Welcome to the forums!frequentflyer wrote: ↑Jan 28, 2019Additionally, the original document which requested the funding for this project, and was listed in the airport's Wiki page (reference #119, IIRC) has been removed. From prior postings, I know Trolozilla monitors the airports Wiki page and noted changes. Any idea what happened here, Trolozilla?
Not to get too far off-topic, but basically what happened is that not too long ago, a Wiki user came by and deleted/edited out a fair bit of of text (~4,700 bytes worth) from the Wiki page. To be fair, a lot of it was pretty extraneous and probably did violate some of the "Rules and Guidelines" of Wikipedia (namely WP:NOTTRAVEL and WP:NOTEVERYTHING, which that user did specifically mention as part of their justification for the edit). For the most part, I had no issues with what they did and mostly cleaned up some grammar/formatting mistakes that had crept in during their edit, as well as add back in some of the deleted information. What they did end up removing, however, was the listing of all the gate numbers by concourse and supplemental/informational notes for each concourse from the "Terminals" subsection of the "Facilities" section. The supplemental notes for Concourse C was where I had mentioned the renovation of C29 and C30 and included the reference you're, well, referring to, so that's where that went.
When I added the gate numbers back in (in a more streamlined format than before, so no more supplemental notes and such), the user removed them again very quickly, claiming that listing gate numbers comes very close to violating WP:NOTTRAVEL. That's probably true, and I don't really care either way. My only counter-argument is that many, many other airport pages have them (including bigger airports than ours), and their inclusion is also inconsistently enforced between pages. Furthermore, it could be argued that while it does indeed come very close to being 'travel guide' level information, simply listing the gate numbers (without specifically attaching airlines using them) in an informational context with each concourse (as was the case before they were removed) just serves to enhance the information in the Facilities section and nothing more.
In any case, I don't think it was some conspiracy where the airport tried to remove said reference or anything like that - it really was just ultimately extraneous/unencyclopedic information and honestly, I don't see it or any of the other 'Notes' coming back.
Interesting to hear about the airport possibly deleting comments. Probably also isn't malicious if that's the case - maybe they just didn't want an argument/off-topic convo on their post or they might've just not wanted the "general public" being the ones to disseminate such information without anything more concrete behind it other than a list of PFC-funded projects for the required FAA application on the airport's website. Maybe the other person simply deleted their comment of their own volition?
Oh, and here's the document in question, should anyone want it (the part about C29/C30 is on pages 5 and 6).
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