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There has apparently been zero improvement on this article despite several efforts to clarify its scope and purpose in two AfDs (2011, 2013) and a series of discussions on the article talk page in 2015. There is apparently no resolution to its
WP:SYNTH/
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WP:INDISCRIMINATE issues and no
WP:POTENTIAL.
Joy [shallot] (
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10:36, 5 March 2022 (UTC)reply
We tried the approach of grouping by "former Yugoslavia" and by "Balkans", and neither really worked, because we don't have encyclopedic content here. What makes you think that if we had lists of busiest airports by state that this would be a reason for deletion, as opposed to now? --
Joy [shallot] (
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13:21, 5 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Why not, but then most of Balkan airports will disappear of the list because their rank among Europe is often higher than 100.
Bouzinac (
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11:05, 6 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep These lists,
Category:Lists of busiest airports, are valid encyclopedic information, showing air travel around the world at each location and how it was affected year by year. What should be on each list is discussed elsewhere, and not a valid reason for deleting an article.
DreamFocus13:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Balkans#Balkan_Peninsula shows which nations are considered part of the Balkans, and which nations only have part of their borders there. Is this why some nations are included on the list and some are not? Or is it because those nations have their own national lists that would be too long to merge with this one?
DreamFocus13:18, 8 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You see that category, and you feel we need to keep more of this? :) "It's valid encyclopedic information" is not an actual rationale. For example,
WP:5P defines we maintain features of "general and specialized encyclopedias, almanacs, and gazetteers". Can you point us to an example real-world collection like that that can be used as a reference here in the description of this group? --
Joy [shallot] (
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16:49, 8 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Just to clarify, I think a list of how airports are doing in the former Yugoslavia would be useful, as nearly all the airline infrastructure in the region was built in the Yugoslav era, and there are indeed somewhat thriving
specialized websites which deal with aviation in the former Yugoslavia, i.e. they treat it as a single region (which is not that surprising considering that virtually all aviation experts used to work at the same company,
Jat Airways. Airlines and airports operating in this region compete with each other, and it would be inetresting to see the development of coastal airports over the past 15-20 years - as places like Tivat, Zadar, Split, Dubrovnik, all compete with each other to attract western holidaymakers. I assume the "Balkan" moniker (and the corresponding wider scope, entailing Greece, Bulgaria, etc) probably came in order to avoid grouping ex-Yugoslav countries together, because somebody somewhere decided this isn't "encyclopedic." Well, "the Balkans" doesn't really make much sense, it is difficult to define where that is geographically and as far as I know there is nobody treating the Balkans as a single aviation market. So, you know, whatever.
Timbouctou (
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15:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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