Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of airports in Macau

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 merge‎ to Transportation in Macau. However, if consensus changed on the target - that's fine. That's a matter of editorial discretion Star Mississippi 02:08, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

List of airports in Macau[edit]

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Very short list with just three entries (which is unlikely to increase), with only one/two entries in each sub-category. Suggest to merge into Transport in Macau. 33ABGirl (talk) 15:41, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Transportation, Lists, and China. 33ABGirl (talk) 15:41, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Aviation-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:52, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There is only one airport in Macau and a single independent heliport. Does not qualify for a list. Dronebogus (talk) 17:51, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Into transportation in Macau WhisperToMe (talk) 18:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is part of a valid set of lists of airports by country. The fact Macau is small and has a necessarily limited number of airports does not mean the list is not notable, and no valid reason for deletion has been identified. SportingFlyer T·C 22:33, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Couldn’t we just merge into List of airports in China then? Dronebogus (talk) 16:27, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
We could, but that still wouldn't make sense, as this is a valid stand-alone article because of Macau's status. Still, a merge would be far, far superior to a delete. SportingFlyer T·C 19:40, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Macau is still part of China Dronebogus (talk) 23:58, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's a special autonomous administrative region. By your logic, we'd also have to merge List of airports in Hong Kong as well, but they're clearly a part of this set. SportingFlyer T·C 00:11, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hong Kong has slightly more, giving it credence as a size-based split, but could be merged also. Dronebogus (talk) 18:50, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into List of airports in China. Without prejudice against WP:SPINOUT OR, if now, just read my opinion as keep, after the helipads are added, as is the case at List of airports in Hong Kong. gidonb (talk) 02:24, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into the main list's section Lists of airports in Asia#Eastern Asia, or simply "Keep". This is indeed a short list, part of the List of airports in Asia list-system, and it does not need to be split out of the main list-article, at least not by reason of size of that article, which is not very large. That list-article has all of its mentioned lists split out currently and I have not checked how the split-outs are formatted/; it would be a minor editing challenge to merge the Macau sublist back into there, perhaps in a short table. Perhaps it would be best to merge back another sublist or two as well. Or could all be merged back?

What a dry and nearly useless list-article, with no photos, no statistics on maximum lengths of airport runways, what are the largest planes that can land, when built, etc.! There are no coordinates, no possibility that the reader could see a linked OSM map in a {{GeoGroup}} box to see how well various areas in Asia are covered. The guideline wp:CLNT discusses how lists can/should be complementary to categories and navigation templates, but the main list doesn't convey much more than a category would (it does group the sublists sensibly though, while a category would not.) Is there any one sublist that is actually good, to use as a model?

There is benefit in merging sublists back up to the main list, in allowing readers to make comparisons (so actually the info in any one sublist is in effect greater if it is on the same page as other sublists).

I happen to think that keeping Macau and Hong Kong separate from China, as done in the main list, is useful and valid.

Finally, there is "no harm" in simply keeping, and there is no particular point to deleting, IMHO. So tagging with a suggestion that it could be upmerged, and leaving it for some editors to do in the future, would be fine, too. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 18:26, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge like what was suggested by nom for reasons listed above into Transportation in Macau or List of airports in China. Karnataka (talk) 21:04, 15 June 2023 (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.