Talk:LocalLink 93 (BaltimoreLink)

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In response to the tag applied by an editor to this page and all others pertaining to MTA bus lines:

I am one of the main writers of these pages, and I believe that they do meet all the criteria available for being placed on Wikipedia.

• These articles are about a service provided by a government agency that has customers like a company. There are so many other articles that fit the same description and are acceptable, and therefore these are, too.
• These articles are told at a neutral point of view. They simply state the facts about what the service is and how it historically evolved; while they may factually state the point of view that citizens and the media have about the services, they are not written in a manner that is for or against them.
• The information that has been stated in these articles is verifiable; whatever is provided is what has been available to the writers to this date; whatever is omitted, even when provided in another, has not been available, and will be provided when available.
• The writers, though they do know about the existence of these services, do not have any direct involvement in shaping what they are, but simply have chosen to write about them.
• These articles are not advertisements; they simply provide information to the knowledge-seeker.

I believe that it is perfectly acceptable by Wikipedia standards to write about the individual bus lines, rail stops, or other services of a public transportation agency, especially one of the largest transit agencies in the United States. Before my co-writers and I began this undertaking, we found that the transit agencies in other large cities had articles like these, but the one for Baltimore didn't.

Likewise, many companies have articles dedicated to each individual unit of what they are rather than the company as a whole. For example, Royal Caribbean International not only has a Wikipedia page about itself; it has a separate article about each of its ships (example: Majesty of the Seas).