Talk:Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)

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Original research tag

The article was so tagged because much of the material listed here, particularly in the fleet section, looks like it might be OR. This stuff can be verified, but isn't. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:17, 22 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Planned limited-stop routes

Is this section too old to be relevant? It was referenced with a dead link that did not provide a date for the source material. I was unable to find the original source of this link or an alternative source to replace it. --Folklore1 (talk) 15:08, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fleet Roster

Where and when did the information in this table come from? Is it still relevant? A source reference is needed for verifying and updating this table. Folklore1 (talk) 16:42, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That is correct. This fleet information needs to be reliably sourced. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

However, images on Photobucket or other image hosting sites are NOT reliable sources. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removed fleet roster section

I have removed the "Fleet roster" section entirely, and moved it to Talk:Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)/Fleet roster. An original research tag has been on this article for nearly a year, and I have noticed that since the tag's addition, various editors have treated the tag's presence as a free pass to add as much original research as they want to the section. Thus until every detail of the roster can be sourced, it is gone, and on a talk subpage for sourcing. Is this sourcing possible? Perhaps. Will it be easy to do? No. But to comply with WP:Verifiability, it needs to go. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Limited Stop individual articles

Why do the 16th street express, Richmond Highway Express, and Metro Extra have its own section? There are numerous other limited stop routes (such as the 37, X9, 39). Does being limited stop warrant an entire section? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thedofc (talk • contribs) 14:20, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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History?

So where's the history of this service? Did it start out, as so many bus systems did, as a mechanism for subsidizing private operators, or was 1967 late enough that WMATA simply took over the bus service entirely? 121a0012 (talk) 00:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Photos in the current fleet

What happened to the photos of the current fleet? All I see is markup with the word "file" in it under that column. Sam.gov (talk) 18:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Fleet Roster References

Hello fellow Wikipedians! It would be great if references were added to the Fleet section of the article. There is a lot of great information in there that could be sourced, but isn't. Thanks! –Daybeers (talk) 21:29, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Separate Section or Article of History on Each WMATA Bus

Instead of having long sections on the charts of Metrobuses, there should be a separate article or section on the type of Metrobus instead of having long articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swagging (talk • contribs) 02:44, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issues

Hello all! This article has multiple issues, including original research, unverified statements, excessive detail, and overall, it just needs to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I would truly like to help, but it's not constructive to just add more unsourced information into the article. There has been original research on here for nearly 8 years, so I feel it's generous to not completely delete the "Fleet" and "Divisions" sections, but those may need to be moved to the draftspace until further sources can be found. I would encourage any editors interested in helping out to read Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources. Thanks, and happy editing! (P.S. 164.106.75.242 and 164.106.75.253: you're not fooling anyone; both of the IP addresses are registered to the Virginia Community College System). –Daybeers (talk) 20:11, 1 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Separate Fleet Article?

I want to propose that a separate article be created for the "fleet" information for Metrobus. This is similar to other large bus systems: See King County Metro fleet for King County Metro, MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet for MTA Regional Bus Operations, and San Francisco Municipal Railway fleet for San Francisco Municipal Railway. This way, the primary Metrobus page can be more dedicated towards history, statistics, governance, and funding.

Thoughts?

ChunyangD (talk) 22:50, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - A separate bus fleet can be very useful for the article, so that the “rewriting the article” notice can be removed. But the only concern is the citations of the bus fleet, if a separate article is added. Also, if possible a history of the Agency can be also useful to add to the article, to replace the fleet roster. One key tip to make it successful is the citations. Leobran2018 (talk) 01:35, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agree - I do plan on making a separate fleet article for this as the information is already here on archives and I can find sources for history of the buses. But the concerning factor is citations. I might have to make a Twitter account for a website so I can use that as the primary source so everything here can be cited and the history and bus movements can be cited without an editing war or citation notices.Swagging (talk) 13:38, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

History of Metrobus

I think its a good idea if we add history for this articles if we can find the sources for that. Also making the Metrobus Fleet a separate article in order to remove notices on this page. But if anybody have history for this page, please add it thanks! Swagging (talk) 19:53, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Metrobus History

Since the Metrobus Fleet got moved to its own article, we need to discuss about how we can improve this page. My suggestion is to create a history section similar to the MTA Bus article. I know Doctors of Directions knows a lot about the history but we need sources for it. We need to discuss about how we can improve the page now. Swagging (talk) 11:50, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]