Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Airport of entry

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to Port of entry.  Sandstein  09:49, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Airport of entry

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WP:Not a phonebook Wikipedia is not a directory listing. It would be virtually impossible to maintain this is a complete and thorough list and offers no substance being being a directory listing of airports. David Condrey ^{log talk} 10:25, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

• Keep/merge The article would work without the list so that's not a key consideration. The topic might be merged with port of entry and/or border checkpoint but that wouldn't be deletion. Andrew (talk) 10:36, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
• More towards merge because this seems to be just a special case of Port of entry where the port just so happens to be an airport. But yes, nom's concern can be addressed simply by removing the list of airports, not necessarily deletion. 野狼院ひさし _{Hisashi Yarouin} 10:50, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:51, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:51, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

• Merge - This article (as mentioned above) should be merged with the Port of entry article. The article has issues; that's clearly obvious. But those concerns should be addressed instead of reaching for the "big red button". The best solution is to delete the tables per WP:NOT, and merge the remaining contents. ~Oshwah~ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 22:53, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
• obvious merge to port of entry, though I think the list of airports is (as stated in the nomination) problematic. Mangoe (talk) 00:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect. There is material developed in the list-section--numbers of international passengers--which is not included in, and which would enrich, corresponding List of airports by country articles. So merge that info to airports list-articles, assuming the source can be identified. E.g. List of airports in Brazil does not have number of passengers info. Other material, such as the section on "Stateless persons", currently consisting of "Some cases of statelessness have occurred in airports of entry, forcing people to stay there for an extended period. A famous case was of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an expelled Iranian who lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for approximately eighteen years after being denied entry to the country. There are two films about his story, Tombés du ciel and The Terminal. Another case is Zahra Kamalfar who lived in the Sheremetyevo International Airport for many months before getting refugee status in Canada."

would be appropriately merged to Port of entry article, which lacks such a section. And then Redirect probably to Port of entry. Keep the edit history in the redirect, partly for reference in extracting the number of passengers info, rather than outright deleting. And "airport of entry" is a reasonable term for users to try, so it should be kept as a redirect. --doncram 23:45, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.