Talk:New Flyer Industries
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[edit] Models
While the article's tone appears quite professional compared to what I found in Millennium Transit Services#Models, the models listing looked like a jigsaw of dashes and parentheses. I did some cleaning up in Historical and Current subsections, just to make dash use in there consistent and user-friendly in terms of legibility.
Most of this is a good part from my own point of view and a good part from the Dash article.
- I didn't touch on bus models, as they use the hyphen-minus anyway;
- Years in the form of "from xxxx to xxxx" and "xxxx to present" look like this: 1968–1974 and "1996–present";
- Years in the form of "from late 1980s to mid 1990s" are given an unspaced em dash: "late 1980s—mid 1990s", since the from and to statements are not mere numbers, but contain two (or more) word constructs (I don't mind if someone disputes this statement in favour of an en dash);
- Parenthetical statements, such as "F40LF — Fuel Cell (Hydrogen) Test Buses (1996)" are separated with a spaced em dash. While indeed in American English usage, spaced em dashes are not used, I still feel it is warranted in here, so as to separate bus model numbers from the rest of the text and not make it appear as part of the model number itself;
- For consistency in sections with the above point, parenthetical statements are also separated with a spaced em dash.
Despite my own cleanups, there is still an overabundance of parentheses.
-Mardus 01:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
