Template talk:Infobox airport

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)
 * The better solution is to unlink grass, asphalt, and concrete used in airport articles per MOS:OL. MB 23:16, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * That's an option as well. And another one is to go the MOS:SPECIFICLINK route and pipe via something like Grass runway, which can be created as a redirect to Runway (though the only grass-related content there at the moment is a brief mention with an example pictured). – Uanfala (talk) 00:44, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * 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... MB 02:29, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * There's a similar thread at Template talk:Infobox venue. – Uanfala (talk) 13:46, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

There are also a lot of runway-related links of the form turf, mostly within article prose (almost 460 of them ). 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)
 * Unlink whatever the runway type is in the infobox. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:06, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 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 Tail talk 14:57, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 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)

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)
 * 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 (talk) 22:14, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Jonesey95 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. -- RickyCourtney (talk) 00:58, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 10 April 2023
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.

Please add:

| labelXX = Operating base for

| dataXX =


 * Diff in sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_airport/sandbox&oldid=1149208086
 * Example in use, in draftspace: Draft:Oakland International Airport

Thank you for your consideration. -- RickyCourtney (talk) 20:11, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Have you discussed with the relevant WikiProject(s)? Izno (talk) 18:01, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. Adding a discussion topic for comment on the WikiProject Airports talk page. -- RickyCourtney (talk) 21:13, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Editors on the WikiProject Airports talk page were generally supportive of the change. -- RickyCourtney (talk) 22:17, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
 * @RickyCourtney Could you make the proposed changes to Template:Infobox airport/sandbox? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:28, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Does this one I did earlier work?
 * Diff in sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_airport/sandbox&oldid=1149208086
 * Example in use, in draftspace: Draft:Oakland International Airport
 * -- RickyCourtney (talk) 15:49, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Izno (talk) 20:30, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * Best to keep this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:38, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 12 August 2023
Following the recent addition to the infobox, please add  to the check for unsupported params module call in the final line of the template. Implemented in the sandbox and will remove correctly-functioning instances of the template from Category:Pages using infobox airport with unknown parameters. Pinging Wham2001 (talk) 12:49, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
 * .  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 14:57, 12 August 2023 (UTC)