Talk:Victoria International Airport
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[edit] Airport codes
So Lommer just reverted my edit to add the airport codes to the opening paragraph of this article, citing the fact that they are in the infobox. His (i'm assuming) edits are not incorrect, but i want to put down why i disagree.
- The codes are redirects to this aiport
The codes appear in bold at the beginning of the article, which is standard wikipedia style for alternate names for things (if something has multiple names) and those bold words should redirect to the article, which they do.
- This is standard accoss many airport articles
In all the airport articles that i have edited lately, i have been placing the codes just after the primary name, and before the alternate names. I am a big fan of standard layout, and i don't feel it should be altered if the codes appear in a table.
The table seems more like "extra info cleverly formatted" but should not remove the codes from the opening paragraph.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Airports doesn't seem to say much about what should be done when the info box exists, and perhaps that would be a more suitable place to discuss this. (Man, after checking my own link, the Layout page actually has the codes in the table and in the opening paragraph. However, this issue is still up for discussion, i think)
In summary, i support restoring my codes to the opening paragraph. Please comment
-- Fudoreaper 07:09:32, 2005-08-17 (UTC)
- You're right Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports is the right place for this discussion. I've duplicated your comment there (I hope that's ok) and started an informal survey. -Lommer | talk 17:33, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
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- I've reinserted the codes as per consensus at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports. -Lommer | talk 05:08, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Opening
An anon edited here to change the opening from 1914 to 1939. After a minor bit of research I get both dates as the opening, 1914 and 1939. Any idea which is the correct one? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
- I would guess that the 1914 date is the correct one and that the airport experienced a period of disuse in between. OTOH, it's easy to see how a statement like "The airport was founded in the first year of WWII" could be mistakenly interpreted to mean 1914, and the second source is considerably more detailed. Do any other sources indicate 1914? -User:Lommer | talk 20:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
