User:Ubid20pk53/sandbox

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Wikipedia Article Summary (March 2014): The Wikipedia article that I intend to improve is paratransit.

I created a subpage where I have made my edits to the existing page: User:Ubid20pk53/paratransit

I have already added Wikipedia redirects for alternate spellings of the word (para transit and para-transit), but one of the first things I want to do is address the concern posted on the existing paratransit page:

I’ll discuss that the word paratransit and the way paratransit is structured in the United States is not replicated around the world. I will research and post information about equivalent forms of public transportation for the disabled and elderly elsewhere in the world.

I am quite familiar with the technology used in the business of paratransit in the US and Canada in general and the Mid-Atlantic in particular and, even though it is changing so rapidly, I plan to add content on that subject. Additionally, I feel the page will benefit from further discussion of the increasing costs and ridership of the service, and will gather additional information on how state and local governments are addressing those concerns. Because I do not feel I can satisfy the assignment’s length requirement of 8-10 pages on the paratransit page itself, I will create a Wikipedia article for MTA’s Mobility service in the Baltimore-Annapolis region, and update (improve) the existing WMATA MetroAccess article. These two cities operate their paratransit services quite differently, and I’d like to find a way to compare and contrast the systems in a meaningful way.

''I do have some concerns about this assignment, in terms of content and volume. I am apprehensive to claim that my knowledge and the result of my research is authoritative and not simply more than my opinion on the topic. Also, it seems inappropriate that I should be trying to write so much when a more useful goal might be to improve the article in its current form. For instance, several of the Notes and references on the existing paratransit page are dead links, and some of the statistics and general information is outdated and perhaps irrelevant. When I follow some of the internal links, those articles are also suffering from similar neglect as a result of the passage of time, and I feel it would be more helpful if I spent my time improving those articles as well. My editorial approach to writing – to try to extract the most relevant and meaningful information from a piece of text and present it as efficiently as possible – is, in many ways, in contradiction to this task.''

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