Talk:Rhodes International Airport

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Why are there no images inside the article Rhodes International Airport, "Diagoras"? --88.76.245.62 11:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Because nobody has taken one/added one. If you wish to, then please do. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 06:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: All pages moved. -- Hadal (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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Rhodes International Airport, "Diagoras" → Rhodes International Airport – Per WP:COMMONNAMES, there is no need to put the full airport name in the title, as most of the readers here at Wikipedia aren't experts, and will know the airport only from its location. As an example, Munich Airport, Athens International Airport as well as several further Greek airports have a further name, which is ommitted in the title. Also, the "..." marks make the title look quite crowded abnd cumbersome. AdAstra reloaded (talk) 11:41, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

• Kavala International Airport "Alexander the Great" → Kavala International Airport
• Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia" → Thessaloniki International Airport
• Kozani National Airport "Filippos" → Kozani National Airport

Move as there is no need for the entire name in the title, it could be included in the opening paragraph. The article could be named "Rhodes International Airport" and the article's opening sentence could be "Rhodes International Airport 'Diagoras' is an airport....". --Philly boy92 (talk) 11:54, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

• Move all, agreed with the nominator. Rennell435 (talk) 07:46, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
• Support all per nom. Constantine ✍ 08:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
• Support There is not really anything wrong with the current names on their own, but we should give the names airports around the world in the same form. Kauffner (talk) 14:45, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose There is no actual reason to change the names to something simpler since it's the official names of these airports. A simple example... London Stansted Airport, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Berlin Schönefeld Airport and much more. Will you change those names too? Search doesn't use the exact name, but uses "weights". So if you use the "Paris airport" or "Berlin airport" search terms, you will definitively redirected to the right page. I am the creator of the Kavala International Airport "Alexander the Great" and we made a quite long discussions some years ago to find a compromise formula that is accepted between Kavala and Skopje airports. You Greeks know the use of the full names of the Kavala and Thessaloniki airports do matter and sometimes are of greater importance. xvvx (talk) 23:17, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

While I understand your point, I do not see how it relates to the Greek reality. The cities you mentioned all have more than one airports. If you search for Berlin Airport you get a disambiguation page. The same goes for Rome Airport, Paris Airport and London Airport. London for example has six airports, you can imagine that having the Heathrow article, for example, named London Airport would create confusion. This does not apply to Greek airports however, since no city has more than one (commercial) airports; bar Athens, but Hellenikon is closed, therefore the possibility of someone searching for Hellenikon is very unlikely. --Philly boy92 (talk) 23:43, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Some airports use only the town name and this is because they do not have any other name. The Munich Airport is an example, it's not "Munich Airport" + something. xvvx (talk) 00:28, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

In fact, it's Munich Airport, "Franz Joseph Strauss". The same is with Berlin-Tegel Airport, "Otto Lilienthal" or the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, "Willy Brandt". None of these additional names are included in the title of the respective Wikipedia pages. Of course any additional names are notable, but this has not to be done in the title. AdAstra reloaded (talk) 14:34, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Also, lets not forget that this is the English language wikipedia; I hardly think many English speakers would search for "Rhodes International Airport "Diagoras"" and not "Rhodes International Airport", or any of the other names.--Philly boy92 (talk) 23:45, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Search engine works both for "Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"" or "Athens International Airport". Try it here or in Google. xvvx (talk) 00:28, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I know the search engine works for both. If it didnt it wouldn't be much of a search engine, would it? Athens airport > 5,410,000 results. Athens international airport > 3,500,000 results. Athens international airport Eleftherios Venizelos > 116,000 results. --Philly boy92 (talk) 14:47, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

You can't change the title of an article because of the search engine results. When something is official you have to keep it that way. That proposal has no rational meaning to me. How is it possible for just 7 people to choose what the article name will be? This is an encyclopedia and encyclopedias have to go by the book. Imagine an encyclopedia that changes all the titles of it's articles, just to be "easy" for the readers. xvvx (talk) 19:06, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid we can. Please familiarize yourself with wikipedia's article naming policy: "Titles are often proper nouns, such as the name of the person, place or thing that is the subject of the article. Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title;". --Philly boy92 (talk) 19:27, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

• Partial support Consider removing the national/international characterization too, since that is more like part of the name; many airports with "National" in their official name serve more international destinations than domestic ones. User:thakaran (talk) 23:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

The official names of the airports at the "Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineers Association of Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority" http://www.hcaa-eleng.gr/greekair.htm use the term "National" or "International", so i it's better to go by the book. It's also better Wikipedia to use the official names since we want an encyclopedia to be consistence with the official sources. xvvx (talk) 00:28, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

This argument is contrary to our policy and practice, see Wikipedia:official names for an informal presentation of this, and WP:AT for the official policy. Andrewa (talk) 11:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose My opinion is that names are important 94.65.79.9 (talk) 17:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
• Support all moves, noting particularly WP:PRECISION. These subtitles (however official) are neither necessary nor in common use. Andrewa (talk) 11:32, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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More pages to change

We can now wait for the following airport pages to change names, similarly: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza, Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, Esenboğa International Airport (no mention to Ankara), and for mutuality: Skopje "Alexander the Great" Airport, Ohrid "St. Paul the Apostle" Airport.

You are free to propose their move, because indeed they violate WP:COMMONNAMES. --Philly boy92 (talk) 18:17, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Does the user know how to propose multiple page moves? First of all he must propose the new page names using this Wikipedia:Requested_moves#Requesting_multiple_page_moves template. And have to asure that there is no more than one airport in a city. xvvx (talk) 21:14, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

My point is that there was no rush to change these specific names, three of them having a particular denotation in the Macedonia naming dispute. Consider especially the two airports in FYROM, where the title is longer than the official name, however used to give a more "historic macedonian" flavour, and the Ankara Airport, with no mention to the city (it is like naming the AIA "El. Venizelos" like "Spata International Airport". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Θεόφιλος (talk • contribs) 07:53, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

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