Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses
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Welcome to the Buses WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of buses.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
;Goals
- To cover bus routes in major cities and their history, including streetcar lines. Note that minor routes do not need to have a separate article, but can simply be mentioned in a list.
- To cover bus models and their history.
- To determine which routes are suitable for a separate article rather than as part af a list.
- To create a common format for articles and lists of bus routes.
;Scope
- Anything related to buses and bus routes, including trackless trolleys, mostly in relation to public transport.
Guidelines
Open tasks
{{To do}}
Participants
Use this on your User: page to show you are part of this project:
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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- {{User|Doc Dimaus}} (Ukrainian and Soviet buses and trolleybuses)
- {{User|MaynardClark}} (The emergence of the electric bus and trucks, and of electrified transportation and distributed drycharging infrastructure)
- {{User|Mingyu Tang}} (Buses in Germany and in the rest of Europe, sometimes in China)
- {{User|MTATransitFan}} (Buses in NYC and the surrounding areas. Occasionally different buses.
- {{User|NE2}} (New York City, and sometimes other cities)
- {{User|Alansohn}} (New Jersey, New York City, Long Island)
- {{User|The Port of Authority}} (New York City and various North American cities)
- {{User|Sebwite}} (Baltimore, and occasionally Washington, DC area)
- {{User|Kneiphof}} (primary buses in former Soviet Union and trolleybuses everywhere)
- {{User|Sparrowman980}} (Worldwide buses)
- {{User|Trulystand700}} (New York City Buses)
- {{User|Lamborghini man}} (MTA Maryland)
- Bluegoblin7 (London Buses)
- {{User|Dudleybus}} (Working on West Midlands stuff, plus anything to do with Rotala)
- {{user|Simply south}} UK Buses but generally London
- {{user|DocRushing}} [Greyhound and Trailways in the USA; local transit in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; I grew up at Greyhound; I'm a native of Nashville, a retired professor of business, a motor-coach historian, and a one-time second-generation Greyhound coach operator, long ago, based in Nashville and in Orlando, Florida, USA.]
- {{User|SteveCof00}} (School buses in the United States and Canada, and school bus models and school bus manufacturers)
- {{User|MetroFan2009}} Bi-State Development Agency in St. Louis
- JoelRussell - Talk Contribs I'm in Poole, Dorset, England. If anyone from outside my area needs an article improving in dorset, tell me on my Talk Page
- {{User|Folklore1}} (MTA Maryland and Washington DC Metrobus)
- {{User|Welshleprechaun}} Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne
- {{User|Colonel Warden}}
- {{User|Hanjie}} Pittsburgh Buses
- {{User|Useddenim}} Toronto, London, bus manufacturers
- {{User|Triglav 2000}} Bus service in Slovenia
- {{User|Rcsprinter123}} England bus services
- {{User|SmrtBusesLuver}} Singapore Buses (SMRT & SBS Transit)
- {{User|Mark999}}, Bristol UK
- {{User|Checkmatechamp137}}, New York City, NY and surrounding suburbs
- {{User|Orsd}}, NFI, Orion Ind.,Novabus,Vancouver (Translink),Orange County (OCTA),LA Metro, West Vancouver Blue Bus
- {{User|Adam mugliston}} (UK, lists of bus routes)
- {{User|Wilbysuffolk}} Any East Anglian pages
- {{User|Davey2010}} Generally buses in England / Kent
- {{User|WWGB}} Sydney, Australia
- {{User|Coachcapt}} Queensland, Australia
- {{User|Stephen Allcroft}} UK bus manufacturing and imports into the UK (not routes) and especially now-defunct manufacturers and coachbuilders.
- {{User|Packerfan386}} Midwest, lists of bus routes
- {{User|Kiewii}} Dundee and Angus buses
- {{Admin|WikiLeon}} Bay Area based bus routes specializing in Solano and Napa counties.
- {{User|DJ MC CJ}} (Florida buses including bus models and numbers.)
