Wikipedia:NYPT

Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation

Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation

WikiProject New York City Public Transportation is a project to better organize information in articles dealing with mass transit in New York City and its surrounding areas. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize, and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning all public transportation in the New York metropolitan area. This includes various operations overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New Jersey Transit, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Coach USA in Greater New York.:

It also includes various ferries and other connecting services, as well as historic services. In short, any article linked in a template below is in the scope of this WikiProject.

Resources

More information New York City public transportation articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

The talk pages of articles that are part of this WikiProject are categorized in Category:New York City public transportation articles by quality and Category:New York City public transportation articles by importance. Visit the assessment department for information about the quality and importance ratings.

Editing

Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are WikiProject New York City, WikiProject Trains, and WikiProject buses.

Similar WikiProjects

Other WikiProjects covering individual cities can be a good source of mutual inspiration:

See WikiProject New York City for other city-related WikiProjects.
See WikiProject Washington Metro for another subway-related Wikiproject, which was inspired by this Wikiproject.

Participants

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Shortcut

If you wish to participate, add your username to the table below. Also add under "Projects" all the projects that you wish to be a part of. However, please note that with this new system, membership of any NYCPT related project is universal across NYCPT. Only mark the primary projects you contribute to.

Before adding yourself, make sure that you are not already on the list.

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|[[User:Username|Username]]
|Admin (Yes if you are, otherwise leave blank)
|Status
|Projects (for example: NYCT, LIRR, LIB, MNR)
|Sample of your work within this project

Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

General strategy and discussion forums

Structure

Naming conventions

New York City Subway

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Station naming convention

Commuter rail

These follow the same naming conventions as WikiProject Trains

Templates

Infoboxes

For articles on the New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway
For other rail services

These navboxes have been developed for use in articles in this project, and are organized by region.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
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General navboxes for all major operators in the tri-state area
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Transit in Connecticut
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New Jersey Transit
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Notice about adding pictures to these templates

Please note that there are free-use pictures included with most of the templates in this category to represent the various services. If you wish to add more pictures, please make sure that they are added carefully, and always PREVIEW before saving to ensure the integrity of the navbox. Only add free-use pictures from the Wikimedia Commons.

Other

Accessibility and stubs:

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See Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City Public Transportation/New York City Subway/Services and lines for templates used to display the services that operate on a line. These should be used almost every time an article refers to services. That way, if services change, only the templates have to be updated (as well as the page for the specific service and lines it operates over) so all the pages remain correct. Specifically, use the templates in the following places:

  • station listings, both in a 'services' column showing all services that stop at the station, and for transfers to other lines
  • line descriptions, when referring to another line, in most cases
  • infoboxes on station pages
  • anywhere else where it fits with the flow of the article

Also, if you want to remove the parenthetical portion of a wikilink when you link to articles, you can use the pipe trick. For example, instead of typing:

[[Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street]]

you can type

[[Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|]]

Both methods will produce the wikilink Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street.

Accessibility

The New York City Subway articles show ADA-accessibility in a variety of places. Whenever a station becomes newly accessible, a number of related edits are required:

  1. The correct sub-article of List of New York City Subway stations needs to be updated
  2. In the article for the line on which the station resides, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing.
  3. In the line template on which the station resides, the station needs to be shown as accessible with the correct icon.
  4. In the article for each service that visits the station, the station needs to be shown as accessible in the tabular station listing.
  5. In the article for the station, "accessible = yes" needs to be set in the infobox
  6. If the station is a terminal station; List of New York City Subway terminals also needs to be updated

(Note: For every infobox parameter that accepts "yes" for accessibility, there is also the option of entering "northbound" or "southbound" if the station is accessible in only one direction.)

Images

Alerts/Watchlist

Articles for deletion

  • 22 May 2024 – New Cassel station (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Pi.1415926535 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Liz (t · c) on 29 May 2024; see discussion (7 participants)

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