User:Supernutorcrazy/sgWiki Buses Improvements FAQ

I (Supernutorcrazy) had come across lots of criticism regarding the new format, mostly in layout and informations presentation, hence I am creating this to inform all editors how it will be moving forward, and seek your understanding and considerations.

1. Defination of Wikipedia

Many editors in sgWiki Buses are bus enthusiasts. But Wikipedia is not an excel tracking sheet. According to Britannica, Merriam-Webster, and Cambridge Dictionary, Wiki is an online encyclopaedia where visitors are allowed to make changes, contributions, or corrections. If we are going to go even deeper, encyclopaedia refers to a large collection of information about one or many subjects.

The idea of having deployments listing, bus advertisements, and other parts is considered information, but how can we expand this to the public? I hope editors could put a moment of pause, to think about how the public will see, and perceive of information. Is the information encyclopaedic for them? Therefore, I had started this improvement and re-organisation of pages.

2. sgWiki Buses Advertisement

After analysing past editing patterns by many editors, there are two groups of editors, with the first group is just chasing after buses and edits their changes in bus advertisement, and the other is doing the duty of both bus deployment and advertisement, mainly in deployment cases.

The downfall of sgWiki Buses can be attributed to the following reason, even without me being involved in the past (before this re-organisation). The duty roaster and fleet deployment are not even tallying up, let alone accurate. Even some editors had noticed the change in bus fleet and deployment for a period of time, and yet no editors bother to edit it, with the former groups now stand a huge percentage, due to them being young. As a result, there are huge gaps in inaccuracy. The only information that is mainly accurate is the advertisement page, which heavily defeats the purposes as stated in Point 1 (definition of Wikipedia).

This brings me to the second point - advertisement columns. I had initially removed it thinking that it was a hinderance, and least importance of all, due to it being functioning as an Excel tracking list. After some suggestions from editors, the whole advertisements columns had been consolidate into a single page - Advertisements on Buses. I hope this makes it easier for the groups of editors to just refer to a single page rather than bookmarking so many.