Talk:List of Braathens destinations

Featured list criteria failures
This page does not meet the featured list criteria, specifically:
 * Attribute 2: the lead is a generic lead that could be for the main page of this airline, and does not set out the inclusion criteria.
 * Attribute 3b: the start/stop dates for a number of services in the list are sourced to individual news articles about services starting and stopping, however these do not support the idea that the service was continuous between those dates - airline services start, stop, and re-commence all the time so an explicit statement in a reliable source is needed to the effect that these services operated continuously between these dates. The stop-dates for many of these services inherently cannot be supported by the sources cited, since the sources were published before the end-dates given - it is simply assumed that the service continued from then until 2004. For some (not all) services this is made explicit by marking them "non-continuous", but in that case there is clearly information that is being obfuscated (i.e., when did the service start/stop between those dates?). Some are clearly services operated by other airlines, not the airline that is the subject of the article.
 * Attribute 3c: this list largely reproduces prose content already found in the main article about this airline, and indeed is a repetition of the prose content found elsewhere in the "history" section of the same article (itself a repetition of content at the main article), and a fork of the two(!) history articles about this airline.

Additionally, this list is a clear failure of WP:NOT, which expressly forbids providing an exhaustive list of all the services of a commercial enterprise (which Braathens manifestly is). In as much as this article is not simply a history of Braathens (which is already covered at the main airline page) it is a failure of WP:CORP, which bars trivial coverage such as "simple listings or compilations, such as ... product or service offerings" and "standard notices, brief announcements, and routine coverage, such as...the opening or closing of local branches, franchises, or shops [and/or] the expansions, acquisitions, mergers, sale, or closure of the business" from sustaining notability. Whilst featuring is not a guarantee of inclusion in Wikipedia or decisive of AFD outcomes, it is heavily persuasive and the featuring of this list (and the list of Cathay Dragon destinations which has since had its featured list status removed) has acted as bar on cleaning up this area of the project. FOARP (talk) 07:34, 19 May 2023 (UTC)