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Level Crossings - Unmanned or Unstaffed

There is a discussion at Talk:Level crossing#Unmanned or Unstaffed regarding what phrase should be used regarding level crossings. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 09:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is maritime culture?

Hi everyone, I wondered if transport specialists might be able to help me a bit. I stumbled upon Category:Maritime culture and was puzzled by what it was supposed to be about, especially because there is no main article maritime culture. There is one in German Wikipedia, de:Seemannskultur, which autotranslates as "seafaring culture". As that article puts it, Seafaring culture refers to the historically developed cultural characteristics established in seafaring . They arose primarily from the sailors' tendency to fill an environment experienced as unpredictable and limitless with myths and customs. This way, they could fill the vast, unknown, and frightening—as the "foreign element," the sea, was experienced—with familiarity, thus reducing the fear of it. What follows is a range of beliefs and practices of (mostly European) seafarers over the course of centuries, both real and imagined (e.g. belief in sea monsters, but also walking the plank was apparently barely if ever a maritime practice), symbols, (in)discipline, food, health and survival, safety measures, and so on. Is this also what you would understand as "maritime culture", or not really? Because it seems to me that the current Category:Maritime culture is much broader than that, a catch-all for anything maritime-related, which is probably not helpful for navigation (pun intended). NLeeuw (talk) 09:53, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Calais

Calais has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 13:22, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Naming of ferry articles

I see very common use of initials such as MV, MS, DEV, SS in the names of articles about ferries. Historically these were commonly used but is this consistently applied for modern operating vessels? I see from Ship prefix that it's probably outdated. I'm keen on tidying up naming of NZ ferry articles DEV Aratere, MS Kaiarahi, MV Kaitaki, MS Strait Feronia, MV Connemara, MV Livia and MS Kaiarahi. Was going to suggest the articles get named <ferry operator> <name of vessel>. Quilt Phase (talk) 05:55, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The articles are at their correct titles. For reasons explained at WT:SHIPS. Mjroots (talk) 17:47, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations) has an RfC

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (stations) has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Tomiĉo (talk) 10:45, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:California Department of Transportation#Requested move 12 August 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:California Department of Transportation#Requested move 12 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 11:40, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dscussion about MOS:COLORand how it applies to maps

There is a discussion about MOS:COLOR and how it applies to maps within WP at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Should_MOS:COLOR_be_updated_to_clarify_if_and_when_color_hues_may_be_used_to_convey_information_in_maps? Noleander (talk) 14:10, 16 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ridership data centralization

I was wondering if there's a way to centralize ridership data so it only has to be updated at a single point instead of page-by-page. For example, is there a way to pull specific data (current ridership numbers) from List of Washington Metro stations to each individual station? Could also enable better usage of historic data and more dynamic stuff like in-system per station rankings Jspace727 (talk) 12:36, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Metrorail (Miami-Dade County)

Metrorail (Miami-Dade County) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 00:24, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge pedelec into electric bicycle?

One person has commented for and one against. I would like to close the discussion so it would be great if one of you could comment at Talk:Electric bicycle#Merge pedelec into this article? soon thanks Chidgk1 (talk) 05:00, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Freelance model

This has been unsourced for ~~a decade~~ 19 years. One of the creators has been blocked. I tried to find relevant sources and I could only locate two that didn't involve fashion models. Before I propose it for deletion, I'd like to know if you can add reliable sources. Thank you in advance. Bearian (talk) 22:47, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any point in the article. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:17, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't agree more! Mwsmith20 (talk) 10:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Freelance model

The article Freelance model has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unsourced for 19 years. Very few relevant sources show up on BEFORE searches.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 10:34, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]