by adopting a standard and easy structure over them.
Scope
editThe scope of this project fundamentally is loosely defined as all articles and sections relating to Railways in India. Almost all of these will be (eventually) categorised under below categories.
To-do list
editQuick Links:
- Open task page to view tasks and progress
- To-do list page for editing the task list
- Article Alerts for various alerts tagged on articles within our scope
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Participants
editGo to the membership page to add your name. Old members who have become active may place their name in the new list format.
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Relations with other WikiProjects
editParent Projects
editThe WikiProject operates under the principles of the following WikiProjects which can be considered parent-WikiProjects of WikiProject Indian Railways. You are invited to join them too!
Sister projects
editThe following projects have a similar scope and operate in a similar fashion to ours:
Banners
editFor reasons of maintenance, it is desirable that all the articles that are under the scope of this project be categorized in a simple and easy manner. To do this, most WikiProjects use banners and so does WikiProject Indian Railways. These banners automatically add the talk page of the article to the suitable sub-category of Category:Indian railways articles by importance. It is highly recommended that whenever one creates or edits an article within the scope of Indian Railways, they check for the following banners on the article's talk page. Doing so will not only help better organise WikiProject Indian railways, but also WikiProject India and WikiProject Trains. To add an article's talk page within the scope of this WikiProject, place one or both (as per situation) of the given banners by entering the respective code for it:
WikiProject India banner
editPlace {{WikiProject India|railways=yes|railways-importance=}} at top of the article's talk page and choose railways-importance from either 'top', 'high', 'mid' or 'low'. It will produce:
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WikiProject Trains banner
editTo use this banner, place {{WikiProject Trains|India=yes|India-importance=}} at the top of the article's talk page (note that the capitalization on the parameter name is significant). It looks like this (with the class=NA parameter used for this transclusion):
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Importance rating
editBoth of the banners require the user to specify an importance paramater. The available options to choose from and the condition in which to use them are given below. Important: Do not add different/conflicting importance parameters for both the banners. In simple words, if a page has both the banners, they both must have the same importance rating.
Please note that the importance ratings for WikiProject Trains is different. It is strongly advised that the importance scale of WikiProject Trains be consulted with when changing the overall importance rating through the {{TWP}} banner.
| Importance | Templates | Description | Examples |
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| top | {{WikiProject India|railways=yes|railways-importance=top}}
{{WikiProject Trains|India=yes|india-importance=top}} |
Reserved for a few pages of utmost importance that are inseparable from the Indian Railways. Usually used for articles about major and publcily known organisations of Indian Railways and projects that are very popular. | Indian Railways |
| high | {{WikiProject India|railways=yes|railways-importance=high}}
{{WikiProject Trains|India=yes|india-importance=high}} |
Used for articles about which even the general public which is not interested in Railways knows about. subsidiary organisations of Railways, major Railways stations and premium trains (Raj, Shatabdi) also come under this category. | Prayagraj Junction |
| mid | {{WikiProject India|railways=yes|railways-importance=mid}}
{{WikiProject Trains|India=yes|india-importance=mid}} |
Not so major stations, semi-popular trains and other articles which many people may be unaware of. | Agra railway division |
| low | {{WikiProject India|railways=yes|railways-importance=low}}
{{WikiProject Trains|India=yes|india-importance=low}} |
Must be used for the niche genre of articles which are known only by those who follow the Railways closely. They would be and integral part of railways but not a major one. Most railway stations, trains and routes come under this category. Most locomotives are also classified under this. | Obra Damn railway station |
Stubs
edit- For stubs about the Railways in India, use {{India-rail-transport-stub}}. This will go into the Category:India rail transport stubs category and will produce
 | This Indian rail transport related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- For stubs about the Railway Stations in India, use {{India-railstation-stub}}. This will go into the Category:Indian railway station stubs category and will produce
 | This article about a railroad station in India is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- For stubs about the Express trains in India, use {{india-express-train-stub}}. This will go into the Category:Indian express train stubs category and will produce
| | This Indian express train article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- For stubs about the Passenger trains in India, use {{india-passenger-train-stub}}. This will go into the Category:India passenger train stubs category and will produce
| | This Indian passenger train related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Invite
editTo invite an editor to our WikiProject, place {{WikiProject Indian railways/Invite}} on their talk page. This will produce an invitation card asking them to join the WikiProject Indian Railways along with the current To-Do list.