Captian Cavy

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January 2017

Hello, I'm Epicgenius. I noticed that you recently removed some content from New York City Subway chaining without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please do not remove sourced information. Thank you. epicgenius (talk) 20:59, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

22X discontinuation

Hi,

I'm writing to thank you for your recent edits to the NJ Transit bus routes 1-99 page. I've been wanting to relocate 22X to the discontinued routes section for some time, but I didn't know when exactly it got discontinued and I couldn't find a source for it, so I ultimately left it alone. Thank you for providing the exact date.

That said, do you have a source for the date of discontinuation? You surely do. And we need to have sources so that the article can be reliable. Smartopedia (talk) 21:22, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi there,

My source for the exact date was checking between schedules available on the Internet Archive. The one current as of September 1, 2023 (dated 6/25/2022) had it still listed, but the one from after the next schedule change on October 28 did not. I'm still figuring how best reference this in the article, since as far as I have been able to tell this was never explicitly announced anywhere to begin with, including in the schedule where those trips were removed. In the meantime I decided to be WP:BOLD and go forwards with moving the entry to the correct table.

Side note, but please do not remove the vanchor templates from the line numbers in the table when adding timetable links. This breaks links to bus route numbers used in some station infoboxes that redirect to the correct entry in the table, which the template enables. Admittedly current vanchor template implementation on the bus route list articles is inconsistent, but redirects targeting almost all entries in the various NJT bus route tables already exist and probably should be rendered functional where they already are not.

--Captian Cavy (talk) 07:06, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I noticed the same thing with the schedules in the Wayback Machine, which gave a rough timeline, but I did not know at the time when they changed the schedule. This transit agency really is terrible at communication. I'm having the same problem finding a source for when the 16 was introduced; maybe you can help with that as well? Even DCTransitFilms didn't have a link to the service advisory.

Also, my apologies for destroying the redirects. Since I use the visual edit tool (since I only edit sporadically and don't have the time to learn all the code), I was not aware that there were redirects to those entries. My main purpose was to center the schedule link below the route number, since I do not like seeing a giant number in brackets sticking to the side of the route number. But when I found that the centering wasn't working properly, I just deleted the entire cell and started over. Again, my apologies.

However, I don't see myself adding these redirects back in the future. Throughout my experience editing all the bus route lists for NJ Transit, I have occasionally seen hyperlinks to other entries in the same table and never found that they worked. And inconsistent is an understatement; in nearly every article about a New Jersey county/town where specific bus routes are mentioned, it's usually just the text without a hyperlink. If we were to take these redirects seriously, then that would be a far bigger job on top of the already big job of adding all the schedules. And for whom? Barely anyone looks at these articles.

For now I'm just going to confine myself to adding the schedules. That's a big enough job as it is. Maybe in the future we can just link to the article as a whole instead. Smartopedia (talk) 08:14, 25 November 2025 (UTC)