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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Trains in Japan. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Articles

The main article about Trains in Japan is Rail transport in Japan.

[edit] New Articles

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The following are some of the newest articles about trains in Japan on Wikipedia for the month of November. Please feel free to edit this list.
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You can see WikiProject Trains in Japan for more current issues and discussion.
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[edit] Scope and Goals

There are currently over 500 articles about Trains in Japan (see Category:Rail transport in Japan), many of which have been translated from the respective Japanese version (see the category on the Japanese Wikipedia).

Some articles are in states of bad disrepair, with awkward grammar, formatting and spelling. This WikiProject helps highlight these problems, and seeks to improve the visibility of articles about trains in Japan.

Although "Trains in Japan" may sound like a narrow topic, in reality there are hundreds of pages to be created and expanded.

The focus at WikiProject Trains in Japan will mainly be articles in Category:Rail transport in Japan.

[edit] Goals

Our goals are to:

  1. Provide a centralized discussion point for articles about railways in Japan
  2. Standardize articles about Trains in Japan
  3. Provide information that's useful for both railway enthusiasts and visitors to Japan
  4. Create an interesting portal
  5. And of course... improve as many Japanese railway articles to featured status

[edit] Inter-wiki Relations

Since many of the articles in our scope originated as translations of the articles at the Japanese Wikipedia, one of our aims is to improve relations with Wikipedias in other languages. In particular, we could improve the quality of the articles here by inviting English-speaking users from the Japanese Wikipedia, and translating articles as part of this Project.

[edit] Relatives

[edit] Parentage

Portal:Trains
 Trains Portal

This WikiProject's parents are WikiProject Trains and WikiProject Japan.

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

[edit] Participants

  • armage (lived in Japan and can translate articles from Japanese to English)
  • Tangotango
  • Neier (Finished creating Miyagi and Yamagata stations; Gearing up to update all Yamagata towns with rail info, like Miyagi)
  • Softgrow
  • 日本穣 (Prefer trains in Hiroshima Prefecture, though I can do them for just about anywhere), finished Geibi Line, working on Kabe Line now, I've also created quite a few line templates
  • struggle (Gimme Kansai Train to-dos)
  • DAJF (particularly shinkansen and Kanto region topics)
  • Fg2
  • JRHorse
  • redracer (it has been suggested I do the Tōkyū Setagaya line, and I would also like to expand the Keikyū section)
  • William McDuff (Just went on vacation to Yamagata and photographed the remaining Riku-Tou, Kurihara Den'en stations, as well as the remaining Tohoku stations from Furukawa/Kogota to Ichinoseki. And Iwanoshita on Oofunato. Expect those to go up shortly.)
  • Mailer Diablo
  • Zsolt (I travelled on the JR Sobu-Chuo line every day for six months in 2003 between Ichikawa and Yotsuya. I can help out with descriptions for some of these stations.)
  • limitedexpresstrain
  • Picturetokyo I have lived in the Tokyo are for the last 2 years. I ride the train alot and can help somewhat. maybe photos if needed.
  • Endroit (I will work on Yokohama & vicinity topics)
  • Sudachi
  • changeup
  • ShonanSummer
  • Yume Ringo I participate in Japanese Wiki Project Train. I edit a railroad of Kansai area-related item.
  • Matthew Davis I can work on almost any page, but aim to focus on freight.
  • Behemoth14
  • Rockfender (I will focus on developing Hokkaido's rail system pages.)
  • El Cid
  • Tsian (I will focus on the Utsunomiya and Nikkō lines. Specifically working to translate content from the ja wiki and bring over pictures.)
  •  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  (I've done a few articles in Kanagawa and Tokyo, but I will take requests for anything if needed.)
  • Izumi5 (I don't focus on any of the project. I'm afraid I wouldn't take any of requests.)
  • Wnash90 I will concentrate on the Shinkansen Series 300 page.
  • Dekimasu I'm a native English speaker in Osaka. I'll accept individual requests for translation/fixups for Kansai-related pages. I noticed my train station doesn't have an article yet!
  • Japanese Tsugaru Man A station of Tohoku and Hokkaido region. If there are mistakes because much English is not proficient, I am happy if I have you correct it.

You can add the following userbox to your page if you wish: {{User JTrain}}. This will add the following userbox to your userpage:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Trains in Japan.


[edit] Structure

  • Please see the Style page for information about the style used in articles about trains in Japan.

[edit] Tasks

Below are some open tasks. For a complete list, please refer to this page. You can, of course, choose to work on something completely different.

Here are some open WikiProject Trains in Japan tasks you can do:
Improve: Hankyu Kobe Line, Shinkansen
Expand: Hikari Rail Star, Kakegawa Station, Narita Airport Station, Keio Inokashira Line
Write:
Translate: M250 series (Original),Magarikane Station (Original)
Requested: Train-related on Requested articles/Japan
Illustrate: Chiba Urban Monorail, Hotarugaike Station, Jingu-mae Station, Ikebukuro Station
Review: Sobu Line (Rapid), Keiyo Line, Twilight Express, Sapporo Station
Edit or discuss this list.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] Templates

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[edit] Project articles

  • You can add this template to the talk page of articles that are within our scope: {{Trains in Japan}}

[edit] Categories

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