Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Opentasks

Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Railways/Railway station articles missing coordinates – list updated 9 August 2025

• Orbital railways in London

Various things can be improved here, including:

• Some stations still need to have their S-rail or Template:Adjacent stations boxes moved from the References or External links section into the Services section.
• Some stations lack inline citations for opening/closing/reopening dates. Template:Quick-stations-5.05 can be a helpful reference for any open station and most closed stations. This task is particularly relevant for historical stations, where written material may be particularly useful.
• Some stations have Services sections which have not been updated since before Covid. This can be checked with the timetable from the train operating company or companies, or the eNRT (electronic National Rail Timetable), available on the Network Rail website. Realtime Trains is not regarded as a reliable source for this.
• Some stations still have sections about former stationmasters, although there was a general consensus in 2020 for their removal.
• Some stations need citation for their mileage, which can be found in Track atlas books.
• Some stations need the "Railway stations served by [operator]" navox(es) adding or updating.
• ... and many other stations need copy-editing for SPAG, removal of original research and uncited statements and cleanup in other areas.

Updated, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me. 16:31, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

• As trains move between operators and operations, reliable sources are needed to verify such moves (usually from railway magazines and reliable online sources).
• Some rolling stock articles may need additional citations to verify construction details and historical operations.

• Boiler certificate - mentioned in countless articles, and yet lacks its own article (or at least a Redirect) in our encyclopedia.
• Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal or BIFT - Why no article for this?
• Varamis Rail

Cleanup backlog

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• Mark a section as In progress if you are working on it, to stop other editors from choosing the same row.
• If you solve all articles, strike the issue (like this) and change the status to  Done.
• Do not change the numbers; this will be done weekly or fortnightly
• If an article is tagged with an issue in a previously-fixed row, it will be unstricken and the tick deleted.

More information Issue, Count ...

Cleanup backlog table as of 14 July 2026

Issue	Count			Status
	This week	Two weeks ago	Change	Current	Username
Total	8730	8820	90	—
Clarity
Clarification needed	187	186	1
Context needed	1	1	0
Expert attention needed	2	2	0
Rewrite needed	5	5	0
Self-contradictory articles	3	3	0
Too technical	6	6	0
Vague or ambiguous geographic scope	4	4	0
Vague or ambiguous time	165	166	1
Content
Cleanup needed	9	11	2
Coordinates needed	39	39	0	Partly done[a]	The joy of all things
Copy edit needed	1	1	0
Expansion needed	88	88	0
Incomplete lists	50	50	0
Introduction cleanup	12	12	0
Notability unclear	1	1	0	Done	JacobTheRox & GarethBaloney
Obsolete information	4	4	0
Off-topic sections	3	3	0
Potentially dated statements	472	473	1
Prose needed	0	0	0	Done	JacobTheRox
Reorganisation needed	1	1	0
Style editing needed	27	27	0
Too long	2	2	0
Trivia sections	0	0	0	Done	10mmsocket
Update needed	226	227	1
Weasel words	1	0	1
General
Slanted towards recent events	1	1	0
Year an event occurred needed	0	0	0	Done	GarethBaloney
Links
Dead external links {{dead link}}	797	811	14
External link cleanup {{external links}}	0	0	0	Done	JacobTheRox
Link rot cleanup	2	1	1
Orphaned	8	8	0
Pages with broken anchors	0	0	0	Done	JacobTheRox
Neutrality
Conflict of interest	1	1	0
Disputed statements	26	27	1
Limited geographic scope	7	8	1
Minor POV problems	0	0	0	Done	GarethBaloney
Original research	100	101	1
Promotional tone	10	10	0
Viewpoints needed	1	1	0
Weasel-worded phrases	144	146	2
References
Accuracy disputes or self-published	23	24	1
BLP articles lacking sources	2	2	0
CS1 errors: ISBN	2	2	0
CS1 errors: ISBN date	64	64	0
CS1 errors: URL	2	1	1
CS1 errors: access-date without URL	0	0	0	Y	The joy of all things
CS1 errors: bare URL	16	17	1
CS1 errors: external links	0	0	0	Y	The joy of all things
CS1 errors: generic name	9	26	15	In progress	JacobTheRox
CS1 errors: generic title	8	8	0
CS1 errors: missing periodical	55	55	0
CS1 errors: missing title	192	193	1
CS1 errors: periodical ignored	25	25	0
CS1 errors: requires URL	0	0	0	Done	JacobTheRox
CS1 errors: unsupported parameter	0	0	0	Done	JacobTheRox
Cites no sources	2	21	19
Cites unreliable sources	89	89	0
Detailed references needed	1	1	0
Factual verification needed	13	14	1
Failed verification	41	42	1
Footnotes need specific page numbers	0	0	0	Y	The joy of all things
Harv and Sfn no-target errors	8	12	4
Has general references but lacks inline footnotes	386	387	1
Incomplete citations	173	175	2
Page number citations needed	418	419	1
Reference cleanup	3	3	0
Reference errors	7	7	0
Unsourced passages need footnotes {{more citations needed}}	1884	1892	8
Unsourced passages need footnotes {{citation needed}}	1837	1842	5

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• I'm having an issue with the coordinates-needed articles. Some are entire lines and I simply don't know how you would add coords to something like that, or certainly not a single coord - so I should I de-tag any lines? Also, some are very unlikely to ever have coordinates. Take Badgworth railway station, for example. It's just south of the line between Gloucester and Cheltenham, but the station only existed for three years and was closed by 1846. The trouble with that is there are no detailed maps from back then. Look at NLS side-by-side mapping] and the earliest map is maybe 20 or so years later. So again, if there's no possible way of getting accurate coordinates for any station, should that too be de-tagged as needing coords? Thanks. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:30, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

  In regards to the lines, the best solution is {{Attached KML}} (e.g. East Coast Main Line) for creating a routemap, but this takes a long time, so I think realistically lines should just be coordinate-free. Anyone desperate to see where they are can click on any of the stations, which are now all geotagged. In regards to former stations, if you leave the category with only the non-obvious ones I will check for those in Butt's Directory of Railway Stations ({{Butt-stations}}), and if they're not there they can probably be removed. JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 21:46, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

JacobTheRox, 10mmsocket; I will have a crack at these as I have online maps from 1840 onwards which have a side-by-side facility so you can see modern-day satellite imaging against the map, and I can cross-reference with Jowetts Atlas. Might take a little time, but I can get it done. The joy of all things (talk) 08:14, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Although Cobb's Atlas would help greatly, but that costs too much! The joy of all things (talk) 08:36, 8 June 2026 (UTC)