Talk:Greyhound Lines/Archives/2015

Freedom rides
Greyhound buses were used during the historically famous (or infamous) Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights Movement. Shouldn't there be a link on this site with the Wikipedia article about the Freedom Rides, inserted within the history section of the company during the 1960s? If you go to this site looking for Freedom Rides info, you won't find it here and that seems an odd omission in light of the company's important role in U.S. history. Many have seen the iconic Life Magazine photo of the burning Greyhound bus and might look here first for info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.145.197 (talk) 08:42, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree and have added a paragraph describing desegregation, Freedom Rides, and the bus-burning. It is sourced partly from the sources of other articles. Needs improvement. KevinCuddeback (talk) 15:03, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Looks pretty darn good, actually! Thanks! oknazevad (talk) 16:28, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've edited it again. While Interstate Commerce (buses & trains) were a big part of how the civil rights movement used strong federal laws and an area of federal regulation to overturn local Jim Crow laws (such as segregated bus & train stations even after the buses themselves were technically desegregated), it is important to retell the story here, but with more bus company & bus passenger details. Such as: I'd like to have that paragraph end with a "so what happened next?" What where the consequences for Greyhound? Things look pretty bleak for both the bus and interracial travel groups (the mob seems to have won)  What happened to Greyhound and its passengers (not just the Fed Gov't and rights activists?) over the next few years? Did they get police protection? The Civil Rights Act of 1964 seems likely to be the logical close of this paragraph.KevinCuddeback (talk) 17:39, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Comments
I just noticed this at WikiProject Companies as a GA nominations and thought I'd give it a passing glance. I noticed that citation 113 is not formatted and is tagged as a broken link. The following paragraph and some of the sentences in this section are unsourced. Moving up, the "Greyhound Community Reflections Mural Program" has a lot of content cited to a press release and shouldn't have a dedicated section. The Stations section is completely unsourced, as are numerous sentences sprinkled throughout the page. I noticed the BoltBus section relies very heavily on primary sources, even though the dedicated sub-article has sources like TIME magazine cited. Moving up the article, 66 is a press release and 63 needs formatting/a working link. Citation 61 is not a good use of a primary source either - promotional. The 1945–1983 section has a lot of unsourced content.

The page looks like it's heading in the right direction, but still needs a bit of work to make sure everything has a strong source and to trim some promotionalism added with primary sources, etc. CorporateM (Talk) 20:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)