Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of airports in Aruba


 * 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   keep. L Faraone  19:34, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

List of airports in Aruba

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Article is non-encyclopedia 3littlemaidsfromschool (talk) 21:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC) — 3littlemaidsfromschool (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Keep - article suitable. Other countries have such lists Maltesedog (talk) 22:23, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. As noted, this is a standard type of article for a country, even if it does need expanding. Also, as a note, the article was prodded by an IP, then expanded by another IP who (rightfully) removed the prod. Then this new editor, who has not made any edits other than to this article to send it to AfD, AfD'd it with the edit summary "Readded Article for Deletion which was improperly deleted by [IP] prior to the 7 days expiry". Clearly somebody has an improper understanding of how the PROD works. - The Bushranger One ping only 23:01, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment & Clarification: I am User:71.101.84.3 and if you look at my edit history (Special:Contributions/71.101.84.3) you will notice that I have been editing on Wikipedia since November. Now that's not a lot of time to be editing but still, I think there should be some consideration. Further if you look at the notice template it states "Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed." Therefore as I am to understand based on this User:76.66.194.212 violated this rule by deleting the AfD before the discussion had been properly discussed and the AfD was properly voted on and closed, So I DO have a full understanding thank you very much. 3littlemaidsfromschool (talk) 00:29, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Apologies for that, however, User:76.66.194.212 was fully within his rights to remove the tag. The article was not at AfD when he removed the tag. It has been Prodded, or 'Proposed for Deletion', which is an entirely different deletion process. And the PROD tag says "You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason." So he was entirely proper in his removal of the tag upon his expansion of the article. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:14, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * No need to apologize mate and I see the point you've made. 3littlemaidsfromschool (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. It looks like the procedural issue has been resolved, so hopefully we don't have to argue about that any more. Substantively, I don't see any good basis for objecting to this article. When I came here, I expected to see a comment along the lines of "there's only one airport so we don't need a list" or some such, but I see that's not the case. Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:22, 12 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: (laughs) I guess if you want to get technical there is only one airport in Aruba Queen Beatrix International Airport in Oranjestad and to be perfectly honest not sure if De Vuijst Field is even active anymore, I did a Google and only found one article and that's it, the same goes for Marine Aerodrome at Savaneta Beach, but whatever. 3littlemaidsfromschool (talk) 01:38, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:46, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep How is this not encyclopdic?! Part of a bigger scheme of Category:Lists of airports by country. Clearly defined inclusion criteria for a list.  Lugnuts  (talk) 09:45, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep - I can see no rationale for deleting this article... Pol430  talk to me 13:22, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as lugnuts describes it. TheGrappler (talk) 17:59, 14 December 2010 (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.