Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sanming Airport

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The result was keep. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 01:37, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sanming Airport[edit]

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Fails to meet WP:GNG lacking several sources, most of which are scattered around, but they are mainly travel guides from the region advertising it. One is a wiki, but that's about all I could find. The fact that it won't open till 2014 is also WP:CRYSTAL. :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 12:45, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. —:| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 12:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. —:| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 12:49, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think this is basically a sources problem - essentially is it true?. Airports (as opposed to small private airfields) are notable in themselves, and if construction has actually begun it ceases to be WP:CRYSTAL. Building a major airport does take several years and we can hardly insist that there can be no article until it opens. And this is China, where schemes like this are not simply begun on a private whim. Because reliable sources are likely to be in Chinese I think we must await verification from Chinese speakers. If true then improvement rather than deletion is the appropriate course. AJHingston (talk) 13:54, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment An airport certainly exists at the location given in the article - see here. Agree that this would seem to be a sourcing issue. Mjroots (talk) 10:48, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In the light of the Google maps evidence above, construction is well advanced and it is large enough to be notable. Sources will emerge in due course but it clearly qualifies for an article. No value in deleting something that will just be validly recreated later. AJHingston (talk) 09:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This English language source confirms Sanming Airport under construction. Mjroots (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - If its no going to be built for years, no need for article.--Antwerpen Synagoge (talk) 17:19, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Per AJHingston.--BabbaQ (talk) 18:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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