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1. September 4, 2004 - September 2, 2009
2. September 18, 2009 - present

Hêbê Debate at the European Parliament: Wikipedia - Truth by Consensus?

I see that you are a prolific Wikipedia editor! Do you live in Brussels by any chance?
I ask, because there is a debate planned on the usefulness and reliability of Wikipedia at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday evening, September 28th. If you are interested in either debating the subject or simply attending as an audience member, you can register on http://www.asbl-hebe.eu.

For more info, I'd be happy to help, just email [e-mail].

We would be happy to have you there!

Kindest regards,
HêbêDeb (talk) 17:37, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I do not live close to Brussels, going to Brussels would take me too much time, to be honest... But thank you for the information. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 19:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help, please

Greetings Belgian man, would you be so kind to help me create an article about Confucius in Nauruan Wikipedia? Please. It's about a Chinese philosopher and is listed as one of the articles every Wikipedia should have. You can shorten it to contain only the basic information, one sentence would be enough. I hope, you could help. Thanks a lot, and best regards. --Amaqqut (talk) 13:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Amaqqut, but I don't write any article on the Nauruan Wikipedia until I have more sources about the vocabulary and grammar of the language. You could ask someone with better knowledge of the language, but they are hard to find. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 10:02, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your answer:)--Amaqqut (talk) 13:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Belle Air flights to Prishtina International Airport

Hi there, I saw that you reverted by change for Belle Air flights to PRN. Could you please have a look at my reasoning here. I shall wait to hear from you before making any changes. Many thanks, Kosovar (talk) 11:03, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

(Reacted there. Belgian man (talk) 15:34, 1 March 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Hi Belgian man, just a note to let you know that I wrote back again there. Kosovar (talk) 17:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Brabantian is not a language and thus has not a language cod"

nocode,but iso dun grant language status[c'vls' fe.--i'v[[RSI]]>typin=v.v.hard4me!!>contactme thruMSNpl[sven70=alias (talk) 05:59, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you repeat that in a more normal way please, I don't understand. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 08:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is a language?

Hello, Belgian man! I've stumbled over your name by the discussion about the flag of Bikini. An impressing expression ... And now I'd like to know who or what determines what is a language effectively. Is this not still more or less politics? Hellsepp 11:27, 3 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellsepp (talk • contribs)

What expression do you mean?

An institution like SIL doesn't bother about politics at all: it considers very many regional varieties as separate languages. Since I use Ethnologue as a reference in much cases, I wouldn't say I care much about politics either. However, politics indeed continue influencing the perception of what is a language and what not strongly (for exemple in France, where other languages than French are not recognised at all). Which is of course very dangerous for the survival of minority languages...Belgian man (talk) 18:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Roman Tmetuchl International Airport

Hello Belgian Man. As a note, the Palau International Airport was never renamed Roman Tmetuchl International Airport. There was a bill introduced in the senate but it never became law. The current name for the airport is still Palau International Airport. I happened to stumble on this but not being a very familiar with Wikipedia I did not know how to correct the error. Regards, Bearabee —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.88.65.82 (talk) 10:11, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have some official source for this? Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 16:02, 8 May 2010 (UTC) (I hope you don't mind I replaced your comment.)[reply]

You are now a Reviewer

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Thank you! Belgian man (talk) 10:24, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Let L-410 crash

The info on ASN has changed since I used it as a ref. Please remember WP:AGF in your edit summaries. Mjroots (talk) 10:31, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. Rather strange ASN still has Semendua (like we spell it) as place of origin, as far as I know, this is the only source to mention that city in this whole story. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 17:54, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Airport names

Salut Belgian man. Here's something a few of us are working on to try and make sense out of (and put an end, hopefully, to the endless disagreements over) airport names. Your input will be most welcome. Merci! jasepl (talk) 16:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, nice project, I just had a look at it yet. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 23:41, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Riga airport

