Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport

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) 13:33, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

LTM collection template

The LTM collection template, which was used on 258 articles to link to pictures in the London Transport Museum archive, was completely broken, because LTM had changed the path for the image files, and renamed all of them. In order to resolve this, I created a new "LTM archive" template, so that I could keep track of which articles I had processed. This takes the form {{LTM archive|1998-57854|Charles Yerkes in his office, 1900}} where 1998-57854 is the final part of the new url (formerly it was mo/i0000omo.jpg). I have managed to track down the images for 256 of the articles, although there are a very small number that are no longer available, sometimes because there is a placeholder in the new archive, but no picture. For a few I have had to comment the link out, but have generally added a "no longer available" comment to the link. The three posters on the New Works Programme all fall into the blank placeholder category, but would need something other than the LTM archive template, since they are now part of an "ephemera" path, rather than "photographs". I have failed to find any pictures or placeholders for the London Underground 1914 Stock article. One of the articles used a drawing, rather than a photograph, and I had to put the link in, rather than use a template. It is possible that LTM will eventually sort out the blank placeholders, and some of the missing images may become available. I note that the LTM photo template is also broken, but it might be possible to fix that, if someone wants to try. Bob1960evens (talk) 23:23, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains#Platform layouts, again: June 2023, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:52, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Four K8 phone boxes in tube stations newly listed

It would be great to have photos of these 1960s phone boxes at High Street Kensington, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood and Northwick Park stations, now listed at Grade II. Ham II (talk) 09:11, 20 July 2023 (UTC)