- {{User|C16sh}} NYC and DC metro areas
- {{User|Ibadibam}} Seattle, Washington, interested in bus rapid transit creep
- {{User|SBS9834C}} Singapore and Hong Kong buses in general. Also interested with London and Australia urban buses
- {{User|Sni56996}} (Anything about Singapore bus network.)
- {{User|Bren Harding}} (Buses in England, Essex)
- {{User|Balablitz}} (Bus transport in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere)
- {{User|BFerson}} (Arriva Northumbria buses)
- {{User|Drumlineramos}} (Bus Services in New Mexico, mostly ABQ RIDE, but working on the rest of the state too)
- {{User|KevinCuddeback}} US Passenger Buses
- {{User|SounderBruce}} Seattle-area transit
- {{User|Arbustum}} Polish buses including Solaris, including writing Solaris Urbino 18 Hybrid from the very beginning.
- {{User|TwilightKing81}} Connecticut-area buses (they're essential for the area economy to work), including CTtransit and CTfastrak.
- {{User|Æthelred}} (England & Wales buses, mostly West Midlands)
- {{user|Ryan 868}} Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Happy to know that there are other freaks like me out there. Also, I am the 50th member :)
- {{user|RES2773}} I do bus list and company page edits in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Westchester County, all in New York.
- {{user|Bergenga}} Bus/coach and chassis models from the Nordic countries and Germany, with a worldwide perspective
- {{user|Class455fan1}} British Buses, mainly London Buses
- {{user|Pianist4}} Canberra and Sydney buses
- {{user|KU}} Kansai region and Tokyo, Japan
- {{user|Buttons0603}} Sheffield and surrounding areas, and UK bus and coach models and manufacturers
- {{user|TJH2018}} Greater Los Angeles area, and anything involving the LACMTA
- {{user|Imahesh3847}} Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regions.
- {{user|Bumbl loid}} Proud member of Pinoy Bus Fanatic, the largest bus enthusiast group in the Philippines
- {{user|Cnvery}} Malaysia
- {{user|Kew Gardens 613}} NYC area buses
- {{User|Toreightyone}} - Brampton Transit, Miway, TTC, and other Golden Horseshoe agencies
- {{User|DreamLinker}} Bus transport in Delhi but also other places as required at AfD
- {{User|Commyguy}} Bus transport in the UK, in particular Stagecoach and Stagecoach Gold services as well as transport around the Oxfordshire area
- {{User|Vanstrat}} Covers Edmonton Alberta Canada bus routes operated by Edmonton Transit
- {{User|Saltn'Pepper}} Public transportation in Canada, especially in Vancouver.
- {{User|MediKron}} Hungarian buses, mostly Ikarus.
- {{User|Map Collector}} Indian and UK Buses, specially Double - Deckers.
- {{User|Schoolbus777}} School buses, as evidenced by my username.
- {{User|Central Corridor}} Twin Cities and Minnesota, Chicago
- {{user|SBS2828S}} Singapore bus enthusiast
- {{user|Grandtubetrains}} England bus services
- {{User|Exodus662}} Bus routes in London and Cumbria, also bus types in the UK
- {{User|Vkem}} Bus routes in Finland
- {{User|Hullian111}} General clean-up of bus-realted articles in UK, though my special focus is on buses in the Hull, East Yorkshire and perhaps greater East Midlands area.
- {{User|Caleb M1}} Bus Routes in the Midwest
- {{User|BOO109}} No Description Avalible
- {{User|DMJames98}} Bus transport in the UK, particularly in the West Midlands.
- Quoll662 (talk) 11:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:00, 21 January 2021 (UTC) - Bus Transport in China and Japan.
- User:Jon Alten US municipal bus systems
- SK2242 (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC) - UK related bus articles
- User: AirFan19 Mainly buses in Singapore, occasionally Shanghai
- {{user|Berrely}} almost exclusively London buses!
