Wikipedia talk:WikiProject ELCB

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This article is within the scope of WikiProject ELCB, aiming to improve each East Lancashire Coachbuilders article to its very best If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.

Contents 1 Starting 2 History 3 Template 4 East Lancs subsidiaries 5 User subpage to keep track of things done for Wikiproject ELCB so far 6 New Infoboxes 7 Pictures added

[edit] Starting

Thanks for setting it up. As I am quite busy at the moment I will start on Saturday. -- Arriva ⁴³⁶ 19:17, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History

How far back should the articles of Histoical Products go? As for the really old ones, I don't know a lot about at all. -- Arriva ⁴³⁶ 16:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

1980 bodie plus should have an article. Unisouth 10:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

If anyone can get the template below to the top of the page, please do so. Help would be greatly appreciated!

Unisouth, I have created this template and put it on all the East Lancs articles, but I can't get it to stay at the top of this page of the main East Lancs talk page. Also, please feel free to improve it, I made a very basic one. (Now moved up) -- Arriva ⁴³⁶ 18:57, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Fixed! Unisouth 21:05, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] East Lancs subsidiaries

Regarding the East Lancs subsidiaries section I added to the East Lancs article (logos too), the preview of the new look ELC website implies thier will be more detailed sections of the subsidiaries. For now, I've created stubs for:

• British Citybus
• East Lancs Overseas
• NW Bus and Coach Repairs

-- Arriva ⁴³⁶ 10:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User subpage to keep track of things done for Wikiproject ELCB so far

I created these subpages accesible from my user page, to keep tabs on the things I have done for Wikiproject ELCB so far:

• User:Arriva436/WikiprojectELCBthings - Parent page
  • User:Arriva436/WikiprojectELCBtodo
  • User:Arriva436/WikiprojectELCBdone
  • User:Arriva436/WikiprojectELCBpages in the project

Arriva ⁴³⁶ 21:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Infoboxes

I have made this infobox for use on East Lancs bus articles, and have put it on the Esteem and Olympus articles. However, some aspects of it don't work and display (example) "{{{passenger capacity}}}" instead of "33 to 60", when the other specification information displays properly. I can not see the difference in the code to make the infobox between ones that work and ones that don't. So if someone can fix them, it would be brilliant.

All the imformation I wanted to put up is there, but doesn't want to display.

-- Arriva ⁴³⁶ 14:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures added

As can be seen on the Lolyne, Esteem and Olympus articles, I went to the 2007 Cobham bus gathering held at Longcross and managed to get photos of the nearside of the Lolyne (as oppsosed to the offside of the Yellow buses one), and (I put into the article infoboxes) an Esteem and Olympus. This is good as it helps illustrate the buses without the need for the external link "Here is a picture of a ..." at the bottom. And ilustrating the buses helps with the confusion of ELC's confusing name pattern!

The only problem is that the Esteem is such a 'high quality' scan that the red paintwork 'blotches' a bit when the image is small. Here though, it is fine!

If anyone can find/upoload any more of their ELC bus pictures, it would be great!

As can be seen on my user page, I have uploaded a lot of photos and put them on many articles. It took ages!

--Arriva ⁴³⁶ 11:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I think they are great! The Esteem doesn't blotch that bad. Thanks for uploading them. Unisouth 13:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)