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WikiProject Optare

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Categories	WikiProject Optare, Bus manufacturers
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Hi, welcome to WikiProject Optare. Our aim is to improve each Darwen Group article to its very best. The project covers all aspects of Optare. We also cover all the former East Lancashire Coachbuilders and Darwen Group articles as well.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Optare:  ·  history ·  watch ·  refresh · Updated 2011-02-19 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Expand : Put the Template:Infobox UK Bus on all articles if possible Update : Update pages as developments at Optare happen. This should be quite often knowing both companies! Other : Find pictures to illustrate each type of bus article (this is nearly done for both companies)

If you wish to join please add your name to the bottom of the list and place {{ User WikiProject Optare member}} on your user page.

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This section describes what should be in a product article (i.e. not the main Darwen Group article). Applicable on Optare product articles only.

Introduction

Use the following sentence:

The Optare (name of product) is a type of bus body built on the (names of chassis) by Optare.

History

If it is the name of a single and double decker, use two 'history' headings but named Single Decker and Double Decker. If the names vary (e.g. Kinetec and Kinetec+), use the product's name plus decker status.

Add some history of the body here, like when it was first built.

Full names

If the bus's name varied on the chassis, use the following sentence:

Most early ELCB buses names varied on what chassis it was built on.

Place a list of names and the chassis here using bullet points.

See also

External links

Use the following link at the top of the list then links to pictures of the product.

• Darwen Group (for East Lancs and Darwen Group articles)
• Optare (for Optare articles)

Navboxes

Use the {{ Optare Buses}} template here.

Categories

Then place the appropriate categories after external links and navboxes, without a section heading.

Project banner

The {{ WikiProject Buses}} template, to be placed on all of our articles' talk pages, is used to identify our articles and provide a link to our project for potential members.

Buses NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Buses, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of buses on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BusesWikipedia:WikiProject BusesTemplate:WikiProject Busesbus transport articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Userbox

The {{ User WikiProject Optare member}} template is to identify WikiProject Optare participants.

This user is a participant of WikiProject Optare.

Navbox

The {{ Optare Buses}} template is used to provide links to all other Optare PLC buses articles. Place it after the last section, usually External links.

Infobox

Place the {{ Infobox UK Bus}} template on all articles where specifications are known. To add an image caption, use the following style:

| image= Optare Bus.jpg
| caption= (seperate from actual image)