Talk:Uber

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What on earth is an Uber

I live in the DR Congo. There's no Uber here. I chose to read about it on Wikipedia but am none the wiser. The article seems to be written for people who already know what it is. 1. It's a taxi? Yes or No? 2. I hear it's more expensive than a taxi. So what's the point? 3. Are the drivers just driving their own cars, or do they have a taxi licence? 4. Aren't these drivers just moonlighting? 5. Are they insured? 6. How is it different to a taxi apart from adding 25% to Uber shareholders and executives. Perhaps someone can write a Wikipedia article to explain these things. 41.243.14.203 (talk) 15:17, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

That was me. Francis Hannaway (talk) 15:20, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

@Francish7: Excellent points. This article really fails miserably in describing the company's main product and in explaining what made it innovative (i.e. different from a taxi service) and controversial. The intro has a link to the generic article ridesharing company, but that's not a sufficient substitute. Lk525 recently tried to add some explanations, unfortunately without citing sources.

I guess one could start by creating a new section titled "Ride-hailing operations", summarized in the intro per WP:LEDE.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:47, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Thank you HaeB, I've been outside the developed world for 7 years. I keep reading about Uber taxis and Uber eats etc, but this article just assumes you know what it is. When I've looked up hotels, or travel arrangements, they often include taxi fares and will say: taxi $4.50, Uber: $59. So, I wondered what the difference was. Wiki didn't explain anything. 🤣 Francis Hannaway (talk) 09:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Different Types of Ubers offered

Uber has evolved since it was first created. Different types of Ubers are now offered including UberXL, Uber Comfort, and Uber Black. All are still Ubers, but offer different experiences and luxuries from the standard Uber ride. Perhaps creating a section before "Criticism" and explaining the different services that Uber offers. MarshWicker (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

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Disagreeing with move of criticisms to Ridesharing company

Hi all,

ProcrastinatingReader recently moved a lot of the criticisms regarding Uber to Ridesharing company, but I don't think that's adequate. This source, for instance, deals specifically with Uber's policies regarding data sharing and pricing structure and does not necessarily apply equally to other companies. Besides, the structure of all three articles (Ridesharing company, Controversies involving Uber and Uber) is now confusing - for instance, the Ridesharing company article has a section called "Traffic congestion and carbon emissions", and then one subsection called "Congestion" under "Criticism". I edit mainly on ptwiki and don't feel comfortable challenging these decisions from an experienced editor here in enwiki, but I'm respectfully putting it out there and suggesting that the community looks into the matter.

Cheers.

Rkieferbaum (talk) 13:44, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

I think it's fine for someone to disagree with my edits, whether they mainly edit here, ptwiki, or mostly just read.

The main purpose of the edits was to fix this mess - 20 sections of criticism (vs 2 sections of non-criticism), which alone is a glaring DUE issue for a company like Uber, but there's also the fact that some of the content here (attributed to Uber - one example, the comments in "Congestion" attributed just to Uber are actually to both Uber and Lyft in [1][2][3]) was actually attributed to ridesharing in general (by the sources). Addressing the content under 'Criticism' specifically (since that's the concern you've raised), it was already just a transclusion of the content in "Ridesharing company". Here is the wikitext source:

==Criticism==
{{#section-h::Ridesharing company|Criticism}}

which indicates we're just transcluding the generic ridesharing-company criticism on Uber's page. I don't think that's really appropriate. This content I didn't move over to "Ridesharing company", it was already there, being transcluded here. I did move over "Congestion" and "Impact", incorporating the latter in existing sub-sections. The new 'Congestion' and existing 'Traffic congestion and carbon emissions' sections could probably be condensed into one, but I think that's a simpler copyedit issue for that article. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 18:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Controversies and criticisms associated with Uber should be on the Wikipedia Uber page. Moving criticisms to other pages effectively downplays them.

The Wikipedia Uber page should include a section on sexual assaults that have happened to Uber passengers and drivers. This is not a trivial matter. It appears that Uber receives about 3,000 reports of sexual assaults per year. A Google search for 'Uber sexual assault' currently lists about 6 million hits.

Mecanoge (talk) 08:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)