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Merge proposal: E5 and H5 series

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Merged: The discussion indicates a consensus to merge the pages. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 07:59, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the E5 series and H5 series be merged, much like E7/W7 ? The basic design specifications are the same. The Japanese article has already become one: ja:新幹線E5系・H5系電車. Thoughts? Shinkansen Fan (talk) 14:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

somewhat support for a merger; for standardization's sake due to the E7/W7 series article. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 19:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I was thinking the same thing as you. Thank you for your suggestion. Transitmethod (talk) 18:59, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this should be merged too so that it could also match the Japanese wikipedia article, and E7/W7 article. User3749 (talk) 14:47, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support for the sake of standardization. XtraJovial (talk) 05:52, 13 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Eight months have passed since your proposal, but what happened? I think it's time to put it into practice because there's a majority in favor.　210.101.196.38 (talk) 08:46, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support for standardization with Japanese pages and with E7/W7 and removal of duplicate content. Briguychau (talk) 06:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Naming convention for JR/JNR multiple units (not including Shinkansen stock)

At the time of writing this, JNR/JR DMUs have either a naming convention of "KiHa X series" or "KiHa X", maybe even just "X" in some cases circumstances. JNR/JR EMUs have a nearly identical naming convention. While this might have been fine when Wikipedia was smaller, Wikipedia has grown significantly since the mid-2000s and is constantly growing. With this in mind, my main concern with the current naming conventions that are currently used will eventually become an ambiguity nightmare (had they not been already). I thus propose that the convention for JNR and JR stock be more similar to the one this project follows for EMUs (and DMUs?) operated by private railways (e.g. Hankyu 7000 series), where, for example, 113 series would become JNR 113 series; E531 series would become JR East E531 series; 223 series would become JR West 223 series; 811 series would become JR Kyushu 811 series; KiHa 281 series would become JR Hokkaido KiHa 281 series; and so on. I feel that my proposal would help reduce ambiguity, future and current.

I know the naming convention I'm proposing is already applied to most JR Shikoku multiple units, but those are exceptions to the current naming convention. XtraJovial (talk) 15:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

support as proposed. Long overdue, and also takes care of the mentioned inconsistency regarding JR Shikoku stock. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 22:19, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
support. I'm wondering if the proposal is the *best* solution, but cannot think of anything better, a good step in the right direction. Alex Sims (talk) 02:14, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

A merge has been proposed at Talk:Meitetsu 3300 series. The section is "Proposed merge of Meitetsu 3150 series with Meitetsu 3300 series". If you would like to participate in the discussion, please do so. Thank you. XtraJovial (talk) 16:41, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Move proposal: Asakusa Station and associated disambiguation page

A move has been proposed at Talk:Asakusa Station (Tokyo Metro, Toei, Tobu). The section is "Requested move 29 May 2022". The current consensus is to rename the main station as "Asakusa Station" and rename the associated disambiguation page. If you would like to participate in the discussion, please do so. Thank you. Exp691 (talk) 20:18, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on train station notability

An RfC was started at Wikipedia talk:Notability#Notability of train stations that is of interest to this WikiProject. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 11:01, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1500 V DC multiple units and Category:1500 V DC multiple units of Japan

I've just listed Category:1500 V DC multiple units and Category:1500 V DC multiple units of Japan for discussion at WP:CfD. If you would like to add comments, the discussion entry is listed here. Thank you. XtraJovial (talk • contribs) 18:42, 14 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Split proposal

A split has been proposed at Talk:Toei 12-000 and 12-600 series. The section is "Split Proposal: 12-000 series and 12-600 series". If you would like to participate in the discussion, please do so. Thank you. Exp691 (talk) 22:56, 3 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Toyohashi Railroad#Requested move 5 October 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Toyohashi Railroad#Requested move 5 October 2022 that could be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 18:31, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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) 21:38, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Amagasaki derailment#Requested move 28 April 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Amagasaki derailment#Requested move 28 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 22:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Need advice

I need some sort of advice for Draft:List of closed railway lines in Japan. Only the 1st list is completed. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:53, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite of JGR Class 150 from ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車 on Japanese Wikipedia

I have just finished rewriting JGR Class 150 almost completely, basing the rewrite on a translation of the Japanese version ja:国鉄150形蒸気機関車, including its list of sources cited. However, I have made many further edits for style and content, including rearranging some portions of text, and I also omitted a few parts of the Japanese version (mostly concerning appearances in modern media) as probably not wanted on the English Wikipedia.

I am still pretty sure about the basic correctness of the results, but I really want people to look this over, particularly people knowledgeable of Japanese railways and people fluent in both Japanese and English. My Japanese ability is, in my own judgment, non-existent; while I have learned some features of the language on my own, and I do know bits of vocabulary, I've never been anywhere near Japan and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't so much as read a road sign or ask a cop for help on my own. I'm utterly dependant on machine tools like Google Translate (carefully applied and checked — I'm well aware that it can't be simply trusted as is!), the "10ten" dictionary-lookup browser plugin (an invaluable aid), and Google Lens (for OCR-reading graphical Japanese text) to do something like this.

Unfortunately, the original Japanese article does not have inline citations of its sources, and none of those sources are online anyway (they're rather old and Japanese-only), so I haven't been able to check them directly. Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 08:11, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't be of much help with this task, unfortunately, also lacking Japanese language skills. Translating from other wikipedia versions without checking the sources can be a bit risky though. Nyamo Kurosawa (talk) 16:57, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]