Kevin L

Its been one of the more tougher things to figure out how to organize and display them. When we started this VIN project there were certain things that were not anticipated or realized. (ie difficulty with changing alternating colours for different orders, repeating VIN year codes, large transit agency orders needing 150-200 individual lines for each vin). On the test page I only consolidated the vins that already had pages. My preference is to leave the full vin until pages are created for them. For some of the transit bus pages especially, full vins result in very long tables and a lot of editing for large orders or big production years. The format may not work for everyone but I think we have found a good balance between editing time, page/table length and displaying info.

Did a test page so people can visually see how it would look.

Something like New Flyer Industries 2022 VINs as an example? I think that would be a good idea.

Bit of a late reply (busy with work and life - limited editing time), but I'm seeing merits in this arrangement having each production year on it's own page. I think its the best option going forward. I possibly may be starting to consolidate the MCI pages (as time permits). I could give this a try and see how it flows/works.

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Link to the cgiforme one. Link to the etspe.ca one.

That could be another possible option for them. They could certainly be archived. About merging histories of the pages, that is probably a limitation of the wiki. Not sure on the value of doing it as it would be a big incomprehensible mess if I was to do that with the New Flyer pages.

No. That was a test to see if there could be a balance between the cell being fully blacked out or if thicker boarders might work. Just an option I was trying out. After I did them I was also favouring #3.

Speaking for myself, I would never delete any info. I would move it to/create a new page for it. Those would likely be the last to convert and we could have more discussion at that time on how to proceed. Creating new pages for full VINs with limited information is a possible option that I could agree with. Great! Once the page is created, adding things is quick and easy. I find it looks better visually too and would be in support of everything left aligned. I've been trying to figure out what works best visually for these and how to display that. On the New Flyer G VINs page (the first three of these) I've condensed and tried a new format for displaying them. First one spans all columns. Second one is aligned to start with the build year. Third one has the serials in their column and aligned to start with the build year. How do they look?

As a compromise, would anyone be in support of a separate section at the bottom of the VIN pages for unidentified/unverified VINs?