Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses/UK bus operator quality drive

Welcome to the UK bus operator quality drive homepage. The drive is a one off editor collaboration of WikiProject buses, with the aim of bringing all United Kingdom bus operator articles up to a common standard. (See List of bus operators of the United Kingdom).

Any interested editor is welcome to participate in the drive. To assist the drive, editors are requested that any edits made pursuant to this drive should be made with an edit summary that contains the shortcut WP:UKBQDRIVE, which directs editors here.

Current participants

 * Arriva436talk/contribs
 *  Joel  Russell - Talk Contribs
 *  Joel  Russell - Talk Contribs
 *  Joel  Russell - Talk Contribs

Goals
The drive aims to improve the selected articles with respect to the following policies and guidelines that are specifically relevant to UK bus operator articles:


 * Verifiability
 * Corporations
 * Not a travel guide
 * Not a collection of trivia
 * Not an advertising space
 * Use of Images

A background discussion about some of these issues can be found at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Transport/Bus articles.

Instructions
To participate in the drive, after adding your name to the participant list, you simply choose an article in the status table that has not been examined (it should have an empty row), then, as described in detail in sub-section below, do the following:


 * Record in the status table a size assessment
 * Make any required additions
 * Make any required removals
 * Work with the images on the article
 * Note any issues and future tasks in the status table that can be addressed later (if not fixed there and then)
 * Note any unusual things requiring attention

For the avoidance of re-work, it is intended the drive is completed on a one time article by article basis. Therefore, please complete all tasks for an article at once, and note any tasks that could not be completed under the miscellaneous issues section.

Basic additions

 * 1) Make the following basic edits if required:
 * 2) Add the standard sections
 * 3) Add a See Also section (as a minimum including List of bus operators of the United Kingdom)
 * 4) Add a References section (it is OK and useful if this is empty)
 * 5) Add an External Links section (with an official website link if it can be found)
 * 6) Add the article to a category/sub-category of (creating if necessary):
 * 7) Category:Former bus operators in England / Category:Bus operators in England
 * 8) Category:Former bus operators in Scotland / Category:Bus operators in Scotland
 * 9) Category:Former bus operators in Northern Ireland / Category:Bus operators in Northern Ireland
 * 10) Category:Former bus operators in Wales / Category:Bus operators in Wales
 * 11) Add an appropriate template from Category:United Kingdom bus company templates if the company is a current company
 * 12) Add a hatnote to identify any non-obvious incoming redirects to the article, such as brand names and subsidiaries - See Help:What links here (switch off links and transclusions to show only redirects). Add any redirects as italic entries to List of bus operators of the United Kingdom.
 * 13) Convert any non-inline references in the article into an inline form
 * 14) Tag the article for any issues - See Note issues and future tasks section below

Basic removals

 * 1) Remove the following article elements:
 * 2) Sections explaining fare details/promotions
 * 3) Route details that specify frequency/days of operation/ancillary time table type notes. Lists or table of tables should contain the route number and basic way points only.
 * 4) Transient 'service information' of the form: changes after October etc.
 * 5) Overuse of official external web links that can be found from main link/s in the External Links sections such as route maps, timetable links etc.
 * 6) Any other invalid external links
 * 7) Company addresses or other contact details

Images
Note: very few of the Stagecoach, and FirstGroup subsidiaries have their own commons operator category. As an interim measure, it is intended to add the parent category (FirstGroup buses in the United Kingdom, Arriva Buses GB and Stagecoach UK Bus) to the article, but still mark in the status table that an operator category does not yet exist
 * 1) Add any relevant images. (See also Commons Category:Buses in the United Kingdom).
 * 2) Resize images per the image policy (main image size up to 300px, others thumb size)
 * 3) For articles with an existing operator category on Commons (here) (see note):
 * 4) Remove any excessive images from the article if they cannot be fitted into the article text (that are present in the commons category)
 * 5) Add a link to the Commons operator category to the article - (by adding to the External Links section, where operator is the part of the commons category after the :, e.g. Warrington Borough Transport
 * 6) Add the Wikipedia article link to the commons category. This can be achieved by adding the line: (A Commons account is not needed to do this).

Note issues and future tasks
Record in the status table the following issues and tasks needing follow up action (add yes, no or n/a in the appropriate column):

Articles with miscellaneous issues
List any article you find with an odd problem that doesn't fit into the status table, or wasn't fixed at the time

Completing future tasks
As future tasks are completed, such as adding an infobox or transferring images to commons, the corresponding entries in the status table should be updated.