Please stop reverting - several users obviously disagree. If you want to talk start a disccusion on talk page instead of someone's sandbox (I don't see any discussion on this or even airports involved being mentioned). As far as I see the article now uses official names of airprts, while you are pushing for names of settlements they are in. If I was trying to figure out where I was going I would rather like to find article on the airport rather than settlement. ~~Xil (talk) 17:34, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will await a consensus for what concerns Riga. Using Milan for Bergamo or Treviso for Venice is simply advertising for Ryanair. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 13:01, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just my two cents - I think you risk sacrifacing readers' needs in your atempt to avoid comercialization. You might as well wikilink to all airports, so people can look themselves, where this flight would take them. Because, for example, Bergamo gives you article on town, not an airport. And one probably would need to know the name of airport (Orio al Serio) to find article on it, "Ryanair marketing" however readily gives the name and even article on airport names it "Milan" in infobox, so you probably can somehow get from there to Milan. Riga airport also is not in Riga - what are you going to do about it ? Name it after the little municipality it is in, which probably will leave even Rigans confused ? ~~Xil (talk) 15:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mm, there is a little difference. Riga's airport was constructed as Riga's airport, whereas Bergamo's airport was constructed as an airport to serve Bergamo, and hasn't even changed its name for marketing purposes. Belgian man (talk) 08:04, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and happy new year!

I have just left you a message on Meta, I hope you can find some spare time to read it. Happy New Year and best wishes for 2011. Best regards, Claudi Balaguer/Capsot (talk) 22:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Best wishes for 2011 for you as well! I answered your message on Meta-Wiki. Greetings, Belgian man (talk) 07:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I hope you are doing fine. I wanted to let you know of the progress of our project ([1]) and well if you are available these days we will be glad to have you around to talk about your experience(s) with small/minorized language wikipedias (Amical should take care of the expenses of your travel and stay) or your experience with the Incubator. Our main problem is your geographical location (because our budget is limited, unfortunately...) and thus I hope you live in Andorra right now. So, please contact me, if you can via e-mail from the Catalan Viquipèdia (I don't know how to do it but I guess you can). Take care! Fins aviat, Claudi/Capsot (talk) 09:33, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, maybe you haven't seen my message, hope you can find some time to answer. Take care, Claudi/Capsot (talk) 21:32, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Capsot, toutes mes excuses. J'avais/ai en fait une période très chargée, raison pour laquelle je n'ai pas pu beaucoup penser sur la mesure dans laquelle je participerai au projet. Je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de me rendre à Perpignan, ça m'aurait coûté trop de temps et d'argent en fait. Tu peux toujours me faire savoir s'il y a d'autres choses à faire, mais je ne peux pas te promettre que j'aurai le temps ou les moyens. Cependant, il reste sans doute que je supporte le projet avec toutes mes forces. Beaucoup de salutations, Gertjan R 13:40, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tirana - Londen-Stansted

Ok man fijn weer wat van je te horen is goed, je hebt gelijk. --Vinie007 14:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kijk dit eens, nieuwe verbinding denk je dat we kunnen toevoegen? --Vinie007 15:17, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dank je, serieus nieuws is dat! Ik vlieg op 13 juli naar Pristina via Boedapest, het is niet de eerste keer dat er een vlucht wordt geïntroduceerd net nadat ik nog op de "oude" manier ergens ter plaatse raak :p En we kunnen het toevoegen want dit artikel vermeldt de datum (10 juni). Groet, Belgian man (talk) 20:33, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

May I ask you some help?

Hello, I'm a Belgian citizen and I found you in the "Belgian page", I would like to ask you some help concerning a wikipedia article about the artist ben heine (www.benheine.com). Please let me know how I can do to improve this article or to have someone do it as I really find it difficult to edit stuff properly on Wikipedia... Caring-writer (talk)

I've been following Ben Heine's work for many years, but I noticed that the current article is a text that appeared on Wikipedia in 2006 and that reflects what he did in that time only. He has totally changed and evolved. He has made many more things since then. He is a globally appreciated artist. There aren't so many criticisms about him. The article isn't fair, it REALLY NEEDS MANY UPDATES and contains strong mistakes about the artist. Many well known national newspapers and magazines have talked about him and his work recently (see non exhaustive list here below), none of them is even mentioned in the current article. He has stopped making political art since more than 2 years. Please just consider these publications, most of them are a few days/weeks old only... Daily Mail, The Telegraph, El Pais, Repubblica, De Standaard... These AREN'T blogs!!! These are national papers read by millions of people.

