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 as 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.

1 Guidelines
2 Open tasks
3 Participants
4 Articles
5 Templates
6 Categories
7 Resources
- 7.1 Ideas
- 7.2 Related projects

[edit] Guidelines

/Bus route list guide
/Bus route article guide
/Bus route article inclusion

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject buses:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Portal:Truck
Expand: and improve Portal:Bus

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

NE2 (talk · contribs) (New York City, and sometimes other cities)
Vaoverland (talk · contribs) (Virginia, West Virginia, U.S. school buses, transit and motorcoaches, school bus body manufacturers)
Alansohn (talk · contribs) (New Jersey, New York City, Long Island)
Lr4087 (talk · contribs) (Hong Kong)
sonicKAI (talk · contribs) (London)
Gherkin30 (talk · contribs) (London)
Ronline (talk · contribs) (Bucharest)
Denham331 (talk · contribs) (London)
The Port of Authority (talk · contribs) (New York City and various North American cities)
HybridBoy (talk · contribs)
Sebwite (talk · contribs) (Baltimore, and occasionally Washington, DC area)
Joler1 (talk · contribs) (San Diego, SoCal)
Kneiphof (talk · contribs) (primary buses in former Soviet Union and trolleybuses everywhere)
Sparrowman980 (talk · contribs) (Worldwide buses)
Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) (New York City Buses)
Lamborghini man (talk · contribs) (MTA Maryland)
Bluegoblin 7 (London Buses)
Backifran (talk · contribs) (Cardiff, Wales)
Theperson10 (talk · contribs) (Los Angeles County Buses, (includes MTA, Big Blue Bus, Foothill Transit, etc.) and transit buses in general)
Dudleybus (talk · contribs) (Working on West Midlands standardisation of route articles and also stuff for the UK Transport Wikia)
Thanhuk (talk · contribs) {West Midlands bus services)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

O-Bahn Busway

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Review

Assessment

[edit] Collaboration

Electric bus
Create and expand Hybrid bus (mainly from diesel-electric).

[edit] Templates

Template:WikiProject buses for talk pages

Note that new stub templates should be proposed before creation at WP:WSS/P.

[edit] Categories

Category:Bus transport

[edit] 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

Chicago Transit & Railfan: histories of bus routes in many cities
Baltimore Transit Archives
Philadelphia Trolley Tracks

[edit] Ideas

Every single bus terminal on York's VIVA system has been given its own page. See List of York Region Transit/VIVA stations or Category:VivaYork. I didn't count, but there are well over 100 pages. Is this really necessary? --Smtomak 13:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
(add yours)