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The list was promoted by Giants2008 14:22, 25 February 2013 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of airports in the Okanagan[edit]

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Nominator(s): TBrandley (what's up) 18:16, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am nominating this for featured list because I believe it meets the featured list criteria. TBrandley (what's up) 18:16, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This is a very nice list, and it does have sufficient entries, but why does this need to be separate from (and somewhat redundant to) List of airports in British Columbia? A region column could be in the table to sort by the unofficial subdivisions of BC. Reywas92Talk 22:07, 30 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Reywas makes a good point I think it's feasible this list could merged into the British Columbia one and a region column added. NapHit (talk) 05:07, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I'm not so sure. The amount of detail in the lead and the additional fields in this list make it perfectly justifiable to standalone. The main BC list is massive, I have counted the entries, but I suspect there are well over 200 entries, which if expanded as this list has been expanded, would be unmanageably large and would require some SALs to be branched out from it. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:24, 31 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Rambling. The BC list is way to large. I think it would be best to separate each region into a separate list.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 01:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest renaming to List of airports in the Okanagan region.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 01:47, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Why? There is nothing to disambiguate and we would not do the following: List of airports in the Canada country, unless there is a specific reason. I have created that as a redirect for now, though. TBrandley (what's up) 01:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That is indeed true, but just having "the Okanagan" sounds sort of awkward to me. To compare, Canada is a well known country, and Okanagan is a region, that I personally, never even heard of before. It might give better premise to the list. List of airports in Okanagan, British Columbia may also work better.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 01:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But there is nothing to disambiguate. TBrandley (what's up) 02:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, "Okanagan" is sufficient, if people don't know what that is there's a short explanation and link in the lede. If the name is sufficient for the article, it's sufficient for subarticles. --Golbez (talk) 15:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Rambling Man convinced me. This meets the FL criteria and can be a standalone list per the issues stated above. — ΛΧΣ21 20:12, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Resolved comments from Arsenikk (talk) 20:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
;Comments from Arsenikk
  • First sentence says "a number of", but the list clearly limits to a dozen. You might as well be specific.
  • Perhaps just merge the first and second sentence, as they duplicate quite a lot of information ("contains a number of airports, heliports and water aerodromes" is utterly redundant to the following sentence").
  • "amount" should be limited to uncountable items or large quantities; it is better to use "number" for low integers.
  • "Lake CountrY"...
  • For what its worth you might want to specify in the lead that Kelowna is part of the National Airports System.
  • "contains airports, heliports, or water aerodromes" should be "and" instead of "or". (it doesn't contain one of the three, it contains all three).
  • If I was going to make a list of airports I would strongly consider including the runway length, the number of annual passengers and annual aircraft movements.
  • Both see also entries are in the navbox so they should be removed.
  • {{GeoGroupTemplate}} can be very useful for some readers. Arsenikk (talk) 18:22, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment from Harrias talk
  • What is a water aerodrome? I can't see anything on this list pointing to another article that tells me about it, and I frankly have no idea what to think. If we don't have a page that tells us anything, create a red link so that someone might think about creating such a page for people like me! It might be worth linking to airport and heliport too, just to be safe.
  • "Meanwhile, the towns of Oliver and Osoyoos are home to the Oliver Airport and Osoyoos Airport; the former is situated in Oliver, while the latter is based in Osoyoos." This sentence repeats itself, there is no need for the bit after the semi-colon.
  • What is an "unincorporated community"?
    • A place that has not been "incorporated" as a city, town, district, village, etc. I have added a link for now. TBrandley (what's up) 22:37, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Is it appropriate to have an External links section for a Commons box and a Google maps/Bing maps box? (I genuinely don't know, but it looks odd to me.)
    • It is the general convention to provide links to Wikimedia Commons in the section, same goes for those boxes, another editor suggested them. They are external links, so... TBrandley (what's up) 22:37, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Harrias talk 17:36, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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