Please have a look to the following list of errors in the current article (which I detailed here below, and which I'll mention to several other admins if needed and if not taken into account).

List of important errors in the current article about Ben Heine:

1) Ben isn't a political artist anymore, it's true he used to make political art accusing Israel of "crimes against humanity", but he stopped making such illustrations in 2009 and wrote an "[[open letter to the Jewish Community]]" in December 2010 apologizing about his past behavior (saying it was the influences of his studies in Journalism. Parts of his final assignment talked about the "limits of freedom of expression in cartoons"). In this letter, he also firmly condemned the infamous Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest and said he was feeling deeply guilty about it. Here is the letter translated in English (Google translator). Ben doesn't deny the Holocaust, he visited Auschwitz Birkenau and feels sincerely sorry about the past suffering of the Jewish community.

2) Ben doesn't contribute to these websites anymore: DonQuichotte, MWC News, Rebelion, Tlaxcala, Irancartoon, Syriacartoon, Arabcartoon, Persiancartoon, Karikaturevi, Azercartoon, Dessin d'humour, National Caricaturist Network (Ben has explicitly asked these sites to remove all his illustrations from their platforms)

3) Ben doesn't collaborate with "La Libre Belgique" Anymore. Only 4 or 5 of his old cartoons have been published in this newspaper (in 2006 and 2007).

4) Pencil Vs Camera is not just a "little detail" in his biography, it is a creative and original series that has generated some huge reactions on the web and in the written press (see a non exhaustive list below). It is such an innovation that several TV channels around the world have also talked about it: Globo - Brazil, TV Brussel - Belgium, and many others). Same for "Digital Circlism"...

5) "Pere Ubu" (one of the main newspapers that clearly accused Heine in Belgium has removed the accusation from their site

6) Most of the links in the "notes" section (expecially the url's linking to images on Ben's blog) do not work...

7) Ben removed from his sites (blog, flickr, Deviantart and official site) all his cartoons accusing Israel or any Israeli person (Avigdor Lieberman...).

8) He didn't participate "recently" to the Kruger Workshop. This event happened in 2006!

So, I really hope you'll aknowledge that 90% of the article is based on inaccurate facts... I would like to see a real neutral article about that artist.

List of recent notable publications with Ben Heine works and biography:

WEB:

- DAILY MAIL (UK - February 2011) - EL PAIS (Spain - February 2011) - THE TELEGRAPH (UK - February 2011) - NEWSLITE (UK : February 2011) - BBC Brazil (Brazil - February 2011) - LA REPUBBLICA (Italy - February 2011) - TV BRUSSEL (Belgium - January 2011) - CNN Turk (Turkey - February 2011) - POP PHOTOGRAPHY: (USA - January 2011) - SHORT NEWS (Germany - February 2011) - ESTADAO (Brazil - January 2011) - HET NIEUWSBLAD (Belgium - February 2011) - DE STANDAARD (Belgium - February 2011) - OBVIOUS MAG (Spain - January 2011) - WEBOVINY (Slovakia - January 2011) - ARTE SPAIN (Spain - January 2011) - Accessible Art Fair (Belgium - 2010) - TrendsNow (France- February 2011) - CHINA DAILY (China - 2010) - DUSHI (China - january 2011) - ABDUZEEDO (Brazil - 2010) - Other publications in 2010

PRINT:

