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WikiProject Aviation

This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Aviation
WikiProject

General information

Main project page

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Notability & Style guide

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Showcase & Popular pages

Announcements and open tasks

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→ Maintenance

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→ Article alerts

→ New articles

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→ AfD record

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Departments
Assessment (Log)	talk
→ B-Class/A-Class
→ Instructions
Collaboration	talk
Peer review	talk
Outreach department	talk
→ Current newsletter
New! Contest	talk

Project organization
Coordinators	talk
Members	talk
Project banner	talk
Portals
Project category	talk

Templates
Infobox templates
→ Aviation infobox	talk
→ Airport infobox	talk
→ Airline infobox	talk
→ Aircraft infobox	talk
→ Aviator infobox	talk
→ Aircraft accident infobox	talk
→ Company infobox	talk
Navigation boxes	talk

Sub-projects
Aircraft project	talk
→ Engines task force	talk
Airlines project	talk
→ Defunct Airlines project	talk
Airports project	talk
Gliding project	talk
Rotorcraft	talk
Military aviation	talk
Aviation accident	talk
Air sports task force	talk
Aerospace biography	talk

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Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of project members!

Currently, there are 38,644 aviation-related Wikipedia articles, 104 are good articles (about 1 in 371), and 43 are featured articles (about 1 in 890).

Goals

To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of aviation in the English language.
Improve Wikipedia's coverage by constantly creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
Create guidelines and recommendations for articles about aviation, and provide a central discussion area.

Scope: The project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope. Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:

Aviation terminology (e.g., stall, Mach)
Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., Airport Surveillance Radar)
Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
Aviation history

Structure: Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our extensive work:

Assessment: The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Collaboration: The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is B-52 Stratofortress.

Outreach: The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.

Review: The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.

The project includes 5 Child projects and 6 task forces for collaboration on specific topics within aviation, such as aircraft, defunct airlines, or gliding.

Style guide and essays

The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines and essays developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:

All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.

Announcements and Open tasks

Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks watch · edit · discuss
New! The Aviation contest has begun! New! A new template update you on current articles under review, and needing your input. Add {{WPAVIATION Review alerts}} to your userpage, and keep in the loop! New! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles now lists almost 5000 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! Aircraft engines now have a piece of the project banner. Enter \|Engines=yes on any engine page you find! A new template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating! The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles!
Proposed deletion 14 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Krabi Airline (talk). 13 Nov 2009 – Island Express Air (talk) proposed for deletion by Montebest. 12 Nov 2009 – Sports plane (talk) proposed for deletion by Ahunt. 12 Nov 2009 – XtraJet (talk) proposed for deletion by MilborneOne. 6 Nov 2009 – List of aircraft used by the Civil Air Patrol (talk) has been deleted. 5 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from List of countries by number of airports (talk). Articles for deletion 15 Nov 2009 – List of countries by number of airports (talk) has been deleted; see discussion. 6 Nov 2009 – Combs Field Airport (talk) nominated for deletion by Canglesea; see discussion. 1 Nov 2009 – Mimika Air (talk) nominated for deletion by 7107delicious; see discussion. Featured article candidates 10 Nov 2009 – John Lloyd Waddy (talk) is promoted to FA status. 10 Nov 2009 – Boeing 777 (talk) is promoted to FA status. Featured list candidates 20 Oct 2009 – List of World War I aces credited with more than 20 victories (talk) is nominated by Dabomb87. Good article nominations 14 Nov 2009 – Widerøe Flight 839 (talk) is promoted to GA status. 13 Nov 2009 – Helmut Lent (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 10 Nov 2009 – Henry Petre (talk) is promoted to GA status. 10 Nov 2009 – Airbus A380 (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 7 Nov 2009 – Swiss Air Force (talk) is not promoted; see discussion. 6 Nov 2009 – Trondheim Airport Station (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk. 6 Nov 2009 – Petlyakov Pe-8 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Sturmvogel 66. 4 Nov 2009 – Braathens SAFE Flight 139 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Arsenikk (on hold); see discussion. 4 Nov 2009 – Charles Crombie (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 30 Oct 2009 – Yermolayev Yer-2 (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Sturmvogel 66. (1 more...) Peer review 9 Nov 2009 – Peer review for Sikorsky S-10 (talk) closed. 6 Nov 2009 – Peer review opened for Braathens destinations (talk) by Arsenikk. Requested moves 14 Nov 2009 – Fiat CR.32 (talk) was not moved; see discussion. 7 Nov 2009 – Move requested for Bari International Airport (talk) by Jasepl; see discussion. Today's featured article 22 Nov 2009 – Werner Mölders (talk) was featured on the main page. Did you know 14 Nov 2009 – A fact from Botswana National Airways (talk) appeared on the main page. 13 Nov 2009 – A fact from John Albert Axel Gibson (talk) appeared on the main page. 13 Nov 2009 – A fact from Slingsby T.53 (talk) appeared on the main page. 13 Nov 2009 – A fact from Yakovlev Yak-200 (talk) appeared on the main page. 13 Nov 2009 – A fact from Yakovlev Yak-8 (talk) appeared on the main page. 12 Nov 2009 – A fact from Industrial web theory (talk) appeared on the main page. 12 Nov 2009 – A fact from Yakovlev Yak-140 (talk) appeared on the main page. 11 Nov 2009 – A fact from Air War Plans Division (talk) appeared on the main page. 11 Nov 2009 – A fact from United Airlines Flight 736 (talk) appeared on the main page. 10 Nov 2009 – A fact from Lozenge camouflage (talk) appeared on the main page. (11 more...) Copyright problems 5 Nov 2009 – The copyvio tag was removed from Betty Skelton Erde (talk). Bounty board 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Dawson's Field hijackings (talk) to FA status: $30 donation by Sherurcij. Other news 9 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 2 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 26 Oct 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 19 Oct 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.
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