Talk:Stagecoach Manchester

Stagecoach Manchester was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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February 7, 2011	Good article nominee	Not listed

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Routes[edit]

Would it be a good idea to add a note in the 191 Service box to clearly indicate that it only runs at Peak Times and that Stagecoach Manchester Operate 3 x 391 Journey's on School Days between Stockport and Poynton High School Noddingdonkey142 (talk) 14:49, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The 374 was extended to Reddish to Replace the 319, 5 months ago 94.192.241.209 (talk) 19:56, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then update it. Majorly talk 16:10, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Stagecoach Manchester 391 journeys runs on Schooldays only, however the note stating this has been removed from the article. A similar situation has occured with the 191, which only runs between 6-9am and 3 and 6:30pm. 94.192.241.209 (talk) 17:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is because Wikipedia is not a travel guide. Jenuk1985 | Talk 17:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then what's the point of having a notes column if it's not gonna be put to good use? 94.192.241.209 (talk) 10:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notes column can be used to note things like odd routes such as circulars and limited stop routes. They should not be for timings of the buses. I'd prefer the notes column was removed completely personally. Majorly talk 13:17, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In an ideal world, the references would be in the notes col. As it stands, very few (almost 0) route tables are referenced. Jenuk1985 | Talk 19:59, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think most of the Circular Route information could be added to the main table e.g. 307/308 Bramhall Circular and the rest could be removed. 94.192.241.209 (talk) 19:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The list is so long I think it would probably be better in its own article. Majorly talk 16:47, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maynes Bus fleet transfer[edit]

There was at least one "supposed stocklist" around at the time of transfer, showing 38 vehicles. It was established that one vehicle Mayne No. 6, regn F 711 LFG to become Stagecoach 15374 had actually been sold in 2006. Therefore only 37 vehicles were transferred.

It is beleived that the "stocklist" was correct at the time Mayne decided to sell the bus opersation, but in the interim the sale of No. 6 was made --Keith 17:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Stagecoach Manchester/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

GA review (see here for criteria)

This isn't a bad article, but it would appear to fall a fair way short of the GA criteria at present. Detailed issues as follows:

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
Prose is reasonable but could be better. The lead is well written and summarises the topic well, but contains material which is not covered in the main text, such as the number of passengers and the bit about the 192. The unsourced opinions in the history section (more below) need rewriting and sourcing. Sentences are generally well constructed but a few, such as the one about Stagecoach's purchase of GMBS, would benefit from rewriting.
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
Big problems here. The history section is almost entirely unsourced, and contains much content which could be considered original research, such as "it faced an uphill struggle". The depot list and fleet description have no sources. Of the five sources that are presented, three are company press releases. More independent are badly needed. Industry publications might be a good starting point.
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
The prose is generally well focused, and a sensible level of content provided. Listing the entire fleet seems like overkill and would appear to fail the requirement of not going into unnecessary detail. A more focused fleet summary with less trivial content (number of seats, depot allocations) would serve the article better.
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
History contains rather too many unsourced opinions. Sentences such as "It was broken into two parts to make more money for the Government and also to fulfill the Government's 'sweet shop' bus company ownership vision." and "GMBS could only present a dowdy, dated image" are unacceptable without suitable references to support them, and should be presented as opinions rather than facts.
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
No issues here.
It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Images are good quality and suitably tagged. Is an image of every type in the fleet really necessary? These might be better presented as inline images with suitable captions.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Sorry, but I have to fail this at present. There are pitifully few GAs on bus related topics, so I very much hope to see this back at GAN after the issues have been addressed, but it's going to need a lot of work - rather more than the two edits you've made to the article so far.

Reviewer: Alzarian16 (talk) 11:18, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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