- Pop Photography (USA - January 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 1 (Belgium - 2011) - Het Nieuwsblad - 2 (Belgium - 2010) - Ca m'intéresse (France - 2010) - Daily Mirror (Great Britain - 2010) - Bookedi (South Korea - 2010) - Digital Artist 1 - 2 - 3 (China - 2010) - Belgian Embassy in London (February 2011) - Photoeidolo (Greece - 2011) - Šeimininkė (Lithuania - 2010) - View Mag (Germany - 2010) - Shambala Sun (Canada - 2010) - Imagine Demain le Monde (Belgium - 2009) - La Libre Belgique 1 2 (Belgium - 2009) - Moonwalk Through Art (The Netherlands - 2009) - Rolling Stone (USA - 2008) - 3e Millénaire (France - 2011)

My suggestions for a new neutral article (it would be good to add some of the above references, feel free to add more)

Ben Heine (born 12 June 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory coast) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist. He is internationally known for his original series "Pencil Vs Camera" and "Digital Circlism". Ben has stopped doing political art since 2009.

He has a degree in journalism (Brussels). He also briefly studied graphic arts and sculpture (one year in Hastings, England) but considers himself a self-taught artist.

Art

Pencil Vs Camera

This is a concept Heine invented in 2010. Heine says it is the result of a long graphic exploration and a logic consequence of his artistic evolution. "Pencil Vs Camera" mixes drawing and photography, imagination and reality through illusion and surrealism. He usually focuses on architecture, portraits, and animals. Among many others, the main themes approached in "Pencil Vs Camera" are love and friendship.

Digital Circlism

This is a concept Heine invented in 2010. It is a mix between Pop Art and Pointillism. In this series, Heine usually makes portraits of celebrities with digital tools using flat circles on a black background. Each circle has a single color and a single tone.

Influences

Heine says he has been deeply influenced by German Expressionism, Belgian Surrealism, American Pop Art and Social Realism.

Publications

Heine is represented by several established press agencies everywhere in the world. List of publications

interviews

List of interviews

Exhibitions

Heine is represented by several established art galeries in Belgium and abroad (UK and USA) and is sponsored by "Samsung Imaging". So far, He has exhibited his creations in Belgium, Great Britain, Turkey, Romania, France, Canada, USA, Germany, Brazil, South Korea and Spain.

List of exhibitions

Views on Israel

Ben used to make political art accusing Israel of crimes against humanity, he stopped making such illustrations in 2009 and wrote an "[[open letter to the Jewish Community]]" in 2011 apologizing about his past behavior.

Attempt to change Naura from DAB to REDIRECT

My dreadful attempt to change Naura from DAB to REDIRECT was not vandalism, just my misunderstanding of what needed to be done and my 3 a.m. interpretation of WP:2DAB. But thanks to the UNDO feature, everything can be easily fixed. (I realize now that I should have put a note on the talk page outlining my rationale; a good thing for me to note for future use.) After sleeping on it, (I promise I won't edit Wikipedia in the middle of the night again) I realize that the red link entries have a couple of pages other than DAB pages that link to them (another thing I will note to look at with my eyes open in the future). So having established that my edit was a bad idea, I will go ahead and make a couple of edits that I am sure won't meet with controversy. Thank you, for your time and consideration. JMax (Okay, tell me. What'd I do this time?) 17:48, 13 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thank you for clarification effort, no problem. Greetings, Gertjan R 13:42, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

References in destination lists

I noticed you removed references to destinations at some airports. The only time that references are not necessary is when the airline already flies to that city. References are necessary is when an airline is launching service to a new city. All those references you removed are new services that needs to be sourced to prevent vandalism. You can then remove those reference once the airline has officially launched service to that city. Thanks! Snoozlepet (talk) 05:17, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no problem, I will keep references about future destinations. Greetings, Gertjan R 07:19, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

London Southend Airport

Hi. Can you please help? This IP (120.63.155.29) continues to say that London Southend Airport is NOT a London airport...instead of listing the destination as "Southend-on-the-Sea". Is it really? Snoozlepet (talk) 20:49, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think it should really be London-Southend indeed, as the airport is called London Southend Airport and serves London in the first place... Greetings and a happy New Year, Gertjan R 09:26, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tel Aviv airports

