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With the upcoming Legislative Council election, promotional content related to the election and candidates may appear on various modes of transportation in Hong Kong.

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If you have related files (such as election advertising content on public transport), please avoid uploading them during the election period. If necessary, please wait until after the election concludes (after 7 December 2025, i.e., 00:00 Hong Kong time on 8 December 2025) before uploading.

We hope everyone will comply with these regulations.

User "Mandychoi" has been ignoring rules on editing and has repeatedly violating them, especially on route colours. Considering the user's behaviours in both Chinese and English versions and the need to prevent English version from becoming a place for evading blocks, we determine that the user is not suitable to continue editing in EBTHK and therefore Mandychoi is permanently blocked.

We once again remind all users to reach consensus before making any route colour changes to prevent violating rules and being blocked for rule violation. For the related discussion on route colour changes, see this Chinese version forum post.

EBTHK English version admin RE8750

6 August 2025

Citybus stop names on LR stops use "LR XX Stop" in lieu of KMB's XX Station.

For stop names with "LR XX Stop" format (on CTB, MTR Bus and GMB stops), use the CTBLR template.

Thanks.

https://hongkongaviation.fandom.com/wiki/

The above wiki has been set up yesterday and 2 new cross wiki templates were set up: Hkaviation and See hkaviation.

From time to time I found many problems exist on Jasongeorge2020's translation:

• Original links split into two parts making it unconnected

• Translation errors of terms and errors in grammar

• Translation errors causing incomprehensible texts and repeated texts which were not fixed manually before publishing

• Date format: Please use British format such as this one: 23 December 2023

• Forcibly adding English titles on Chinese-only links

• Newspaper article translation problems: Wrong newspaper publishing company names (which you can check for it via Google search), force translation of newspaper article titles without interpreting its meaning causing translation errors

• Publishing your text without proofreading and error-fixing (such as reconfirming place/road names in English by checking its corresponding Chinese version article)

I am wondering which type of translation tool the user uses and how you translate these texts which ended up with many errors that I have to spend time fixing it.

I have already asked the user to stop translating due to his poor quality via message wall, and he has not yet stopped so. Out of any choice, I have to post this to the discussion wall to raise the user's attention.

A reminder: Translators are not 100% accurate!

So when you translate an article please use your common sense and your understanding on some Chinese terms! This will reduce the errors in the resulting text.

The usage of NC template in Chinese version has changed (with ref tag no longer required); however such a change in the template's settings in English ones have not yet been done. Please use the old NC template input settings with the use of ref tag here until the template has been updated, thanks.

The articles listed within the Articles requiring clean up or rewriting category are all copied directly from Wikipedia by the previous owner of this wiki. As shown in the EBTHK Chinese version admin Tcshek's user page (translated content):

"Although Wikipedia has information about buses in Hong Kong, much of it is unproven and even misleading and incorrect, plus Wikipedia cannot always monitor the information about buses in Hong Kong, so its credibility is doubtful. EBTHK, on the other hand, emphasises on the authenticity of the information, coupled with good management, and at the same time, there are also some exclusive information provided by bus enthusiasts (including photos of buses, bus enthusiasts' events, and further information on bus routes, etc.), which Wikipedia is not able to realise."

EBTHK requires content based on sources which makes it stand out from Wikipedia and just building up content based on the style you edit in Wikipedia is somehow contrary to the the rationale why EBTHK is here.

So please do not make edits based on the original content but instead, translate the Chinese version into English ones as I did in the "New Lantao Bus", "Long Win Bus" and "New World First Bus" articles.