Talk:Metrobus (Sydney)

Express Bus
Wouldn't it be more accurate in the infobox to describe this service as express bus as oppposed to full-on bus rapid transit? Generally, if you're going to call something BRT, it has to have most of its length seperated from general traffic in some way such as busways or dedicated lanes on the roadway, along with having more stations as opposed to stops. --Criticalthinker (talk) 07:35, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Indeed, Metrobus was never really anything more than a different numbering scheme for certain routes – it never operated as a discrete network, and is being phased out under Sydney's Bus Future in favour of 'rapid' and 'suburban' routes. Mqst north (talk) 11:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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Infoboxes
Recently the individual route infoboxes were deleted on the basis that they breached MOS:INFOBOX with a summary of 'we don't summarise list entries in infobxes, just the article itself'. Having scanned the policy document, I can't find a section that states or even suggests this. Can the relevant sentence/s please be quoted?

The article could arguably be split out into individual route articles, but this would be an overkill with a fair bit of repetition. This article effectively serves as a grouping of the individual routes, so for mine unless it is a clear breach of policy, the individual infoboxes are appropriate. Ponyo98 (talk) 05:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Supported - I have also been reading the policy quoted and can not find any policy which indicates that multiple Infoboxes can not be included. Some time ago when there was a suggestion that this article be merged into another article it was opposed on the bases that this was a very good transport article because of its clarity and there was no opposition to the multiple infoboxes. Talk:Rapid_bus_routes_in_Sydney Fleet Lists (talk) 05:38, 13 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I removed the infoboxes. Typically they don't go in list entires and such infoboxes were recently removed from List of night buses in London. Also we are not a travel guide, we don't need undue detail about every Metrobus route as bus routes are not inherently notable. Ajf773 (talk) 10:23, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree with reinstating for reasons given above. Turingway (talk) 18:23, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * So what are the reasons stated? That we don't have a clear policy so by default we keep them up? WP:MOS states Other article elements include disambiguation hatnotes (normally placed at the very top of the article) and infoboxes (usually placed before the lead section). and MOS:INFOBOX stats in the lead that An infobox is a panel, usually in the top right of an article, next to the lead section (in the desktop version of Wikipedia), or at the end of the lead section of an article (in the mobile version), that summarizes key features of the page's subject. Infoboxes may also include an image, a map, or both.. It is accepted that it belongs predominantly in the article and generally not in sections. Ajf773 (talk) 02:05, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * The policy includes the words "usually in the top right" but it does not state that it must be exclusively so, so as I read it, an infobox can be used under other circumstances as done in this article. The "It is accepted" is not part of the policy and even then again the sentence states predominantly and NOT exclusively.Fleet Lists (talk) 06:53, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

PrePay
I am not aware that M90, M91 and M92 have become prepay. The Hillsbus route certainly have done so recently.Fleet Lists (talk) 04:00, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I am also aware they are not prepay. I was intending to say a few others have become prepay since 2018. Marcnut1996 (talk) 04:08, 16 July 2019 (UTC)