Talk:PBSC Urban Solutions

Founding
Since this company was founded in 2014 it is rather confusing to have a table showing "cities that have implemented its bicycle rental systems" with launch dates back to 2009.

It's also not correct to say that this company was formerly known as Bixi. We have an article on Bixi. It appears Bixi was broken up and PBSC acquired some of the assets. If this article is about the separate company, then it should be written that way. If we are treating it as the continuation of Bixi then this material should be merged into the existing article. 21:42, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Bixi (company) be merged into PBSC Urban Solutions. BIXI was never a company, but rather a brand created by the non-profit Public Bike System Company (or Société de Vélo en Libre-Service) which itself was formed by the City of Montréal. BIXI is/was two things - an on-the-ground bike share system installed in a few Canadian cities (e.g. BIXI Montréal) and a product once sold to various North American cities for use in their independent bike share systems (e.g. Divvy). The contents of Bixi (company) describe the early days of Public Bike System Company (and not so much the BIXI product) before it was sold and privatized as PBSC Urban Solutions, however, PBSC Urban Solutions - both in the wikipedia article and on the company's website - mark its founding as that of the Public Bike System Company and not when it was privatized some years later. As such, the information and history in the Bixi (company) article is PBSC Urban Solutions' background and history and should be merged to reflect this. --Mindfrieze (talk) 18:41, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes please! The current treatment of Bixi's origins is somewhat chaotic, and the Bixi (company) article is a significant part of the problem. The explanation given above by Mindfrieze corresponds to my understanding, and offers what I think is the right path towards cleaning up this topic area. – Justinbb (talk) 02:50, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Support - Proposal makes sense. Me-123567-Me (talk) 18:19, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Agree! -I had presented at the same forum with the president of PBSC back when it was still owned by the City of Montreal. BIXI was always just the brand so makes sense to merge the two to provide a more coherent history. Nubeli (talk) 17:29, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

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Post-merger content forking
Regarding the merger discussion above, there's still a lot of WP:CONTENTFORKING between BIXI Montréal and PBSC Urban Solutions. I propose that the overall history and development be mostly in this article and that BIXI Montréal be more focused on the implementation in that city. --Cornellier (talk) 17:57, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - BIXI and PBSC were once the same company before splitting. As such, they have related (but relatively static) history and development, which may be acceptable forking per WP:RELAR. Cutting the unique history of that system out of the BIXI article would be a detriment to that topic.  And, since neither article is likely to have new info added to exacerbate the fork, I recommend it remain as-is. --Mindfrieze (talk) 21:29, 16 August 2019 (UTC)