Wikipedia:WikiProject Optare

Hi, welcome to WikiProject Optare. Our aim is to improve each Darwen Group article to its very best. The project covers all aspects of Optare. We also cover all the former East Lancashire Coachbuilders and Darwen Group articles as well.

Members
If you wish to join please add your name to the bottom of the list and place on your user page.


 * 1)  A r r i v a  436 17:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) TAS 19:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Quackdave 21:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) Joshuarooney 11:49, 11 March 2008.
 * 5) Timothyhouse1 15:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) CrossHouses (talk)
 * 7) Laseandre (talk) 12:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 8)  Davey 2010   20:06, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
 * 9)  Nordic Dragon talk 13:39, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Article Structure
This section describes what should be in a product article (i.e. not the main Darwen Group article). Applicable on Optare product articles only.

Introduction
 Use the following sentence:

The Optare (name of product) is a type of bus body built on the (names of chassis) by Optare.

History
If it is the name of a single and double decker, use two 'history' headings but named Single Decker and Double Decker. If the names vary (e.g. Kinetec and Kinetec+), use the product's name plus decker status.

Add some history of the body here, like when it was first built.

Full names
If the bus's name varied on the chassis, use the following sentence:

Most early ELCB buses names varied on what chassis it was built on.

Place a list of names and the chassis here using bullet points.

Navboxes
Use the template here.

Categories
Then place the appropriate categories after external links and navboxes, without a section heading.

Project banner
The template, to be placed on all of our articles' talk pages, is used to identify our articles and provide a link to our project for potential members.

Userbox
The template is to identify WikiProject Optare participants.

Navbox
The template is used to provide links to all other Optare PLC buses articles. Place it after the last section, usually External links.

Infobox
Place the template on all articles where specifications are known. To add an image caption, use the following style:

| image= Optare Bus.jpg | caption= (seperate from actual image)