Talk:Rapid bus routes in Sydney

message: Since Sydney has no discrete BRT network, I favour a single article to replace the several short articles on those sections of the Sydney bus network that have BRT features. Mqst north (talk) 02:19, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bus rapid transit in Sydney 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I propose that Metrobus (Sydney) be merged into Rapid bus routes in Sydney. Metrobus was merely an early step towards a rapid bus network for the city, and is best addressed as a phase in the rapid routes history. Mqst north (talk) 11:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The Metrobus (Sydney) article is a great article that presents a list of routes in a coherent, segmented order through subsections. One looking for information on a particular service, the M41 for example, can easily navigate down to the "M41" section on the Metrobus article. For the Rapid bus routes in Sydney article, however, one would have to have previous knowledge that it is a Hurstville to Macquarie Park route before navigating down to the "Hurstville to Macquarie Park" section, which doesn't mention the M41 until the fifth paragraph. A dedicated "Fleet" section describing the buses used by the Metrobus network also appears on the Metrobus article as well. I'd believe that if the B-Line (Sydney) article is developed to this standard, it too can be as useful for readers as the Metrobus article is, as there is more to the B-Line network than just the B1 service. As I pressed earlier, I would only support a merger if a good example of such can be drawn up, such as a userspace or mainspace draft, because I do not have a belief that this merger can work. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · contribs · count) 22:51, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is worth noting that Metrobus is a historical concept – and one that lasted less than a decade. No new Metrobus routes are being created, no new buses ordered in its livery, and no new stops being added with its branding. Nowhere on the transportnsw.info website does the term 'Metrobus' appear. Nor does it appear in new editions of M-series timetables. While the Metrobus 'era' should appear in accounts of the history of Sydney bus services, to give it its own article is to stretch the definition of notability. We might as well create articles about other bus network product names that live only in old signs – Metroline, CityLink, FerryLink, Red Arrow, the Airport Express and so on. Mqst north (talk) 09:20, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

text:  I have done some more work on the target article. As you can see, it explains the development of rapid routes (including B1 and many ex-Metrobus routes) in their proper land use, service planning and historical context. Let the trip planner and network maps list out stops: readers are here to find out the why, not plan their journeys. Mqst north (talk) 08:04, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :Rapid bus routes in Sydney's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Transdev":
From Metrobus (Sydney): Metrobus Transdev NSW
From Transdev NSW: Transdev NSW Australian Bus Fleetlists
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 00:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Rapid bus routes in Sydney]]