Airport Dude

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Airport Dude. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person by golly! And this real person (that would be me), wants to say welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you've made an account! Thanks for joining; you're on your way to making some great contributions.

Because I've noticed you've just joined, I wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. Any questions are fine, nothing is too silly (we've heard them all). Now, the tips below - hop on them - they should help you begin editing. Best of luck! JoeSmack ^Talk 21:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Yessss! You made an account! Totally sweet! Anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Besides that, you shouldn't feel nervous or anything about a good-willed contribution. If you're concerned, talk to us. Play in your user area. For example, create User:Airport Dude/test. If you feel nervous, feel free to talk to us. When you're ready, start your first article using the Article Wizard. You don't HAVE to use it, but for your first article it really helps. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. If you'd like more guidance, you guessed it, talk to us. Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. (You'll want to sign your name with these four tildes ~~~~ when you leave something on a talk page to help know who you are!) Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia! --JoeSmack Talk 21:20, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

P.S. If you just feel like poking around, Wikipedia:Help is a good place to start. :)

October 2009

Thanks for your contributions to several airport articles over the last few weeks. Please note though, that we do not list frequencies in the airport destination tables; a simple listing of the destination served is all we should include. For example, I have just fixed / reverted your most recent edits to Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Also, please also ensure that you follow established formats and naming conventions when adding information as well. Thanks. Jasepl (talk) 03:45, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

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Jasepl: I think it is important to note that these are not daily frequencies due to Southwest's nature of service. Perhaps the format could be ammended for Southwest? I know that when I am looking at the page for the airports I want to know if Southwest adds a daily or Saturday only flight. I wouldn't make the changes for other airlines, but again Southwest operates completely differently on Saturdays and especially in the March-May schedule will be adding these Saturday only flights for a 5-6 week period. This definently needs to be noted.

Airport Dude (talk) 05:02, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, one of the things that the guidelines are very clear on, is that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and not a travel guide. As a result, we do not list frequencies, routing, timings, prices, intermediate stops, durations etc etc.

All of this is clearly laid out on the project pages: see WP:Airports and WP:Airlines. Thanks. Jasepl (talk) 05:27, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Well again, we are talking about an airline that does things a little differently. It is almost a bit a false advertising to say "oh, they fly to Hartford" and look on the website and see it is 1 flight a week on a Saturday to feed cruise traffic. I believe it is important to be honest about this as Wikipedia is used as a resource for travelers and enthusiests and I believe that it is the best way to be accurate. I don't know who the "authority" on these posts are, but I believe it needs to be brought up to that person. Airport Dude (talk) 05:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

There's no one person. But such matters should be brought up for debate at the project pages. You can start a topic at the discussion pages of WP:Airports or WP:Airlines and obtain consensus from other editors/contributors.

• Also, when adding new destinations (eg your addition of Denver to SWA's destination listing at LaGuardia), please ensure that you:

1. provide a valid source
2. include a short edit summary
3. follow the established standard (in this case, it should say Denver [begins xx May] instead of Denver [Begins May 2010] - if you notice, some other editor has already reverted your edit with an explanation for the revert)

Thanks, Jasepl (talk) 06:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)