Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Revenue passenger mile


 * 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. No prejudice towards a merge discussion. Mark Arsten (talk) 19:35, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Revenue passenger mile

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Not been sourced since tagged in 2009. This is more of a dictionary definition than an encyclopedia entry. JetBlast (talk) 21:18, 15 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment - There's quite a few articles linking to it, so a redirect to the relevant section of Airline cost glossary (which I've just added a ref to) might be better than outright deletion. DexDor (talk) 21:52, 15 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Please see WP:DICDEF: "One perennial source of confusion is that a stub encyclopedia article looks very much like a stub dictionary entry, and stubs are often poorly written. Another perennial source of confusion is that some paper dictionaries, such as "pocket" dictionaries, lead editors to the mistaken belief that dictionary entries are short, and that short article and dictionary entry are therefore equivalent." The sourcing is unimportant because sources are only required for quotes or controversial statements.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a search engine.  Warden (talk) 22:17, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge to revenue passenger. Note also the existence of the acronym RPK, the non-English form using the nomen execrandum "kilometer"; that disambiguation page points to revenue passenger as the appropriate discussion.  I've no doubt that this term exists.  But it really only has significance in an extended discussion of how various mass transportation carriers reckon the profitability of various routes.  AFAICT we don't have that article yet, but if it appears "revenue passenger" seems a likely place. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 18:39, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge to revenue passenger per above. Keeping these separate seems like it would either lead to a content fork or one of the articles remaining very stubby.  — daranz [ t ] 19:27, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. Revenue passenger miles, along with available seat miles and passenger load factor, are a basic cost and revenue measurement for airline economics.  Airline company annual reports and press releases (like Delta's February 2013 results or Southwest's 2011 annual report) cite those numbers to indicate what percentage of their seats are actually full and producing revenue.  I've added a little bit of material to the article to mention this.  --Elkman (Elkspeak) 21:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep – SJ + 02:44, 21 March 2013 (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.