Template talk:Infobox bus company

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Broken

Why do people insist on updating infoboxes to use some strange code and then leave them broken? If you're going to play around with something that appears on so many articles you could at least FIX IT or change it back to the version that WORKED. 84.71.84.246 (talk) 22:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to have been a lot of problems regarding images all over Wikipedia recently. Have a look at the bottom of The village pump page. It seems as though removing the "px" from the image code on whatever article the image is on will work. Today, someone noticed a problem on one article they visited and decided to remove the image section from this infobox, wiping all the images from all of the articles that had no problem at all. Why they did this I don't know, so I put it back in. Various people have now edited the infobox again. -- Thanks, Arriva436^shout! 22:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tried various reversions last night to what should have been a good edit. However, I'm convinced that this template may be transcluding a bad template.--AEMoreira042281 (talk) 15:27, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah! As I said them seems to be a problem all over, I even got a message at the top of my watchlist about it. -- Thanks, Arriva436^shout! 21:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

add "competitors"

It would be nice if ain item "competitors" could be added to the template Nankai (talk) 23:06, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Locale"?

Isn't "locale" redundant to service area and headquarters? --TorriTorri^{(Talk to me!)} 20:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Abbreviation?

On intercity bus schedules and ticketing sites in the U.S., company names are often abbreviated (JL = Jefferson Lines, GL = Greyhound Lines, RRS = Rimrock Stages, etc.). The infobox should probably have this info, though I'm not sure what to call it—for railroads, it would be "reporting mark", while airlines apparently call it a "designator". Any ideas of what it should be? —Mulad (talk) 16:12, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea. Why not just call it "code"? That would work for a wide range of circumstances. Secondarywaltz (talk) 18:50, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alt (image attribute)

An 'alt' image-attribute's wanted for accessibility (e.g. of the sight impaired). –DjScrawl (talk) 12:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alliance

What does "alliance" mean? Operators where routes are shared? OR companies that belong to the same ownership? Marcnut1996 (talk) 07:06, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

coordinates ?

... Dave Rave (talk) 23:38, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

removed parameter

Looks like MB recently removed a parameter from this template. Articles that invoke this parameter silently ignore it, which is probably mostly okay. But it breaks some articles, like Community Transit. That article used the parameter to define a named reference. With the parameter gone, the named reference never appears in the article and the article began rendering with undefined reference name errors. Is there a way to find all the articles which were damaged by this change? -- Mikeblas (talk) 20:35, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are only around 1,700 tranclusions of the template. I'm not sure how many of those used slogan, and then of those how many had a reference that was defined & named there and used again in the article. This may be the only one. If there are others, they would be in Category:Pages with broken reference names which I would think is sufficient. Jonesey95 may have a comment. MB 22:25, 18 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just so I understand: the plan is to just make a breaking change without warning, let the errors show to users, and have the problems pile on with 3200 other articles in a clean up category so that someone else might clean it up some time in the future? -- Mikeblas (talk) 00:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have discussed this with you multiple times; there is no "easy" fix for a named reference being defined in an infobox and then that infobox being changed (whether it's a bot removing a parameter or the parameter being disabled at the source). Just fix the issues as they appear. I'm not sure if AnomieBOT will automatically rescue these orphans, but if not I might drop them a note about it.

Additionally, and I mention this because it was MB that asked me to look into this matter, you do not have to ping them every time you fix one of these references - if they know about it, that's good enough.

Third thing: if you use WP:PETSCAN, you can find pages in Category:Pages with broken reference names that call {{infobox bus company}}, thereby avoiding having to trawl through 3k+ pages manually. Of course, this is more of a "for future use" statement, since apparently everything has been fixed. Primefac (talk) 17:09, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]