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This page is a portal to aviation information and articles throughout the Wikipedia. You should be able to easily navigate to an area of aviation interest through this page, but, if you think you can improve the page then be bold. Add sections, change organization, anything. If its an improvement then it will stand the test of time.

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[edit] Improvement drive

The article on Transportation is currently nominated on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Vote for Transportation there.--Fenice 09:10, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Featured portal candidate

I dealt with concerns raised so far in nomination discussion. I do think that the "list" box needs to be formatted like the rest of them. — TheKMantalk 20:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Things You Can Do

The section is not appearing correctly. It is blank except for one picture. I checked it's history for vandalism, but this does not appear to be the cause. --GW_Simulations 23:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Could I propose that an "Aircraft of the month" section is added, showing a picture of an aircraft, and a brief description of it, along with important specs. --GW_Simulations 17:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

good idea. I'm going on vacaton today but feel free to implement it yourself. One suggestion though - don't use any pictures already slated for the pic of the month.- Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 11:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I've created a mirror page of the portal, which includes the section. Any comments would be welcome. --GW_SimulationsTalk | Contribs 12:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I just checked it out and I think it would be a great addition to the page. I think the first few steps would be:
  1. Set up a series of pages that will auto-update like the other "of the month" boxes.
  2. Decide on a list of planes to use. (interesting, historical, etc.)
I'll start on it soon unless you want to have a go.

- Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 01:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Just another note, I think it should be called Selected Aircraft. This would put it in line with the other "Featured content" and allow us to change it monthly or (if we find enough interesting aircraft) weekly or daily. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 14:09, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Done. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 20:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

If you want to nominate an aircraft for it, then see the nominations page. One other thing, where do you suggest it goes? --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 21:16, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it should go just above the "Today in" box. But first lets create an aircraft for at lease every month to begin eith, using the aoutomatic update format. I'll start now with the two already chosen. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 01:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Oops, spoke to soon, I see you've already got it formated correctly. Lets make a quick list for the next year and get it online. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 01:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I've put the Pregnant Guppy in again for October, seeing as it is hardly getting a fair run now. I suggest implementing on July 1st at as close to midnight GMT as possible. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 19:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I've done it early, because I cannot wait up much longer (well, OK, I'll be honest, I got my time conversion mixed up). I've put a message in for users who are still in June saying that it will start working at midnight, --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 22:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Final poll to implement Selected Aircraft

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed implementation of the selected aircraft feature. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments can be left in the open discussion above.

[edit] Support

Strong support --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 20:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Support - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 21:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oppose

(none)

[edit] Comment

No need for a poll, looks like a great idea. — TheKMantalk 21:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.

[edit] SPATRA

Hi guys! we are translating article LAPA flight 3142 from Spanish into English and we're having a hard time finding some word in English. Could someone with technical knowledge give us a hand with the technical stuff? Please, take a look at the questions in Talk:LAPA flight 3142, and maybe keep it in your watchlist for future dubts. Thanks a bunch. Mariano(t/c) 14:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Questions answered, and the translation is now complete. The article could still use some copyediting from knowledgeable editors - Draeco 05:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Evening out the columns

Two things (well really one thing with two problems. Sometimes the right and left colums are seriously uneven. This happens when a Today in Aviation has a lot (or very little) of items. There are two ways I belive this can be fixed.

  1. Make every date in the "Today In" box the same size by limiting or adding to them. I
  2. Use meta-templates to automatically shuffle around boxes depending on the total lenght of each side.

There are bad and good things about each option, but if there are ideas on how to approach this I'm all ears. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 04:06, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I too would like to voice my opinion in shuffling them. --Siva1979Talk to me 03:27, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected Biography

Is this something that would work here? If we can come up with a list of, say, 24 different interesting people in the field of aviation (not just pilots but designers, airline owners etc.) then maybe it's something to consider. Any suggestions? - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 21:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Suggstions:

GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 10:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I've created a base page. - Portal:Aviation/Selected biography. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 09:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have mentioned... See: Portal:Aviation/Selected Biography, Portal:Aviation/Selected Biography/archive. But let's use your capitaization format page, it makes more sense. I'll move the page as soon as I get back tonite, gotta go. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 16:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Done, everything is ready to go, just need to create the pages now. - Trevor MacInnis (Talk | Contribs) 06:59, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
A few more to do:

... - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 03:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


Can I make a few more suggestions?:

-- Adz|talk 05:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

I think that to improve this portal we need a selected biography. I also think that this portal should be updated more often. JJ 20:08, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Please read this page before posting requests. We are already working on one. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 20:06, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean by "updated more often". Right now the selected items are updated automaticaly each month and the anniversaries change every day. If we can come up with more selected pic/aircraft/etc then it can be worked to have them update every week or two. If you have any specific suggestions them please share them, I'd love to keep this portal up to Featured Portal standards. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 20:33, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Portal Format

I've been doing some work to address the uneven columns issue, and come up with this. Comments? Suggestions? - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 22:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't display too well on my PC. All the sections are overlapping. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 11:39, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Can I get a screenshot? Would limiting the different sections to specific sizes help? - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 06:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected Biography

In the section where the seleceted biography should be there is a redlink which says,Portal:Aviation/Selected biography/January 2007. JJ 00:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC) I'm sorry if it has been fixed.

Oops, they were just dated wrong...fixed now, but more biographies are still needed for future months, dig in people! - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 01:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-07 Singapore Airlines

Request for comment atWikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-07 Singapore Airlines#Request For Comment: Reasons For/Against.05:08, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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