Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Airbus A380 routes

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The result was delete. If anyone is interested in merging content, let me know. Tone 11:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of Airbus A380 routes

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Wikipedia is not a travel guide and no reason why routes operated by one aircraft type are notable. Contested prod since October to see if article develops but it is still basically a travel guide MilborneOne (talk) 10:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Polarpanda (talk) 11:47, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. —Polarpanda (talk) 12:17, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Week~~ Keep - This should be kept or moved to the A380 page, the problem with moving it is it will grow and will then be moved out.Codf1977 (talk) 11:57, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Having reviewed this again, I think it should be kept, the list does, IMO, have Encyclopaedic value, consider the value this may have for a High School project on the A380 in 10 or so years time. Codf1977 (talk) 16:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge. Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world with only 38 planes built till date. I think listing the routes in Airbus A380 in a concise manner should do it. --Geeteshgadkari (talk) 12:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - unencyclopaedic, and not necessary to go into much detail (which constantly changes anway) in the main article on the A380. Демоны Врубеля/Vrubel's Demons (talk) 15:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Some context would be helpful for this article, and nobody, not even al-Qaeda, actually needs to know the flight numbers (as with the the scheduled departure or arrival times, one can go to a link for that). For context, there are, at the moment, only the four airlines listed which operate the Airbus A380, and only 24 are actually in operation. It's the largest airliner of all time, with the capacity to carry 525 passengers, so its use is necessarily limited to specific high-traffic routes. As Codf1977 nad Geet point out, this could be merged back into the article about the plane, but would eventually be spun back out. I agree that the format should be revised. Mandsford (talk) 16:24, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-encyclopedic list. - Ahunt (talk) 18:29, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - listcruft. Requires substantial maintenance for limited value. This is the sort of thing that is better handled by a database search in an air travel database, rather than manually in Wikipedia. --John Nagle (talk) 19:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge or Delete - As an aviation person, I understand why these routes *might* be interesting, but without an explanation of the routes (i.e., why the route is high traffic enough, airport limitations, etc.), it's just an unneeded, unencyclopedic list. If we really want to keep this information it should be merged back with the A380 article. Otherwise, as the nominator said, it was PRODed, and then it wasn't improved. There's no reason to believe it will be improved any more this time around. Delete it if it's not merged. -SidewinderX (talk) 21:30, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or MergeThe A380 is the most significant plane launched in the past 40 years and there are very few routes thus far. It is of great interest to aviation enthusiasts to have this information in one location. This does not look like a "travel guide." --156.80.10.182 (talk) 17:17, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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