Ideas for Editing Rules

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This is a list I compiled when thinking about how to organize things here to prevent extensive use of lists.

At the moment there are quite few people contributing and editing here, but as the site grows it might be helpful to set some basic conventions how things should be done to maintain uniformity throughout the site.

This list is by far not complete and everyone should add his or her ideas.

Basically: Are set conventions needed? Or does the creativity of chaos produce better results?

Feedback welcome (Talk:Ideas for Editing Rules)

Contents 1 Categories 2 Pages 3 Templates 4 Tagging

[edit] Categories

• The basic categories in the menu are good and should be kept.
• Each basic category should be broken down into reasonable subcategories (e.g. continents and further nations for cities and airports, types of aircraft for aircraft).
• Basic and large (continental for example) categories should contain only a few pages, if any. Pages that can be added there might be articles dealing with the exact topic or those that can not reasonably be included in a subcategory. Lists could for example could be linked to here).
• Uniformity in category naming. I started out with Airports OF something, but Layover Cities IN something. At this point it's no big deal to change the names, but as new pages are created it becomes more and more hellish to edit the category names on each referring page.
• No double categories (e.g. Airports of Europe AND European Airports) for simplicity.
• Conventions about which categories a page should be added to.

[edit] Pages

• Page naming might become an issue when people add articles (Munich - München comes to my mind). As a rule names should be English (as it is the language this page is written in) with other names used as redirects.
• As for airports: Although a specific article might be more easily located with an informal name, the official names of places and things should be used with informal, but well-known alternatives as redirects (see MUC or Munich International Airport for example. I am not sure about how extensive redirecting should be, an airport could be referred to by IATA and ICAO codes, several locally used names as well as 'City' Airport and 'City' International Airport. Maybe this becomes too much?!
• As for places: It may be worth thinking about how to deal with "doubles" (e.g. London, UK and London, ON, Canada).
• What should be included in an article? Should it be as extensive as possible (well, just copy the wikipedia article and add stuff about hotels and restaurants then) or focused on the needs of layover crews and travellers? If they become too extensive, should they be cut short?
• How to deal with irrelevant articles
• Of course it is legitimate to copy Wikipedia articles (as they are released unter GNU) but:
  • if the whole article is copied here a message pointing back to Wikipedia should be provided unless the contents have been altered on a large scale
  • if Wikipedia articles are imported the page should be strapped of templates (as they won't work here, WikiAir templates are different and Wikipedia template code will only result in lines over lines of broken links), pictures (won't work either unless the Wikipedia pix have been uploaded on WikiAir), language links and other stuff. Also categories have to be fixed, as they will most likely not match. Sure it's a great way to add pages quickly, but the results produced by imports without further editing are less than satisfying, especially on the looks side of the new page.

[edit] Templates

• There's already a template for cities. Might be useful to include templates for airports, airlines (some of the pages already have that) and other stuff, too. I am not too into this topic and got absolutely no clue how to "build" a template.

[edit] Tagging

• Don't know too much about this one. I know there's a variety of tags on wikipedia and some here (outline, stub, useful...). Are there others? If not, how about creating some of these:
  • Deletion with discussion on talk page
  • Move with discussion on talk page
  • Copyright Violation
  • Advertising Style
  • Irrelevant
  • Cleanup
• Where should tags go? Top or Bottom? Some might me self-explaining, but the really general ones like stub, where should they be?

t.b.c.