Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Singapore Airlines destinations
The page compiles volatile commercial info, which by essence are invalid if not retrieved directly from company information system. Non encyclopaedic. Practically it is advertisement. Actually for the same reason, the category Category:Airline destinations (British Airways destinations, United Airlines Destinations) and all it's entries, looks pretty much void to me. A nice clean-up may be done there ? Not sure though. --Gtabary 10:48, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
See the category. Category:Airline destinations
- Keep I have to point out that this particular page was created in order to keep the mother page shorter, as has been also done for the other two entries listed. You can find similar destinations lists following this format in just about most major airline entries. If this is considered advertisement, I suppose we have to remove all destination information for airlines across the entire database? Just my two cents. --Huaiwei 11:00, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Content is not encyclopedic. It is better delivered to readers through other sources (such as the Singapore Airlines website). And, yes, I would probably vote to delete the other "destinations" articles if they are listed. Rossami (talk) 17:13, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Comment I have to stress on some points again here. 1. As I said earlier, these particular pages were once part of a far larger entry of the airlines themselves. If, due to a policy of splitting the pages up when they run too long, we end up having to split them like this for presentation purposes, and therefore suddenly running the risks of having them entirely deleted when such a call has never surfaced before, I suppose we shall all have to merge them back again to save the information? 2. Unlike previously assumed, destinatons lists presented in a uniform manner like this does not come easily for every airline, and not even always easily from their official webpages. Some actually involve having to extract the relevant data from entire schedule tables and so on, for the latest and most complete information. Not all airlines bother to indicate the exact airport used, and this can involve additional research on our part. 3. Due to the very nature of the aviation business, just about anyone interested in aviation study, or aviation enthusiasts, invariably need to consider the extent and reach of its operations, and unless we wish to go back to having vague commentary that it "flies extensively to Western Europe and some parts of the United States," there is simply no simplier way then to list the destinations out one by one. 4. Lets be fair. So if some airlines happen to have longer lists, and the whole results are considered unencyclopedic, I suppose bigger airlines shall have no destination lists, while smaller airlines will? That makes little sence. But if we were to tend take the stand that all lists like these are indeed worthy of deletion, then here is an (almost) complete list of every single airline article which faces the possibility of a cut in its information: British Airways destinations, Singapore Airlines destinations, United Airlines destinations, Aer Lingus, Air Burkina, Air Caraïbes, Air Finland, Air Gabon, Air Madagascar, Air New Zealand, Air Polonia, Air Santo Domingo, Air Seychelles, Airzena Georgian Airlines, American Airlines, Ariana Afghan Airlines, Azteca Airlines.....could have gone on, but this is tiring. I merely went through those airlines starting from A in the Category:Airlines list, and that was what I got. I suppose the point has been made. 5. And while we are at it, I suppose we should remove the fleet information as well, since that can be found in other sources too, and seems to advertise aircraft makers, if this is the way we are to interpret lists and data which are not narrative in nature? Do consider these points when voting, thanks!--Huaiwei 18:52, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)