Hi there. Can you explain to this user (Friends147) that Tel Aviv need disambiguation. He removed the disambiguation at quite a few airport pages. There is also passenger service at SDV Airport as well. Thanks and happy new year! Snoozlepet (talk) 15:36, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I will have a look at it. I totally agree that it should be Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion everywhere. (Same thing with, among others, Georgetown, Kingston, Kinshasa, Krasnoyarsk and Nairobi — there's still some work to do with those as well.) Greetings, Gertjan R 09:31, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Destinations

Destinations are written in their standard form, as you can check from any other airport pages, such as Galeao Airport or Miami International Airport. Jetstreamer (talk) 19:52, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If that "standard form" is used on those other pages, it should be changed there as well: we try to give correct information. I removed your silly template and changed the headline. Gertjan R 00:17, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

Hello, Gertjan R. Thank you for your friendly welcome to Dutch Wikipedia. I speak Dutch only falteringly and I write it with difficulty, but I read it well enough to be able to glean information from articles. I went on to Dutch WP to set up a link to my article on Aagje Vanwalleghem. I was sad to learn of her retirement and this spurred me to finish and publish it. I used to visit Belgium a lot, but I am now old and in poor health, so I travel electronically. Best wishes. LynwoodF (talk) 21:55, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lynwood,

No problem, thank you for your friendly message! It is indeed sad that Vanwalleghem decided to quit gymnastics.

Greetings, Gertjan R 07:18, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

http://na.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Etangmek_oning_ian_La_Massana.PNG

I know this is an own work, but what license would you like to use for it? User:Zscout370 ^(Return Fire) 08:37, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The default own work licence, as used on Commons? It is equal to me. Please note that the image is not that accurate, I think I wouldn't use it myself anymore (on the articles on the villages I wrote on the Dutch Wikipedia, for example). Greetings, Gertjan R 00:16, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Since it was only used on one page, I went ahead and removed it. If you need the image back, let me know and I can restore it. User:Zscout370 ^(Return Fire) 03:37, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no problem. Greetings, Gertjan R 13:46, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deutschnofen

An extended version of my edit summary line: It is easily possible to write serveral other administrative, historical or statistical entities Deutschnofen is belonging to into the introduction. Apart from the province, the region and the state, we have for example the district Salten-Schlern, the Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino, Northeast Italy, the European Union and so on. But in my view, it's not the point of an introduction to enumerate as many of these entities as possible, but to help the reader to locate the municipality by mentioning those entities they might know and the most important ones. South Tyrol and northern Italy are surely helpful and well known, but Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol? I have strong doubts.

Regarding the distance to Trento: Well, Bolzano is the capital of South Tyrol, that is probably good reference point, but it would be more helpful if we took Munich, Venice and Milan instead of Trento... --Mai-Sachme (talk) 09:33, 17 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

na.wiki logo

I would like for you to look at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37674 and express your thoughts. The problem is that at that wiki, the English logo is used and not the Narauan one. I would like for the logo to be pointing to the Commons image, and not local. Either way, a local language logo will be finally used, but the main question is use Commons or stick with local. User:Zscout370 ^(Return Fire) 04:28, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Albanian help needed

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Writing week Brussels

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Dear Gertjan R.,

since you live in Belgium, I thought you might be interested in the Writing week Brussels that is going on right now.

Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 10:41, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Nauruan Pronunciation

Hello Gertjan, can you please pronounce the Nauruan words listed in Forvo? Link to Nauruan page.--Joseph 17:53, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiEagle - January 2022

