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Welcome to the Airports WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of airports.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of airports.
- Create guidelines for articles about airports.
- Scope
[edit] Creation Checklists
[edit] Creation of a new Airport
- Create the article using the correct name and using the structure identified by the project. Do a search on the IATA, ICAO, and FAA codes; the article may already exist under another name.
- Categorize correctly
- Add link from the main city that it serves and the city or cities the airport is actually located in or nearest to, so as not to create an orphan
- Add the ICAO Airport Code, and the IATA Airport Code. Note that for smaller domestic-only airports there may be no code assigned. Use the {{airport codes}} template as follows:
- For just the IATA code, use {{airport codes|EDI}} for (IATA: EDI)
- For just the ICAO code, use {{airport codes||EGPH}} for (ICAO: EGPH)
- If both IATA and ICAO codes are available, use {{airport codes|EDI|EGPH}} for (IATA: EDI, ICAO: EGPH)
- For small general aviation airports in the US without either an IATA or ICAO code, use {{airport codes|||S16}} for (FAA LID: S16)
- Create redirect articles for the ICAO and IATA Codes.
- Add {{WPAVIATION|class=|Airports-project=yes}} template to the talk page.
[edit] Creation of a new Airport Category
- Find all relevant airports
- Add to Airports category
- Add to the geographic category: I.e Airports of the United States in United States
[edit] Airport article structure
This list is not complete and could use some general comments on what should be provided.
Consider including the following headings in each article:
- An infobox, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Infobox Airport
- Introduction
- History
- Airlines and destinations if only one terminal or terminal(s) not identified otherwise Terminals and destinations Include an entry for each major terminal. Unless otherwise listed, the terminal is expected to be a passenger terminal (not cargo).
- Do not list secondary carriers for code share flights. For example, if Air New Zealand operates a domestic flight under its own flight number and an additional Singapore Airlines codeshare, the codeshare should not be listed.
- For flights operated by one airline but marketed by another, so that the flight uses only the marketing airline's flight number, avoid using the term dba, an abbreviation of the American business term doing business as. The preferred notation is:
- Differentiate between multiple airports in one city using "-" (eg London-Heathrow), not (London Heathrow).
- List city names; do not wikilink them.
- List non-stop and direct flights only. That means the flight number and the aircraft, starts at this airport and continues to one or more airports. Avoid using the description 'via' since that is more correctly listed as another destination. If passengers can not disembark at a stop on a direct flight, then do not list it as a destination or as 'via'. Direct flights are not always non-stop flights. However, avoid listing direct flights that contain a stop at a domestic hub, as virtually all of these are simply flights from one "spoke city" to a hub, with the plane continuing from the hub to a second spoke city. Furthermore, these flights often involve plane changes, despite the direct designation. Including these flights dramatically increases the length of destination listings, artificially inflates the airline's presence at a location and requires constant updating, as these "timetable direct" destinations have little rhyme or reason and may change as often as every week or two.
- For flights that do not operate year round, add - [seasonal] - after the destination. eg: (Chicago-Midway [seasonal]). Do not add beginning or ending dates.
- For future destinations, add: "[begins date service begins]" - after the destination.
- For destinations with termination dates that have already been announced, add: "[ends date service ends]" - after the destination.
- Dates should not include the year unless the begin/end is 13 or more months from the current date. Dates should be linked as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Autoformatting and linking
- Do not include flags for airlines as it is not always clear which country's flag should be used.
- Accidents and incidents. Accidents or incidents should only be included if:
- The accident was fatal to either the aircraft occupants or persons on the ground.
- The accident involved hull loss or serious damage to the aircraft or airport.
- The accident invoked a change in procedures, regulations or process that had a wide effect on other airports or airlines or the aircraft industry.
- External links A link to the airport's web site. If the entry has an infobox then links to mapping sites are available by clicking on the linked coordinates.
- Optionally you may add Template:WPAVIATION to the article's discussion page (insert {{WPAVIATION|Airports-project=yes}}) so other editors are directed to this project.
[edit] Ongoing Maintenance
- Category:Airports - keep up to date
- Article count by country - country
- Add list of airports to each category for those we need to create
- Interwiki links - interwiki
[edit] Things to create/for discussion
- infobox — go to infobox for discussion/ideas
- List of Airports and Airfields — complete list
- Naming conventions — go to naming conventions
- Categorization — go to categorization
- Images without an article— go to Images without article
- Possible sources for getting airport Lat/Long, elevation, distance from city, runway info: resources
[edit] Areas requiring clean up
As of March 23, 2007 the following categories contained:
[edit] Clean up needed
[edit] Other WikiProject details
[edit] Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
[edit] Resources
- AOPA Airport Minimum Standards A good reference for those trying to understand the thorny issues.
- World Aero Data Very reliable.
- The Airport Guide good source for airport information and can help with finding official sites for airports.
- A - Z World Airports good source, usually has both ICAO/IATA and sometimes the official site.
- airlinecodes.co.uk to look up both ICAO and IATA codes
- World Airport Codes another IATA code sorce but poor for coordinates and elevation
- Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. good source for information, sometimes has both ICAO & IATA codes. Pick a country and then scroll down to the airports in that country.
- COPA Places to Fly in Canada. Some information on Canadian airports. Good as external link.
- Serbia Has several airports with basic information. Not sure how current the information is.
- VATSIM - Navigation Charts and Flight Planning Tools an odd one as it's a FlightSim site. It has external links to sites that have charts/AIPs of various aerodromes world wide. Read the paragraph at the top first.
- AirNav -- US site, based largely on the FAA's A/FD data (although revisions may take longer than 56 days to appear).
- FAA data downloads -- pretty self-explanatory but a bit cumbersome to use.
- Digital A/FD from NACO, covers United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Pacific territories (still in introductory/experimental stage).
- World Airport Database, another comprehensive source.
[edit] Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP)
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