Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/By country series task force

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to let you know: Category:Rail gauge by country TrackConnect (talk) 15:24, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That category was apparently renamed to Category:Track gauge by country at some time. 69.126.127.193 (talk) 20:37, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems we have a choice between {{Infobox rail network}} and {{Infobox rail transport by country}} for article infoboxes. The former is currently used, e.g. at Rail transport in Germany while the latter template is used at Rail transport in Switzerland. Do the particpants in this project have a preference or a recommendation for which one to use? I note that the latter template does not have conditional display of parameters and a display is made for broad, standard, and narrow gauges (and their respective states of electrification) even for articles that describe countries whose networks do not have one or more such gauges. I also suspect that the : for electrification was intended to be an indentation, but it does not seem to work in practice and is displayed literally. 69.126.127.193 (talk) 00:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Last time I looked at the latter template, it seemed half-baked, as if someone started to write it without realising that the former existed, and got as far as Switzerland before giving up, as Germany was already using the former. I cannot see that it does anything useful, and I'd abandon it.

It shouldn't take much to change Switzerland to use the more common infobox, and then the other one may be abandoned. Tim PF (talk) 20:33, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. Given the preference for the former Infobox over the latter it seems there are several editing tasks:

1. Remove mention of Infobox rail transport by country from this task force's main page. This is now done.
2. Switch the infobox used in the Rail transport in Switzerland article. Please see the proposal now at Talk:Rail transport in Switzerland This is now done 69.126.127.193 (talk) 17:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC).[reply]
3. After previous items are completed put the Infobox rail transport by country template up for discussion and deletion.

I hope to get to the second item soon. 69.126.127.193 (talk) 02:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Time to propose deletion of the unused template. 69.126.127.193 (talk) 17:13, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How do I go about setting up a task force for Australian rail?

So far most of my work is in the VRLocos template, but it's a big job and there's other systems to cover where I don't have enough expertise.

Anothersignalman (talk) 14:34, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]