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Aviation WikiProject
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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 38,812 aviation-related Wikipedia articles, 106 are good articles (about 1 in 366), and 43 are featured articles (about 1 in 900).

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:

1. Aviation terminology (e.g., stall, Mach)
2. Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., Airport Surveillance Radar)
3. Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
4. Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
5. 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.

[edit] Style guide and essays

Shortcuts: WP:AVIATION#MOS WP:AVIATION#STYLE

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

1. Naming conventions
2. Article content
3. Usage and style
4. Sourcing and citation
5. Templates
6. Categories

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

[edit] 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 23 Nov 2009 – Air New England Flight 248 (talk) proposed for deletion by Mukkakukaku. 23 Nov 2009 – Alaska Airlines Flight 536 (talk) proposed for deletion by Mukkakukaku. 23 Nov 2009 – Alitalia Flight 404 (talk) proposed for deletion by Mukkakukaku. 23 Nov 2009 – Avianca Flight 4 (talk) proposed for deletion by Mukkakukaku. 21 Nov 2009 – N64606 (talk) has been deleted. 20 Nov 2009 – Sports plane (talk) has been deleted. 20 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from XtraJet (talk). 18 Nov 2009 – Island Express Air (talk) has been deleted. 18 Nov 2009 – Air Gumbo (talk) proposed for deletion by Suffusion of Yellow. 14 Nov 2009 – PROD tag removed from Krabi Airline (talk). Articles for deletion 23 Nov 2009 – Northeast Airlines (charter) (talk) nominated for deletion by Samuell; see discussion. 16 Nov 2009 – Mimika Air (talk) was kept; see discussion. 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. Featured article candidates 17 Nov 2009 – Rolls-Royce R (talk) is nominated by Nimbus227. 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 25 Nov 2009 – Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) (talk) is promoted to GA status. 25 Nov 2009 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 24 Nov 2009 – Frederick Scherger (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Ian Rose. 24 Nov 2009 – Hippolyte De La Rue (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Ian Rose. 21 Nov 2009 – George Mackinolty (talk) is promoted to GA status. 19 Nov 2009 – Frank Lorenzo (talk) is not promoted; see discussion. 16 Nov 2009 – Trondheim Airport Station (talk) is promoted to GA status. 16 Nov 2009 – Braathens SAFE Flight 139 (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion. 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. (2 more...) Peer review 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. Today's featured article 22 Nov 2009 – Werner Mölders (talk) was featured on the main page. Did you know 24 Nov 2009 – A fact from Polikarpov VIT-2 (talk) appeared on the main page. 23 Nov 2009 – A fact from InterPlane Skyboy (talk) appeared on the main page. 23 Nov 2009 – A fact from Vernon Burge (talk) appeared on the main page. 22 Nov 2009 – A fact from John C. "Pappy" Herbst (talk) appeared on the main page. 21 Nov 2009 – A fact from Bård Mikkelsen (talk) appeared on the main page. 21 Nov 2009 – A fact from Reggiane Re.2007 (talk) appeared on the main page. 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent (talk) appeared on the main page. 20 Nov 2009 – A fact from Harold M. McClelland (talk) appeared on the main page. 19 Nov 2009 – A fact from Pokémon Jet (talk) appeared on the main page. 19 Nov 2009 – A fact from Polikarpov VIT-1 (talk) appeared on the main page. (14 more...) Bounty board 8 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing Dawson's Field hijackings (talk) to FA status: $30 donation by Sherurcij. Other news 23 Nov 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out. 19 Oct 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated. 17 Oct 2009 – A new database dump is available.
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[edit] Child projects and task forces

[edit] Sub-projects

• WikiProject Aircraft
• WikiProject Airlines
• WikiProject Airports
• WikiProject Gliding

[edit] Task forces

• Aviation accident task force
• Military aviation task force
• Rotorcraft task force
• Air sports task force
• Aerospace biography task force
• Aircraft engines task force

[edit] Other related projects

• (RAF)

[edit] Related portals

• Aviation Portal
• United States Air Force
• Royal Air Force
• Transport Portal

[edit] Project banner

The {{WPAVIATION}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are documented on a separate subpage.

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