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Non-notable local school bus service. Article reads mostly like a guidebook, no reliable sources currently in article, and sources offered to justify deprodding are the local school newspaper, thereby failing
WP:ORG. Regards,
James(talk/contribs)
10:31, 25 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Based on the sources located by Altamel below, I would change my nomination to merge into
University of California, Berkeley. The Bear Transit page is still a permastub that fails NOTGUIDE, but a short mention in the parent article based on those sources seems appropriate. --Regards,
James(talk/contribs)
20:39, 9 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep: Unlike most university transit systems, this one is available for use by the general public, so I suggest it be considered on par with municipal transit systems, which are generally kept. But furthermore, I suggest that this article does meet
WP:GNG. Bear Transit was the subject of an in-depth
study presented before the Transportation Research Board of the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and there's also coverage of the transit system in
Metro Magazine.
Altamel (
talk)
04:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep or Merge per
Altamel. Usually I would agree that not all private shuttle systems should be included on Wikipedia, but Bear Transit is run by publicly owned UC Berkeley and is indeed open to the general public (disclosure: I'm a student at Cal). From what I've seen, there are quite a few people riding it who are neither students nor faculty members (mostly tourists visiting, but they are members of the public). Furthermore, I think it is listed as a public transit system in the Bay Area, and the research sources mentioned above are notable and can be added into the article. There are quite a lot of outdated information, but overall the page is worth keeping and I can update it shortly when a conclusion is reached here. --
AsianHippie (
talk)
14:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Meh. I did mention on my userpage that I'm starting to edit Wikipedia again after years of inactivity. Whether you want to take that or not is up to you. If you wish to see more of my edits, I'll probably fix some vandalism on Wikipedia. To reduce your concern that I'm a single-purpose account, I'm changing my view to simply Keep rather than Strong Keep. Does that address your concern? --
AsianHippie (
talk)
23:09, 8 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep. As has been said, different from almost all university transit systems because of the extent of the system and its community role. (Until I read this article and discussion, I in fact had not known it was open to the general public, but since it is, it's a public transit system on par with all others.) DGG (
talk )
20:37, 9 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Close comment - I originally closed as Keep but I pretty much agreed with DGG and that was more or less my reasoning for closing which technically isn't one so to make life easier for everyone I've reopened/relisted... –
Davey2010Talk21:04, 15 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Keep: It's part of Berkeley's public infrastructure. Also, it should receive info from
Humphrey Go-Bart, which is likely to be deleted. I would like to see this article expanded with historical information, if suitable sources can be found.
Peter Chastain[¡habla!]20:53, 21 January 2016 (UTC)reply
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