Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westchester County Airport

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep (non-admin closure) ChetblongTalkSign 12:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Westchester County Airport

WP:NOT WP:NPOV Small airport, no major airline service. Who's heard of it? 68.193.85.33 (talk) 02:37, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. ((comments based on the nominator's talk page comments on White Plains Airport.) Granted HPN doesn't make major news, but then when do the airports when something other than flights aren't going on? So I guess on that grounds it fails to be notable? It has been in local news of late due to residents concerns about expansion and traffic. As for the no major airline service? jetBlue, Northwest and American fly from there, as does AirTran, I believe. I don't know what the other criteria for airport specific deletion/keeps are but I'd say that while this is no EWR/JFK/etc, it's certainly an airport that deserves to be included. Travellingcari (talk) 02:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. This is not listed on the AfD page so for now this is not a proper nomination. Without a proper nomination, this discussion is not really going to lead anywhere. I copied the comments from the talk page here to indicate the reasoning. I'll likely pull the article tag since the process was not completed. Vegaswikian (talk) 04:01, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. Although Westchester County Airport is smaller than the major New York area airports (JFK, LaGuardia and Newark), it does offer scheduled service on nine commercial airlines: Air Canada, AirTran, American, Continental, Delta, JetBlue, Northwest, United, and US Airways. According to the Federal Aviation Administration records for the year 2006 it had 511,559 passenger boardings and averaged 461 aircraft operations per day. That certainly makes it notable enough for a Wikipedia article. The fact this was even nominated for deletion is absurd. -- Zyxw (talk) 04:24, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep A major New York City area airport. Further evidence that the XfD process needs to be greatly restricted. Alansohn (talk) 06:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep major airport with internationl flights and multiple "...major airline service." I suspect that the IP was thinking of another airport. Anyway the most important reason to keep is that it has "...a little candy bodega on the first floor." CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 14:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: airport is notable. Mh29255 (talk) 14:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Ridiculously strong keep-- It's an airport. It has not one, but two asphault runways, one more than 6,000 feet long. Request a wet trout for the nom. SeanMD80talk | contribs 14:42, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. I know, I might be piling it on, but an airport with 2 asphalt runways seems notable enough. The references are good, too. 1ForTheMoney (talk) 18:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep per all above and consider WP:SNOW. Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep One of the major alternative airports in the NYC area, the Tri-State equivalent of John Wayne Airport or Ontario International Airport in the LA area. It has major airlines flying from it, it's definitely notable. Nate • (chatter) 06:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep No major airport service? What do JetBlue or Air Canada count as? Then again, it is served by a tiny airline no one ever flies, American, so that's probably grounds for delete. WP:AGF definitely applies; I think the author might be pondering a different field. U (talk) 08:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment The fact that this is even being considered for deletion adds to the mountain of evidence that anon editors should not be able to nominate things for deletion.--Velvet elvis81 (talk) 22:12, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Would you mind closing this? I would myself, but that would technically be a conflict of interest seeing as I voted above. SeanMD80talk | contribs 00:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.