The WikiEagle

The WikiProject Aviation Newsletter

Volume I — Issue 1
Aviation Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Outreach • The WikiEagle
Announcements After over a decade of silence, the WikiProject Aviation newsletter is making a comeback under the name The WikiEagle. This first issue was sent to all active members of the project and its sub-projects. If you wish to continue receiving The WikiEagle, you can add your username to the mailing list. For now the newsletter only covers general project news and is run by only one editor. If you wish to help or to become a columnist, please let us know. If you have an idea which you believe would improve the newsletter, please share it; suggestions are welcome and encouraged. On 16 December, an RfC was closed which determined theaerodrome.com to be an unreliable source. The website, which is cited over 1,500 articles, mainly on WWI aviation, as of the publishing of this issue. Luft46.com has been added to the list of problematic sources after this discussion. The Jim Lovell article was promoted to Featured Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Hawkeye7. The Raymond Hesselyn article was promoted to Good Article status on 4 December after being nominated by Zawed. The Supermarine Sea King article was promoted to Good Article status on 22 December after being nominated by Amitchell125. The William Hodgson (RAF officer) article was promoted to Good Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Zawed.
Members New Members KingAviationKid (Joined on 17 December) PatrickChiao (Joined on 22 December) Wp9097 (Joined on 16 December) Number of active members: 386. Total number of members: 921. Closed Discussions Featured Article assessment Jim Lovell (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021 Good Article assessment HAL Tejas (discussion) – Closed as not promoted on 30 December 2021 William Hodgson (RAF officer) (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021 Supermarine Sea King (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 22 December 2021 Raymond Hesselyn (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 4 December 2021 Deletion Timeline of Berlin Brandenburg Airport's construction (discussion) – Closed as delete and redirect on 30 December 2021 Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17 (discussion) – Closed as keep on 25 December 2021 Requested moves Akbarpur (Ambedkar Nagar) Airstrip → Akbarpur Airstrip (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021 1983 Avensa Douglas DC-9 crash → Avensa Flight 007 (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 035 (discussion) – Withdrawn on 28 December 2021	Article Statistics This data reflects values from DMY. Aviation pages by quality Quality Total FA 142 FL 15 A 56 GA 505 B 4,573 C 11,878 Start 15,082 Stub 18,754 List 2,539 Category 11,638 Disambig 653 File 2,713 Portal 629 Project 89 Redirect 1,518 Template 2,489 NA 66 Assessed 73,339 Unassessed 1 Total 73,340 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 252,092 Ω = 4.91
New/Ongoing Discussions Featured Article review D. B. Cooper (discussion) – Since 14 December 2021 A-class Article assessment Granville Gee Bee Model A (discussion) – Since 21 April 2020 List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (discussion) – Since 22 February 2010 Good Article assessment Romanian Air Corps (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021 Jean Batten (discussion) – Since 2 October 2021 Merger proposals List of astronauts by name → List of astronauts by year of selection (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 List of cosmonauts → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 List of space travelers by name → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021 Holidays Czech Airlines → Czech Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 June 2021 Bendix Aviation → Bendix Corporation (discussion) – Since 30 May 2021 Airport Movement Area Safety System → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 29 May 2021 ASDE-X → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 28 May 2021 Splitting proposals Family Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 November 2021 2021 Kabul airport attack (discussion) – Since 24 September 2021 List of military aircraft of the United States (discussion) – Since 16 August 2021 Braniff International Airways (discussion) – Since 8 September 2019 Deletion List of maiden voyages (discussion) – Since 29 December 2021 Requested moves Hot-air balloon → Hot air balloon (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021 Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 → Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 150 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 150 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 708 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 708 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021 TWA Flight 800 → TWA Flight 800 (1996) (discussion) – Since 27 December 2021 Dynamic Airways Flight 405 → Dynamic International Airways Flight 405 (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021 CommutAir Flight 4281 → CommutAir Flight 4821 (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021 Thai Airways → Thai Airways International (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 Thai Airways fleet → Thai Airways International fleet (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 List of Thai Airways destinations → List of Thai Airways International destinations (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021 Did you know Ravish Malhotra (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021 Alexander Tahy (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021 Veronica Volkersz (discussion) – Since 6 December 2021 Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll (discussion) – Since 3 December 2021 On The Main Page Did you know... ... that the aerobatic demonstration aircraft used by SoloTürk is also used in military operations of the Turkish Air Force? (24 December)
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