Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Krabi Airline (2nd nomination)

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The result was merge to Krabi Airport. MBisanz ^talk 03:03, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Krabi Airline[edit]

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Was a proposed airline was supposed to start operations in 2009, since then nothing has happened. No indication of meeting notability guidelines, Google searches not finding any significant coverage. JetBlast (talk) 21:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Passes WP:GNG:

Krabi Airline set to debut later this year
(in Norwegian) Krabi Airline på krabbegir
(in Norwegian) Ready for direct flights to Thailand
(in Norwegian) New player dumps price

—Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:07, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 00:59, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no evidence it was any more than a proposed airline. MilborneOne (talk) 20:30, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete While acknowledging that notability isn't temporal, for a proposed airline that never flew (and possibly never even ended up applying for rights, etc.) there needs to be something much more substantial than a few articles which give relatively few details such as it plans to fly and fly cheaply, etc. Including every proposed airline, or any other business for that matter, simply because it received a few "puff" pieces in newspapers that need to fill up travel supplements is setting the bar way too low, and in my mind goes against the principle, if not the letter, of WP:MADEUP and WP:DIRECTORY. Ravendrop 00:08, 19 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. After considering the sources identified above and searching for further information about this airline, I have to agree with those in favour of deletion here. While the airline did receive some coverage, arguably sufficient for WP:GNG, it was all around the announced startup of its flights, which appears not to have ever actually happened. The latest (only) news item on the Krabi website is about the postponement of the first flight "due to lack of getting the official Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA)" - if Krabi never had such a certificate, should it even be classed as an airline? Ventures that failed to materialize can be notable, but in this case, I don't think so.--Michig (talk) 11:06, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - even though it is a non-existent entity, the reports of it are still recent and able to fulfill WP:GNG, for now. Fireflo (talk) 10:22, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 22:18, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not appear notable and does not actually exist. LogicalCreator (talk) 02:05, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep: passes WP:GNG, and WP:NTEMP applies. Alternatively, merge this content to Krabi Airport. Even if the airline doesn't deserve its own article, the well-sourced facts about a planned airline that was specifically intended to increase access to this airport are significant to the history of the airport.--Arxiloxos (talk) 05:59, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Krabi Airport. Stuartyeates (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - There appears to be enough source material from which to write about the topic under WP:GNG: Thai News Service June 21, 2007, Thai News Service September 19, 2007, Bangkok Post (Thailand) May 26, 2008 Krabi Air launch put on ice (beginning with "Krabi Airline, a proposed start-up Thai carrier, is stalling launch plans amid an uncertain economic outlook."), Bangkok Post (Thailand) October 1, 2009. There probably is Thai language source material as well. The issues of whether the airline was more than a proposal, lack of certificate, etc. are issues of how to present the article content, not whether the topic meets WP:GNG. Keeping the Wikipedia article should not hinge on the success of the airline. I added the above links to the article talk page. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:23, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.