Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sterling Airlines destinations (2nd nomination)


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The result was   merge to Sterling Airlines. Stifle (talk) 10:39, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Sterling Airlines destinations
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Its been over a year since Sterling folded and there appears to be no sourcing for their last network routing. The issue of enduring notability was not really resolved in the last AFD and I can't find any reliable sourcing on google, googlenews and googlebooks that addresses Sterling's routes at the time of their collapse. Some tangential mentions of having routes but no evidence that the actual routes are notable. Spartaz Humbug! 13:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability is not temporary, and as destinations lists of defunct airlines have reached FL status, this is not a reason for deletion. For an archive of the route map, see here. Merely using three variations of Google is not sufficient to establish there are no available sources; for instance, have you tried searching Danish sources? A good start is www.boarding.no, where an example article here discusses in detail the destinations (and services) of Sterling to various destinations. Another example is Berlingske Tidende, who has this article on services from Malmø, of dozens of articles on Sterling destinations. In general, all new air routes result in significant coverage in multiple medias, and destination lists are a summary of this compilation. See for instance List of Braathens destinations for how to compile a high-quality list of destinations. Arsenikk (talk)  14:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Boarding.no is not a RS by the look of it but an information agregator that has no proper attributation of information. The listed article looks more like a regurgitated press release then a proper article. The BT one also looks like a regurgitated press release, has no byline and is actually about the squabbling between NB and DY for supremacy in the Nordic LLC market. I'm not really buying that as the kind of coverage we need to justify a separate article. Spartaz Humbug! 18:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Sterling Airlines, whose notability is not temporary. In many instances, "______ Airlines destinations" articles occur as a result of poor organization and presentation of information, including the mistaken belief that one must provide a separate line for each item in a list.  One could just as easily summarize the destinations of this defunct airline in a paragraph: "Sterling Airlines served the nations of Austria (Salzburg), Belgium (Brussels), Bulgaria (Burgas and Varna), Croatia (Split), the Czech Republic (Prague), Denmark (Aalborg, Billund, and Copenhagen), France (Biarritz, Paris, Montpellier, and Nice); Germany (Berlin), Greece (Athens and Chania), Hungary (Budapest), Italy (Bologna, Florence, Milan, Naple, Rome, Venice), Norway (Oslo, Gardermoen, and Bergen), Poland (Kraków), Portugal (Faro and Funchal), Spain (Alicante, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife), Sweden (Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm), Switzerland (Geneva), the United Kingdom (Edinburgh, London, and Nottingham)."  There is no right of entitlement to stretch out that information with specific links to articles about those cities or the about airports within those cities).  Mandsford (talk) 16:24, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Sterling Airlines. The information could easily be encapsulated in a single paragraph, as per Mandsford's proposal. Warrah (talk) 17:01, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
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 * Merge per Mansford. Merging was also brought up in the previous AfD, so I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet.  Them From  Space  23:39, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Sterling Airlines. A separate article on destinations is utterly unnecessary, but this is not the first of its kind that we have had to merge.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:19, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep' since this airline is now defunct and no longer in operation, the article and its destination page needs to be kept as a historical reference. Regarding the destinations page, it need to be kept on a seperate page. Per WP:AIRLINES, airlines (current or defunct) that have at least 10 destinations needs to be put on a seperate page. Many defunct carriers still keeps their destination page as a historical reference. Snoozlepet (talk) 15:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Sterling Airlines. The Destinations section in the main article is empty apart from a seealso link. I suggest merging the information for the moment until such a time when the section becomes too big at which point a separate article can be considered. → AA (talk) — 22:59, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
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