Talk:Alphabetical list of airlines
This page seems obsolete. There's already a list of airliners at Airline. If we want a separate list article, no problem, and it should be at List of airliners. No need for a "Airline History" list - especially not with a wrong title. Jeronimo 17:53 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
I agree. olivier 08:43 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)
I also agree. there should be just one list, not two. --mav
I was about to merge this into List of airlines with a view to turning this into a redirect - indeed, half way through the task - when I realised that every one of the airlines mentioned here actually links to a real, live Wikipedia entry about that airline. Looking at the history I saw that AntonioMartin has been working away at it, keeping it up to date. The two lists, in other words, hold quite different information: the other one is a great long list of airlines, this one is only airlines that have entries on them. That makes it a valuable resource.
For some weeks, I have been doing exactly the same thing myself, only for Aircraft types - maintaining a list of types that have wiki articles, as opposed to the list at List of aircraft that just lists everything.
For some time, it's been in the back of my mind that Aircraft types is not really the appropriate place to maintain that list, just as Airline History Links isn't really the right title for this list. But what should these lists be called? Any ideas? Tannin 15:07 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
-Notice also that this is an alphabetical list, the other list of airlines, is split up by country, not sure thats relavant! but what harm does it do ? Perhaps List of airlines (alphabetical)? would do ?
The other night, I spent a few hours synchronising this article with the list of airlines, finding quite a number on one list that weren't on the other, and a few more not on either list. List of airlines was more complete, however, and is at least roughly categorised. In time, it would certainly be useful to have a "flat" alphabetical list, but for now, keeping two almost parallel lists updated seems impractical - the two lists are already out of sync again... --Rlandmann 04:44, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)