- {{user|Geof Sheppard}} South West England and UK open top services
- {{user|TheTransitFanNY}} Tri-State area (NYC) and North America in general.
- {{user|MJ9674}} South East England, particular focus on Sussex.
- {{User|عُثمان}} buses in Baltimore and their parent streetcar lines but interested in anything and everywhere
- {{User|NotOrrio}} buses in Melbourne and other parts of Australia
- {{User|296cherry}} DART bus system and other systems in general
- {{User|TheWiki93}} Bus services in the New York metropolitan area of New York.
- {{User|S5A-0043}} Shanghai, Wuhan & Singapore based
- {{User|Mwsmith20}} UK, using book collection to add refs/citations and expand articles
- {{User|Transitsylveonkpop}} (New York City, and surrounding areas)
Articles
= Article alerts =
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses/Article alerts}}
= Promoted content =
- O-Bahn Busway 20px
- Kelvin Scottish 20px
- London Country North East 20px
- Tillingbourne Bus Company 20px
A selection of bus-related Did you know articles may be viewed at Portal:Buses/Did you know.
== Candidates ==
=Review=
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Bus transport articles by quality statistics}}
= Collaboration =
- Electric bus
- Create and expand Hybrid bus (mainly from diesel-electric).
- The UK bus operator quality drive
- The UK bus route quality drive
Templates
- Template:WikiProject Buses for talk pages
Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P.
Stubs
Instead of using the standard {{tl|stub}} template, you may want to use one of the following more specific vehicle stub tags, some of which are:
- {{tl|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:
- {{tl|bus-stub}} - for stub articles about buses
- {{tl|motorvehicle-company-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive companies
- {{tl|auto-factory-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive factories
- {{tl|automotive-part-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive parts or components
- {{tl|automotive-tech-stub}} - for stub articles about automotive technologies
- {{tl|road-stub}} - for stub articles about general road transport
Categories
Resources
Note that most of these are not reliable sources, but may be good "starting points" for narrowing down what to look for.
;United States
- [http://www.chicagorailfan.com/other.html Chicago Transit & Railfan]: histories of bus routes in many cities
- [http://www.btco.net/index2.html Baltimore Transit Archives]
- [http://www.phillytrolley.org/ Philadelphia Trolley Tracks]
Ideas
- Is there a bus-specific infobox? If not, that would be a good addition to have, since the Infobox automobile allows for some information to be displayed, but buses differ from cars in other ways that the automobile one doesn't do a bus justice. SteveCof00 (talk) 09:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
:There is one for an overall bus service, Template:Infobox bus transit, and one for individual bus routes, Template:Infobox busline. —Onore Baka Sama(speak | stalk) 13:26, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
::While those two are useful for articles about bus routes and services, there are articles being written about the vehicles themselves...Template:Infobox UK Bus is somewhat of a starting point, but it probably isn't used much outside of UK-related bus articles (for obvious reasons), and it seems to be more specific about buses on a specific route than a vehicle type. I was wondering if there was interest in an developing a bus specific infobox or using the automobile one for article like the Gillig Phantom, GM New Look, Blue Bird All American, etc...-SteveCof00 (talk) 22:24, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
::::Template:Infobox UK Bus was moved to :Template:Infobox bus, which is now a redirect to :Template:Infobox automobile. :Template:Infobox bus may be considered the less confusing name to use, now. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:53, 29 August 2016 (UTC).
- Is there any standard format for fleet lists/rosters? (The ones I've seen on different Wikipedia pages seem to be a slap-dash mash-up of the very detailed information that appears on bus-specific web sites.) Useddenim (talk) 21:55, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
- (add yours)
- Proposal to add a draft articles section so others can help and give advice to articles which have not yet been created related to bus NotOrrio (talk) 2:15, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Related projects
Related WikiProjects: Trains, Transport, Streetcars, Rapid transit, Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Green vehicle task force (electric buses); Commons:Commons:WikiProject BSicon.
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