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Notability guidelines

Proposed notability guidelines are available for comment at WP:Aircrash. To help develop this, a record of accident/incident AfDs has been built.

Accident article naming conventions

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(Refer also Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Naming)

For commercial aircraft with a known flight number, the standard article name structure is:

<airline> Flight <flight number>

For example: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, American Airlines Flight 77

However, if the airline had two same flight numbers for different years, mention the year in '()' such as:

<airline> Flight <flight number> <year>

For example: Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1976), Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)

If the accident was in the same year with the same flight number, then mention the month, along with the year:

<airline> Flight <flight number> <month + year>

For example: Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (June 1956), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (November 1956)

For articles on air accidents without a flight number, the title should be in the format:

<year> <airline> <aircraft> <event>

or, if this is not possible,

<year> <place> <event>

unless the accident is notable for the involvement of a particular group, in which case the format should be:

<group> <event>

College sports teams should include the full school name rather than the mascot (for example, Wichita State University football team plane crash). If the incident has a flight number, this format should be used as a redirect.

For further disambiguation, the year can be added (see for example 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash). Some flexibility can be exercised. Examples:

Exceptions: if the event has acquired a popular name, that name should be used. Examples:

Tagging and assessment

Aviation accident task force assessment statistics

Aviation accident pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	17
FL	1
A	1
GA	70
B	311
C	634
Start	1,000
Stub	175
List	147
Category	1,005
Disambig	33
File	7
Portal	4
Project	8
Redirect	166
Template	206
NA	8
Assessed	3,793
Unassessed	24
Total	3,817
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,648	Ω = 4.37

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