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...that Chengdu J-36 was made in a flash but no article yet on Shenyang's (apparently named?) J-50. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:00, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shhhh! ;) BilCat (talk) 00:17, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Citation help sought on Fiat G.55 Centauro

I've been doing a tidy-up on the Fiat G.55 Centauro article; I've done some things to get it in a better order (hopefully others concur with the changes made), but quite frankly, there's a lot of uncited paragraphs and facts without apparent sources. I haven't actually got access to good books for this, so I've been struggling to do much in terms of adding citations. Is there any one who can share ideal sources on this topic with me, or would directly contribute some citations onto the article itself? I would be most grateful for your contributions. Kyteto (talk) 20:12, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting input on Vital Articles discussion "Remove several civilian aircraft"

Hello,

I recently proposed removing several civilian aircraft from the vital articles project. Aircraft are generally over represented compared to other forms of transportation, so the goal is to trim the list a bit. I figured there might be several interested editors here, so posting the link Wikipedia talk:Vital articles/Level/5/STEM#Remove_several_civilian_aircraft. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 21:27, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Captions - mentioning airport when airport or surroundings not visible, and mentioning month

Frequently I would run into aircraft images against a blue sky where the caption mentions both the airport (despite neither the airport nor the surroundings being visible in the image), and the month of the year it was taken (despite, IMO, the month usually not being particularly relevant).

For example, the Boeing 737 article captions generally include the airport the photo was taken at and the month and year.

Is the airport location worth mentioning in the caption if the picture is merely against a blue sky, and doesn't show the airport or the surroundings?

Is including the month usually relevant? For example, does knowing that the picture is from January 2021 versus say, November 2021 really make a huge difference to the reader to be worth mentioning instead of just mentioning the year (2021)?

There's a balance between MOS:CAPSUCCINCT (encouraging succinct captions) and MOS:CAPCONTEXT (encouraging giving some context to what isn't visible in the picture) that should be struck here.

Right now, I lean towards not mentioning the airport if it or the surroundings are not visible in the picture, and against mentioning the month unless it's notable (for example, month of introduction into service, or so on). For example, the above caption could instead be:

On the other hand, the location *might* be interesting just to see all the places a particular aircraft flies. I can't really think of a good reason to give the month most of the time though.

Anyone else have any thoughts? 4300streetcar (talk) 05:59, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]