Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal Air Force Passenger Service


 * 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 redirect to AirTanker Services. We currently have one-line article with zero sources. Opinions have differed, from delete (well, because this is an unsourced one-line article) through redirect (to various targets) to keep (because apparently some info is available online and the article can be potentially expanded, though nobody tried). The way out of this situation I see is the redirect (I choose the target which I believe is the most appropriate but please feel free to choose another target per WP:BOLD). In this way, the one-line stub is gone, the history is kept, and if someone wants to expand the article they are free to do it at any point.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Royal Air Force Passenger Service

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There are no reliable sources to prove that this subject exists. Google only returns hits from Wikipedia and Linkedin. Vanjagenije (talk) 22:33, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions.  Jinkinson   talk to me   What did he do now?  22:43, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep The royal air force offers scheduled passenger flights and therefore an article is appropriate. see . By the way, to the creator of this article:

User:Sparkyb10123 (User talk:Sparkyb10123) —Preceding undated comment added 22:51, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
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 * Comment. A Google search for "royal air force" "passenger service" works better.  I'm too lazy to check them to see if any of those are reliable sources, but I suspect a few are. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:17, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete no reliable sources presented. This is a very strange article to create. Buckshot06 (talk) 03:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment seems fairly reliable, but I think the topic is pretty well covered in Ascension Island.TheLongTone (talk) 19:05, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak keep, but expand There are discussions of the RAF's unusual service to Ascension Island and the Falklands in histories of the aftermath of the Falklands War and travel guides to the Falklands (this may be the only scheduled military air service which is available to civilians), but I'd suggest renaming and tweaking the article so that it's a history of these flights rather than on the overly narrow topic of a single route. Nick-D (talk) 00:29, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. TheLongTone (talk) 10:33, 25 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete the fact the the RAF lets civilians on its trooping flights it not notable for a stand-alone article and in particular a "Passenger Service" is a made up term. Most of these flights are run by civilian firms as government charter flights so are not actually operated by the RAF. MilborneOne (talk) 18:32, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 02:51, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep per substantial coverage of this rather unusual service. Sorting out of the appropriate name for the subject is a separate issue. Candleabracadabra (talk) 00:35, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect to AirTanker Services. The RAF itself doesn't appear to operate these passenger flights but it has a contract with AirTanker Service, which does operate such a service between RAF bases, e.g. the Falklands bridge. Green Giant (talk) 03:15, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * REdirect -- The external link is to a website for RAF Brize Norton where RAF's Strategic and Tactical Air Transport division is based. Ascension Island is I suspect largely a military base.  I would suggest that the target should be No. 216 Squadron RAF, which conducts trooping to Falkland Islands via Ascension Island.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:10, 5 January 2014 (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.