Talk:Norwood Memorial Airport

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[edit] Airports aren't structures

User:Carabinieri has twice resorted this article into Category:Massachusetts building and structure stubs, but airports aren't structures: they're areas of land that may contain zero or more structures, more like an army base, city neighbourhood, or park. There are actually many structures inside the Norwood airport fence. David 18:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Even though technically airports aren't structures, they're generally treated as structures, when it comes to categorizing and stubbing. Cat:Airports is a great-great-...-grandchild of Cat:buildings and structures by type and Cat:airport stubs is a child of Cat:building and structure stubs.--Carabinieri 18:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to start a discussion over there about reparenting the category. The biggest irony is that some airports don't have any structures at all, much less a terminal building, while the vast majority that do have buildings have nothing recognizable as a terminal. I suspect that the category was set up that way by someone who has experienced only large airports through their public terminal buildings. In the meantime, I'd like to request that you not compound the problem by recategorizing all the airports, since we'll have to undo all of those changes if people agree to a correction in the category hierarchy. David 19:31, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

I would also check with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports if I were you. But please consider the fact that categorization is alway inexact and sometimes it's necessary to categorize in a way that it fits best, even if it's not perfect.--Carabinieri 22:04, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, that's a good idea. I agree that categorization is never optimal, but in this case, I cannot think of a single case where this categorization makes sense. It's not a matter of airports sometimes being structures and sometimes not. David 04:13, 24 December 2006 (UTC)