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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
Creation Checklists
Creation of a new Airport
- See also: Template:WPAVIATION creator
- 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)
- Or see the {{US-airport}} template as an alternative for US airports for automatic inclusion of links from airport-related sites
- Create redirect articles for the ICAO and IATA Codes.
- Add {{WPAVIATION|class=|Airports-project=yes}} template to the talk page.
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
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
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
Areas requiring clean up
As of March 23, 2007 the following categories contained:
Other WikiProject details
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.
Similar WikiProjects
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.
Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP)
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