Talk:Air base

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Comment by Joseph398

As I recall, one of the purposes for Dwight Eisenhower building the Interstate Highway system in the 1950s in the U.S.A. was that the straight stretches were designed as emergency airstrips, also. Can anybody verify that? Joseph398 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:57, 23 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Air Base

The word "airbase" is NOT a word in the English language, hence using it is rather stupid. See this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/airbase

For examples of the proper use, there were the Rhein-Main Air Base, the Wiesbaden Air Base in Germany, and the Clark Air Base in the Philippines, and there are the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Lakenheath Air Base in England, Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, Kadena Air Base in Japan, Yokota Air Base in Japan, Osan Air Base in South Korea, Moron Air Base in Spain, and the Thule Air Base in Greenland.

Please get with it and use proper English in the title of this article and elsewhere. 98.67.106.25 (talk) 14:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly 98.67.106.25, you are very WRONG! airbase categorically IS a word in the English language. See https://www.Lexico.com/definition/airbase - from the Oxford English Dictionary, https://Dictionary.Cambridge.org/dictionary/english/airbase - Cambridge English Dictionary, and https://www.CollinsDictionary.com/dictionary/english/airbase - from the Collins English Dictionary. The first two are the oldest and most highly respected English language dictionaries in the world, and used by international learned societies. Now who looks stupid?

As for your quoted examples, they are 'Americanisms', most are just factually incorrect. Lakenheath is actually Royal Air Force Station Lakenheath, commonly abbreviated RAF Lakenheath (and all American occupied airbases in the UK are officially called RAF stations). In Germany, Denmark, Greenland, Italy, Spain, France, and all other European countries, their official names are derived from the singular word (flugplatz in German, I forget the exact Danish, Italian is a single word). As for asian bases, both Japanese and the Philippines used singular words for their military airfields, as do Indian and Pakistani Air Forces.

I suggest this article be renamed back to the singlar airbase to reflect global international English! 78.32.143.113 (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) feminist (talk) 08:47, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Military air base → Air base – I propose "Air base" as a more appropriate title than "Military air base" per WP:TITLE. Per WP:COMMONNAME, "Air base" is more common than "Military air base" (13,200,000 results vs 289,000 results). It is also sufficiently WP:CONCISE, whereas adding the "Military" qualifier is redundant and unnecessary. Furthermore, per WP:PRECISION, "Air base" as commonly used in language is precise enough to unambiguously refer to aerodromes of a military nature, and does not need to more precise than that. The presence of the article Airbase (DJ) does not affect this as a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and can be easily handled with Template:Redirect. —Madrenergic^talk 07:51, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONCISE. Rreagan007 (talk) 20:16, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. "Air base" sees overwhelming use in the military context. - WPGA2345 - ☛ 21:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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