SgWiki:Page Merger/Integration (Poll/Discussion)

Starter Post

Integration of deployment pages

Hi everyone, I would like to suggest integrating the following pages:

• "Services 400 - 405" & "Services 851 - 860" to "Services 400 - 860"
• "Services 106 - 189" & "Services 974 - 990" to "Services 106 - 990"
• "Services 118 - 136" & "Service 403" to "Services 118 - 403"

To eliminate pages which consist of too few services.

Thanks.

-Litlah

Spliting "SBS Transit Short-Trip Services" into 2 sections

Hi everyone, may I suggest that we split the SBST Short-Trip Services page into 5 sections:

• Short-Trip Services 7A - 45A
• Short-Trip Services 51A - 95B
• Short-Trip Services 100A - 147A
• Short-Trip Services 154A - 200A
• Short-Trip Services 222A - 811A

To ease users' searching for services as the current page is too long, consisting of all 72 SBST Short-Trip Services.

Thanks.

-Litlah

Interim Result

Action	Votes
Merging of "Services 400 - 405" & "Services 851 - 860" to "Services 400 - 860"	Support (1): Litlah Reject (1): Wekelwrady
Merging of "Services 106 - 189" & "Services 974 - 990" to "Services 106 - 990"	Support (2): Litlah, Wekelwrady
Merging of "Services 118 - 136" & "Service 403" to "Services 118 - 403"	Support (2): Litlah, Wekelwrady
Splitting of SBS Transit Short Working Trip pages	Support (1): Litlah Reject (1): Wekelwrady

Opinion Below

Opinion 1

I studied through the mentioned pages carefully and I will give my honest opinion.

I do not agree that Services 400 - 405 should be merged into Services 851 - 860 as the Services 851 - 860 is a complete subset of Seletar Bus Package, which is the same example as how CT8 & CT18 are a full set of ChinaTown Direct Services.

However, I agree with the merged pages of Services 106 - 990 and Services 118 - 403.

I do not favor the idea of splitting SBST Short-Trip Services. Given the small content navigation on the top left hand corner, we should be able to find the Short-Trip services in an easy way. Making it 5 sections would mean that 5 sections will have to be put onto the Search Bar and it increases the burden of trying to search for a particular SBST Short-Trip Service.

Furthermore, suggesting the SBST Short-Trip split does not fulfil standardisation. Given the Short-Trip service count of other PTOs, SMRT having 30, Go Ahead 16, Tower Transit 13, it is not feasible to implement the split in SBST Short-Trip Services as well as making an effort to standardise the split in other PTOs (given the small number of Short Trip Services compared to SBST).

Thank you.

-Wekelwrady

Opinion 2

Before we dwelve into the topic on integrating bus service pages with too few bus services and splitting those with too many, why not I ask what is your definition of "too many services in 1 page" and "too few services in 1 page"? Otherwise, I do not think that this discussion should even continue at all. Thank you.

Themystery

[Reply]

Hi Themystery, My definition of an ideal number here would be between 10 and 20, similar to what most of the other SBST deployment pages (eg. Services 4 - 20, Services 63 - 80, Services 121 - 140 Services 181 - 201, etc)

Thanks

Opinion 3

Hi all.

Although I am not an expert in bus services, I do not agree with the action of merging Service 400-405 and Service 851-860, as 400-405 used to be the Parks services, while 851-860 are trunk services, therefore I do not think that merging different categories of services is valid even though park services are abolished. I disagree with the merger of Service 118-136 and Service 403 to Service 118-403 for the same reason.

I also do not agree with the merging of Service 106-990, as there is another page with way less number of services than 106-189, which is Service 61-110 with 4 services. If the case is that pages with 7 services merge with another of 2 services, should we merge 61-110 with 167-190 to eliminate such situations as well?

I also do not agree with the splitting of the short trip services, as there is a content finder which allows us to quickly search for the respective short trip service. Although I have to admit that given the number of short trip services SBST has (72), it is quite time-consuming for users to scroll down, I think that as long as the content finder is on, users can still quickly find the service.

Furthermore, as mentioned by Themystery, the definition of "too many/few services" is unclear, so it may confuse some users even more.

Thanks and regards,

AirFan19