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WikiProject Trucks

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Welcome to the WikiProject Trucks. This is a WikiProject to improve articles on trucks, truckparts and truck manufacturers. Please feel free to edit this page, but I think discussions should be kept on the talk page of this project.

Goals

The purpose of this WikiProject is to co-ordinate articles on light, medium and heavy trucks. It aims to improve the coverage of manufacturers and models, and to make articles on trucks uniform and informative.

Scope

This project proposes to work with all pages related to the type of road or off-road vehicle commonly known as truck or lorry.

Contents 1 Guidelines 2 Participants 3 Templates 4 Categories 5 Stubs 6 Lists 7 Article alerts 8 Articles 8.1 Recognized content 8.1.1 Featured articles 8.1.2 Good articles 8.1.3 TFAs (Today's Featured Article) 8.1.4 DYKs (Did You Knows) 8.2 Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections 8.3 Formerly recognized content 8.3.1 Former featured articles 8.3.2 Former good articles 9 Things to do 10 Parentage 11 Related projects 12 Resources

[edit] Guidelines

• We shall strive to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
• A lot of useful guidelines can be found at our sister Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles.

[edit] Participants

• Rotten Stone (vintage Volvo and Scania)
• Kieran T ^{(talk | contribs)} (chiefly older UK, especially Rootes-related)
• Fabio^Talk Definitely agree, there needs to be a more uniform article structure on trucks and i think a project may accomplish this.
• G®iffen (Semi-participating. Basics om new European models, truck purposes, finding suitable pictures, translating from Scandinavian + eventually German texts)
• Hasannur OK, I'm interested and willing to help

--Saltysailor (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

• Tepoo (I'll probably be semi-participant like G®iffen but I definately agree there should be better consistency amongst lorry related articles. Interested about truck manufacturers from Northern Europe and on more general view keeping articles well formed.)
• --HybridBoy 11:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
• --Hencetalk (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
• John Carter (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
• TicketMan - Talk - contribs 22:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
• Dionysus_ab I'll try to help. Trucking experience in Europe, N. Africa and N. America; not much experience on Wikipedia, though.
• VWphaetonfan VW Enthusiast, I created the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles page and am a lover of all things VW be it small cars to large trucks.
• Duncan1800 I like lots of different trucks, but I'm based in the USA which limits me somewhat. I do agree about the need for consistency among truck articles and will do what I can to help fix it.
• Truck driver from the USA, 3 years experience. I train new drivers so I have lots of knowledge of truck regulaions and whatnot. Doing what I can to improve old articles and create new ones. ErgoSum88 (talk) 10:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
• Stonufka I'm in, mainly into Tatra and Volvo.
• Whitfan I'll go in as a semi-participant. Caterpillar and Western Star are my specialty, and anything to do with the Australian industry. (Road Trains FTW!)
• ɯɐʇsnɾı (talk) 16:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
• Stian Former truck driver, diesel addict and Peterbilt fan. Slowly working on the US CDL article as my first WikiProject Trucks project!
• DAFMM (talk) - all British trucks (in particular ERF).
• The Crunchy Nutter (talk) 09:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC) - Working on the Scania article

[edit] Templates

About templates, see section /Templates.

[edit] Categories

Please use one of the following categories when writing a truck related article.

• Category:Trucks
• Category:Truck manufacturers
• more ...

[edit] Stubs

Instead of using the standard {{stub}} template, you may want to use one of the following more specific vehicle stub tags, some of which are:

• {{vehicle-stub}} for stubs about general automotive topics. Unfortunately, this category contains many articles, so use of one of the more targeted subcategories is recommended:
  • {{truck-stub}} - for stub articles about trucks
  • {{van-stub}} - for stub articles about vans
  • {{auto-stub}} - for stub articles about sedan delivery vans / car derived vans
    
    
  • {{motorvehicle-company-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive companies
  • {{auto-factory-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive factories
  • {{automotive-part-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive parts or components
  • {{automotive-tech-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive technologies
    
    
  • {{road-stub}} - for stub articles about general road transport

[edit] Lists

[edit] Article alerts

Requested moves

• 24 Dec 2009 – Dodge Ram (talk) was not moved; see discussion.

Did you know

• 29 Dec 2009 – A fact from Denby Eco-Link (talk) appeared on the main page.

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Archives

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[edit] Articles

Contact with WP Trucks

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Trucks articles by quality/1 (370 articles)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Trucks articles by quality/2 (352 articles)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Trucks articles by quality/3 (16 articles)

See also: assessed article categories.								Last update: December 29, 2009

Trucks articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA		1	2			3
	GA		1			1	2
	B	1	2	4		4	11
	C	4	14	9	6	5	38
	Start	8	10	29	13	60	120
	Stub	5	3	18	11	100	137
	List	1	6	5	2	2	16
	Assessed	19	37	67	32	172	327
	Unassessed			1		410	411
	Total	19	37	68	32	582	738

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

• Winter service vehicle
• Hours of service
• Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula

[edit] Good articles

• Trucking industry in the United States

[edit] TFAs (Today's Featured Article)

• Hours of service - February 26, 2009.

[edit] DYKs (Did You Knows)

• Walter Hancock - 14 December 2006.

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Things to do

• Guidelines for the structure of good articles on trucks and truck manufacturers
• Infoboxes
• User banner
• Project banner
• Create a sound structure for categories under Category:Trucks
• Pictures

[edit] Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject Transportation

[edit] Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military land vehicles task force

[edit] Resources

• The main article: Truck
• List of truck types
• Glossary of United States truck industry jargon
• Truck pictures at Wikimedia Commons
• What is a Big Rig?
• Trucking industry in the United States