Wikipedia:WikiProject Optare

WikiProject Optare

Shortcut	WP:DGL
Categories	WikiProject Optare, Bus manufacturers
Parent project(s)	Transport
Has goals?	Yes

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 {{User WikiProject Optare member}} on your user page.

1. Arriva 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. Davey2010 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.

External links

Use the following link at the top of the list then links to pictures of the product.

• Darwen Group (for East Lancs and Darwen Group articles)
• Optare (for Optare articles)

Navboxes

Use the {{Optare Buses}} template here.

Categories

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

Templates

Project banner

The {{WikiProject Buses}} 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 {{User WikiProject Optare member}} template is to identify WikiProject Optare participants.

This user is a participant of WikiProject Optare.

Navbox

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

Infobox

(model of bus)
Powertrain
Capacity	(total capacity)
Dimensions
Length	(dimensions)
Width	(dimensions)
Height	(dimensions)

Place the {{Infobox UK Bus}} 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)