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The meaning of grass
There are about
300 articles where the runway surface has been specified as "
grass". The trouble is,
grass is a redirect to the plant family
Poaceae, and that's clearly not the intended meaning here. The closest things that I can see are
turf/sod and
lawn. Which one is the better target article? – Uanfala (
talk)
22:03, 29 June 2022 (UTC)reply
Sure, in prose. But in the airport info box, the usage is Runway: and saying Runway: Grass runway is awkward/wordy and just piping grass is an Easter egg link...
MB02:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)reply
There are also a lot of runway-related links of the form [[grass|turf]], mostly within article prose (almost 460 of them
[1]). Whatever we decide about linking in the infobox field will probably apply to most of these as well. – Uanfala (
talk)
13:06, 14 July 2022 (UTC)reply
A link to a general article on grass is not in any way helpful. It's a common English word, everyone knows what grass is. That being said, a link to an article on grass runways, how they're maintained and what's different than just a field, I'd support a link to. But just to grass or anything that's not specifically talking about runways? Nope.
Canterbury Tailtalk14:57, 25 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Such a specific article doesn't exist (yet?), though there's the redirect
Grass airstrip (which I created recently), which points to an article section with a brief mention of grass runways. – Uanfala (
talk)
15:45, 25 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Base param
Base is listed as a param in the doc, but it doesn’t work. This would be a good param to have for airlines like JetBlue and Southwest that don’t have hubs but do have operating bases.
RickyCourtney (
talk)
21:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)reply
That parameter documentation was added in error. I can't find a record of this parameter ever existing in the template. Do you have a source describing the "base" for a few airlines? How many articles would use this parameter? –
Jonesey95 (
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22:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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It would be a good to have a param to have for airlines like JetBlue and Southwest that don’t have hubs but do have operating bases. A good example would be
Form 10-K for JetBlue which lists its bases on page 24, or the
Form 10-K for Allegiant, which lists its bases on page 29. This information can also be matched up to the similar paramter in
Template:Infobox airline.
Just a question. How do we decide whether to refer to it as a focus city or an operating base? For example, JetBlue refers to them as focus cities in its
2021 Form 10-K. Also, for the airline's description of New York as one of its focus cities, it includes all New York–area airports, not just JFK. (Does JetBlue have a separate crew/maintenance base at Newark?) What determines whether we leave it as a focus city or call it an operating base for that airline? --
Precision123 (
talk)
17:54, 21 June 2023 (UTC)reply