Talk:List of aircraft by tail number

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[edit] Impossible Task

They are and have been many hundreds of thousand "tail numbers" (or registration/serials) over the last ninety years. This article is attempting the impossible and i would suggest it should be deleted.MilborneOne 20:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Reinyday removed my notice of proposed deletion with the comment 'this list is only for aircraft with Wikipedia articles, not all aircraft'. If this is the case then the article should be renamed to reflect this, and I would propose that it should be List of individual aircraft with Wikipedia articles. Note that the term 'tail number' is not always used in industry to refer to the registration or serial. Some of the aircraft on this list are 'mentioned' in articles, and they do not have an article of their own (ref the C-5s for example) so by Reinyday's criteria should be removed. Brings the total on this list down into the hundreds !. MilborneOne 16:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

• Hi. We don't make references to the Wikipedia in the Wikipedia (please see Wikipedia:Avoid self-references). However, there are many lists limited to Wikipedia content. For example, List of songs over fifteen minutes in length is limited to songs whose artists have Wikipedia articles. This article is not "impossible". It exists and I have included most articles mentioning tail numbers (that are indexed by Google), but I haven't finished some of the crashes. There are many lists with hundreds of entries (they get broken up; please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists)), but I do not think this list will get that big any time soon. — Reinyday, 20:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to clarify, this is a list of all aircraft who are mentioned in the context of other articles of Wikipedia? This doesn't seem to be encyclopedic (right term?) nor possible, as there are still a multitude of aircraft listed. Also. some smaller airlines have a list of their entire fleet, with each plane mentioned. Do they therefore get mentioned? What mention makesa plane worthy of being on the page? For example, the Jetblue planes are only mentioned because their names are different in pattern from the rest of the fleet. Bok269 21:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Has anybody defined this article yet with reference to Bok269 comment, is this list for aircraft that have their own article or aircraft that are mentioned in any article ? MilborneOne 22:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)