User talk:BritAirman

Re: Robert Edwin Newbery

In reference to this edit, you have not linked any other articles to this one, so why did you leave an edit summary saying you have and remove the orphan tag? Pol430 talk to me 22:05, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Pol430 talk to me 23:14, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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BritAirman, good luck, and have fun. --Pol430 talk to me 00:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of British Airways flight 2157

The article British Airways flight 2157 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

incident is not independently notable enough to warrant a separate article - fault lay in maintenance procedures and rectification suggested by AIBB was at level of recommending improvements to procedures such that problem was not overlooked in future

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. The above is the standard text format suggested by wikipedia - it's not there is anything wrong with your text but as it stands, the incident was just not important enough to feature as an independent article. The content could be included within articles on the aircraft type or British Airways for instance. GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:57, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My opinion on the notability of the incident with respect to having its own article is based upon the consensus established by other editors. Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Aircraft accidents and incidents puts the consensus into a guideline (which means it's not fixed nor obligatory). If you do think my reasoning is wrong, then you can remove the tag yourself (the instructions are above). It will not be tagged again for "Proposed deletion" by any editor but an editor may put it forward for "Articles for Deletion" discussion. GraemeLeggett (talk) 22:27, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI... I have removed your inline comment about the removal of the proposed deletion. The correct place for commenting about the removal would be the article's talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:48, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to see the article was deleted. It was written well though. Maybe you could stick around and create another article with some more notability? --JetBlast (talk) 10:10, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Crash articles

Hi, It's good to see someone taking the time to write articles. However, it might be better if you apply the criteria at WP:AIRCRASH,before starting an article. The major stumbling block for accident articles is notability, which is covered in the guidelines. If you can objectively pass your subject according to Aircrash then it is highly likely that it won't be deleted. The rationale is that this is an encyclopaedia and not a collection of articles on aircraft incidents great and small. Have a Happy New Year and keep writing articles, just check before you start.Petebutt (talk) 05:30, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

BritAirman, please don't take it personally that an article you have written has been nominated for deletion. I know how disappointing that can be, as I've had two articles deleted that I wrote. I've commented further at the AfD discussion. Deaths or a lack of do not notability make, but are a factor in deciding whether or not an accident is notable or not. Obviously a large number of deaths will mean notability, but a lack of them does not necessarily mean a lack of notability. If you haven't already done so, join the Aviation WikiProject, where you will find more editors interested in aviation matters. Mjroots (talk) 14:49, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you've decided to stick around. Bit of a steep learning curve to start with but you'll get the hang of it. Read the pages in linked from your welcome notice as they will give you a fair idea of what Wikipedi is and is not. Mjroots (talk) 06:13, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just to show you it's not personal, a 3rd article I wrote got killed off today. Mjroots (talk) 10:29, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

I just wanted to drop you a note to welcome you to Wikipedia. I see nobody had done then when you first started to edit. I know that Wikipedia can be rather confusing and your first article creation experience is probably not going as you expected. Since it pretty obvious that you have an interest in aviation, you might be interested in a few collaboration projects on aviation that Wikipedia has:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation covering all things related to aviation
Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft is specially for aircraft
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines is for airlines
Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports is for airports

If you have any questions about Wikipedia, please feel free to contact me. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:55, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, BritAirman. You have new messages at JetBlast's talk page.
Message added 00:00, 15 January 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

JetBlast (talk) 00:00, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Although the article was removed i still think you should get some recognition for it. JetBlast (talk) 00:54, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of delete article

Here's a copy of the article that was deleted - User:BritAirman/BA-draft. You may want to extract any pieces of this that can be properly referenced and add them to Boeing 777. That was one of the suggestions in the deletion discussion. Please don't recreate the article unless there is substantial new coverage. Sometimes there are facts that can be part of another article when there aren't enough facts to compose a stand along article. Jehochman ^Talk 20:34, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You have been pruned from a list

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