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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Airlines. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Welcome to the WikiProject on Airlines

Scope

• Airline company articles eg. Air Canada, Qantas
• Airline destination articles eg. Air Canada destinations
• Airline travel benefit programs eg. Air Miles
• Airline Alliances eg. Oneworld

Goals

To establish standardization for some information that should be contained within airline articles. This would include suggested heading and tables. The primary goal is to make airline articles have a consistent feel.

1. Identify an existing article that can be used as a model
2. Create a standard infobox
3. Create a list of suggested headings that all articles should contain
4. Create standard tables that can be used to display comon information
5. Review the existing categories and determine if changes are required
6. Update existing articles to new standard
7. Update destinations to include airport names
8. List missing destination airports at Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports

[edit] How can you help

[edit] Tagging and assessment

Airline WikiProject assessment statistics Airline articles Importance None Total Quality FA 1 1 A GA B 22 22 Start 254 254 Stub 401 401 Assessed 678 678 Unassessed 985 985 Total 1663 1663 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Airlines-project=yes to the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:WikiProject Airlines articles.

[edit] Structure

Highlighted suggested heading are links to the specific project discussion page. The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed with the following comments:

• The introduction should include the owner of the airline and some general comments about the airline. Once the airline is created as a company, it can be included as an article. Information about an owning company should be included in the article for that company. The IATA and ICAO codes should be checkd to see that they are redirects to the airline or that a DAB page exists that includes the airline. The codes should also be added to IATA airline designator and ICAO airline designator lists.
  • Template:Airline infobox should be added to all articles for the basic information. Unnecessary repeating of this information in the body of the article is discouraged.
• History- Care should be taken in the structure so that different versions of the airline are clearly marked.
  • Slogans list by date with the oldest first-slogan (from-to)
  • Notable advertising campaigns
  • Livery
• Destinations following the world based format show in articles like Airline destinations.
  • Only list destinations. Flight schedules or routing should not be included in this section.
  • Code share destinations should not be listed for the secondary carrier.
  • For airlines with limited destinations, the information can be included in line.
  • Once an airline has more then 10 destinations, especially international ones, they could be listed in a stand alone article.
  • Destinations for other than passenger service should be included as a heading to describe the type of scheduled service such as:
    • Cargo
    • Charter
    • Military
• Fleet- A list of the aircraft flown by the airline and the quantity of each. Other information can include the seating, aircraft on order and other information consider encyclopedic.
• Airline Affinity Programs-Information about frequent flyer programs and membership clubs.
  • Membership clubs and frequent flyer program participation should be listed in the {{Airline infobox}} and the programs should have their own articles if they are large or well known.
  • List Airline partners for Frequent Flyer programs and list Locations of the airline clubs.
  • Mention any other programs that the airline participates in and link to more information about the program if it is available.
• Services
  • Food and Beverages
  • Entertainment
  • Special needs
  • Class of travel (Coach, business, Premium, Executive, First, ...)
  • Freight
  • Charter
  • Lease wet or dry
  • Helicopter
  • Haj Pilgrimage
  • Code shares
  • Air Ambulance/health services
• Incidents and accidents
  • Major incidents or ones with fatalities over the airline's history.
• External links
  • Airline web site
  • Do not include un-encyclopedic opinion web sites

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /Affinity programs
• /Airport clubs
• /Codes
• /Destinations
• /General
• /Infobox start discussion with United Airlines infobox
• /Strategy
• /Fleet analysis of how fleet data is displayed and what would be a good common display format going forward would be
• /Alliances since airline alliances are directly related to airlines

[edit] Different Way of Cross Referencing Aircraft

I've started a discussion over on the WikiProject Aircraft about cross-referencing aircraft operators and aircraft types via category pages. Lets keep the discussion over there, since this would have to be a cross project collaboration. The discussion is at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Aircraft#Different_Way_of_Cross_Referencing_Aircraft.2FAirlines --Cliffb 05:31, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lists

• List of airlines
• List of largest airlines
• List of low-cost airlines
• List of national airlines
• List of defunct airlines
• IATA airline designator
• ICAO airline designator

[edit] Other WikiProject Details

[edit] Parentage

• WikiProject Aviation

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

• Commons:Airlines
• Wikibooks:Airlines
• Wikinews:Airlines
• Wikiquote:Airlines
• Wikispecies:Airlines
• Wiktionary:Airline
• meta:Airlines

[edit] Sister Project Searches

• WikiBooks search
• Google WikiBooks search
• WikiQuote search
• Google WikiQuote search
• WikiSource search
• Google WikiSource search

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Airlines

• Airlines

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Airlines

• meta:Airlines

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Airlines

Please feel free to list your new Airlines-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured articles

• Pan American World Airways

[edit] Requests

[edit] Request for Comment

• Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-07 Singapore Airlines#Request for Comment: Reasons For/Against Request for comment on topic with wider impact on the Airlines project.04:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Correction

The article about a Peruvian airline Aviaselva does not cite its sources and there is no evidence that this airline is still operational. I've stated that it is unclear whether it is still operational and I've remeved its apparent destinations. I'd like to know what to do with this article and see if someone actually knows something about it to update the article and what to state relating to destinations. And sorry if this is in the wrong section, I really didn't know where to put this. Thanks. 201.240.65.179 16:17, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Added request for expansion to Template:WPAVIATION Announcements/Airlines - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 16:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resources

Can we use:

• airlinecodes.co.uk to look up codes
• planespotters.net for fleet information
• aerosite.net for logos
• IATA registered airlines
• FAA codes

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