Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aeroperú destinations

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 Delete. First, this list appears not to have been included in the mass AfD in early 2007 as it was created after closure of that discussion. Second, the mass AfD was closed as a keep all, but should have been listed as closer to keep all — no consensus as there was substantial discussion both for and against retention. Finally, the primary arguments in the prior mass AfD that resonate for me are those around understanding the place of the airline in society, which is also a justification for inclusion of historical destinations for functioning airlines (dropouts are historical facts related to the evolving service of the airline and can have significant impact on locales). The status of the current list here is an artifact of the time of closure of the airline and should effectively be titled 'list of destinations at time of closure'. The arguments below and those put forth in the mass AfD combine to suggest that the fate of the present list should be merger into Aeroperú. However no source is provided for the information, which is a fatal flaw; as such the information is not verifiable. If a source is in fact available, I would encourage recovery of the article via WP:DRV (to recover the History), content merger to Aeroperú and conversion of the list to a redirect. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aeroperú destinations

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Unencyclopedic and largely unverifiable list of former destinations of defunct airline. dcandeto 04:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

• Merge to Aeroperú -- Selket ^Talk 05:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a directory. Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 05:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with Aeroperu, and let somebody who has a paper schedule verify the content. Flying people from A to B is what an airline does for a living, so telling people what A and B are is highly relevant. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment This is a defunct airline that hasn't flown anywhere since 1999. Keeping a list of where the airline flew eight years ago borders on listcruft, which Wikipedia is not for. dcandeto 08:13, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Encyclopedic validity does not age. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Comment It's still unencyclopedic. See WP:Airports. dcandeto 09:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
        • Where in WP:AIRPORTS does it say anything about airline lists? Airline lists were subject to a mass AFD nom some months ago (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Airlines destinations) which ended with a "keep". Why do you think this article is different? Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
          • Those were lists of current destinations. This one is a list of former destinations. Former destinations are not, by themselves, notable or encyclopedic, unless they are important to the history of the airline, in which case the ones that are noteworthy (if any) would be mentioned in the section on the airline's history. dcandeto 09:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. If any of these destinations are important to the history of this airline then they can be placed in the article about the airline, but are not encyclopedic on their own. Wikipedia is not a directory. Arkyan • ^(talk) 15:28, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete the proper location for information that may change offsite is offsite. duh!? People can link from airline's page to the airline for current information. Wait, it's a dead airline? Merge into the tombstone article and delete. Shenme 01:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Merge Worthy of Aeroperu's article.A880M 18:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Listcruft, in line with Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports#Former routes, former airline routes are also unencyclopediadic. --Matt 00:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. The fact that the list is so short and that a section exists in the Aeroperu article makes this article an ideal candidate for merging. However, as the information is unverified, I do not think a merge and the subsequent addition of an {{unreferenced}} tag is desirable. -- Black Falcon 01:13, 18 April 2007 (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.