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Hmm... I start something like this for New York City, and I get a speedy Vfd. Yet this exist. Something just ain't right. Pacific Coast Highway July 4, 2005 19:59 (UTC)
Note: this discussion started at Template Talk:MBTABus. I felt it appropriate to copy it here for discussion of old routes and related list articles.
I've started actually converting the page, beginning with the 500 routes which I used as a test subject. I've started creating redirects - see, for example, 502 (MBTA bus). Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 21:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I've converted everything except for the 1-202 routes. I created redirects for all except the 400s routes. (Those will get redirects when I take the MBTA bus routes in North Shore, Massachusetts page to AfD.) Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 01:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Done 21,341 characters of added wikitext and 123 new redirects later, I'm more or less done. The entire bus list is converted to anchored wikitables, and most routes have a redirect to the list or the appropriate article. I've got some fixes to do, mostly with redirects for the 400 routes, but it's in good shape. The MBTABus template can and should now be used for all current routes. I'll be copying this discussion to
Talk:List of MBTA bus routes where any further discussion of old routes and other articles belongs. Cheers!
Pi.1415926535 (
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@ RichardF, Lentower, and Reify-tech: (recent major editors of this page, and the guy who put the template in the first place): I recently commented out the graphical timeline for this page, as I feel it was taking up a lot of space for no real good. It wasn't complete, wasn't always accurate, and moreover I'm not sure what useful information it actually provided. There's a 350-page document for the history of the system for those who want to know what exactly buses ran when; this article should be just a list of routes. I wanted to get your opinions before I removed the timeline from the wikitext entirely. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 16:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there any good reason these routes are still listed with routes 1-121, instead of being listed with the other 200-series routes in Quincy? There seems to be a vestigial historical connection, but I think that grouping them with the rest of the 200 series would be less confusing to readers. Reify-tech ( talk) 16:22, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Use of external links in these lists is inappropriate, according to WP:ELLIST Rhadow ( talk) 14:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
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Hmm... I start something like this for New York City, and I get a speedy Vfd. Yet this exist. Something just ain't right. Pacific Coast Highway July 4, 2005 19:59 (UTC)
Note: this discussion started at Template Talk:MBTABus. I felt it appropriate to copy it here for discussion of old routes and related list articles.
I've started actually converting the page, beginning with the 500 routes which I used as a test subject. I've started creating redirects - see, for example, 502 (MBTA bus). Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 21:20, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
I've converted everything except for the 1-202 routes. I created redirects for all except the 400s routes. (Those will get redirects when I take the MBTA bus routes in North Shore, Massachusetts page to AfD.) Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 01:51, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Done 21,341 characters of added wikitext and 123 new redirects later, I'm more or less done. The entire bus list is converted to anchored wikitables, and most routes have a redirect to the list or the appropriate article. I've got some fixes to do, mostly with redirects for the 400 routes, but it's in good shape. The MBTABus template can and should now be used for all current routes. I'll be copying this discussion to
Talk:List of MBTA bus routes where any further discussion of old routes and other articles belongs. Cheers!
Pi.1415926535 (
talk)
04:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
@ RichardF, Lentower, and Reify-tech: (recent major editors of this page, and the guy who put the template in the first place): I recently commented out the graphical timeline for this page, as I feel it was taking up a lot of space for no real good. It wasn't complete, wasn't always accurate, and moreover I'm not sure what useful information it actually provided. There's a 350-page document for the history of the system for those who want to know what exactly buses ran when; this article should be just a list of routes. I wanted to get your opinions before I removed the timeline from the wikitext entirely. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 16:13, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there any good reason these routes are still listed with routes 1-121, instead of being listed with the other 200-series routes in Quincy? There seems to be a vestigial historical connection, but I think that grouping them with the rest of the 200 series would be less confusing to readers. Reify-tech ( talk) 16:22, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Use of external links in these lists is inappropriate, according to WP:ELLIST Rhadow ( talk) 14:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)