User talk:Jb-hamburg

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[edit] Deleting airline stub

IIRC the article you were talking about was little more than a rephrasing of the title without sources (wikipedia is not a web directory. Yes we welcome new information to be added, but we do need to make sure that information has some value, is likely to be of broader interest and is properly sourced (see WP:NOR, WP:RS etc.) If you have some more substantive information on the airline please feel free to recreate it. --pgk 17:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to clarify I said substantive, not substantial. Even a most basic stub needs enough information to get people going on expanding it, and some indication of the significance or otherwise. For most areas we have notability guidlines (see WP:CORP for corporations, which I guess is where airlines would fall). Also see WP:NOT we aren't just here to collect information anymore than you'd expect an encyclopedia to be. It's difficult to tell from the basic description which of the information you have would make for reasonable articles it may be none of it, it may be all of it. As I say that particular article was little more than a restatement of the title so didn't give much to build upon. You might like to start a discussion on the village pump as you may get some useful input into the best way to use the information you have. --pgk 19:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)